My first boss was a hypochondriac who was convinced that he would have an asthma attack if employees wore perfume or cologne. He was a chain smoker. Smh.
Actually....people who have gluten allergies can be highly sensitive to perfume. I don't think he connected the dots of breathing and cigarettes though??
Heard one guy complaining that his co-worker came back from cigarette breaks smelling like smoke. "What about my health?" What about your health? It may be unpleasant; but, it's not unhealthy for you!
I used to have a manager that wouldn’t let us refer to our workspaces as ours. Meaning, you couldn’t say “my desk”. She would blow a gasket when she heard that and say “It’s not your desk. It’s the company’s desk.” I got so irritated one day that I told her she could no longer refer to the office she used as “her office” because it was the company’s office, not hers. I was a mouthy 22 year old, and I’m just lucky she didn’t have the power to fire me.
I told a snarky supervisor that when I pushed back in my chair sometimes it rolls over the cord to my headset. "You just told me you're destroying company property!" Yeh, like I'm maliciously destroying company property!
I had a warehouse bldg custodian act like that. 😡 He was a smarmy %$×&=*. I came close to 🥊 that MFer out a few times. Fun story, I left that job filed for state UC $$$ for about 2X the length I worked there. Obama years 2000s.
@@phlushphish793 a bad manager has the mindset of 'the employees are not only lazy but actively sabotaging the company' i have been told this straight to my face by a walmart manager once was written up over a piece of paper. Manager got a stick up her but about a me entering thought he back door. She is the only one with the keys, plus one or both of my co workers will be there at least, theres no way i heck i could have done anything without someone noticing. But no, i had to go all the way around the building and bang on the door to be let in (they bitched about that to so i started calling them to let me in). She not only printed out the rule, but highlighted it as if i was a dumb ass who couldn't read. When she walked away i crumpled it into the trash in my fury. Apparently she heard this and not only wrote me up, but also escalated it to the district manager. Lost all respect for her and the company that day, didn't last long in that company
In my moms office they arent allowed to breathe through their mouths. My mom once had a cold, so her nose was blocked. Her boss legit came and send her home for the day, for breathing through her mouth. Not for being sick, not for being lazy or doing bad work, for BREATHING.
I'm gonna guess this isn't in the U.S., but if it were and had I been there, I might've been able to sue over that rule. I've got a disability that makes breathing through my nose pretty difficult at times, so I have to use my mouth to breathe every day.
We had "auditors" who would go around looking for people not working - this included "walk down hall to bathroom". So we had to carry a piece of paper in order to look like our bathroom trips were "go to a meeting" trips. My paper contained phone numbers of women I had dated, a rough calculation of the Coriolis force on the water in a toilet bowl, an old shopping list, and doodles of assorted animals. It had been folded into my pocket so many times that it was coming apart by the time the company got sued for the auditors peeking into the women's bathroom stalls.
Ages ago my place tried to compile a list of "approved restaurants" where we could dine while traveling or entertain clients. No. I'm not wasting a bunch of secretaries' time researching restaurants in EVERY CITY in which we do business. Secretaries who, I might add, don't travel.
As a truck driver I delivered to a large plant who was expanding. Because of construction if you got out the truck you had the wear a hard hat, safety glasses, and gloves. The nearest construction from where I was parked was equal to 8 football fields away but I still had to wear a hard hat, safety glasses and gloves outside the truck.
Been there, and it absolutely sucks. I worked on a crew that did traffic flagging and assisted with road construction. Basically prison chain gang type stuff. Most of the people on the crew were former convicts. During the summer, it'd get up 120+ degrees Fahrenheit on the concrete. I typically had shifts in excess of 10 hours, sometimes as many as 16, just standing at one end of a closure with a STOP/GO paddle. Really struggled with IBS AND I was smoking cigarettes back then. Miraculously, I never once had an episode while I was on the job or on my way home. Always dreaded it too, as the office was in the ghetto and everywhere along the way back to my place was a dive (and I lived over an hour away).
Worked in warehouse like that. I'm a fat guy, but can poop faster than i pee because of either long logs or shotgun sharts. If you take longer than 5min, it gets taken out of your work hours, but i was fine because my butthole was fast enough. The supervisor is in charge of cleaning it, that's his job, and the warehouse manager checked the bathrooms before lunches and the end of the day, if it was dirty or any toilets clogged, the supervisor would loose an hour of work. I purposely ate like crap and then chugged veggies and clogged the 5 toilets before lunch and before the end of the day for a week. It was tough, if always come out sweaty, but my timing was impeccable, and the supervisor removed the bathroom rule.
Worked at a mall. I had to tuck my shirt in, wear dress pants, and a Black belt. My co-worker was allowed to wear jeggings, untucked shirt, comfortable shoes. I wore uniform shoes. I know this is petty, but he pissed me off. I later found out that co-worker was sleeping with the boss.
I used to live near a UPS distribution center, yes, UPS trucks DO turn left, literally every single day."Miniboss" was a moron. I used to know a woman who ran a coffee shop, her rule was "I don't care if they've cleaned it 6 times already if there's no customers they had better be cleaning! I hired them to work not sit on their butts " So I asked her , very gently.....But doesn't that cost you a lot extra on cleaning supplies every month? Well yeah, turned out it was costing her over $100 per month (she demanded the expensive name brands). Then I asked her, "so isn't it just wasting time and money anyway, if they're using expensive product to clean what's already been cleaned several times with the same product?" After that the lightbulb went on for her and she eased up.
I work in a profession that relies heavily on creativity and sharp intelligence. This attracts a certain sort of sarcastic, free-willed, clever employee. We are often tried to be 'managed' by officer managers who draft amazingly crazy Rules of Control which we then scrupulously adhere to in the most mocking way possible or simply ignore completely; due to the fact that we were contracted through an entirely different division of the company and at some point the office manager is informed that we cannot be sent to HR or fired for our petty little revolts. It's a hilarious tiny corner of heaven. They're very delighted that we've all been forced to work from home now and so are we. "Official" emails go completely ignored. Office Society is just the strangest anthropology experiment of the last feudal fiefdoms of humanity. We are its court jesters. (Rebel!)
This list reminds me of the episode of malcolm in the middle where he has to use the lift to go to the box flattening area instead of just breaking them next to the skip
Likely to prevent attempts to unionize, and by making the rule you create distrust among the workers, and you never know if it might be that dude who'll be the one who reports you to the bosses.
@@rankothefiremage I think what she meant was how do they enforce it. And I wonder what happens if your coworker is a relative, spouse, or preexisting friend. What if my brother and I both worked there, and I later spoke to my brother in our own house. What are they going to do, spy outside my window?
No more asking for water from the small coffee stand next to the registers. Also, no water bottles or any sort of drinks at the registers. Lots of people suffered from over heating that summer.
0:37 Um... Illegal? Unless labor laws for breaks differ from state to state, I don't think you're allowed to deduct people's breaks/lunches for going to the bathroom or other menial things.
In Arizona employers MUST allow sick time when requested, and they cannot stop an employee from using it. There's no such nonsense allowed as "you have to use vacation tie first".
Exactly what I was thinking. While yes some labor laws are state by state unless federal i believe this one is on the federal level or is extremely common in nearly all states.
this is america, workers rights are written on toilet paper, and if if your employer breaks one of the few rules that exists, its only illegal if they get called out. Which people will often not do for fear of losing their job/ not having the money to sue their employer
I was part of a dance troupe that had a very expensive dress code. They wanted us to wear stuff such as Yumiko leotards, just to dance rehearsals, and expected us to pay for all of that stuff ourselves. I left and refused to sign any contracts, and I found a better dance troupe.
Yeah they supply it but they also make the employee pay for it .. idk how many companies my husband had to pay for his own uniform and after he was let go we are stuck with them . Atleast at my job they never forced me to pay for it and had their own laundry service.
My middle school had weird stupid rules. If you were late to 1 class, even a second late, it was marked late and you got lunch detention. You had to wear shirts that completely covered your butt and more if you wore leggings. Shoulders are too sexy apparently cause even wearing a modest could shoulder shirt resulted in you going home. No phones whatsoever at any time, if a teacher saw your phone sticking out from your pocket they could take it, the art teacher didnt care about that rule and let us use our phones as long as he wasn't teaching. No youtube for music?? We had a 30 minute lunch break which by the time it started we still had to put our school supplies in our lockers cause we weren't allowed them in the cafeteria, go line up, we had to get our food which could take up to 15 minutes depending on what you got, eat it all, and spend at least 10 minutes outside. We weren't allowed to take our food outside. It was ridiculous going there. We also were required to lock our pe lockers no matter what. I didnt listen to that rule and left it unlocked during class. We also weren't allowed to take our backpacks to class ever. We had to carry heavy ass binders and books all day everywhere. We couldn't leave the cafeteria unless it was to go outside. No gum unless it was for state testing week. I hate that school with a burning passion now, except for three staff members.
My first legit full time job was in an office. There were no cubicles or anything but a big square room full of like 10 of us including the boss. He set up the desks kind of like a classroom in which he's the teacher and can see directly towards us at all times. It was fine mostly cause we all had our work to do but I found out the reason behind it not long after i joined. My boss absolutely hated people using their cell phones on company time. And I mean to the point where it can be on your desk and you're not allowed to look at it if a call is coming in or whatever. And he'd bitch you out if he ever caught you texting. Now it was only limited to that because he was chill with pretty much everything else. Everyone was russian or Lithuanian so he even allowed us all to drink at work, which he joined in most of the time. So just the phones. It was getting stressful because if an emergency call came in, he wanted us to ignore it, clock out for a 15 min break and then call the number back. Anyways, I don't work there anymore as my dear husband now makes enough money for me to be a stay at home mom.
This is not the first horror story I've heard of people not being allowed to talk to their colleagues outside of work (pretty sure it is illegal or at least they cannot actually enforce it). What is the vested interest of a given company to do this? Is it to stop people conferring about, e.g., salary?
@@CruellaDeVil. - No, Fedex is an incredibly dangerous place to work, especially at the Hubs. There were drunk people working there, but it just made it harder on the people who had to watch out for Drunky McDrunkerson on a Tug.
I worked road repair for local government and we could (if the situation allowed) return to headquarters for unpaid hour lunches. No admittance to the general public and non workers. We could not possess a deck of cards. No poker, solitaire could be played or even old maid and Uno deck. No cards of any sort because it was considered "gambling" even if no money/chips/pretzels etc... we're used. I was told one time it was "un-christian like". 😧 I should have raised crap right then and there, but..... It was however alright for office staff to play online poker for real money, computer solitaire or any other card games. Not to mention the bookie that came in every Friday to run the football pool. All in the name of appearing golden to the public who couldn't give a rats ass if the guys fixing their pothole played solitaire on their break. Also, the guy(s) who cussed like sailors were okay because "that's just the way they are, but let someone who had less than ten years say "Damn it!" and you would think they murdered someone and would be written up immediately.
My moms former office said everyone had to wear appropriate underthings. Ladies this included bra, panties and nylons. Unless you were darker skin toned on nylons. This made my mother furious. Since at the time she was a very small size( could wear size 10 child skirt). She went shopping for every negligee and teddy she could find. Fishnets, thigh highs with garters etc, She dared her female and male boss to check her underwear. This was in a state office
I was an IT Tech at a nonprofit that was based in a residential tower block, the PVC tilt-opening windows would only open about 6 inches and the tower block was covered in eco-friendly thermal cladding. The office was south facing and had at least 2 windows per classroom, this meant that the place got hella hot. We had a fairly casual dress code (there wasn't an official dress code, just a shared understanding of workplace dress code), it was assumed that you had to look smart casual (for me I could wear jeans, poloshirt, hoodie and hiking boots). I was the only bloke on staff. In summer the women would wear summer dresses and/or skirts, I was told shorts weren't smart casual... but neither are fricking hoodies! I used to sweat my nuts off!
Also had dress code issues at a university I worked at, I was an IT Tech. The uni tried to get ALL staff to look professional (black slack [black skirt & tights for ladies], white button down shirt, black tie and smart black shoes), we weren't to roll our sleeves up ever! They tried to force this onto the Estates & Facilities Management department (cleaners and care takers, including builders who fixed the buildings and tarmac paths on campus) and us IT Techs. The only dropped that shit for E&FM when an electrician caught his tie in a 25,000 rpm drill, and when my department manager (Student Services) scheduled a meeting with the Chancellor's office whilst getting me to fix an exploded printer cartridge in her office (she was pissed off on my behalf about how many times a day I had to change shirts due to fucking exploding ink cartridges or the like)
I worked at a place where you couldn't go to the toilet alone you were in a "toilet queue" the first 5 people of 1 sex went to the toilet and you were timed a max of 15 mins. Then the 1st 5 people of the opposite sex went after you came back. There were other crappy rules too but the toilet rules drove everyone crazy. I was surprised watching this how many more companies have bad toilet rules
I'd probably rather get fired . I had incontinence for awhile and was pregnant.. I refuse to pee my pants for that .. ironically after I had the baby I no longer have that problem . Who knew that was a life long problem
“Surgeon started using a scalpel to open office mail” That is awesome If I was a surgeon (never gonna happen, I have a huge fear of blood) I’d do that just because of the fun and flair of doing that
Used to work as a casual for a certain council picking up the rubbish left lying in the streets. One day management implemented a rule that said if we saw rubbish in the gutter we were to leave it for the road sweeper machine the following day even if it was an obvious hazard like broken glass or used needles. (Spoiler alert. We ignored that stupid rule) Management also decided that from our 6 am start right through till out break at 9 we had to do other work because "there wasn't any rubbish on the streets at that time." Apparently it all just magically appeared after our break. Smh
My boss wants me to wash the dishes, but wants me to just dunk them without actually cleaning them and comes over to complain Im not doing it right when I'm the one making sure the place is CLEAN not just tidy CLEAN and sanitised
I worked at a company that wanted me to stay at my work station and performing my job instead of wandering around and chatting with co workers. The nerve!
The one where they're not allowed to say problem, that's hilarious. 🤣 Especially considering there's a section in my warehouse called "problem solve" It's for, you guessed it, solving problems with the boxes (destroyedbox, wrong label, destroyed label. Fun stuff) I wish I was trained in problem solve just for the joke now. 🤣
I had a workplace where I was forbidden to cut paper on a self healing drawing table surface. Why cover it with the speciality surface and not to be able to use it?
We used to have 3 weeks vacation policy at our work. When we were bought out, it was shifted to unlimited vacation. Unfortunately, 2 of my co-workers were reassigned and the positions left vacant. So I try to take vacation and I am denied because there is no coverage. My shift co-worker takes a mess of time off due to wife giving birth and the child being super sick. My direct supervisor knows I will not work more than the normal shifts and preemptively gets corporate to agree to overtime (since they pull the exemption for salaried employees shtick). I am 2 months without a day off, but making good money. Now we are 3 people short and there is no end in sight and no vacation either...
When I was a firefighter they made the same rule of not using poles and weights also they said we cant do our training obistical course which we do for fun and training. We ignored them and hid our weights when the hr people showed up. Course they wanted us to do the dummy drag drill for example and every time we pretended to be weak and delebertly failed. They kept asking why is everyone so weak. With us just saying we can't lift weights so how can we keep our muscles in peak perfection. They still have the rules.
Mopping the floor and having to wring the mop out by hand because otherwise the cleaner would have a hissy fit about wet mops. I worked nights for Mencap in a residential home for disabled people. We were expected to do all the cleaning despite the fact they employed a cleaner.
At my work we can dye our hair any color so long as we have manager approval. Manager H wanted to dye her hair purple so she asked SM R. He said ok thinking it would be purple. Nope, it was PURPLE. Bright in your face purple. Lol, fun
The depressed soldier who wasn’t allowed to cry at his desk reminded me of something similar that happened to me in high school. I was bullied, very depressed, and didn’t smile a lot. Well my classmates took it as a personal offense that I didn’t smile while in class. The teacher and a group of them roasted me in class, listing all the reasons they didn’t like me and ways I could be a better person. I started crying and the teacher told me I wasn’t allowed to and to just take it. Frick you, Ms McGee.
We were told we essentially worked until our work was done, but to be there by 8am every day. I was expected to stay until 4:30pm though while everyone else could leave, because of a terrible excuse of "cutting down on the slackers". I did the job of 4 people and got along with every doctor I worked with. I also got there almost an hour ahead of time because of how far away I lived and I needed to beat traffic. I would be working 9-10 hour shifts every day, and they didn't understand why I was pushing 50+hours/week while everyone else barely hit the full time hours needed (32/week). Me quitting pissed off the boss so much, and the majority of the staff left a year later and she can't understand why no one wants to stay and work there.
My job has early closure days before major holidays (like the Friday before Memorial Day). Everyone leaves at noon. But we had staggering shift starts, so if you started at 7am, you had to work 5 hrs instead of someone who came in at 9am and worked 3hrs. And you would get paid the same regardless. Many people complained about this but it wasn’t until some people in California sued for overtime owed that they finally said on early closure days, everyone works 8a-12p.
Ups routes are planned in advance to have as few lefts as possible cause it makes the route faster cause they know all the deliverys b4 the driver leave with an ambulance u dont know anything till the last min
My personal one, when I worked culinary in a nursing home: if you sent the resident’s meal on a hall tray, and soup was an option they had chosen from the meal (lunch or dinner), it had to be sent out in a coffee cup, with the lid on, but you could not take the lid off. At all. Which made no sense when it came to chunky soups. Yes, it was to keep the residents from burning themselves on hot soup, but really? Just have someone else open the soup lid for them, and make them keep it on the tray that was a part of every room!!!
Work in the kitchen of a nursing home myself. It's a ridiculous " cross contamination " thing. I like my job, but because it's a nursing home, you HAVE TO be there, NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!! You can get fired for staying home in bad weather/snow! I was forgiven, and they are a little easier on me, because they know I don't have a car and must catch rides. I bet that ends when I get a car!!
I worked at the DMV and the commisoner of license was a huge B.....we had to clock bathroom breaks....we had to count the amount of paper we used when using the printer and if we used a lot in a day then she would flip.....she watched us on the cameras which some days she would watch us in her office when we were literally right outside her office.....me and another lady received verbal warnings for not having a binder and taking notes......and what really pissed me off was the girl that was training me was keeping a list of anything I was doing wrong and would turn it in at the end of the day to the secretary and the secretary would type it up and send to the B......that pissed me off the most!!!!
I worked at a call center that's open 27/7. I usually worked 6am to 2pm. The sick time/calling in policy was that you couldn't ask someone to cover your shift until 2 hours before your scheduled start time, just in case you miraculously healed or got better. You also need to try to get your shift covered before calling your supervisor. So if I was sick, I had to call all of my co-workers at 4am on their scheduled day off
Oh, that jacket policy reminds me. I used to work for a company that was contracted to run dining services at a major university in my hometown. A month after I started working there a "new rule" came down that nobody was allowed to wear hoodies at work, despite the fact that literally everyone continued to (because it was targeted at me). I started wearing a black blazer instead, which I did for the next six years without incident. At the start of year seven, the newest manager created a new rule that would have outlawed my blazer. I was already sick of this woman because I and 2 other people were literally doing her job for her while she sat on the computer all day shopping for her wedding. 45 minutes after I was told about the no jacket rule I handed her my two weeks notice; I had planned on quitting that day anyway, but the timing was too perfect. I heard that she freaked out because she suddenly had to replace me. I trained not one, but two people to take my place. The first guy quit at the end of night 1, the other guy gave up after 3 weeks. I worked that job for six years.
@@eopujvrswg Nope, really no fucking clue. If you think a lot of the rules in this video are fine, and do not constitute (grave) breaches of workers rights, you might just be a communist.
@@aagg6124 wrong. Im a hardcore libertarian - pretty much on par with fascism to them on things they hate. Anyway, a lot of these are crybabies who cant handle responsibility. There is no workers rights violations here (some are though I'll admit it) - just soyboys.
Deducting time from lunches is illegal as fuck. Also, I work in a grocery store and its company policy that you need to have a doctors note (that they only honor for 30 days) to be able to have a bottle of water at your register. They say its so the registers don't get damaged by accidental water spills. I asked them why they value 20 year old registers over human life. They don't try to enforce that policy around me.
Previous job. Call off = call in at least 1 hour prior to your shift and adds 1 point to your record. No problem. Calling in late? Same thing. On your way to work and get into a wreck? Doesn't matter. One point, plus an extra point for not calling in sooner.
My school's priorities are severely backwards: I.E. you'd only be lectured like a two year old for threatening to nuke the campus and kill every idiot on it, but if you piss off a brown eyed/Hispanic peer (such as looking at them in what their nearly nonexistent brain considers "wrong") you'd be suspended or expelled
When I was a CNA we took turns taking the residents out to smoke in the semi enclosed gazebo. I got them settled, lit their cigarettes and stepped out. When we went back in the nurse manager told me I had to stay in the gazebo with them. I told her I don’t smoke and won’t subject myself to secondhand smoke, she told me it was policy. I told her then get my a contract that says you’re gonna cover all my medical expenses, missed wages, mortgage, funeral cost etc if I get lung cancer. I ended up quitting so I’m not sure if they still “enforce” that policy
@@legendofzeldarules44 if it lasts 3 hours in the air shouldn't we all be getting sick by now? I mean we all have a breakroom to eat lunch together and you cant wear a mask when u eat...
@@legendofzeldarules44 You do know that a mask does not protect you and is only there so you don't bring aerosols into the air? Again: it is NOT there to protect you, only to protect others.
Control freak boss. I could not e-mail others in my department. I had to e-mail her and then she would let everyone else know. She also had IT set her up so she could see our e-mails.
@@xander-with-a-z IKR? For some reason we're responsible enough to operate millions of dollars worth of weapons and equipment but god forbid you walk to the chow hall on your own...
I worked somewhere where me and a coworker almost gotten written up for talking to and trying to help a customer with their search for an item (library). We were told we were talking for too long (this was when we had no one else to help). Our boss would time our bathroom breaks, not allow us to send emails without her CC to them. She would commonly have meeting with coworkers and make them cry. In 6 months, 7 of the 10 coworkers in my department had quit or forced out. We tried to take the issue to HR and we were told we were the problem.
I’m a stay at home mom. Sometimes I wish I could find these places to work, work for a couple days and then tell them how stupid they are solely because I don’t need the job and some people just deserve to be told to F off.
At my old job at Mc Donald’s, there was a rule: No coats in the drive-thru. Ever. Doesn’t matter how cold it is. It was actually “no coats that don’t have the Mc Donald’s logo.” But I’m not paying for a 100.00 coat when I pay 13.70 a ride to get to work, up to twice a day, for five days a week. Nope.
in one of my old jobs we couldn't have anything personal on our set desks because it was a "gdpr risk". it went as far as telling us we couldn't have any christmas decorations anywhere near our desks at all. if you don't know what gdpr is, its legislation for data protection, like if i told one customer another customers address. we still don't understand how a bit of tinsel could have compromised that!
17:26 That's... wildly illegal. You need to have signatures that people are informed of rule changes or you can't uphold them. Pretty much positive if they actually fired OP for that, they'd get a wrongful termination suit upside the head.
A job I worked forbade employees from using certain ethnic terminology. I.e. you couldnt say "mexican food" or "chinese food". You had to say south american or asian.
I had to do *everything* I was told, no matter what it was, including running 3-5 miles at 5 AM in 20°F weather, sleeping in the woods for up to two weeks without a phone, and cleaning my room as late as 2AM.
1967 my first "real" job as telephone operator ( yes I'm old, deal) we worked in a closed office, only linemen who were repairing a board would see us for 30 seconds walking thru door. All other operators were women . Dress code was no candles unless you wore pantyhose. Skirts only, no pants or shorts and I got sent home for wearing vertical striped culottes. Skirt length and very full so looked like a skirt unless you bent over to pull headset out of locker. Head operator had a fit, like I was naked. So I went home watched a movie and back to work after laundry done.(reason I wore the offensive cullottes) and I lived less than a block away. Fun job.
My aunt said Royal Bank was unbelievably picky. Can only use bank promo water bottles...had to wear something blue (back in the day) there's to much more to type...lol😎
USA congress has outlawed peonage (debt slavery aka debt servitude: employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work) for 153y now, in 1867. So yeah, sue them for peonage.
Remember being forced to wear Hardhats in an office environment, the excuse was because the men on rigs have to wear them so should you. We also had 6 different types of gloves we had to wear. I was half expecting to be attacked and wrapped in bubble wrap at any point. Found a strap with a frayed fiber and the whole factory was shut down.
Same, the one I hated the most was that deli workers couldn’t have water during their shift only on lunch. I am working over 3 friers two ovens and a water bath. All over 350 degrees but no, you can’t have water
@@brittanyleondike4823 I too am a deli slave. I just get a cup and drink the water out of the hand washing station. These manager types control what they think they can because they know they aren't good enough at their job to actually control productivity. Ah, well.
I worked in an animal charity shop for 6 months, and the area manager was a massive in-your-face vegan, and it was a rule in all of our charity shops across the country that no non-vegan products were allowed on the premesis. This meant that we couldn't sell non-vegan products, such as leather or wool, which kind of makes sense. It kinda defeats the purpose if we're a charity claiming to help animals, yet we use and consume animal products. A bit out there, but I could see the reasoning. We found out that this rule also applied to what we brought with us for lunch, so they were basically implying that we had to either bring in vegan food for lunch, or go somewhere else for lunch. Also bearing in mind this was during covid, so masks had to be worn at all times on the shop floor and if we went somewhere else for lunch, we weren't allowed to sit in the place and have our lunch, as most places were doing takeaway only due to covid. So if the weather was shit and you hadn't brought anything for lunch, you were shit out of luck because there was nowhere indoors for you to sit and stay dry while you ate your lunch. When I told someone of my friends, they all said that was really weird and borderline 'cultish'. While I didn't necessarily agree with it, I went along with it because apart from that, I really liked that job. Eventually I just started going to the Subway round the corner, getting a very non-vegan sub, putting the sub in my backpack, and then going back to the shop and sitting somewhere in one of the cameras blind spots to eat it. The store manager wasn't vegan, and didn't care what we did on our lunch breaks, so he turned a blind eye to it and let us do what we wanted. We just had to follow the rules when the area manager came to visit and check up on us.
I've had problems with rule crazy, jobs. Usually managers with small man syndrome who enjoyed bossing around a 6' 3" kid.. it usually turned into my being used and abused. A few times I lost it, and ending up standing face to face with a boss, and giving the impression that losing this shitty job wouldn't save them from a beat down, only using aggressive/assertive body language. I've had so many jobs it's not even funny.. lol
Manager one day all of a sudden: Everyone get’s all the vacation days off they want! Seasoned Workers: 😕 Manager: No really...want to go on vacation go ahead and do so. Same Workers: 😕 Manager: No wait you have to get my permission first. Workers: 😕 Manager: Okay scratch that...no vacations the higher ups just said no. Workers: 😕🙄😕
i worked at a gas station cafe (think like a subway, but with more than just subs). nobody got an employee discount on store merchandise, and we had to be able to produce a receipt at any time or else we would get fired. threw the receipt away? fired. spilled water on it? fired. finished eating over an hour ago and thought you were in the clear? fired.
@@monodramatic_ Plus all the store manager has to do is look at the security cameras. If the store manager was the one to ring you up and tries to say you didn't pay for what you got, contact the DM and tell him/her that the store manager is trying to set you up.
Ghost_Hunter13 i dont work there anymore and i dont plan to go back. the store manager was a special breed of awful. im disabled and she found basically every loophole she could to make me work longer shifts than my doctors allowed, including “losing” the medical note that i personally handed directly to her.
Not a rule but my brother worked at Taco John’s for a summer job and the manager would fire you on the spot for putting your 2 weeks notice in. After that happened a few times, employees just stopped giving notice, some wouldn’t show up. Some would tell him it’s their last day as they clocked out and returned the uniform.
Work fast food, we have to park people when their food takes extra time. The rule is we have to wear glasses to go outside (cause covid, its stupid). If you dont have glasses you have to wear a pair of safety glasses, we have one pair. They are never sanitized… i’d rather take the risk of going outside where i wont get covid in the eye than an eye infection from the communal glasses
they're mostly illegal in the US but people just take it for some reason...if a workplace tried to limit how much water I could drink(2 cups per day) or try to deduct bathroom trips from break time, i would say no, thank you...if attempted enforcement continued, I would record the interactions and have a sweet lawsuit...mostly people think they have to follow these rules just because others already do....doesnt make them legal
It was the weirdest rule I've ever seen so far you are only allowed in the bathroom for 2 minutes at a time. It didn't matter how many times you visit the bathroom but you had to keep it under 2 minutes each time and they had somebody there recording the times how you supposed to take a dump in 2 minutes or even unzip your fly lol
We got a new manager and she decided that she needed to know if we were leaving the department to get a tool or going to bathroom. I refused to tell her if I was going to the bathroom. She got upset at me but I told her I refused to tell her if I had to crap. She soon found out none of us were going to tell her this.
I worked for a tech recycling plant. There were no cell phones allowed. Why? I have no idea. But at this time I had no car and I depended on my mom to take me to and from work. I asked the floor manager if he could just hold my phone for me during work hours and explained my situation. He said sure. Few days of this go by. Then he switch up asking my why I have my phone and started trying to explain the rules even tho he didn't follow the rule. So he refused to take my phone that day. I'm like whatever. I kept my phone on me that day. Didn't check it during work hours. While leaving work they check your belongings to see if you are stealing anything. So my bag gets checked and they see my phone. Takes it and refused to give it back until I could prove it was mine. So I unlock it using my fingerprint. Wasn't enough. Told them the last person who was in the call log, wasn't enough. They wanted me to show them multiple pictures of me in the phone to prove it. I'm just ready to go so I do that and leave. Never came back after that. That floor manager acted like I didn't try to work with him to follow the rules and all of that just to prove its my phone was just too controlling for me. What if there was an emergency I had to take care of that needed my immediate attention. I'm sure a family emergency is more important that me picking through old laptops all day.
Worked at a grocery store. Had to spend $300 striping my hair to solid blonde. Take out all my peircings. After spending the money on my hair I was fired. A year later I went in and there was a cashier with purple hair and piercings.
This one is on Canada if you sale alcohol you don't need to be vaccinated but if you want to buy one after the shift you can't Also alcohol store are seen as vital business while gym are not We have to mention the stores are own by the government so they have this law for the but not for me
Rule Number 1: if you see a small child outside of the 5th cubicle on the left row, you have to close your eyes while singing baby shark for exactly 10 seconds.
I dated a bisexual guy, after he divorced his wife. Nothing that serious. We lived in the same small town. Three or four times I'd see him when I was out with friends. They always say something about me feeling bad about him going back to his wife. It was always funny to see the double take when I told them it wasn't his wife. They looked identical.
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My first boss was a hypochondriac who was convinced that he would have an asthma attack if employees wore perfume or cologne. He was a chain smoker. Smh.
Actually....people who have gluten allergies can be highly sensitive to perfume. I don't think he connected the dots of breathing and cigarettes though??
On the other hand, people who over-use perfume in the workplace (darn Axe) are inconsiderate morons
I wasn't on your side until the 'chain smoker' bit. Damn, he don't got asthma, he got stupidity.
You had me right up until chain smoker lol, I have severe asthma and I'm really set off by perfumes etc but i definitely couldn't smoke!
Heard one guy complaining that his co-worker came back from cigarette breaks smelling like smoke. "What about my health?" What about your health? It may be unpleasant; but, it's not unhealthy for you!
I used to have a manager that wouldn’t let us refer to our workspaces as ours. Meaning, you couldn’t say “my desk”. She would blow a gasket when she heard that and say “It’s not your desk. It’s the company’s desk.” I got so irritated one day that I told her she could no longer refer to the office she used as “her office” because it was the company’s office, not hers. I was a mouthy 22 year old, and I’m just lucky she didn’t have the power to fire me.
I told a snarky supervisor that when I pushed back in my chair sometimes it rolls over the cord to my headset. "You just told me you're destroying company property!" Yeh, like I'm maliciously destroying company property!
I had a warehouse bldg custodian act like that. 😡 He was a smarmy %$×&=*. I came close to 🥊 that MFer out a few times. Fun story, I left that job filed for state UC $$$ for about 2X the length I worked there. Obama years 2000s.
@@phlushphish793 a bad manager has the mindset of 'the employees are not only lazy but actively sabotaging the company' i have been told this straight to my face by a walmart manager
once was written up over a piece of paper. Manager got a stick up her but about a me entering thought he back door. She is the only one with the keys, plus one or both of my co workers will be there at least, theres no way i heck i could have done anything without someone noticing. But no, i had to go all the way around the building and bang on the door to be let in (they bitched about that to so i started calling them to let me in). She not only printed out the rule, but highlighted it as if i was a dumb ass who couldn't read. When she walked away i crumpled it into the trash in my fury. Apparently she heard this and not only wrote me up, but also escalated it to the district manager. Lost all respect for her and the company that day, didn't last long in that company
In my moms office they arent allowed to breathe through their mouths. My mom once had a cold, so her nose was blocked. Her boss legit came and send her home for the day, for breathing through her mouth. Not for being sick, not for being lazy or doing bad work, for BREATHING.
That's the funniest (and aggravating!) thing ever!
That boss should be fired for being stupid
I mean if we really wanna get into it talking is breathing out the damn mouth
@@CruellaDeVil. Nice one, she should've said that😂
I'm gonna guess this isn't in the U.S., but if it were and had I been there, I might've been able to sue over that rule. I've got a disability that makes breathing through my nose pretty difficult at times, so I have to use my mouth to breathe every day.
We had "auditors" who would go around looking for people not working - this included "walk down hall to bathroom". So we had to carry a piece of paper in order to look like our bathroom trips were "go to a meeting" trips.
My paper contained phone numbers of women I had dated, a rough calculation of the Coriolis force on the water in a toilet bowl, an old shopping list, and doodles of assorted animals. It had been folded into my pocket so many times that it was coming apart by the time the company got sued for the auditors peeking into the women's bathroom stalls.
Ages ago my place tried to compile a list of "approved restaurants" where we could dine while traveling or entertain clients. No. I'm not wasting a bunch of secretaries' time researching restaurants in EVERY CITY in which we do business. Secretaries who, I might add, don't travel.
As a truck driver I delivered to a large plant who was expanding. Because of construction if you got out the truck you had the wear a hard hat, safety glasses, and gloves. The nearest construction from where I was parked was equal to 8 football fields away but I still had to wear a hard hat, safety glasses and gloves outside the truck.
There hilarious
Must be a Ford plant, they're morons about that.
I can't imagine working at these "bathroom Nazi" places when you have IBS or another medical condition that requires frequent or long bathroom breaks.
Been there, and it absolutely sucks.
I worked on a crew that did traffic flagging and assisted with road construction. Basically prison chain gang type stuff. Most of the people on the crew were former convicts.
During the summer, it'd get up 120+ degrees Fahrenheit on the concrete. I typically had shifts in excess of 10 hours, sometimes as many as 16, just standing at one end of a closure with a STOP/GO paddle. Really struggled with IBS AND I was smoking cigarettes back then. Miraculously, I never once had an episode while I was on the job or on my way home. Always dreaded it too, as the office was in the ghetto and everywhere along the way back to my place was a dive (and I lived over an hour away).
Or if your pregnant I went to the restroom every 10 minutes
Worked in warehouse like that. I'm a fat guy, but can poop faster than i pee because of either long logs or shotgun sharts. If you take longer than 5min, it gets taken out of your work hours, but i was fine because my butthole was fast enough. The supervisor is in charge of cleaning it, that's his job, and the warehouse manager checked the bathrooms before lunches and the end of the day, if it was dirty or any toilets clogged, the supervisor would loose an hour of work. I purposely ate like crap and then chugged veggies and clogged the 5 toilets before lunch and before the end of the day for a week. It was tough, if always come out sweaty, but my timing was impeccable, and the supervisor removed the bathroom rule.
@@tytoalba605 You are right that an employer cannot stop you, but they can fire you for it by saying it's disrupting your job or some other excuse.
Worked at a mall. I had to tuck my shirt in, wear dress pants, and a Black belt. My co-worker was allowed to wear jeggings, untucked shirt, comfortable shoes. I wore uniform shoes. I know this is petty, but he pissed me off. I later found out that co-worker was sleeping with the boss.
To be honest she had it worst then you , she opened up a whole other can of worms especially if boss man gets bored of her ..
I used to live near a UPS distribution center, yes, UPS trucks DO turn left, literally every single day."Miniboss" was a moron.
I used to know a woman who ran a coffee shop, her rule was "I don't care if they've cleaned it 6 times already if there's no customers they had better be cleaning! I hired them to work not sit on their butts " So I asked her , very gently.....But doesn't that cost you a lot extra on cleaning supplies every month? Well yeah, turned out it was costing her over $100 per month (she demanded the expensive name brands). Then I asked her, "so isn't it just wasting time and money anyway, if they're using expensive product to clean what's already been cleaned several times with the same product?" After that the lightbulb went on for her and she eased up.
Most weird rule I've come across when I was working fresh out of school was to be paid minimum wage and do twice the amount of work.
That sounds highly illegal.
@@cheshire_skatkat9093 Seconded right there, friend.
I worked enough for 3 people in every job I went to .
I work in a profession that relies heavily on creativity and sharp intelligence. This attracts a certain sort of sarcastic, free-willed, clever employee. We are often tried to be 'managed' by officer managers who draft amazingly crazy Rules of Control which we then scrupulously adhere to in the most mocking way possible or simply ignore completely; due to the fact that we were contracted through an entirely different division of the company and at some point the office manager is informed that we cannot be sent to HR or fired for our petty little revolts. It's a hilarious tiny corner of heaven. They're very delighted that we've all been forced to work from home now and so are we. "Official" emails go completely ignored. Office Society is just the strangest anthropology experiment of the last feudal fiefdoms of humanity. We are its court jesters. (Rebel!)
This list reminds me of the episode of malcolm in the middle where he has to use the lift to go to the box flattening area instead of just breaking them next to the skip
Love that one! "You take the boxes to the box flattening area!"
Yes! Its called working smarter not harder.
How the heck can they force the ' no talking to co workers outside of work' 🤦♀️🤦♀️
Likely to prevent attempts to unionize, and by making the rule you create distrust among the workers, and you never know if it might be that dude who'll be the one who reports you to the bosses.
@@rankothefiremage I think what she meant was how do they enforce it. And I wonder what happens if your coworker is a relative, spouse, or preexisting friend. What if my brother and I both worked there, and I later spoke to my brother in our own house. What are they going to do, spy outside my window?
Also that does not sound legal
Some people really shouldn't be a boss.
No more asking for water from the small coffee stand next to the registers. Also, no water bottles or any sort of drinks at the registers. Lots of people suffered from over heating that summer.
Also had to have my work checked before I could check out. THIS PISSED ME OFF TREMENDOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Um... Illegal? Unless labor laws for breaks differ from state to state, I don't think you're allowed to deduct people's breaks/lunches for going to the bathroom or other menial things.
thats why i just piss on the floor while starring right in his eyes
In Arizona employers MUST allow sick time when requested, and they cannot stop an employee from using it. There's no such nonsense allowed as "you have to use vacation tie first".
Exactly what I was thinking.
While yes some labor laws are state by state unless federal i believe this one is on the federal level or is extremely common in nearly all states.
this is america, workers rights are written on toilet paper, and if if your employer breaks one of the few rules that exists, its only illegal if they get called out. Which people will often not do for fear of losing their job/ not having the money to sue their employer
I was part of a dance troupe that had a very expensive dress code. They wanted us to wear stuff such as Yumiko leotards, just to dance rehearsals, and expected us to pay for all of that stuff ourselves. I left and refused to sign any contracts, and I found a better dance troupe.
In corporate America, they can tell you what color shoe you have to wear; but, if they specify the brand, they have to supply it.
Yeah they supply it but they also make the employee pay for it .. idk how many companies my husband had to pay for his own uniform and after he was let go we are stuck with them . Atleast at my job they never forced me to pay for it and had their own laundry service.
The dumbest rule I had was we couldn't have a water break at all. Nobody in TLE followed that rule including the head manager.
My middle school had weird stupid rules. If you were late to 1 class, even a second late, it was marked late and you got lunch detention. You had to wear shirts that completely covered your butt and more if you wore leggings. Shoulders are too sexy apparently cause even wearing a modest could shoulder shirt resulted in you going home. No phones whatsoever at any time, if a teacher saw your phone sticking out from your pocket they could take it, the art teacher didnt care about that rule and let us use our phones as long as he wasn't teaching. No youtube for music?? We had a 30 minute lunch break which by the time it started we still had to put our school supplies in our lockers cause we weren't allowed them in the cafeteria, go line up, we had to get our food which could take up to 15 minutes depending on what you got, eat it all, and spend at least 10 minutes outside. We weren't allowed to take our food outside. It was ridiculous going there. We also were required to lock our pe lockers no matter what. I didnt listen to that rule and left it unlocked during class. We also weren't allowed to take our backpacks to class ever. We had to carry heavy ass binders and books all day everywhere. We couldn't leave the cafeteria unless it was to go outside. No gum unless it was for state testing week. I hate that school with a burning passion now, except for three staff members.
My first legit full time job was in an office. There were no cubicles or anything but a big square room full of like 10 of us including the boss. He set up the desks kind of like a classroom in which he's the teacher and can see directly towards us at all times. It was fine mostly cause we all had our work to do but I found out the reason behind it not long after i joined. My boss absolutely hated people using their cell phones on company time. And I mean to the point where it can be on your desk and you're not allowed to look at it if a call is coming in or whatever. And he'd bitch you out if he ever caught you texting. Now it was only limited to that because he was chill with pretty much everything else. Everyone was russian or Lithuanian so he even allowed us all to drink at work, which he joined in most of the time. So just the phones. It was getting stressful because if an emergency call came in, he wanted us to ignore it, clock out for a 15 min break and then call the number back. Anyways, I don't work there anymore as my dear husband now makes enough money for me to be a stay at home mom.
This is not the first horror story I've heard of people not being allowed to talk to their colleagues outside of work (pretty sure it is illegal or at least they cannot actually enforce it). What is the vested interest of a given company to do this? Is it to stop people conferring about, e.g., salary?
It's a ham-fisted attempt at Union busting.
I work at FedEx.. I can't drink on the job. Ridiculous.
Thank you for not.
Must be worried about the packages getting drunk
@@CruellaDeVil. - No, Fedex is an incredibly dangerous place to work, especially at the Hubs. There were drunk people working there, but it just made it harder on the people who had to watch out for Drunky McDrunkerson on a Tug.
Do they mean anything? Water, tea, etc.
I worked road repair for local government and we could (if the situation allowed) return to headquarters for unpaid hour lunches. No admittance to the general public and non workers. We could not possess a deck of cards. No poker, solitaire could be played or even old maid and Uno deck. No cards of any sort because it was considered "gambling" even if no money/chips/pretzels etc... we're used. I was told one time it was "un-christian like". 😧 I should have raised crap right then and there, but.....
It was however alright for office staff to play online poker for real money, computer solitaire or any other card games. Not to mention the bookie that came in every Friday to run the football pool. All in the name of appearing golden to the public who couldn't give a rats ass if the guys fixing their pothole played solitaire on their break.
Also, the guy(s) who cussed like sailors were okay because "that's just the way they are, but let someone who had less than ten years say "Damn it!" and you would think they murdered someone and would be written up immediately.
My moms former office said everyone had to wear appropriate underthings. Ladies this included bra, panties and nylons. Unless you were darker skin toned on nylons. This made my mother furious. Since at the time she was a very small size( could wear size 10 child skirt). She went shopping for every negligee and teddy she could find. Fishnets, thigh highs with garters etc, She dared her female and male boss to check her underwear. This was in a state office
I was an IT Tech at a nonprofit that was based in a residential tower block, the PVC tilt-opening windows would only open about 6 inches and the tower block was covered in eco-friendly thermal cladding. The office was south facing and had at least 2 windows per classroom, this meant that the place got hella hot. We had a fairly casual dress code (there wasn't an official dress code, just a shared understanding of workplace dress code), it was assumed that you had to look smart casual (for me I could wear jeans, poloshirt, hoodie and hiking boots).
I was the only bloke on staff.
In summer the women would wear summer dresses and/or skirts, I was told shorts weren't smart casual... but neither are fricking hoodies! I used to sweat my nuts off!
Also had dress code issues at a university I worked at, I was an IT Tech.
The uni tried to get ALL staff to look professional (black slack [black skirt & tights for ladies], white button down shirt, black tie and smart black shoes),
we weren't to roll our sleeves up ever!
They tried to force this onto the Estates & Facilities Management department (cleaners and care takers, including builders who fixed the buildings and tarmac paths on campus) and us IT Techs.
The only dropped that shit for E&FM when an electrician caught his tie in a 25,000 rpm drill, and when my department manager (Student Services) scheduled a meeting with the Chancellor's office whilst getting me to fix an exploded printer cartridge in her office (she was pissed off on my behalf about how many times a day I had to change shirts due to fucking exploding ink cartridges or the like)
I worked at a place where you couldn't go to the toilet alone you were in a "toilet queue" the first 5 people of 1 sex went to the toilet and you were timed a max of 15 mins. Then the 1st 5 people of the opposite sex went after you came back. There were other crappy rules too but the toilet rules drove everyone crazy. I was surprised watching this how many more companies have bad toilet rules
Many companies had to institute a 'no cell phone in the restroom policy' 'cuz too many people were texting I guess while sitting on the pot.
I'd probably rather get fired . I had incontinence for awhile and was pregnant.. I refuse to pee my pants for that .. ironically after I had the baby I no longer have that problem . Who knew that was a life long problem
“Surgeon started using a scalpel to open office mail”
That is awesome
If I was a surgeon (never gonna happen, I have a huge fear of blood) I’d do that just because of the fun and flair of doing that
Used to work as a casual for a certain council picking up the rubbish left lying in the streets. One day management implemented a rule that said if we saw rubbish in the gutter we were to leave it for the road sweeper machine the following day even if it was an obvious hazard like broken glass or used needles. (Spoiler alert. We ignored that stupid rule) Management also decided that from our 6 am start right through till out break at 9 we had to do other work because "there wasn't any rubbish on the streets at that time." Apparently it all just magically appeared after our break. Smh
Remember kids: stories like these are the reason that unions are necessary
My boss wants me to wash the dishes, but wants me to just dunk them without actually cleaning them and comes over to complain Im not doing it right when I'm the one making sure the place is CLEAN not just tidy CLEAN and sanitised
I worked at a company that wanted me to stay at my work station and performing my job instead of wandering around and chatting with co workers. The nerve!
Bet you're fun at parties!
The one where they're not allowed to say problem, that's hilarious. 🤣
Especially considering there's a section in my warehouse called "problem solve"
It's for, you guessed it, solving problems with the boxes (destroyedbox, wrong label, destroyed label. Fun stuff) I wish I was trained in problem solve just for the joke now. 🤣
I had a workplace where I was forbidden to cut paper on a self healing drawing table surface. Why cover it with the speciality surface and not to be able to use it?
because its expensive and they want to protect their investment, and cannot see the self defeating prophecy
schools have this same problem
We used to have 3 weeks vacation policy at our work. When we were bought out, it was shifted to unlimited vacation. Unfortunately, 2 of my co-workers were reassigned and the positions left vacant. So I try to take vacation and I am denied because there is no coverage. My shift co-worker takes a mess of time off due to wife giving birth and the child being super sick. My direct supervisor knows I will not work more than the normal shifts and preemptively gets corporate to agree to overtime (since they pull the exemption for salaried employees shtick). I am 2 months without a day off, but making good money. Now we are 3 people short and there is no end in sight and no vacation either...
When I was a firefighter they made the same rule of not using poles and weights also they said we cant do our training obistical course which we do for fun and training. We ignored them and hid our weights when the hr people showed up. Course they wanted us to do the dummy drag drill for example and every time we pretended to be weak and delebertly failed. They kept asking why is everyone so weak. With us just saying we can't lift weights so how can we keep our muscles in peak perfection. They still have the rules.
I think I remember my mom telling me her work requires them to wear jeans on certain days. I would understand if it was all the days but come on now..
Casual Friday....?
Mopping the floor and having to wring the mop out by hand because otherwise the cleaner would have a hissy fit about wet mops. I worked nights for Mencap in a residential home for disabled people. We were expected to do all the cleaning despite the fact they employed a cleaner.
At my work we can dye our hair any color so long as we have manager approval. Manager H wanted to dye her hair purple so she asked SM R. He said ok thinking it would be purple. Nope, it was PURPLE. Bright in your face purple. Lol, fun
The depressed soldier who wasn’t allowed to cry at his desk reminded me of something similar that happened to me in high school.
I was bullied, very depressed, and didn’t smile a lot. Well my classmates took it as a personal offense that I didn’t smile while in class. The teacher and a group of them roasted me in class, listing all the reasons they didn’t like me and ways I could be a better person. I started crying and the teacher told me I wasn’t allowed to and to just take it. Frick you, Ms McGee.
We were told we essentially worked until our work was done, but to be there by 8am every day.
I was expected to stay until 4:30pm though while everyone else could leave, because of a terrible excuse of "cutting down on the slackers". I did the job of 4 people and got along with every doctor I worked with. I also got there almost an hour ahead of time because of how far away I lived and I needed to beat traffic.
I would be working 9-10 hour shifts every day, and they didn't understand why I was pushing 50+hours/week while everyone else barely hit the full time hours needed (32/week).
Me quitting pissed off the boss so much, and the majority of the staff left a year later and she can't understand why no one wants to stay and work there.
I was apparently the catalyst for the rule against touching customer's dogs. If you were caught petting a dog you would be fired on the spot.
My fire department tried to do away with all the poles, but Stanley Wahlshinski pitched a fit.
My job has early closure days before major holidays (like the Friday before Memorial Day). Everyone leaves at noon. But we had staggering shift starts, so if you started at 7am, you had to work 5 hrs instead of someone who came in at 9am and worked 3hrs. And you would get paid the same regardless. Many people complained about this but it wasn’t until some people in California sued for overtime owed that they finally said on early closure days, everyone works 8a-12p.
Ups routes are planned in advance to have as few lefts as possible cause it makes the route faster cause they know all the deliverys b4 the driver leave with an ambulance u dont know anything till the last min
Funny as it’s pretty much all lefts to get to my place. Perhaps that’s why they often can’t find my house!
My personal one, when I worked culinary in a nursing home: if you sent the resident’s meal on a hall tray, and soup was an option they had chosen from the meal (lunch or dinner), it had to be sent out in a coffee cup, with the lid on, but you could not take the lid off. At all. Which made no sense when it came to chunky soups. Yes, it was to keep the residents from burning themselves on hot soup, but really? Just have someone else open the soup lid for them, and make them keep it on the tray that was a part of every room!!!
Work in the kitchen of a nursing home myself. It's a ridiculous " cross contamination " thing. I like my job, but because it's a nursing home, you HAVE TO be there, NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!! You can get fired for staying home in bad weather/snow! I was forgiven, and they are a little easier on me, because they know I don't have a car and must catch rides. I bet that ends when I get a car!!
I worked at the DMV and the commisoner of license was a huge B.....we had to clock bathroom breaks....we had to count the amount of paper we used when using the printer and if we used a lot in a day then she would flip.....she watched us on the cameras which some days she would watch us in her office when we were literally right outside her office.....me and another lady received verbal warnings for not having a binder and taking notes......and what really pissed me off was the girl that was training me was keeping a list of anything I was doing wrong and would turn it in at the end of the day to the secretary and the secretary would type it up and send to the B......that pissed me off the most!!!!
I worked at a call center that's open 27/7. I usually worked 6am to 2pm. The sick time/calling in policy was that you couldn't ask someone to cover your shift until 2 hours before your scheduled start time, just in case you miraculously healed or got better. You also need to try to get your shift covered before calling your supervisor. So if I was sick, I had to call all of my co-workers at 4am on their scheduled day off
Oh, that jacket policy reminds me. I used to work for a company that was contracted to run dining services at a major university in my hometown. A month after I started working there a "new rule" came down that nobody was allowed to wear hoodies at work, despite the fact that literally everyone continued to (because it was targeted at me). I started wearing a black blazer instead, which I did for the next six years without incident. At the start of year seven, the newest manager created a new rule that would have outlawed my blazer. I was already sick of this woman because I and 2 other people were literally doing her job for her while she sat on the computer all day shopping for her wedding. 45 minutes after I was told about the no jacket rule I handed her my two weeks notice; I had planned on quitting that day anyway, but the timing was too perfect. I heard that she freaked out because she suddenly had to replace me. I trained not one, but two people to take my place. The first guy quit at the end of night 1, the other guy gave up after 3 weeks. I worked that job for six years.
I wonder about the legality for a lot of the rules in the video
Stop being a Karen that deems basic responsibility illegal.
@@eopujvrswg wtf?
@@aagg6124 you read me.
@@eopujvrswg Nope, really no fucking clue. If you think a lot of the rules in this video are fine, and do not constitute (grave) breaches of workers rights, you might just be a communist.
@@aagg6124 wrong. Im a hardcore libertarian - pretty much on par with fascism to them on things they hate.
Anyway, a lot of these are crybabies who cant handle responsibility. There is no workers rights violations here (some are though I'll admit it) - just soyboys.
Deducting time from lunches is illegal as fuck.
Also, I work in a grocery store and its company policy that you need to have a doctors note (that they only honor for 30 days) to be able to have a bottle of water at your register. They say its so the registers don't get damaged by accidental water spills. I asked them why they value 20 year old registers over human life. They don't try to enforce that policy around me.
Previous job. Call off = call in at least 1 hour prior to your shift and adds 1 point to your record. No problem.
Calling in late? Same thing. On your way to work and get into a wreck? Doesn't matter. One point, plus an extra point for not calling in sooner.
My school's priorities are severely backwards: I.E. you'd only be lectured like a two year old for threatening to nuke the campus and kill every idiot on it, but if you piss off a brown eyed/Hispanic peer (such as looking at them in what their nearly nonexistent brain considers "wrong") you'd be suspended or expelled
lots of delivery companies ban left turns because depending on the area, doing right turns are faster since you don't have to wait, plus liability.
When I was a CNA we took turns taking the residents out to smoke in the semi enclosed gazebo.
I got them settled, lit their cigarettes and stepped out.
When we went back in the nurse manager told me I had to stay in the gazebo with them. I told her I don’t smoke and won’t subject myself to secondhand smoke, she told me it was policy. I told her then get my a contract that says you’re gonna cover all my medical expenses, missed wages, mortgage, funeral cost etc if I get lung cancer. I ended up quitting so I’m not sure if they still “enforce” that policy
Teacher : Not allowed to laugh while in the staff room.
In my work we have to wear masks, i work alone, night crew.... there is no point
Covid-19 can last up to 3 hours in the air so you can still get infected
@@legendofzeldarules44 mind if i ask for a link
@@legendofzeldarules44 if it lasts 3 hours in the air shouldn't we all be getting sick by now? I mean we all have a breakroom to eat lunch together and you cant wear a mask when u eat...
@@legendofzeldarules44 You do know that a mask does not protect you and is only there so you don't bring aerosols into the air? Again: it is NOT there to protect you, only to protect others.
Mine did the exact same thing even though we have a fogger. We aren't even allowed to have more than one person in the building.
Control freak boss. I could not e-mail others in my department. I had to e-mail her and then she would let everyone else know. She also had IT set her up so she could see our e-mails.
Being forced to wear a reflective belt while deployed overseas...
And having to find a battle buddy to go to the chow hall with..... Because clearly I'm not an adult 🤣😉😉😉😂😂
@@xander-with-a-z IKR? For some reason we're responsible enough to operate millions of dollars worth of weapons and equipment but god forbid you walk to the chow hall on your own...
First one highly illegal lol how was he not fired or at least demoted
I worked somewhere where me and a coworker almost gotten written up for talking to and trying to help a customer with their search for an item (library). We were told we were talking for too long (this was when we had no one else to help). Our boss would time our bathroom breaks, not allow us to send emails without her CC to them. She would commonly have meeting with coworkers and make them cry. In 6 months, 7 of the 10 coworkers in my department had quit or forced out. We tried to take the issue to HR and we were told we were the problem.
I’m a stay at home mom. Sometimes I wish I could find these places to work, work for a couple days and then tell them how stupid they are solely because I don’t need the job and some people just deserve to be told to F off.
13:54 I wonder if my arms are short because I would never wear shorts of that lenght to work
At my old job at Mc Donald’s, there was a rule: No coats in the drive-thru.
Ever. Doesn’t matter how cold it is.
It was actually “no coats that don’t have the Mc Donald’s logo.” But I’m not paying for a 100.00 coat when I pay 13.70 a ride to get to work, up to twice a day, for five days a week. Nope.
Rachel Pinter nice.
Wow nice being a trucker 👍 if need to stop for crap just stop at truck stop
in one of my old jobs we couldn't have anything personal on our set desks because it was a "gdpr risk". it went as far as telling us we couldn't have any christmas decorations anywhere near our desks at all. if you don't know what gdpr is, its legislation for data protection, like if i told one customer another customers address. we still don't understand how a bit of tinsel could have compromised that!
17:26 That's... wildly illegal. You need to have signatures that people are informed of rule changes or you can't uphold them. Pretty much positive if they actually fired OP for that, they'd get a wrongful termination suit upside the head.
A job I worked forbade employees from using certain ethnic terminology. I.e. you couldnt say "mexican food" or "chinese food". You had to say south american or asian.
I had to do *everything* I was told, no matter what it was, including running 3-5 miles at 5 AM in 20°F weather, sleeping in the woods for up to two weeks without a phone, and cleaning my room as late as 2AM.
1967 my first "real" job as telephone operator ( yes I'm old, deal) we worked in a closed office, only linemen who were repairing a board would see us for 30 seconds walking thru door. All other operators were women . Dress code was no candles unless you wore pantyhose. Skirts only, no pants or shorts and I got sent home for wearing vertical striped culottes. Skirt length and very full so looked like a skirt unless you bent over to pull headset out of locker. Head operator had a fit, like I was naked. So I went home watched a movie and back to work after laundry done.(reason I wore the offensive cullottes) and I lived less than a block away. Fun job.
My aunt said Royal Bank was unbelievably picky. Can only use bank promo water bottles...had to wear something blue (back in the day) there's to much more to type...lol😎
USA congress has outlawed peonage (debt slavery aka debt servitude: employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work) for 153y now, in 1867.
So yeah, sue them for peonage.
Remember being forced to wear Hardhats in an office environment, the excuse was because the men on rigs have to wear them so should you. We also had 6 different types of gloves we had to wear. I was half expecting to be attacked and wrapped in bubble wrap at any point. Found a strap with a frayed fiber and the whole factory was shut down.
I work at Walmart. Enough said.
Same, the one I hated the most was that deli workers couldn’t have water during their shift only on lunch. I am working over 3 friers two ovens and a water bath. All over 350 degrees but no, you can’t have water
@@brittanyleondike4823 I too am a deli slave. I just get a cup and drink the water out of the hand washing station. These manager types control what they think they can because they know they aren't good enough at their job to actually control productivity. Ah, well.
I worked in an animal charity shop for 6 months, and the area manager was a massive in-your-face vegan, and it was a rule in all of our charity shops across the country that no non-vegan products were allowed on the premesis. This meant that we couldn't sell non-vegan products, such as leather or wool, which kind of makes sense. It kinda defeats the purpose if we're a charity claiming to help animals, yet we use and consume animal products. A bit out there, but I could see the reasoning. We found out that this rule also applied to what we brought with us for lunch, so they were basically implying that we had to either bring in vegan food for lunch, or go somewhere else for lunch. Also bearing in mind this was during covid, so masks had to be worn at all times on the shop floor and if we went somewhere else for lunch, we weren't allowed to sit in the place and have our lunch, as most places were doing takeaway only due to covid. So if the weather was shit and you hadn't brought anything for lunch, you were shit out of luck because there was nowhere indoors for you to sit and stay dry while you ate your lunch.
When I told someone of my friends, they all said that was really weird and borderline 'cultish'. While I didn't necessarily agree with it, I went along with it because apart from that, I really liked that job. Eventually I just started going to the Subway round the corner, getting a very non-vegan sub, putting the sub in my backpack, and then going back to the shop and sitting somewhere in one of the cameras blind spots to eat it. The store manager wasn't vegan, and didn't care what we did on our lunch breaks, so he turned a blind eye to it and let us do what we wanted. We just had to follow the rules when the area manager came to visit and check up on us.
I've had problems with rule crazy, jobs. Usually managers with small man syndrome who enjoyed bossing around a 6' 3" kid.. it usually turned into my being used and abused. A few times I lost it, and ending up standing face to face with a boss, and giving the impression that losing this shitty job wouldn't save them from a beat down, only using aggressive/assertive body language. I've had so many jobs it's not even funny.. lol
"YOU CAN'T, use the words:
"Shoot, or shooting."
"YOU CAN'T, ask cutomers calling for help:
"What's going on?"
Manager one day all of a sudden: Everyone get’s all the vacation days off they want!
Seasoned Workers: 😕
Manager: No really...want to go on vacation go ahead and do so.
Same Workers: 😕
Manager: No wait you have to get my permission first.
Workers: 😕
Manager: Okay scratch that...no vacations the higher ups just said no.
Workers: 😕🙄😕
Had to use a safety harness in a scissor lift. Just in case it fell, and I tried to escape and save my life, you know?
i worked at a gas station cafe (think like a subway, but with more than just subs). nobody got an employee discount on store merchandise, and we had to be able to produce a receipt at any time or else we would get fired. threw the receipt away? fired. spilled water on it? fired. finished eating over an hour ago and thought you were in the clear? fired.
Is it speedway? because if it is, the policy enforcement would vary from store to store.
Ghost_Hunter13 lol yeah it was a speedway
@@monodramatic_ Plus all the store manager has to do is look at the security cameras. If the store manager was the one to ring you up and tries to say you didn't pay for what you got, contact the DM and tell him/her that the store manager is trying to set you up.
Ghost_Hunter13 i dont work there anymore and i dont plan to go back. the store manager was a special breed of awful. im disabled and she found basically every loophole she could to make me work longer shifts than my doctors allowed, including “losing” the medical note that i personally handed directly to her.
Not a rule but my brother worked at Taco John’s for a summer job and the manager would fire you on the spot for putting your 2 weeks notice in.
After that happened a few times, employees just stopped giving notice, some wouldn’t show up. Some would tell him it’s their last day as they clocked out and returned the uniform.
Work fast food, we have to park people when their food takes extra time. The rule is we have to wear glasses to go outside (cause covid, its stupid). If you dont have glasses you have to wear a pair of safety glasses, we have one pair. They are never sanitized… i’d rather take the risk of going outside where i wont get covid in the eye than an eye infection from the communal glasses
Most of these would be quite illegal in my country. But hey, 'mericaaa!
they're mostly illegal in the US but people just take it for some reason...if a workplace tried to limit how much water I could drink(2 cups per day) or try to deduct bathroom trips from break time, i would say no, thank you...if attempted enforcement continued, I would record the interactions and have a sweet lawsuit...mostly people think they have to follow these rules just because others already do....doesnt make them legal
It was the weirdest rule I've ever seen so far you are only allowed in the bathroom for 2 minutes at a time. It didn't matter how many times you visit the bathroom but you had to keep it under 2 minutes each time and they had somebody there recording the times how you supposed to take a dump in 2 minutes or even unzip your fly lol
We got a new manager and she decided that she needed to know if we were leaving the department to get a tool or going to bathroom. I refused to tell her if I was going to the bathroom. She got upset at me but I told her I refused to tell her if I had to crap. She soon found out none of us were going to tell her this.
Most of these jobs sound like walk in concentration camps
No using company air.
This is terrifying!
I worked for a tech recycling plant. There were no cell phones allowed. Why? I have no idea. But at this time I had no car and I depended on my mom to take me to and from work. I asked the floor manager if he could just hold my phone for me during work hours and explained my situation. He said sure. Few days of this go by. Then he switch up asking my why I have my phone and started trying to explain the rules even tho he didn't follow the rule. So he refused to take my phone that day. I'm like whatever. I kept my phone on me that day. Didn't check it during work hours. While leaving work they check your belongings to see if you are stealing anything. So my bag gets checked and they see my phone. Takes it and refused to give it back until I could prove it was mine. So I unlock it using my fingerprint. Wasn't enough. Told them the last person who was in the call log, wasn't enough. They wanted me to show them multiple pictures of me in the phone to prove it. I'm just ready to go so I do that and leave. Never came back after that. That floor manager acted like I didn't try to work with him to follow the rules and all of that just to prove its my phone was just too controlling for me. What if there was an emergency I had to take care of that needed my immediate attention. I'm sure a family emergency is more important that me picking through old laptops all day.
Worked at a grocery store. Had to spend $300 striping my hair to solid blonde. Take out all my peircings. After spending the money on my hair I was fired. A year later I went in and there was a cashier with purple hair and piercings.
"Bring your own soap to the bathroom"
Easy. Any dress code rules are stupid. Acceptable for work should be the only dress code. Especially if you job is not client facing.
Hey awesome video :)
How is it that these places have rules stricter than serving in the military?
This one is on Canada if you sale alcohol you don't need to be vaccinated but if you want to buy one after the shift you can't
Also alcohol store are seen as vital business while gym are not
We have to mention the stores are own by the government so they have this law for the but not for me
That's why workers need unions
Toilet paper queen!
You know what I mean.
Rule Number 1: if you see a small child outside of the 5th cubicle on the left row, you have to close your eyes while singing baby shark for exactly 10 seconds.
I wonder how much time that person wasted trying to get a 50 cent pen?
More like 10 cent thay buy them in bulk so thay get them really cheap
I dated a bisexual guy, after he divorced his wife. Nothing that serious. We lived in the same small town. Three or four times I'd see him when I was out with friends. They always say something about me feeling bad about him going back to his wife. It was always funny to see the double take when I told them it wasn't his wife. They looked identical.