Strange Rules at Work

Overheal · 18-08-2009 05:20PM #1

I'll start,

At my place of work, you are not allowed to discuss lunch before 10:31.

edit: no, I dont work at a food establishment.

petes · 18-08-2009 05:24PM

Overheal wrote: »

I'll start,

At my place of work, you are not allowed to discuss lunch before 10:31.

So it's a free for all on lunchtime talk at 10:32?

stepbar · 18-08-2009 05:26PM

Let me guess, you work in McDonalds?

Overheal · 18-08-2009 05:27PM

At 10:31. Because it takes us 3 hours on average to decide what we want for lunch. If you dont ask until 12:30, you wont eat until 3. We're very indecisive.

Anything before 1030 is still breakfast, according to McDonalds, Burger King and (most importantly) Hardee's.

**** no Stepbar, I work at a flooring shop.

Cookie_Monster · 18-08-2009 05:28PM

No masturbating at your desk

Degsy · 18-08-2009 05:29PM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

No masturbating at your desk

I'd tell them to stick thier job!

stepbar · 18-08-2009 05:31PM

Overheal wrote: »

At 10:31. Because it takes us 3 hours on average to decide what we want for lunch. If you dont ask until 12:30, you wont eat until 3. We're very indecisive.

Anything before 1030 is still breakfast, according to McDonalds, Burger King and (most importantly) Hardee's.

**** no Stepbar, I work at a flooring shop.

Does the Government own it? Or McDonalds? Hell one of them must own the flooring company.......

orestes · 18-08-2009 05:31PM

Degsy wrote: »

I'd tell them to stick thier job!

You told me those books were covered in pritt-stick :mad:

Ro: maaan! · 18-08-2009 05:32PM

That's a bit much. Can you discuss other meals? Lunch from the previous day? Food at all?

Dartz · 18-08-2009 05:33PM

Not allowed to call a potential vendors product a:

Dangerous piece of plastic **** that won't work, is over-****ing priced, breaks every five minutes, and will ****ing kill someone some day.

Especially not to their face.

ejmaztec · 18-08-2009 05:38PM

Overheal wrote: »

I'll start,

At my place of work, you are not allowed to discuss lunch before 10:31.

edit: no, I dont work at a food establishment.

Can you discuss yesterday's lunch until 10:31, then get on to the main event?

I'm self-employed, so I'm always free to discuss anything with myself.

ShooterSF · 18-08-2009 05:40PM

In a hotel I worked in we had a handbook which along with general rules outlined also explained where each department was to search in the event of a bomb scare.

karlr42 · 18-08-2009 05:41PM

"Employees must wash hands"

Degsy · 18-08-2009 05:43PM

karlr42 wrote: »

"Employees must wash hands"

Another example of the nanny state we live in.
I'll wash my hands once a year whether they're dirty or not.

JONJO THE MISER · 18-08-2009 05:46PM

Unemployed, no such problems:D

Poor Uncle Tom · 18-08-2009 05:49PM

"No biting during foreplay"

I ask you, is anything sacred anymore?

My name is URL · 18-08-2009 05:51PM

I worked in a hotel a few years ago that had a rule stating that you must give 2 days notice if you intend to be sick

I think it was a pisstake, made me laugh anyway

whadabouchasir · 18-08-2009 05:54PM

where I work your not allowed to have stubble but you are allowed to have a beard.This means that you have to take time off work to grow a beard.

Poor Uncle Tom · 18-08-2009 05:56PM

whadabouchasir wrote: »

where I work ypur not allowed to have stubble but you are allowed to have a beard.This means that you have to take time off work to grow a beard.

Can't you grow one on your own time, say the weekend......:D

whadabouchasir · 18-08-2009 05:59PM

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Can't you grow one on your own time, say the weekend......:D

That wouldn't really be a proper beard,it would just be stubble.when they say a beard they mean a chuck Norris beard.

TPD · 18-08-2009 06:01PM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

No masturbating at your desk

Not safe for a ridiculously uptight workplace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn6Z9djh8eA

oppenheimer1 · 18-08-2009 06:20PM

We get drug tested every six months, so if there are any narcotics in our system we have to explain ourselves extremely well, or be shown the door. Although I don't take them, it pisses me off to have to submit samples to them.

horgan_p · 18-08-2009 06:22PM

not where i work , but i've called to fix computers in places where they have a rule about "custom ring tones"
Apparently if it didnt come with the phone you cant use it :eek:

dr.bollocko · 18-08-2009 06:27PM

horgan_p wrote: »

not where i work , but i've called to fix computers in places where they have a rule about "custom ring tones"
Apparently if it didnt come with the phone you cant use it :eek:

You'd understand that one a bit better if you had to listen to that ****ing intro to sweet child of mine every time somebody's mobile rings for months and months and months?
Fire him? I say we stab him.
Why can't a phone just make a ****ing ring ring noise? People with custom ring tones annoy the crap out of me. "I don't give a flying **** about whether you like the minimal trance remix you have as your ring tone. In fact i hate it. And you."

horgan_p · 18-08-2009 06:31PM

sorry , i forgot to mention - people got official warnings for it !! and i heard that one person got the sack (not sure if thats true though)
Tough one to explain at the dole office i'd imagine.

Red_Marauder · 18-08-2009 06:34PM

horgan_p wrote: »

not where i work , but i've called to fix computers in places where they have a rule about "custom ring tones"
Apparently if it didnt come with the phone you cant use it :eek:

Sounds harsh maybe, but after spending all morning sitting next to a girl who insisted on allowing her Bosco ringtone play until almost the very end so we all could enjoy it, I really wanted to do it, or somebody, some serious damage. Except luckily for her I'm a total wimp like that.

weldoninhio · 18-08-2009 06:50PM

Where i work we have a rule that you are not allowed to be sick. If you are sick, or even if you become ill during work and go home, you have to go for a meeting with the department manager, not your team leader or floor manager!! THE DEPARTMENT MANAGER!!

Who then proceeds to question you, medical cert or not, and threatens you with a visit to head office to see the company doctor if you make a habit of it, even if you are fully certified and it is your first sick leave!!

krudler · 18-08-2009 06:57PM

We have to ring in every day to state we wont be in sick even if you've rang in the first day and specifically say you're certed out for a few days or whatever and wont be back until X date, this is a special pain in the balls when youre due to start at 8am and have to wake your sick self up before then to ring, pointless!

Mr. Incognito · 18-08-2009 07:02PM

Come in at 9- as if!

eman66 · 18-08-2009 07:03PM

I hate having to request a form requisition form if I need a holdiay, sick, flexitime form etc.

Wossack · 18-08-2009 07:06PM

no banging your tin cup against the bars

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