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Strange Rules at Work

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  • #32
    445279.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,983 ✭✭✭445279.ie


    we have to be polite to customers :rolleyes:


  • #33
    orestes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    No drinking and no shagging the customers. Pffft


  • #34
    Raze_them_all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,477 ✭✭✭✭Raze_them_all


    orestes wrote: »
    No drinking and no shagging the customers. Pffft
    You clearly don't work in a pub!


  • #35
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 27,103 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    My job made me sign a form saying I didn't object to being made to watch porn in work.


  • #36
    InkSlinger67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭InkSlinger67


    Spear wrote: »
    My job made me sign a form saying I didn't object to being made to watch porn in work.

    Cameraman?

    Either that or fluffer :pac: <====8


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  • #37
    orestes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    Raze_them_all wrote: »
    You clearly don't work in a pub!

    I don't actually. Well, I kinda do. I run pubcrawls in Dublin, so you could say I kinda work in lots of pubs without actually working for any of them :pac:


  • #38
    Raze_them_all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,477 ✭✭✭✭Raze_them_all


    orestes wrote: »
    I don't actually. Well, I kinda do. I run pubcrawls in Dublin, so you could say I kinda work in lots of pubs without actually working for any of them :pac:
    Ah ok, In the bars I work in we were never said that to, In fact I remember one night around the holidays we were all drinking and pulling customers. Good times!


  • #39
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 27,103 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    InkSlinger67 wrote: »
    Cameraman?

    Either that or fluffer :pac: <====8

    Thankfully neither. The downside is that I'm made to watch major sporting events though.


  • #40
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    orestes wrote: »
    No drinking and no shagging the customers. Pffft

    can you do one or the other to the customer

    :D


  • #41
    orestes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    Raze_them_all wrote: »
    Ah ok, In the bars I work in we were never said that to, In fact I remember one night around the holidays we were all drinking and pulling customers. Good times!

    I would never do such things as that would be against the rules. So if anyone ever sees a pi[ssed guy in Dublin leading a pubcrawl and scoring his customers it's not me. In fact, I wasn't even in town that night and that money was just resting in my account.

    <_<
    irish-stew wrote: »
    can you do one or the other to the customer

    :D

    Are you suggesting I drink my customers and shag my beer?


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  • #42
    djk1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 899 ✭✭✭djk1000


    We had to fill in a form about whether we did or did not want CPR or defibrillation if we dropped.....So vital seconds wasted while they search for the form


  • #43
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,426 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    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!!

    They are playing a dangerous game if they are questioning a medical cert; if they are, they're basically questioning your doctor's competence.


  • #44
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    3-4 weeks notice to request a day off, because the rosters are made stupidly far in advance. Massive form with loads of stuff to fill out on it too.

    Part-timers in college have to show their timetable to HR, that's a bit much.

    Drpaery staff may not phone in sick to personnel and must spend ages wasting their time ringing the store number and eventually getting through to an abusive manager.


  • #45
    cotwold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭cotwold


    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.

    I wouldn't survive till 10.30 without talk of lunch!!!


  • #46
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    The first rule of work: You do not talk about work!

    The second rule of work: You DO NOT talk about work!
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    .
    .
    The third rule of work: No touching the customers :o


  • #47
    whadabouchasir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭whadabouchasir


    Dean09 wrote: »
    The third rule of work: No touching the customers :o
    I've never heard of this one before.


  • #48
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    whadabouchasir wrote: »
    I've never heard of this one before.
    Yeah its kind of new.................stupid judge...............:mad:


  • #49
    This_Years_Love
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭This_Years_Love


    I used to work at in this office in Ballsbridge a few years ago. They had this awful dress code rule. You could only wear black to work, no other colour -- even on on 'casual friday' you had to still come in dressed in black. I only worked there for 6 months. I quit the day I opened my wardrobe and realised that 90% of my clothes were black because of that fcuking place! I handed in my notice and went on a shopping trip.


  • #50
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,814 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    I was asked by my German boss if I ever wear anything that NO black, got it the point every time he's Ireland the first thing he comments on is me wearing all black.
    This_Years_Love wrote: »
    I used to work at in this office in Ballsbridge a few years ago. They had this awful dress code rule. You could only wear black to work, no other colour -- even on on 'casual friday' you had to still come in dressed in black. I only worked there for 6 months. I quit the day I opened my wardrobe and realised that 90% of my clothes were black because of that fcuking place! I handed in my notice and went on a shopping trip.


  • #51
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Corruptedmorals wrote: »
    3-4 weeks notice to request a day off, because the rosters are made stupidly far in advance. Massive form with loads of stuff to fill out on it too.

    Part-timers in college have to show their timetable to HR, that's a bit much.

    Drpaery staff may not phone in sick to personnel and must spend ages wasting their time ringing the store number and eventually getting through to an abusive manager.

    Aww god olde Dunnes, ya wouldnt beat them with the abusive managers they have.


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  • #52
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Not being allowed any form of facial hair, being forced to cover up piercings with plasters and tattoos with a bandage.


  • #53
    Novella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    Once upon a time, I, unfortunately ended up with a hickey. I tried to cover it up with make up but this was one mean looking bruise. I wore a scarf to work and my manager asked me to take it off. I argued, saying I had bought the scarf in the store blah blah blah but to no avail. Took off the scarf and she said that if I ever dared to present myself to work in that condition again, I'd be fired! Good times! The customers thought it was hilarious for the next few days!


  • #54
    Raze_them_all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,477 ✭✭✭✭Raze_them_all


    Novella wrote: »
    Once upon a time, I, unfortunately ended up with a hickey. I tried to cover it up with make up but this was one mean looking bruise. I wore a scarf to work and my manager asked me to take it off. I argued, saying I had bought the scarf in the store blah blah blah but to no avail. Took off the scarf and she said that if I ever dared to present myself to work in that condition again, I'd be fired! Good times! The customers thought it was hilarious for the next few days!
    Jesus the shame of that!


  • #55
    Novella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    Raze_them_all wrote: »
    Jesus the shame of that!

    ............ :o


  • #56
    Atwork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Atwork


    Worked in a place were a incident took place in the ladies locker room. Couple of days later a few of the wise boys changed all the posters that listed all the work rules around the place and added a new one.

    No ****ting on the floor of the ladies locker room.

    Loved the confused look on new employess faces!:eek:


  • #57
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Novella wrote: »
    Once upon a time, I, unfortunately ended up with a hickey. I tried to cover it up with make up but this was one mean looking bruise. I wore a scarf to work and my manager asked me to take it off. I argued, saying I had bought the scarf in the store blah blah blah but to no avail. Took off the scarf and she said that if I ever dared to present myself to work in that condition again, I'd be fired! Good times! The customers thought it was hilarious for the next few days!

    God if she said that to me id tell **** OFF.


  • #58
    dresden8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,291 ✭✭✭dresden8


    Do not tell Ministers that they are fncking idiots and that NAMA is stealing 60 billion from the Irish taxpayers.

    Do that and you're not a team player.


  • #59
    Raze_them_all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,477 ✭✭✭✭Raze_them_all


    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    God if she said that to me id tell **** OFF.
    Big massive hickeys don't really give off the best impression when you're working though do they?


  • #60
    Outkast_IRE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,511 ✭✭✭Outkast_IRE


    Corruptedmorals wrote: »
    3-4 weeks notice to request a day off, because the rosters are made stupidly far in advance. Massive form with loads of stuff to fill out on it too.

    Part-timers in college have to show their timetable to HR, that's a bit much.

    Drpaery staff may not phone in sick to personnel and must spend ages wasting their time ringing the store number and eventually getting through to an abusive manager.

    Show timetable to HR ........ha ha if your working where i think you are some people print off a new timetable that suits them better loads of people have done it .


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  • #61
    Novella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    God if she said that to me id tell **** OFF.

    I kinda need my job though :( I would have loved to, trust me!
    Raze_them_all wrote: »
    Big massive hickeys don't really give off the best impression when you're working though do they?

    Well maybe if the guy listened when I said that to him, I wouldn't have had that problem in the first place. :)


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