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Petty Things Banned From The Workplace

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  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,936 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    pawrick wrote: »
    I worked in an office where this was an issue re see through summer dresses. Some girl went commando and had to be asked to go home and change. I don't think she realised just how see through her dress was but wearing white didn't help.

    In the dress code for one place where I worked it said "underwear should not be visible" and I never really got that - surely the point of underwear was that it goes under the clothes, I mean the clue is in the name.

    One day one of the girls got sent home because she was wearing low rise black trousers (in fairness, that alone was against the dress code, we were supposed to wear suit trousers) and when she bent down to get something for a customer, the whole office got an eyeful of her very skimpy thong. The customer went mental and complained to the manager


  • Registered Users Posts: 23 cillit_bang


    I have only ever worked in American MNC's.

    Anyone who I have talked to who has worked for an Irish company it has basically been the ''..workplace bliss, been totally pissed, stoned, late for work, sleeping on the job, fighting, doing no work was ......OK...''

    I can't understand it (Basically because I have never worked for such a company). Do people not get tried of doing nothing and being there in spirit? Like that Republic of Telly skit where the guy comes in late for work dying of a hangover and the boss is like, "Oh grand so". Baffles me!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Cannot stand people who use radios in the office. Headphones fair enough, but radios no!

    Perhaps your colleagues didn't want to listen to whatever radio station you did? Perhaps they complained as it was distracting. If you can hear the radio, the person beside you can.

    Who wants to listen to commercial radio with the inane ads, the constant rotation of the same sh1t music all day anyway.

    I cannot believe this is a thing


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 112 ✭✭Wide Load


    Just read through the thread and it reminded me why I never want to work in an office. Kudos.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,034 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    I don't think I'm allowed to sleep with the students.

    Candie wrote: »
    YFlyer wrote: »
    wear that shirt that the engineering guy had on who landed the rocket on the comet.

    It wouldn't look good on me, since it's a mens shirt.

    As I mentioned, my boss and myself are trying to find a similar one for him to wear.

    I got one of those shirts. I've not worn it to work though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭charlietheminxx


    Microwaves :( we aren't allowed have one for Health and Safety reasons. It would make lunchtime a lot easier and give me more choice, 4 days out if of 5 it's feckin salad for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    I've spent some time working in various labs and I've seen the following banned for either health and safety or product comtamination
    Phones
    Watches
    Radios
    Jewellery
    Make-up
    Open toe shoes
    Tights
    Beards
    Black/red/green pens


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    ianobrien wrote: »
    I've spent some time working in various labs and I've seen the following banned for either health and safety or product comtamination
    Phones
    Watches
    Radios
    Jewellery
    Make-up
    Open toe shoes
    Tights
    Beards
    Black/red/green pens

    What about blue pens? I know a fella who worked in a few labs and they can be strict.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Toots wrote: »
    the whole office got an eyeful of her very skimpy thong. The customer went mental and complained to the manager

    Was she ugly?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,860 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Jeans, t-shirts or polos and casual shoes or runners are standard dress in my office. If you see someone in a suit they stand out like a sore thumb and know there must be something very important going on that day for them.

    I detest pointless dress codes like the one you appear to like. Such a waste of time.

    Just a question, can you appear at work in your office in shorts and singlets and such like.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    I've tried unsuccessfully to have sneakers and uncollared shirts to be banned from our offices. In fairness most people stick to a professional dress code, but you have the odd few who insist on dressing very scruffily!

    Id try to have you banned


  • Posts: 24,714 [Deleted User]


    Just a question, can you appear at work in your office in shorts and singlets and such like.

    Shorts yes for sure lots of people wear them in the summer including myself. I've never seen someone in a singlet though, I'd imagine that would be a step too far although some people wear track suits or sweat pants and even I think that's too under dressed for an office environment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,187 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Just a question, can you appear at work in your office in shorts and singlets and such like.

    Not many do, but aside fom Daisy Duke short-shorts I don't think it'd be a problem in our shop.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭moleyv


    Guessing it's a H&S thing, but jesus you'd swear they were 5 years old.


    I've to wear a life jacket to use the water fountain


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Charging mobile phones as the electricity bill was too high.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    ianobrien wrote: »
    I've spent some time working in various labs and I've seen the following banned for either health and safety or product comtamination
    Phones
    Watches
    Radios
    Jewellery
    Make-up
    Open toe shoes
    Tights
    Beards
    Black/red/green pens

    Tights what about stockings and suspenders?

    What's the reason for the tights


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    I think the only thing that is banned in my place is taking bribes.
    Oh, and leaving old food in the fridge. Food and bribery. That's all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Tights what about stockings and suspenders?

    What's the reason for the tights

    It can be because of chemical spills - if certain chemicals fall on the tights, they'll melt into the skin!

    The ban on open-toed sandals would be similar, if you drop something (chemicals, glassware, blades) they'll fall on bare toes. Ouch!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭libelula


    I worked in a company years ago where charging electrical devices (phones etc) was considered stealing from the company.
    One Friday afternoon a girl straightened her hair in the bathroom/changing rooms (on her lunch break) because she was going on the razz straight after work.
    She got an official warning for theft from the company. :/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,825 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Trebor176 wrote: »
    Today, myself and five colleagues in the office were notified by e-mail from the boss that radios are banned from today. Now, three of us always had radios on, never that loud, and nothing was ever said until today. The ban extends to the use of headphones and any way of listening to music.

    We're the only office in the building (one of three) to have radios banned. Even the directors had no say in this and have no issues with others listening to music.

    What sort of things have been banned from your workplace, if anything?

    3 radios on in one office? Too right they're banned.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Radios should be banned throughout Ireland. It's the lowest most idiotic form of media and it's impossible to escape it because bus drivers and shop keepers love that crap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Radios should be banned throughout Ireland. It's the lowest most idiotic form of media and it's impossible to escape it because bus drivers and shop keepers love that crap.

    So you reckon Gerry Ryan was a start


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Cups of tea & coffee at your workstation have been banned,but bottles of water,cans of minerals etc. are ok???

    If they banned using headphones,the place would be burned to the ground.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,321 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Christmas tree was fine, but the star on the christmas tree was banned.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,344 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Toasters have long been banned in our office since the time in our previous office that the bread didn't pop up properly in one and ended up setting off the fire alarm. The fire brigade weren't particularly impressed when it was discovered what set off the alarm.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    Things banned in my workplace -

    Food. Hot drinks. Heels. Runners. Jeans. Internet. Using your phone. Reading. Sitting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 john locke


    Things banned in my workplace -

    Food. Hot drinks. Heels. Runners. Jeans. Internet. Using your phone. Reading. Sitting.

    sounds like a lovely place to work!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭Squeeonline


    Things banned in my workplace -

    Food. Hot drinks. Heels. Runners. Jeans. Internet. Using your phone. Reading. Sitting.

    How are the employment prospects in Hell these days?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    How are the employment prospects in Hell these days?

    I really enjoy my job and don't follow the rules :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,860 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Shorts yes for sure lots of people wear them in the summer including myself. I've never seen someone in a singlet though, I'd imagine that would be a step too far although some people wear track suits or sweat pants and even I think that's too under dressed for an office environment.

    You see, that's the issue , there has to be some standard,and it has to be enforced.

    If there is no standard, then anything goes,so to come out and say there should be no dress codes is a load of codswallopp.

    There has to be man, otherwise gimps will rock up in cutties and singlets, plus thongs and bag holders ?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    How are the employment prospects in Hell these days?

    They hire at Christmas mostly, Send an application to Dunnes Stores and they'll arrange everything for you. :pac:


  • Posts: 24,714 [Deleted User]


    You see, that's the issue , there has to be some standard,and it has to be enforced.

    If there is no standard, then anything goes,so to come out and say there should be no dress codes is a load of codswallopp.

    There has to be man, otherwise gimps will rock up in cutties and singlets, plus thongs and bag holders ?

    Well where I work there is absolutely no dress code. An odd person wears track suits and an odd person wears a suit and you have most people falling in between somewhere.

    In most jobs day to day there is no need to dress any more formal than jeans and a polo shirt or shirt imo. Why people sitting in an office all day working away are forced to wear a suit is beyond me.

    By all means wear something more formal if you have a meeting or important engagement but day to day in roles where people are just working away I see no reason for any sort of formal dress code. It's much easier to work when you are comfortable too.


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,936 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    McGaggs wrote: »
    Was she ugly?

    She was probably one of the hottest girls I've ever seen, honestly. And she was such a lovely person too. If I were ever to experiment with someone of the same sex, I'd have picked her! The customer that complained was an old bag in her 60s-70s, and very wealthy, one of those customers that expected you to bend over backwards to help her. Probably just bitter because her own arse looked like a pillowcase full of rice pudding.
    Things banned in my workplace -

    Food. Hot drinks. Heels. Runners. Jeans. Internet. Using your phone. Reading. Sitting.

    What happens if you need to poop?? Do you have to hover over the toilet?

    Actually my father in law used to be a fisherman, and my husband used to fish with him the odd time. I always assumed that there were little bathrooms on the boats, but no. If you had to pee, you just peed over the side (easy enough for men, there were almost never women on the boat) but if you needed to poo, you had to pull down your pants and hang your arse over the railing. I can imagine it was terrifying in rough seas.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 781 ✭✭✭pillphil


    ianobrien wrote: »
    I've spent some time working in various labs and I've seen the following banned for either health and safety or product comtamination
    Phones
    Watches
    Radios
    Jewellery
    Make-up
    Open toe shoes
    Tights
    Beards
    Black/red/green pens

    None of them apart from the pens seem particularly petty given that they're banned from a lab.


  • Registered Users Posts: 38 aunty kitty


    pillphil wrote: »
    None of them apart from the pens seem particularly petty given that they're banned from a lab.

    red and green writing doesn't photocopy well and it's harder to tell if something is a photocopy or the original document if it's in black writing. Blue pens are considered best for labs.

    tippex is usually banned too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Nucular Arms


    I run my own business so pretty much anything goes.

    Have been known to work from my own bed (with a steaming hot mug of dangerous liquids for my troubles too!).

    It's also great to be able to just randomly interrupt work for impromptu bass solos. Much prefer that to a radio!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,088 ✭✭✭sean1141


    This happened to friends of mine. Got a telling off for walking 20 meters (from the van to the cabin where they changed into work clothes) without wearing a hard hat and safety glasses..
    This was in a wide open space with nothing overhead or even around them!

    The same Health and safety guy could see no problem with one of them starting a 12 hour night shift straight away even though they they were on the road from 6 that morning and this was 6pm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭fenris


    Flip flops, mini skirts and leaving stuff on the printer, last one apparently can result in termination!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    fenris wrote: »
    Flip flops, mini skirts and leaving stuff on the printer, last one apparently can result in termination!
    If you're working in a job with very sensitive information, that seems like a reasonably sensible rule.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    fenris wrote: »
    Flip flops, mini skirts and *leaving stuff on the printer, last one apparently can result in termination*!

    I wish to apply for a job in your workplace - I blummin hate to see the pages gather on top of the printer, some of them there since the previous day #grrr


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    Toots wrote: »

    What happens if you need to poop?? Do you have to hover over the toilet?.

    Not a problem, because we're not allowed go to the bathroom, except on our lunch break. :pac:

    As you can probably tell, I don't really follow any of the rules.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,127 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, I told Bill that if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she's filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating so I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven.
    I don't care what anyone says, eleven is not a reasonable volume, even if you need that extra push over the cliff :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Any sort of t shirt under the work uniform that isn't plain white. Like, the work shirt is worn over this, and you'd rarely have it unbuttoned unless its an absolutely sweating day, but regardless of whether it can be seen or not, wearing say, a white t shirt with a single word on it is grounds for disciplinary action apparently.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Pantsless Fridays.


    :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭Slideways


    This could be a very long list..

    I work on a mine site in Western Australia, health and safety is totally over the top.

    Leathernan multitools
    Stanlet knives that are not retractable
    Steel sledges
    Mobiles. Having one on your person even in flight mode is an instant sackable offence. No warning. Bye bye
    Lots of tools a mechanic would use in real life.
    9" grinders. 1mm cutting discs
    Short sleeves
    Any rings/watches/chains
    Long hair that won't fit under a hard hat
    Beanies under hard hats
    Shaggy beards
    Anything that has a display screen or a camera. Only an iPod shuffle is allowed. But you can't use it while working
    ...

    I could go on


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,855 ✭✭✭Panrich


    Slideways wrote: »
    This could be a very long list..

    I work on a mine site in Western Australia, health and safety is totally over the top.

    Leathernan multitools
    Stanlet knives that are not retractable
    Steel sledges
    Mobiles. Having one on your person even in flight mode is an instant sackable offence. No warning. Bye bye
    Lots of tools a mechanic would use in real life.
    9" grinders. 1mm cutting discs
    Short sleeves
    Any rings/watches/chains
    Long hair that won't fit under a hard hat
    Beanies under hard hats
    Shaggy beards
    Anything that has a display screen or a camera. Only an iPod shuffle is allowed. But you can't use it while working
    ...

    I could go on

    It sounds sensible to ban potential sources of static/sparks in a mine where the presence of gas is possible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭Slideways


    Panrich wrote: »
    It sounds sensible to ban potential sources of static/sparks in a mine where the presence of gas is possible.

    It's an open cut iron ore mine. The only gas produced around here comes out of the locals mouths at the wet mess


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,127 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Slideways wrote: »
    This could be a very long list..

    I work on a mine site in Western Australia, health and safety is totally over the top.
    ..
    Mobiles. Having one on your person even in flight mode is an instant sackable offence. No warning. Bye bye
    I'm guessing the mining company uses explosives with radio controlled detonators at at least one site.

    They also get picky about wifi and long network cables, fibre maybe OK though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭Slideways


    I'm guessing the mining company uses explosives with radio controlled detonators at at least one site.

    They also get picky about wifi and long network cables, fibre maybe OK though

    Not the reason unfortunately. Supervisors have their phones on them for work.

    http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-17/mobile-phone-found-in-truck-after-fmg-mine-accident/5097724

    The othe reason is whenever there's a **** up on site, quite regular, photos would appear on a Facebook page called Mining Mayhem.

    The 3 big mining mobs, FMG, Rio Tinto and BHP all very much unhappy about dirty linen in public


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,127 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Ruu wrote: »
    We can only wear shirts with the company logo on Fridays (they are really nice dress shirts). :?
    The perks of working for McDonalds


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