What's the most ridiculous rule in your place of work?

I'm a teacher, so I have a million stupid rules I have to follow.

But the worst one is that my performance evaluation is based on student improvement on the star literacy test.

I teach wood shop.

At my old job, HR held a meeting to tell us that there was too much swearing on the sales floor.

Someone raised their hand and pointed out that swearing is very common in our industry,

and that it is the way that our customers speak.

HR later sent out a memo explaining that swearing should be limited to conversations with clients.

It was amazing.

Please only swear when in the presence of a customer,

all customers should be greeted with a jolly, what the frick is up, or a chipper,

Who the frick crapped on you today, you B-word? Any attempts to not insult or demean our customers

will be written up. Frick you and have a great day. HR. Somewhere I have the email printed out. I had a

crazy crap folder where I kept nutty emails and that HR memo was definitely one of the best.

If you are stuck in traffic on the way to work, you must email the CEO. Phone calls and texts

are not permitted, only email. I'd get that one in writing and send it to

the corporate insurer. If you're supposed to email the CEO when you're late, there's probably

no corporate insurer. There's probably not much of a corporation for that matter.

I used to work at a place in which my boss implemented a no more than two glasses of water a day

policy. What a chump. I ignored

this rule and complained directly to our CEO, and the matter ended later that day. What was weird,

though, was that the majority of people actually followed the rule, and some even shopped me up to

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