What was one rule at your office that ruined everything?

I worked for a place that did RMA repairs on PCs.

Most of our clients were businesses like hospitals and factories.

Anyway, as I was touring the workshop during my orientation, the guy taking me around took me to the QA department.

Once all builds or repairs were made, they were sent to the QA department for a final inspection before going out to the customer.

The guy jokingly said,

We used to pay the QI guy's bonuses for every mistake they found on the build.

I started laughing. The only problem was it wasn't a joke.

They actually paid bonuses to the QA people who found mistakes on builds.

For anyone not familiar with the internal

workings of a PC, it could take less than three seconds to completely render a computer inoperable.

Hell, you could loosen a connection just by inspecting it. Luckily, that policy ended before I was

hired. I mean, can you imagine giving someone a bonus for finding screw-ups when it would take

almost no effort to make a screw-up and then claim you found it?

New manager got rid of the sofa in the break room so people couldn't nap in their hour-long

lunch break.

No one was oversleeping or taking the Mickey with it, but it was a good option to have on

a tough day.

A guy who liked green herb started sleeping in other places, including in between the walls

in the warehouse. To clarify where he'd go, we'd find him in between the walls and shelves. It was a

DIY store that had been something else years before, so there were random partition walls and

oddly laid out shelving units everywhere, a real crap show of a store layout. He had quite a few

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