Working a job you don't like can be soul-sucking. Before I landed this job, I found myself working in an office that didn't allow you to wear jeans, except on Fridays.
Now, to me, that is a very silly and outdated rule. I can see how to others it seems very reasonable, but I am just not one of those people. Jeans for all, any day of the week!
However, some employers enforce rules that are far stranger than "no jeans." Sometimes these rules are born from one employee who just couldn't learn a lesson, and sometimes they are born from a superstition of the boss.
No matter where these 11 work rules came from, they are all totally ridiculous. Have you ever had to follow any quite as out-there as the ones below?
These make the no jeans rule look pretty appealing by comparison, don't you think?
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1.
"Do not throw any personal items in company dumpsters or waste receptacles. All items to be discarded must be taken home." – Back2Bach
2.
"Women aren't allowed to lift anything. Literally anything. I was going to dump a trash can full of shredded paper in the dumpster last week and my boss caught me, made me put the trash can down, and go find someone to dump it for me. I was literally lifting the thing with one hand.
"As my job requires a lot of lifting and I hate asking for help constantly, I have mastered the art of picking up 50+ lb boxes and running with them so no one catches me." – Reddit User
3.
"Because of some new people we got working who don't understand the concept of not using a phone when there is work to be done, everyone has to put their cell phone in a bucket at 6 P.M. (or whenever the evening rush starts)." – apatheticthegirl
4.
"In our small hospital department, there's on [sic] oxygen line with a giant on/off valve that only affects our small department. If there's a fire, I can't turn the valve to close it. I have to call the nursing supervisor who is off-site, to come down to the fire and turn it off for me." – SooMuchSalt
5.
"I can wear any color jeans except blue." – bluecoop36
6.
"We're not allowed to laugh out loud. My boss thinks we're secretly laughing at her." – sharonthoughts
7.
"If two snacks fall from the vending machine, we have to turn in the extra one or its considered 'stealing company property.' Had a manager follow me to the front desk to turn in some cookies last week." – razlplaz
8.
"I'm a librarian. If somebody asks me where anything is, I have to redirect them to the front desk. No matter what.
"Example of how this is dumb: 'Where's the bathroom?'
"'I'm pretty sure the front desk can help you with that." – z91x
9.
"If I need a day off because I'm sick I need to let them know before midday the day before I'm going to be ill.
"I work from 12:00pm to 5:00pm, so if I'm going to be sick on Tuesday afternoon I need to let them know before I start work on Monday." – chosenamewhendrunk
10.
"I had a job once where you could only sharpen pencils with the mechanical pencil sharpener during certain times. It was a weird rule." – RogerDeanVenture
11.
"We couldn't back into parking spaces at my old job." – WinterCherryPie
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