Craziest Office Rules Ever
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I worked at a grocery store in the past. One of the absolute geniuses at corporate tried enforcing a new policy telling cashiers to greet customers with their name as if they were in a restaurant. For example, "Hello, my name is John and I will be your cashier today. Your bagger today will be Smith." Pretty much nobody was doing it, and to the few that actually followed through with it, customers complained that it was weird and creepy. The policy didn't last long.
Sometimes, I wonder if the people at corporate ever had a normal conversation with anybody in their life.
Awe, I kind of wish it took. I would love to know the names of the cashiers and baggers. Lots of grocery stores feel so impersonal.
Speedway does the same but I feel weird about that
Had a manager who threatened to dock an hour's pay if we clocked in 1 minute after start time. We countered, "Ok, dock an hour; we'll just sit in the break room for 59 minutes and see you then." That's the last time we heard about that.
And that's the proper response; you don't pay, we don't work.
I would HATE if someone, anyone-employee or not, would randomly start conversation with me while I'm shopping. Specially if I'm interrupted just to be a asked a random question about donkeys or whatever else.
My husband has been in asphalt/concrete business for 25 years. The company who fired their employees during the two weeks at the end of the year and then re-hired them back after the first of the year. Yea, they did that because the plants are shut down the last two weeks of the year and the company didn't want to have to lay them off and pay unemployment...which is completely illegal. They thought they were being smart but I would've turned them into the wage and labor board.
You’re assuming the laws are the same in every country. They are not.
@@kevinwebster7868 correct. But most stories from abroad usually say they are or they apologize for English not being their first language, etc. If you listen to enough of these reddit entries, context clues can tell you if they live in the states.
@@josiegipson8177 I think that makes you a racist.
I used to work at a petrol station, which had a horse emblem, doing graveyard shifts on the weekends. So I was doing a lot of restocking etc. Corporate came along and told us (similar to plastic scissors) that some idiot in Auckland had cut his hand with a box cutter. Confiscated the shop box cutters and gave us a plastic knife. The whole crew just laughed out loud at him! Even the manager was rolling his eyes. Corporate drone asked why we laughed at him, manager said, 'supervisor here makes Japanese swords from scratch. Full functioning ones! And I'm a full qualified auto mechanic who runs gas welding gear, car hoists, bench grinders etc on the daily'. You're telling me that a box cutter is too dangerous?
"Oh you want the corporate owned box cutter? That's fine, everyone here carries a knife to open things with anyway cause the box cutter is trash."
One boss trained me to do his job when he left. That time came and the higher up decided to hire someone else instead.. here is the kicker they had me train them. I left.
Another job my boss slapped me in the back of the head because a customer complained about the food (I was a waitress) not only that he took the food out cost out my tips. I never came back. I should have sued but I was young and dumb
19:36 I worked at a McDonald’s and we didn’t have scissors in the store. We had to cut everything with those plastic knives or the edge of a plastic wrap cutter. Once there was a real knife in the store and an employee threatened the store manager with it. After everything was gone a coworker said that was the reason we weren’t allowed knives or scissors
I'm the receptionist at a small business. When I started 6 years ago as the part-time receptionist there was a sh*t ton of redundant paperwork that I was told to do that took up 3/4 of my time. After the original receptionist went on permanent maternity leave, I found out that a lot of the stuff I was being asked to do was because the part-time receptionist before me was a ditz and they had given her bullshit stuff to do just to get her out of the way. I spent the next several months basically weeding out the work that was actually vital to keeping the office functioning and bullsh*t work that everybody expects to happen because that's what was done, but nobody actually checks on or needs.
After 4 years I think I've successfully weened my older boss off of needing a sheet of paper to tell him every minute detail of every transaction I do that day. I am, lo and behold, actually trusted to do my job.
The day I'm expected to sing for tips is the day I learn "This is every cussword we know."
At one job that I worked at it was required that we punch out for our lunch at our register terminals, the building was multiple stories tall and the break room was on the upper floor and we were a distinct enough uniform that even if we took off our name badge people knew we worked there. I was stopped so many times to help customers that by the time I got upstairs to the lunchroom it was 5 or 10 minutes into my lunch so I would have to go to the HR and have my punches corrected to reflect that I worked during my lunch.
I know I wasn't the only one and the policy was reverted after only one week as I'm sure the HR lady was fixing punches for at least 20 different people on a daily basis.
A call center I worked at tried a policy of firing any employee that was below average for the month in their call metrics, then couldn’t figure out why they were consistently firing half the staff each month. Idiot management forgot to take into account that for every person that’s above average, there’s one person below average. If someone’s so far below average that they threw the curve off, they weren’t going to last long, anyway. Also, many good employees bailed, rather than waiting to get canned just because they had one bad month.
I think a lot of people view “below average” as bad, forgetting that half^ of everything is below average.
^-Technically, half of everything is below *median* (if you exclude the portion that’s exactly at median). If the data has a skewed distribution, more or less than half can be below average. The overall principle still stands, though, especially since I think people intuitively interpret “average” to refer to the median or even the mode rather than the mean.
My old job didn’t give us a lunch but we were allowed to eat on the floor, so it’s ok. After years of this, they said no more food on the floor. Everyone was angry. That anger turned to mockery when they implemented a “No negativity rule” due to the backlash.
Worked in long term care pharmacy. We were told on a Thursday about shift changes, ie someone working 0700 to 1500 was now to work 0900 to 1700, or someone working 1500 to 2300 was to now work 1300 to 2100. This was to take effect the following Monday regardless of external circumstances such as 2nd jobs, child care needs, etc. If you could not immediately comply don't bother coming in, you are terminated. I left 1 month later. Frick that job.
I always took the time to flatpack the cardboard boxes that we threw out in the big bin out back. Couldn’t understand people who just toss whole boxes in when it takes two seconds to rip off the sellotape (which can’t be recycled) or just stomp on them at the very least. I found the stomping helped release the negative energy anyway.
The blocker story remids me of when I was in university. I had to build a website for a class. Our school internet blocked my website. I lived on campus too, which meant I couldn't even open it at home until it got fixed.
(The blocker wasn't at all strict. I didn't even know there was a blocker before this happened.)
the one about the photographers seems like it was an innocent request but got annoying real quick and with a bit of malicious compliance the boss finally realized the ridiculousness of it.
My first private sector security job was with a high end assisted living, nursing home 🏥, Central Virginia 1990s. My idiot security manager wanted me to walk up/down PUBLIC city streets to do parking enforcement 🚧 for day shift staff-work force. I explained, I was not a deputy or police officer. I could not walk up to cars telling staff(not working yet or off) what to do(not on employers property). That guy was a nitwit.
I work security at a Casino and some exec whose face I have never seen implemented a no smoking cigars rule on the casino floor. Everyone on the security team and other departments knew it was stupid so when I had to enforce it I straight up admitted to a guest that I knew it was stupid and that the only way it would be changed is if enough customers made a formal complaint about it. For obvious reasons the rule was quietly shelved within a week.
I managed a Wendy's. General managers, co-managers and assistant managers were salaried and were required to work 50 hours a week, but in reality worked more like 60. Shift managers were hourly and worked 40 hours. The owner decided to make ALL managers except the GM hourly. BUT we would not get paid any more money.
The way he did that was by making our hourly wage such that 40 hours plus 10 hours of time and a half would equal our current salary. This meant managers were being paid less than employees. When we pointed out that we worked more like 60 hours a week, not 50, he simply said we were working that extra 10 hours off the clock.
So I asked what would happen when he wanted to promote someone. Was he going to tell a shift manager "Great news, you're getting a promotion! You have to work more hours and take a pay cut!"
His only response was, "I haven't thought that far ahead."
Get that working off the clock BS in writing and watch how fast they'll fix the policy or how fast the DoL spins their head off their neck.
4:08 happens all the time, my school blocked their own website so I couldn’t do the exam
Went to a restaurant for a company christmas party. Had about ten people there. I think it was a flex but the waitress took our order without writing it down, then when she'd taken all the orders she confirmed everyone's order before going to put it in. She got it all right. Was quite impressive
I worked at a steakhouse. We had to wear a hat in the kitchen, but we could wear any sports hat we wanted. Several regulars knew me as the White Sox guy. About a year after working there, we got a new store manager. After a month or so, he started changing the rules. Now, we had to wear the hat they gave us with the steakhouse logo. I had nice White Sox hats, but this steakhouse hat was a cheaply made buckle-back hat. It wouldnt even stay latched. One of my first shifts in that hat, a very regular customer who talked to me about MLB if I had a second said where's my hat. I told him they made us wear these now. He said "That's dumb" then he told the store manager that's dumb and he liked us all wearing our team hats. Idk what happened but a few weeks later, they let us go back to our sports hats. I like to think bc he spent so much money there every week, he had something to do with it.
1:40 That level of cowardness pisses me off.
My soon to be work has good pay for a janitor in my area. My mom works as a physical therapy assistant and make 1 dollar an hour more than me. She has a higher wage than the others in her department. It's kinda sad.
1 time my friends and I went to Toronto for a couple days to visit my friends gf. We all worked at the same job. Mind you we were all in our late teens early 20s and worked at this place maybe a year and a half. We worked taking care of people with disabilities at like an adult daycare type place. Anyways we were all in different rooms so we were able to request off bc only 1 person in a room at a time can request off. So we put in for a couple days, I think it was only Thursday and Friday. We had a good time and planned on doing it again in the future. When we got back tho we were told we all couldn’t have time off at the same time again. We were confused why not and apparently the rest of our coworkers had such a hard time taking care of everyone and running their rooms we could no longer take off together. It’s crazy bc our other coworkers have worked there for 5 plus years. We were all pissed bc it wasn’t right. Just bc they got lazy and pushed things off on us when working they couldn’t handle their jobs anymore wasn’t our faults. We realized we were doing too much and being taken advantage of. That job was hard and tbh only a couple people actually took it serious and did what they were supposed to. You also weren’t appreciated which sucked too but working with all the consumers was worth it. It was sad leaving that place but when Covid hit a lot of them passed away. It was the saddest thing ever.
Sh*t like this makes me want to go for that law degree.
Human right & I want to DESTROY bad managers. I'll make sure they're unemployable forever.
18:20 pants to be avoided. Wow that has a completely different meaning here in the UK 🤣🤣
That one manager for Forever 21 admitting she's so slow she doesn't know what an epipen is and thinks it's used for shooting up in the bathroom is the funniest thing to me. It's just the fact she asked if she knows and then proves she doesn't then has to be shouted at like a child to not do that!
10:50 i went to a restaurant that had very simmiler policies once, the waitor squatting next to me and my friend made me deeply uncomfortible and the eye contact weirded me out. just- just stand like a normal person ffs
I used to work at a prison. They moved all the high security inmates who were not in administrative segregation to GP, fed them in the day rooms, and had out of towner overtimers work the picket controls despite not knowing how, all the whole having the local staff work in 110° pods with no access to AC and wearing body armor.
Yeah, no one stayed, especially when they seemed to only care whether or not the inmates got COVID, but didn't care about the staff until a veteran officer died of it. They had to shut down half the unit and all of the neighboring unit trying to save their stupid idea.
13:24 Hol' up. They wanted you to sexually harrass customers?
My work doesn’t haven’t sick days. Just PTO and LTI and you have to take 2 days of PTO before you can take LTI.
Sick days? What country is that far behind in proper laws? And especially using PTO for it, that sounds illegal
If ye sick, ye stay home
Your job isn't worth your life
@@fitmotheyap it’s the US 😅 so not especially surprising to be this backwards.
@@fitmotheyap unfortunately a lot of employers in USA don’t provide sick pay and worse some even expect employees too come too work sick
As someone from the Uk, I know that Italianish restaurant they're reffing to was Bella Italia
The perfume one is ridiculous
i'll never understand people who shit on unions after reading these stories.
This one's a repeat. Thought so, then knew it was when we got to the Forever 21 story.
20% of these just want worse reviews from customers, even if it means less money per customer and all employees quitting at once.
If I ever worked in a store where we had to comment on purchases - If I sold panties, I would tell the ladies that I wear the same ones. I'm male.
The best buy one at least how it's sounded was supposed to break the ice with the customer in a funny way
I'd get that one in writing and send it to the corporate insurer.
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I would rather stick bamboo shoots under my nails than interact with staff any more than i absolutely have to.
No offense to the workers, HONESTLY, but I tried out a Wimpys here in England and they made me sit at a table with a plate and wait forever for the kind of burger I could get at a fast food chain for half the price, a tenth of the agro and the absolute SPEC of looks of disgust and judgement by the small staff during the whole wait. I tryed to pay them up from when I ordered and they looked at me like I was a turd.,
I just wanted to eat....
No wonder they shut down
@@skootergirl22 Actually, Wimpy's in Grays is still open, and they're good; they have a takeout option and just focus on their job, no disgust. That particular Wimpy's just sounded horrible. I mean, who brings the plate out BEFORE THE FREAKING FOOD?
@@coralmaynard4876 I've been to the kingslynn one back in 2005/6 so it's been a while I was maybe around 16
I understand needing money but if your boss thrtens to fire you you. You should just look for a new job and find a new job and don't give them a two notice as punishment for there actions
Yes! My time to shine baby! Okay so a couple years ago I used to work at this one retail store that I will not name and is no longer around, but the managers kept trying to force us to do something I *Absolutely* dreaded and that was trying to get customers to order online if they couldn’t find the product they were looking for. What made this so ridiculous to me is that were located in a “vacation” town where customers really don’t want to waste their time fooling around spending 20 minutes just to order something that they wouldn’t even receive until the end of the week or 2. I stayed with the company for 2-3 more years before officially quitting due to a brand new manager drastically cutting my shifts. Also at the time I was going through some personal issues, but I mainly quit because of the ladder. It was a cool job just a sucky environment
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13:13 "If my employer doesn't care about me, why should I care about the job?" No job, no food. No rent, no bed.
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It's not a re-upload to me. This is the first time I've seen it. 🙂
What’s a reupload?
Aren't about half the videos on this channel reuploads?
@@danny.halstead2181 It just means at one time the video was uploaded, then recirculated out of the library, then restored to the library. It's essentially a repeat.
As I'm new to the channel, I haven't seen a lot of these vids before now, so I'm not about to down-vote (or up-vote) something until I've actually seen it. Cheers.
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My job tried to make Covid vaccines mandatory. Thank God the union told them to go kick rocks.