This Is Why We CAN'T Have Good Things At WORK!

[@davidlane256]

We had a radio war, where one guy brought in some big speakers to drown out the other guys music. Radios were banned so we used headphones under hoodies.

[@RufusReadit]

ouuu sneakkkky i like....

[@melissacooper8724]

I never would've thought that blue jeans were banned at the bookstore because one guy wouldn't wash them!

[@RufusReadit]

imagine the smell though

[@DragonbornMike-ym2er]

I can't help but wonder what would happen if someone just systematically did this with every article of clothing...

[@KaeYoss]

Maybe a guy. The poster was annoyingly vague with that "they" nonsense

[@Grilotrix]

Let me tell you, you don't want to spill milk in your car. The smell never goes away no matter how much you clean.... and on warm days it's just :( So, yea, no milk on bus is one of the best rules I've ever heard of.

[@Primearch-GG]

The marine wake up call just reminded me of Robin Williams' "Goooooood Morning, Vietnam!"

[@niceguy169]

I feel like it's fairly clear that it was a 100% intentional reference. Like it amused the guy to start the announcements that way. :)

[@Primearch-GG]

@@niceguy169 yeah, probably why they do that, probably also a guy like that in the u.s. army too.

[@Eric_Olsen]

Same here.

[@GhostBear3067]

At my current ambulance job during new employee orientation we were told we were required to wear these velcro belts because of an incident with a psychiatric patient. I am still upset they never went into more detail about it.

[@tentaclesmod]

First one makes no sense. Why couldn't the manager just put a rule against dirty clothing instead of jeans???

[@RufusReadit]

pretty simple solution eh?

[@melissacooper8724]

I can't believe that anyone could be that disgusting as to not wash their clothes! Especially for work!

[@DarkcIoud1111.]

It is probably harder to define what is considered clean compared to just banning an article of clothing. Like there are some clothes that even after being washed, they may still have stains or have a lingering smell. The guy could even say he washed his jeans yesterday and there is no way to verify if he did.

[@jamesmyles4540]

​@DarkcIoud1111. Sure but banning blue jeans just means hes gonna get a pair of black jeans and start the process anew

[@ginabell694]

I was picturing Robin Williams hollering GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!!!!!

[@RufusReadit]

LOOOOOOL

[@mlpman246]

The Air Force tech school story sounds like Keesler AFB.

[@UFOmeter2]

This sounds like an episode from Regular Show

[@muhammadshaffin2916]

I'm second, accept for the fact that the second comment is the guy who replied to the first one. So I'm third?

[@timelesstales_byMe]

whats the gameplay back there..i neeed a name

[@pol-andrehaas3328]

Sifu

[@niceguy169]

I've been investigating the games since Rufus keeps refusing the basic step of saying them, this one seems to be Sifu (he uses this one a lot). Note the interesting mechanic that "dying" actually ages you, usually you can see the current age on the top left (screen goes dark, the current age appears in the middle and dials up). Sometimes you'll see "Stay as young as you can for 6 rounds" or something. I also see challenges where he instantly temporarily ages to like 60 and gets all grey haired. I heard about this one on Outside XBox/Xtra as a game with a different way to keep stats, apparently getting older makes you slower but also more effective or damaging or something, that getting older is a trade-off.

[@dez135]

There is a no sex in the bathroom rule at my work

[@tedcoop4392]

It's spelled "berm," not "birm"

[@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

Story 7 is a rare Union L as you would think they would prioritize the safety of the workers over their feelings as in that case it is fair for different rules to apply depending on the department the workers are working in. Like why did the Union even had to step in there? as that is just giving them a bad look

[@tinscarecrow21]

Too many times I see office workers ignoring safety rules because they're not on the factory floor enough to feel the safety rules apply to them. So they leave their earbuds in/don't wear proper hearing protection, or "forget" their steel toes, or, the worst, just walk around with a phone glued to their noses. Sometimes a total ban is necessary to stop folks breaking those area specific rules. They just don't understand how the floor is just as dangerous for them

[@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

@@tinscarecrow21 Why would they be on the factory floor in the first place?

[@tinscarecrow21]

@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena Observation, training, problem solving, special meetings, just walking around, stuff like that. They sometimes do executive tours where I work. If you ever want to make an employee feel like a zoo animal put 8 executives in a semi-circle around an employee just trying to do their job

[@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

@@tinscarecrow21 I think i might be getting confused with something else as when i hear office worker i think of people sitting at computers and answering calls and shit you know typical office worker

[@tinscarecrow21]

@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena Office workers in many factories are sectioned off from the factory floor, but not completely cut off from it. Same building, different spaces. There's quite a bit of overlap for many workers of both varieties. Say there's an injury on the floor. The safety manager, (an office worker 90% of the time), has to investigate. That includes viewing the area the injury happened and holding interviews with employees who witnessed the event. A secretary might be asked to take notes at those meetings, and they might happen on the factory floor just for clarity.

[@29elines21]

Oh wow, I'm early for once

[@JF1908x]

That’s what she said

[@RufusReadit]

would you like to claim this ---> 🍪

[@himwhoisnottobenamed5427]

I used to work at a grocery store and I wrote out my two weeks notice on a sheet of butcher paper. 😂

[@Halberdin]

Why the violent background video, again?

[@barxod32]

why all the yapping, again? bro mad over a bunch of pixels doing kung fu. get off your high horse

[@niceguy169]

It's called a video game, meaning the violence is meaningless and you're complaining over nothing. Violent video games are actually scientifically proven to be GOOD for us (to play) as they allow us to express and purge our frustrations and violent urges on non-existent pixels instead of the very real flesh-and-blood people around us who may be CAUSING these frustrations and urges. It's called "an outlet". It even helps us to watch it, as it offers vicarious satisfaction. Any of us who care to can imagine those enemies as random annoying people in our lives and imagine we're watching them getting spanked, without any actual harm coming to actual people. :) It can be quite satisfying. Just accept the catharsis and move on.

[@roobs4245]

@@niceguy169 So by your own argument they are only good to play -> this isn't you playing -> they are not proven to be good for that -> your argument is meaningless.

[@niceguy169]

@@roobs4245 You should read better before you comment, it would prevent you from representing yourself so poorly as you did here. :) Particularly the sentence where I ADDRESSED this very thought, starting with "It even helps us to watch it", so "by my own argument" it's also beneficial to watch. The usual whining against violent videogames is the false claims that they cause violent tendencies, so I focused on addressing that. WATCHING a violent video game is no different than watching a violent TV show or movie, as an audience we can enjoy the fiction AS fiction. As a video game we can appreciate the good artful plays and empathically wince at the flubs.

[@roobs4245]

@@niceguy169 It would make you look less of a self-absorbed idiot if you would learn to understand the complex meaning of the word 'us'.