What's One Rule That Backfire Immediately At Your School ?

[@bookvee]

We had a rule where no bags were allowed to be picked up in the event of a fire. Fine. stops people from endangering themselves to get their bag. One teacher thought it mean any student who had a bag during a fire alarm should be sent back to their classroom to leave it there. THIS led to that teacher attempting to send several entire classes of students who were on their break at the time into a literally burning building to put their bags in a room that was visibly on fire. I have never seen a head teacher come THAT close to punching someone.

[@Ked7]

I would have called the cops on the teacher if a real fire broke out and they tried that. That should be illegal to cause someone to put themselves in danger. TBH that reminds me of the parts of top gun where maverick goes under the hard deck, that is preparing you for the event

[@thefusingcookie]

@@Ked7 By the sound of it, it was a actual burning building, which makes it even worse.

[@schruboderso6162]

i believe that rule backfired pretty quickly

[@bookvee]

@@thefusingcookie The kitchen on the floor below had an electrical fault. the only rooms damaged were the kitchen, and that one classroom with a lot of smoke damage.

[@bookvee]

@@schruboderso6162 Its a good rule, it make sense if you follow the MEANING of it. its supposed to be to stop people from going back for their stuff. Unfortunately it got warped over the years its been in use.

[@frostytheiceberg1127]

The fact there's a multitude of entire compilations of this is a monument to human failure, and i'm, personally, absolutely here for it.

[@ingamingpc1634]

Just get a bunch of popcorn and laugh at human stupidity

[@kirillzakharov7336]

@@ingamingpc1634 or ice cream, chips, fruit, etc.

[@MAYKOSHARKO]

had a ban on water bottles of any kind at school, we were relegated to water fountains only, one kid almost died of heat stroke and dehydration or some crap and the rule was reversed almost instantly. it's rediculous how schools were kids o to learn are "allowed" to commit various HR violations to keep children in check.

[@the_dapper_stormtrooper9302]

Our school didnt get so lucky. On field day in middle school a girl asked to go inside for a drink of water since we didnt have outdoor fountains and the teacher said *no* and a few minutes later the girl collapsed and died infront of everyone.

[@charlottestreet3301]

​@@the_dapper_stormtrooper9302 i hope that teacher got fired whats wrong with students having a water bottle with them especially if you live in a hot country or state

[@player400_official]

@@the_dapper_stormtrooper9302 Damn imagine living with that for the rest of your life

[@lightsidesoul]

@@charlottestreet3301 The idiots would tell yo it's because there could be alcohol in the water bottles.

[@yeetuszilla1663]

Wait until they learn that all kinds of stuff can be stored basically anywhere

[@morgothz0]

Our school had a rule that if the class door was not unlock 15 min after the class begin, the class is cancelled (probably if the teacher was sick so we would not have to wait in the hallway) but our french teacher had the habit to slow walk and make us wait.... one time he was a little slower than usual and the 15 min mark came when he was like, 2 meter from the door, we all said: 15 MIN PASSED, CLASS IS CANCELED!!! and we all went to the cafeteria, when the security tried to make us go to our class, we took our agenda and said: If you don't follow THAT rule, why would we follow ANY OTHER RULE? Next year they change it.

[@lexitwilight1353]

I have two stories from my school: 1. They updated the uniform to include a white polo shirt for classes and a navy shirt for PE. 80ish% of us all turned up wearing the navy shirt to class because it was both comfier and just looked better. School tried to crack down on this and enforce that only white shirts could be worn in class. Cue dozens of parents (largely mums) pointing out that since changerooms weren't made available at lunch, kids would go and play football with their friends in their white shirts, which were a nightmare to clean mud out of. Dunno if they rescinded the rule, but they stopped enforcing it. 2. I guess some kids were caught playing Pokemon on their school laptops or something, but IT put something on them where any program or file including the word "Pokemon" would instantly crash. Cue everyone changing the program/file names to say "Pkmn". They got wise to this and disabled the ability to right click on files, and thus the rename function. Completely forgetting that if you left click on a program/file, wait a second, and then click it again, you can rename it that way. I have a different laptop now, but I still name any Pokemon-related file "Pkmn".

[@11cookeaw14]

the second clikc has tyo be one the file name.

[@msvi09official]

meanwhile me who uses the é character

[@legoblood11]

Yo that file name looks like pikmin

[@Lobotamized_Lobster]

⁠@@legoblood11 I thought it said ‘pikmin’ lmao

[@kirbstagoontheaxolotl]

Yo the first one sounds exactly like the uniform I've had for the past 6 years, people got pissy about having to wear the school shirts which were essentially translucent and white, they suck in summer. So everyone wore the navy PE shirt

[@samuel61762]

A retail job I had made a rule that employees were not allowed to look at the posted shift schedule while on the clock. The schedule was posted in an employees-only area and management got the idea that people were wasting time back there and using "checking the schedule" as an excuse. As it turns out, when you prohibit people from checking the schedule during the day, people forget to check it all and forget which shifts they are supposed to show up for. I left shortly after, so IDK if the rule stayed.

[@ingamingpc1634]

Well if the company didn't fold or get set on fire then the rule probably change

[@tenshidesu503]

I'm guessing it's probably off cause nobody going to look at the schedule during their own time

[@jccw227]

I attended a magnet school from 4th through 8th grade. After 5th grade, our principal retired, and a new one stepped in the following year. One of her first actions was to get rid of the bell system. Her explanation was that bells were used to keep lower tier employees at factory jobs in line and as students in a magnet school program, we were much better than that (rather snobbish looking back on it). The problem that soon surfaced was that, she failed to account that it’s easy to lose track of time, none of the school clocks were synchronized, and we could still get written up for being tardy to class. Everyone, teachers and students, HATED it. The bells were brought back before the first semester was even over.

[@ingamingpc1634]

Did she get fired

[@sebastianschoefl]

The Idea wasn‘t bad in itself, but they really should have synced up the clocks after the first few Times.

[@jccw227]

@@ingamingpc1634 She stayed on until I left for high school. I think she was gone before I graduated though. Not sure of the details on that.

[@kenkahre9262]

She was indeed, a snob. "I'm too good for manual/factory labor. And that includes anything that smacks of it."

[@Stephen-ro5jc]

I had a boss that called me into the office and yelled at me for 10 minutes because I had stayed 15 minutes late trying to finish a task. He told me I was never to work overtime again without being specifically instructed to do so. Result: After the meeting, I set a watch alarm (this was before cellphones) to go off 15 minutes before the end of the workday. When the alarm went off, I immediately stopped what I was doing, stopped any temporary day laborers I was supervising, gathered up all the tools , and took himself and any temp workers to the office trailer. Any temp workers would get their work tickets signed, and I punched my timecard in the office clock exactly at an 8-hour workday. This continued for the year and a half I stayed at that site working for that boss. He never did figure out that he was the reason I always quit for the day exactly on time and didn't stay one minute later.

[@ElvisPresleyTouchedMe]

The End of Story 12: Had this experience as a teacher. New year I took over a class of 10/11yos. “Jimmy” had been in detention basically EVERY day the previous year. 1st time I had a behavioural problem with “Jimmy” I sat down & talked to him for like 1/2 an hour. Star pupil for the rest of the year 🙌

[@six-winged-juni]

proof that detention doesnt do shit no matter how many bEHaVioRal REflEctiOn sheets you make them write!

[@dionflorencio7494]

K❤

[@KnakuanaRka]

Great you were able to sort that out.

[@Ked7]

I read this as something worse than it reads

[@Eliza-hb1nc]

teacher of the year award to both you and his previous teacher

[@Kompoteek]

I study "Human Resources and Personnel Management" and there are two main rules: 1. Obey the Labour Code 2. Never expect your personnel to give you more money than you put in them 1st one - obvious 2nd one - oh, boy... The sheer number of managers thinking that they can cut the corners on the way their workers are treated is insane If you feed your workers $300 of good food and you get $1290 in sales but then you change food to $150 crap, you'll now get $1130 in sales. Same goes for professional education, salary, additional training etc, etc, etc. Workers DON'T produce money, they operate whatever the hell you are having as a company

[@janetttyminski7295]

Our first NURSING school instructor stated we must wear standard white “nursing shoes.” One classmate wanted to wear white Birkenstock shoes. I told her NOT to ask permission. If any instructor tried to tell the her that the Birkenstocks were not acceptable, she was to say her foot doctor prescribed them. She could agree to get a note from the doctor & then forget to bring it.

[@ANDPEGGY-1]

The mainly facts guy has worked every job on earth

[@Auto-Moderator]

Johnny sins

[@OctoberistCouncilUnions]

Lol

[@Error404jsisidu]

@@Auto-Moderator r/angryupvote

[@malichai3643]

Giving Larry from the amazing world of gumball

[@TH3Think3rv]

Same with my dad lol

[@eddiespaghetti54321]

My middle school had the no backpack rule and they expected students to carry everything or visit your locker before every class period within a 5 minute time frame. I had to carry everything so that I wouldn’t be late for class. The rule was never reversed and it’s probably part of the reason I have a collapsed disc in my spine as not long into high school I started having intense back pain that radiated to my legs, knees, and feet. Standing up for more than an hour is beyond painful for me now. Public schools really don’t give a shit about students.

[@ChrisBear1989]

Thats awful that happened to you but not every school is like that and there's at least someone who probably hated the rule but could do nothing.

[@corruptsolstice340]

Yeah, I heard the story and I was like "You people are getting it reversed?".

[@somedude4805]

No they do not care about students. They’re training you for prison. My high school had bars on the windows and chained the doors to the building shut when the bell rang. Chicago Public Schools for you.

[@jemndeye]

I have so much respct for you....

[@violet9530]

OMG its exactly the same at my school, except for the fact that teachers were less stressed on being late. Worst part, if it was the end of the day and our class was half-way across the school(my spanish class is near to the buses) you had to go all the way back to get your stuff again. WORST. RULE. EVER. My spanish teacher even confirmed it was a terrible rule.

[@ccappa2001]

Ever since I found this channel it's been my go-to for doing homework, it keeps me focused and engaged and I can focus on the story and homework at the same time.

[@happenstancially4132]

My middle school and high school had that backpack policy for a bit, it ended when enough wealthy parents threatened to pull funding… Most of the teachers didn’t have an issue with a student a couple minutes late after she asked where their locker bay was… I didn’t matter what class, the answer was uniformly the farthest point.

[@wschnabel1987]

I used to work 3rd shift at walmart as a janitor. Manager tried to implement a rule that the front bathrooms were off limits to ease the work load for maintenance staff. The problem was he also told us to report anyone who broke the rule to him. After we had caught one guy from the incoming morning shift doing this several times, he actually asked who gave us the authority to shut it down. My supervisor said rather bluntly that "He did". Rule was changed the next day lol. Still made us feel like crap for having to report our co workers and come to find out the managers were still using the bathrooms in the first place, and hence why incoming shift thought they could in fact still use it. To be fair I believe in leading by example so if the managers indeed did want that rule put in place, they should have used the back bathrooms like everyone else.

[@EggsBenedict1]

i would have quit literally as soon as i finished my first set of u-learns if that rule was at my walmart

[@Zoly633]

Every time I walked into a store looking for an application and then they said they're paid on commission...I always looked around the store...saw just how completely empty it was and walked myself out. Commission is great only if the store actually sees customers.

[@fredashay]

When I was in high school, smoking in the bathrooms was a big problem, especially if you didn't like the smell of the smoke. So all the kids decided to designate some of the bathrooms "smoking bathrooms," and some "non-smoking bathrooms." The school admins didn't like this, so they ordered it to stop. So all the bathrooms went back to being "smoking bathrooms."

[@slipstream7324]

legit made me laugh

[@KaitouKaiju]

What idiots smh

[@ntfoperative9432]

"modern problems require modern solutions" Teachers:"I hate the modern age"

[@RGC_animation]

Why were they allowed to smoke in the bathroom in the first place? Unless it wasn't, which then they should've installed smoke detectors.

[@fredashay]

@@RGC_animation They weren't allowed to smoke in the bathrooms at all. The kids decided to do this on their own to alleviate the conflict between kids who smoke and the kids who don't. The administration cracked down and forbid smoking in all the bathrooms, so all the bathrooms became smoking bathrooms again. I guess you'd have to have been a high school kid back then to understand the "logic" in that...

[@jonflamion]

I worked as a KC-135 mechanic when I was in the Air Force. I was deployed to Qatar where there could be anywhere from 20-50 jets on the ground at the time. Some officer had the bright idea that they didn't like us laying around watching movies or playing ping pong when we were not working. Well the next shift we came into, the TVs and ping-pong tables were gone. Needless to say this did not go over well with the enlisted folk. Within 24 hours we had almost half the jets broken and the other half needing further maintenance. (Almost all airplanes can be "broken" by mechanic paperwork even though they are perfectly safe to fly. Just depends on how thorough your inspection is.) Well I guess leadership had to answer why all of a sudden there was significantly less airpower in such a short time. Within the week we had brand new TVs, brand new ping pong tables, dart boards, and a pool table that was obviously stolen from some other unit. Moral of the story, don't bite the hand that feeds you.

[@AlphaGametauri]

Never fuck over the people your operations literally depend on.

[@DesmoChoJo]

At my high school they tried to implement a “no phone in your high school class” policy where they confiscate your phone for the day and you’ll get it back tomorrow. The rule was rescinded when me and a handful other students complained because we took public transportation and w/out our phones, we won’t have access to our transit passes or have a means to call anyone for an emergency.

[@lollybowser]

My school didn't have lockers so kids kept their backpacks next to their desk. One day a teacher tripped on one and while that is unfortunate, the school decided that backpacks were no longer allowed on the floor. So we can hang them from our chairs? We asked. Absolutely NOT, we had to stack them all in the corner of the class. I don't think the rule lasted a week after teachers got tired of kids getting up and piling up during and after class to get books from their bags.

[@Joshuasfunandgames3136]

My school wants us to have our backpacks on the back of our chairs.

[@FastCarsNoRules220]

In my old junior high school for some reason, they don't allow us to go back to our lockers during lunch break to keep our lunch bags after eating before heading outside. I always broke that rule secretly when no one was in the hallways because I didn't like carrying stuff with me while I was outside. Eventually over time, they just stopped enforcing that rule since the teachers didn't really care when the saw me keeping my stuff in the locker during lunch.

[@profmalicious]

Minor one for retail work: There was one point where we were expected to carry around our handsets while stacking shelves, with a timer app going that marked how long we were taking to unwrap the stacks of merchandise and get them onto the shop floor. It wasn't an immediate backfire, but when Covid-19 hit the nation with all the panic buying that entailed, going through the process of the app just slowed down the process of getting everything out on the shop floor. The mandatory process was quietly phased out in the weeks that followed.

[@cindergodofnature6807]

I'm a senior in high school and we still had the 'no backpacks' rule while I was in middle school. I hear from freshmen all the time how great it is to be able to carry your backpacks around so the rule is still ongoing.

[@Ked7]

It is the opposite for my school, Covid/rise in school shootings

[@dartistartist4069]

I love that fourth one. We can’t even show shoulders or wear Tank tops in our school, due to bra straps. Boys can’t do it just to make it equal, so for funnies. Crap kinda hit the fan when a teacher forced a girls jacket open to check her shirt sleeves.

[@lilmama_2fly680]

My friends when we were in HS was like a C cup and we went to a Christian private school so they had a rule to not show cleavage and she already would wear 2 tanktops so r shirts to kind of hide her breasts. One of the school counselors made her change again even though she had no cleavage showing it was like up to her neck type of shirt just because he was "distracted" like sir that's YOUR problem not hers (perv).

[@TheHelper151]

@@lilmama_2fly680 It is flashing and it is distracting, especially if they move. Men's eyes are instinctively trained for movement.

[@TheFlamingoBird]

@@TheHelper151 No you're just a pervert/pedo.

[@3rr0r123]

@@TheHelper151 bro, what are you a pervert+sexist? it could cover the entire neck and you could say "still flashing" THATS WHAT I CALL BEING ATTRACTED TO ONE STUDENT AND ATTEMPTING TO FIND ALL WAYS TO TALK TO THEM

[@TheHelper151]

@@3rr0r123 If it shows skin, idiot, it is flashing. Otherwise, learn reading comprehension.

[@darklightmagus1222]

Story 20: I also was friends with barely any kids in my grade during highschool. I would barely call myself friends with the goth girls. The only interests we shared was reading as they were into Harry Potter and a few other fantasy books I also enjoyed. The goth boys in the group weren't interested in reading so they were barely acquaintances. I hung out instead with boys from the grade below mine. We played chess, Yugioh, Magic the Gathering, Super Smash Bros Melee, Naruto Clash of Ninja among other tabletop, board, card, or video games. One of my best friends from that group also had an interest in reading fantasy books at the time. Funny thing about this is that I'm only 74 days older than him. Hardly over two months but since I'm a summer baby and he was born during the school year, we are a grade apart.

[@reznovvazileski3193]

Lmfao story 38 is just gold :') Don't challenge a room full of software engineers to break up a problem in as many tiny pieces as possible, they're literal gods at it and will bury you in paperwork :') Like at uni when I studied physics if I had a project where I couldn't grasp a part of my workplan in one go I wouldn't ask my classmates but I'd ask some friends over at the IT side of the building, they'd break the task up in so many bite sized pieces a toddler could've done that research and made it look easy as well.

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

My high school mandated a dress code of polo shirts to prevent the girls from wearing "inappropriate clothing." The girls just bought polo shirts that were a size too small and removed the buttons which was even more revealing then what they where wearing before!

[@T.Hebert]

Easily solved with school uniforms.

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

@@T.Hebert Despite the name, that's effectively what it was given we were only allowed to wear _one_ thing, they just did it incompitantly.

[@Onio_362]

I went to a school that was really strict and had way too many rules. The punishment for breaking a rule was sending the kids across the hallway to do a stupid paper sheet cuz the school thought it would "make us learn from our behavior," but after years of the kids rebelling against the rules, the school became more lenient.

[@immortalsofar5314]

When I forgot my gym kit (1st time but in the company of 4 repeat offenders), we were given paper. "I should have realised by the 4th year that health and fitness through physical education is invaluable. Now write that out another 99 times." . That, that, that, that... and in answer to his question, "Well, I figured it was a joke because you winked at him and I couldn't figure another reason why you'd do that." I figured I'd get into trouble but he was a decent guy and let me get away with it. He also _didn't_ run a weight training club after school because a work-to-rule didn't allow that but he let it be known that he would set up the weights on Tuesday nights and would be somewhere around the gym and answer any questions anyone had. I discovered that being skinny just meant I had a really good power-to-weight ratio and I was the one pushing for more weight. Years later, my Dad was on the PTA (my kid brother was at the school) and they had to get rid of him or an art teacher I'd never had. I told Dad about my experiences and got him to fight in his corner. Good karma all around.

[@ntfoperative9432]

@@immortalsofar5314 that's actually something I learned, you don't have to be bulky to be strong, and infact the bulky people are actually weaker

[@immortalsofar5314]

@@ntfoperative9432 Yeah, once I wasn't being forced to stand in a muddy field kicking a ball, I found I enjoyed springboard diving, scuba, climbing and kayaking. Sports that were actually _fun!_

[@Coonotafoo]

22:24 Hey! My high school made a similar rule back in 2011. Basically they also banned backpacks from the classroom. Unfortunately this school was HUGE in size, and you only got 5 minutes between bells to get to your classroom. This meant that if your classes were on the opposite sides of the school you not only had to go to your locker, you pretty much had to run to get to class on time. Since I was lazy I started taking a large sized laptop bag to classes (since you were allowed larger binders.) The rule specifically mentioned prohibiting "backpacks" and not "laptop bags." One of my teachers tried to send me to the office 4-5 times, but each time I'd be sent back to the class because I wasn't technically breaking rules. Eventually she gave up. I'd like to say that they eventually stopped this rule, as it caused excessive tardies, but it was unfortunately still a rule when I graduated in 2014.

[@cortneybourlon9799]

I had a wretched rule at my hospital stating night shift had to clock out for lunch. Now that would be fine and dandy if there was more than two nurses on our med Surge floor. When we get a full house we on nights can't clock out because we are needed to help everyone. That made HR mad and demanded we have to clock our for lunch. So I left for my lunches to my near by apparent for lunch. I got called and yelled at about where I was and I stated "you said I have to clock out for lunch or be reprimanded so that is what I'm doing". The policy was reversed the following day

[@swoffyplayz1201]

I love how in the middle of the videos he says he hopes for you to enjoy the video and have a wonderful day. I usually have a wonderful day after that!

[@chunchunmaru123]

When I was in sixth form a rule was implemented that nobody could consume energy drinks on school grounds. Because some kid from somewhere in the country drank 20 a day and his heart gave out. So it was decided that we obviously couldn't be trusted. So whenever someone drank a energy drink we would place the can on the support beams off the sixth form area. After they where removed we started to super glue the cans down. The rule was quickly dropped.

[@sweerpotato6889]

lmfao this year my school gave out free tee shirts for girls wearing anything showing midriff and not 30 minutes later a bunch of popular dudes had there shirts so it would show midriff they ran out of t shirts before you could say dress code

[@tzisorey]

Early 90's and my school didn't ban backpacks, but only Year 12 students could get lockers - so you had to carry around your entire day's worth of books with you the whole day. I had one of those canvas Army Surplus backpacks, and had to get the strap re-sewn every 2 or 3 months, so one day I checked my backpack on the bathroom scales. My *_lightest_* day was 20.4kg.

[@wolfangwarriorjr7246]

I did this regardless because it was easier to have everything than to not have it was heavy yes but it was a good workout

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

@@wolfangwarriorjr7246 Same, only I didn't even have a backpack, it was a rolling suitcase! Thing didn't even fit in the locker until I got one of the larger ones in 12th grade, so I only ever the locker for extra cloths.

[@WackoMcGoose]

My school banned _rolling_ backpacks and removed the lockers outright. To this day, my spine is still curved forward due to 40lb of textbooks.

[@arcticafrostbite617]

so approx 40lbs eh, really not that much tbh

[@certifiedfnhater4038]

Highschool 2003-07. Only the freshmen building had lockers. But we also had a split schedule. 3 classes one day 3 classes the next and I think one you had daily( most likely a math or science class) bc the school figured that upper class men would be driving and could keep the books in their car.

[@squish154]

In middle school, they kept changing the rules so that I had to most of the time carry huge stacks of books so much that my arms hurt because we would still walk in massive lines like elementary schoolers except it was the whole grade half the time rather than just one class that it was the other half. We would take forever to walk to class downstairs, or we would have to wait to come in the room for 15 minutes for some reason. By then, my arms were so tired that they were week and sore. Most other people ignored the rules, but I was always afraid to do that so I was stuck being the one weird kid that had arms full of text books because anytime I tried to ignore the rule were the times I got yelled at. So, yeah. By the way, this was only a few years ago.

[@DemitriVladMaximov]

Huck Finn needs to be read in the original form and understood for what it was and why the change happened. Fear of a thing, like a word, gives it power that it shouldn't have.

[@Ked7]

*doubledoor

[@Tanis031]

And Mainly Fact Guy missed the point. It wasn't the censored word that everyone got annoyed by. It was they had to buy it when they could read the original for free. Further, hiding something negative doesn't prevent it's use in in the future (I mean take a look around) where as teaching that it is bad will at least possibly prevent people who don't know it's bad from making that mistake from ignorance.

[@saphiriathebluedragonknight375]

Agreed. How can we learn from the past if we don't learn about the past.

[@mtfalpha-1.629]

One time, our school wanted to make a rule to ban phones during school time, including breaks. They gave us all a leaflet to give to our parents to vote whether or not to implement the rule. It was a go. In our class alone during the few months it was in effect, we damaged the whiteboard, made like 3 holes in the walls, broke the blinds on at least 3 windows, broke the circular thing you use to make circles during geometry on the board, some ink was on several places on the walls a piece of a marshmallow got stuck on the cieling, a classmate broke the teacher's mug in which she put the markers, also one of those markers got destroyed and a dent was made in the mirror things in the lights that are supposed to reflect the light to light a larger area. That's what happens when teenagers have 30 minutes free time, can't go out in the hallways unless absolutelly necessary due to Covid and can't be on their phones.

[@ingamingpc1634]

Keep doing that the property damage should eventually convince the school it's not worth it

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

If there's one thing you don't do it's take away a teenagers phone

[@mtfalpha-1.629]

@@ingamingpc1634 it's been at least a year since then. The rule has lasted about half a year. And to be clear, I didn't participate in any of the destruction.

[@Ked7]

@@mtfalpha-1.629 sure you didn’t

[@mtfalpha-1.629]

@@Ked7 think what you want, I know what I did and didn't do.

[@MatsuyoRific]

Used to work the breakfast shift at a restaurant, and since I was drive through, I was responsible for all the portioning. Unfortunately, due to also having to take orders and helping to make them, I often didn't have time to do it all before the lunch rush hit at 11am, and by then it's too busy to do anything and stuff just didn't get done. I noticed this was a problem, and made a deal with my boss. I suggested that she schedule me 7-11 every morning (this was actually convenient for me, and I didn't mind not having a day off), and then she would have another person come in at 11 to take the headset from me. I would then stay overtime to finish any portioning I had left, and leave once they had everything they needed to get them through the day. This was great, because I still got nearly 40 hours a week due to the overtime, and the restaurant ran much more smoothly. Then, corporate decided to implement a new rule that part-timers were no longer allowed to work more than 30 hours a week because they didn't want to provide healthcare. First we just removed a day from my schedule and I wasn't allowed to stay past 12, but eventually that morphed back into me working regular hours, and stuff just didn't get done.

[@R3vexed]

This dude is sooo good to just listen to in the background while gaming, love the content 👍

[@FinkyOfNalanja]

agreed

[@landonmoore5077]

Agreed

[@Khorne_on_the_cob]

im doing that right now

[@kurikurichannel2225]

Im about to do it :D

[@zmajor1410]

I listen to this while doing my homework that I avoid doing until the night before the deadline (Alg 1)

[@soundwavesuperior11]

It was at my best friend's workplace. We were prohibitted from using flashlights. Since we had no windows, we had to use electrical lights. One day, the lights went off, and we heard some gunshots, luckily me and my best friend were able to get out but my best friend's friend not. P.S.: It wasn't my best friend that implimented the rule, it was the original owner of the workplace that made it. The police came but the intruder was gone. We were rescued by the police, we were under a table, so the intruder couldn't get us.

[@jamesbraun9842]

They did the whole backpack ban in grade school other than homeroom. Only exceptions were temporarily if you had to use crutches (or jokingly said if you were missing half of an arm). We got a new student missing half of his left arm. Was sure the principal met him and asked if he could carry his bag to class. (Eventually people switched to messenger bags).

[@ntfoperative9432]

Tbh I prefer messenger bags to back packs. More convenient if you need to get something quickly

[@foxgaming2777]

As a person who is in highschool, I can confirm that school is a great place to buy drugs. If you are banned from schools, another good way is snapchat or asking friends that you trust. Trust me, you'll eventually find someone

[@classlessacts3535]

The boys school I went to forgot to update rules when transgender laws were implemented. EVERY SINGLE RULE was prefaced with ‘all boys must…’, suddenly the number of girls in our school rose.

[@classlessacts3535]

Legit nobody could argue bc it would give them as a transphobic person, new rules were issued at the end of term (limitations on rule changes, that they put in place)

[@heheheha875]

I am not lgbtq but some kids in my school got in trouble for having rainbow flags because they were "offensive"

[@classlessacts3535]

@@heheheha875 And they call _us_ pansies for getting offended easily

[@immortalsofar5314]

@@classlessacts3535 What a bunch of snowflakes!

[@lpfan4491]

Broke: "I know if you are trans better than you!" Woke: Everyone gets to express themselves Bespoke: Not changing identity due to expression but to negate rules

[@kelandryyemrot1387]

My middle school had the rule about no backpacks in the classroom. I wish it had gone as poorly as it did in these stories. It didn't. Unfortunately, it seemed like they always gave me a locker as far away from any of my classes as humanly possible. Even if the hallways weren't clogged with slow moving idiots between classes, it would have been difficult to visit my locker in the five minutes between classes. And since that was also bathroom time and the ten seconds you had to turn your brain off time, it was impossible. I had to carry seven classes worth of books and notebooks sometimes. Even more unfortunate, I already had horrible chronic pain in my neck and wrists. Picking that stuff up off the floor was hard. A rolling backpack, or even just something with straps to grab would have helped. But no. We all just sort of accepted that this was what middle school was. I guess it backfired a tiny bit for one of my teachers because I picked a fight with him. I was in too much pain to lift my books off the floor, so I refused to put them on the floor for a test. My friend also refused in solidarity. We wasted a good bit of his time and patience until he sent us to the principals office. But we actually never met the principal. The class aid came down a little while later to take us to another room to do the test.

[@kay4912]

It’s funny to see how much has changed since I’ve been in school. Or the differences between schools in different areas. From K-12 I always had to keep my book bag in my locker/cubby. Middle school and high school I had to carry all my books/binders/notebooks/pens/pencils…etc for my classes bc there wasn’t time to go to your locker between classes. You only got to go to your lockers for home room or lunch. The worst part was actually carrying all the books home and back to school. You weren’t allowed to have food or drinks in class. You needed to get a pass to go to the bathroom or to the water fountain. If you had a medical condition, you could get excused to leave the classroom to eat a snack but you couldn’t bring it into the classroom… in college I felt lost because of all the freedom. Lol I kept raising my hand to ask for permission to use the bathroom. I’m glad students are standing up for themselves. Growing up like this left me vulnerable to my first job not respecting workers rights. I didn’t even know I had rights as an employee until my 3rd job. I thought I could be fired for any reason.

[@daveturner6006]

A place I used to work (a US company in the UK) decided to stop paying overtime (time-and-a-half for anything over the normal 37.5 hours, double time for Sundays and National holidays). Overtime was to be replaced by a 'Bonus'. After six months when no one had been paid a bonus for working extra hours everyone stopped working overtime. In the UK you can not be forced to work overtime.

[@SLagonia]

We also had the no backpack rule in The 90's - It was because there was a report about that time that said that backpacks were bad for students' backs and many principles panicked and banned bookbags.

[@jamesbraun9842]

They eventually found out it was from having to carry all of the school work around and did nothing.

[@Handelbaars]

For anyone wondering. The game is "Hunt: Showdown" it's a PVPVE where you have to hunt monsters but also have to fight other monster hunters who are trying to get the same monster and steal your hunt. It's a pretty fun game if you have a good party for it.

[@60sSam]

Had a "no soda" rule in high school, to be clear it was a "no soda in your bag" rule, so buying a soda from the locker room or cafeteria vending machine was fine, you just weren't supposed to have it visible on you on your way to lunch. Only had one teacher who really seemed to care, and he would stand in the hallway and make people throw away even full and unopened drinks, especially while they were walking to lunch. Admin moved his classroom next year so he couldn't stand out in the main hallway any longer.

[@trumpetboy1014]

Can you please put what you are saying in red and the stories in white so that we can tell what you are saying vs. what the story is saying?

[@benjaminmolteni6097]

Surprised he doesn't already do it

[@Edgar_Hoods]

6:42 Same thing is at the school my father works at, but instead of a spotlight it's a traffic light. It's so cool and actually worked well.

[@phiahess4534]

In my middle school for PE you could either play tag in a field or hang out in a small forest next to the school (I live in Vermont), my school made a rule that throughout the day if you were caught talking to anyone on your way to class the teacher would shorten PE time (which was every ones favorite 'class'). So a few of my friends and I realized that the forest was less watched than the field, so me and my friends would just go hang out in the forest and boy caught actually playing in the field. Once the teacher caught on they made it so that we had to be walking/moving if we chose to go in the forest. This didn't stop us, we would rotate having two people climb trees and if they saw teachers coming they would send a text to another one of us who would be sitting/talking. If the people in the trees were caught they could just say that they were climbing trees for funzies. Sadly a b!tchy teachers pet ratted us out and the forest was made off limits, lucky for me this ended when I was in 8th grade and I left for highschool with all of my friends. So F you Alyssa.

[@ecos889]

The no talking rule is how you create adults who are unable to make any friends and develop anxiety issues due to fear communicating being linked to punishment. . . Like what exactly are they accomplishing for not having kids communicate with one another other than cause them long term damage to their social development.

[@phiahess4534]

@@ecos889 They claimed it would stop bullying in our school, which was already pretty low.

[@notthatntg]

@@phiahess4534 > which was already pretty low if it ain't broke don't fix it

[@Thenonymous1]

I used to work in a cafeteria for a hospital, from the middle of the lunch rush to closing at 8pm. It was a pretty big cafeteria, with premade stuff to a burger grill to a salad bar and even a station that had new entrees daily. At the end of lunch after 2, most stations except the grill and pizza station would close and traffic would die down. It used to be that at 4pm, the back of house would put out a entree and 2 sides for the dinner along side the other options. We had around 50 employees on average every night, plus patient family members over the course of about 4 hours. Then one day, some of management who had been hired recently, decided that, in order to cut down on waste, dinner entrees would no longer be served. This killed the night crowd, because now they didn't even have to leave their work stations to know what we were serving, and because it was all the same grill stuff, people go sick of it pretty quick. Management failed to realise that even if they weren't going to buy the dinner entree, if they came to the cafeteria, they might buy something just to make the trip worth it. From what I could tell, because we kept track of the waste, there was very little difference between before and after the change was made.There was a brief resurgance when me and my coworkers came up with 'night specials', themed nights entrees like breakfast for dinner, taco tuesday or panini nights. After a few weeks, due to politicing by some jealous cooks in the back, management forced us to stop because we 'lacked proper recipe cards'. We had customer complaints after that, but unfortunately nothing came of it, and traffic died down again.

[@lnomsim2]

The company i worked for in 2016 tried to do two dumb things, only one backfired, the second wasn't put in place. The first was enforcing a dress/uniform code for the WHOLE factory, including services that had nothing to do with production or product manipulation. Before trying to do that, only production and the docks had to wear an uniform, and quality wore one anyway. That decision came completely out of the blue, nobody was complaining about some services not having to wear an uniorm. Anyway, the chief of sales, a woman, decided it was the best time to go working on high heels, miniskirt and a huge cleavage. She got an admonition and direction decided to not enforce dresscode after half the factory complained about it. The second was enforcing mandatory breaks. By law, we have to take a 10min break after every 3 hours of work. We were working from 7am to 4pm, with just a 1hour break between 12pm and 1pm, so perfectly 8 hours/ a day, and we had half a day off per week to get our 35hours/week. Thing is, almost nobody took that 10min break. Actually, out of the 150 people working in the factory, only 5 people from the offices did take a break. But too long, like 30min, and most of the time more than one break a day. So, to punish these 5 people, they wanted to penalise the 145 other workers and either add 10min to our daily schedule or cut 10min from lunch break. Once again, after many complaints, they backtracked. Anyway, nobody was stupid enough to say we didn't take breaks if we go an inspection. And people were still free to take a small break from time to time if they wanted to. I mean the coffee machine was never alone. But better be able to drink 2 or 3 coffees in the day for a total of 6min that lose 10min everyday. The company shut down anyway, but that's another story.

[@moonagelover]

Oh my god the stoplight thing As someone from a different rural MO city, that briught back memories I didn't know I had

[@danielnwosu3971]

I work at a retail store that sells mostly workwear-related stuff (steel toe boots, overalls, etc) so I get a lot of trade and construction workers looking for a new pair of boots or winter work shoes (I'm 90% of the time in footwear). The amount of things they complain about in certain shoes is so dumb because it's stuff that could easily be fixed if 1 person in the design team just took 5 minutes to ask workers what they look out for in a pair of work boots. No management should be making decisions that directly affect the employees without their input. This would seem like a no-brainer but apparently not.

[@esecretlangel9130]

Two rules at my school A: You have to make sure you brought every book to the appropriate class. (This was prior to everyone having a laptop.) B: Since there is nowhere where you can keep books safely, you were not permitted to bring them to the PE. Others who had an outside locker or scheduled to be in the same room as their lockers thought the rule was fair. We had PE after our 1st break, followed by maths class before lunch. The teacher of another class would use the room for a double lesson during this period, so she was not pleased when my class had to interrupted her class to retrieve our books from our lockers. We couldn't get into our lockers because the teacher said we were disrupting the class. We tried bringing our books to PE, but we were not sure what to do half the time, so it didn't work well. If we were inside, objects vanished or were damaged, and if were outside, assignments and books would blow away. Additionally, since another class used classroom 5B before When my class had PE, liability issues prevented us from keeping them there. my class eventually stopped bringing our books along with other classes that were going through similar challenges. Solution: that all lockers would be located moved into the halls outside (fences and gate had to be put up) you just had to be quick and quiet.

[@cryolitegem]

That one about not being allowed to have friends in grades above you is hilarious to me. Me and my friends are all college level, and I am the only teenager left

[@gamercraze1646]

Relateable af

[@hiddendesire3076]

8:33 We had hair-based drug testing as well. One idiot tried bleaching his hair to bypass the test, but was told they’d collect bodyhair. He tried shaving all his hair and body hair off. He missed some despite all that and was found to have had been using steroids. Got banned from the soccer team he was on.

[@DemonWolfLov45]

Here's a stupid story with a total backfire moment: Not a workplace or school, but a recovery section of a hospital- So once I was in the hospital recovering and going through some physical training (aka the equivalent of kindergarten fun groups) to help with the recovery and to stop boredom. They had many stupid rules. But one in particular I F-ING *HATED* WITH A PASSION- Rule - You can be gay, just do NOT talk about. long story short, nearly every kid in there was gay, trans, or some other member of lgbt+. We just ignored them. We talked all about our sexualities, our coming out stories. Most of the time that wasn't even what we wanted to talk about, we just did to spite the nurses and doctors in charge of us. And we did it loud and to their faces. It was hilarious to get scolded after a group activity because I brought up- 'inappropriate stuff'- mind you we were all 15-18 years old. I just laughed and said (after their obvious homophobic rant)- "sorry, but it's not inappropriate, you're just old."

[@micahh9351]

4:56 glad this one worked out well and the guy just went along with the joke.

[@bikerdude923]

Story 27? About the parachute riggers. Those riggers take their job more seriously than probably anyone else in the military. They are incredibly proud of their work, are held to insane standards and as also some of the most trusted people in any airborne unit. I wouldn't be suprised if the regular troopers also raised a stink about the guy changing the rules since its well known how devoted the riggers are.

[@hiddendesire3076]

16:34 Interestingly enough, as part of my Accounting degree, Economics and Psychology were two classes I took, on top of Business Management, Business Ethics, and Business Law.

[@DanG425]

13:20 that is so rude to say that "so many bosses are dumb as a box or rocks". It's offensive to all the boxes of rocks to compare thier intelligence to so many bosses

[@DanG425]

I said what i meant, and meant what i said

[@jrm6183]

We got a new principal and she tried to enforce an old rule where we were not allowed to carry around our backpacks. We had to carry everything in our hands or go to our lockers. This backfired as many of us had lockers on the complete opposite side of the school and they would give us 3-4, 3lb textbooks along with having to carry pencil cases, math kits, water bottle, or anything else we would need for the day. Even the teachers hated the idea. Now we just have to put our bags under our desks but no does it and no one gives a shit.

[@frosted_glaceon5513]

I went to a Middle school that didn't allow backpacks in classrooms, and then my high school did allow them. I didn't ever use my locker, and just carried everything with me. I still get nightmares about wandering the hallways panicking about not knowing which locker is mine or the combination.

[@thatkingdomheartsguy9615]

You forgot one other requirement for a management position. "Complete lack of empathy for those under you."

[@The_Guy_Who_Asked72]

Unrelated, but I just tried to show my sister how to do the squat kick and hurt both my knees, both my ankles, and then fell back and hit my head on the table. 👍

[@minkhollow]

The backfire didn't come until after I graduated, but my high school mandated having a date to prom because the people arranging the dinner tables couldn't figure out how to fill a table of 10 in any configuration other than 'five couples.' (I just didn't go my senior year; would've happily gone alone.) A few years after I graduated, someone got dumped a few weeks before the dance, after having spent hundreds on the 'look good for your date' end of things, and the school *seriously tried to tell her she couldn't go* without a date! Her parents raised hell and the rule was rescinded.

[@roblox-o5b]

In Grade 3, we played tag all recess. They Banned Tag because we were "distracted in class". biggest rebellion ever.

[@H3xx99]

The second a workplace said "We can no longer allow Lunch Breaks" I would have instantly pulled out my phone, began recording and say, "I'm sorry, could you repeat that please? I didn't quite hear you." Easy Lawsuit.

[@cordncourtney9650]

I know a school who has a rule that is basically like, don't engage fight that mainly boils to don't fight back againts bullies, it took the principal getting knocked out cold by a dodged attack Baseball bat for the school to change that rule

[@jsmith1291]

Cafeteria with no chairs, and their business has tanked after implementing this policy. Gosh, it's like people like to sit down and take their time eating or something. Maybe that's why there are all of these, what do you call them, sit-down restaurants in business or something. I hear that McDonalds has done pretty well with this business model.

[@Artic_Fox2706]

At my school, they decided to start having the students all take a mandatory class to quote "make us better citizens", the forced us to go to a an assembly split up by that mandatory class and then have us spill things we would not have told our own parents about how we truly felt in a game of cross the line if.. and if we refused to go they would just reschedule us for a different day. This made any of the students picked as leaders to opt out of theirs and just say "I already went to the assembly, so I don't have to go a second time". Alas attendance dropped a lot during those weeks. *Also I was a good student and even I thought that all of it was too far.

[@benben9794]

No dying your hair unnatural colors… group of people dyed their hair silver for cancer awareness and got in trouble, took it to the school board and the school board started to rule in the principals direction when one parent came up and said “I’ve got two things to say, 1, they are showing support for their friend who is currently going through cancer treatment and will be dealing with the after effects, 2, how many of you currently have grey hair? Don’t say it’s cause you’re older or because medical conditions blah blah blah, you naturally get grey hair as you age therefore it is a natural color even if it only happens as you get older

[@danamoore1788]

Had a boss berate a salesman for making more than the managers. The salesman's job was pure commission. And it had many caveats to get the commission. As in the margins had to be damn good too. But still told him to basically do less.

[@helloiamseb]

Once, at my school, they had a rule where the first account of an incident was generally the truth, but after some investigations with incidents that had questionable first accounts, they revoked it.

[@ingamingpc1634]

Of course they would revoke it anyone can tell you that just believing the first person that told you something instead of investigating was always going to be a good thing whoever thought that was a good idea deserves to get fired who knows how many people ended up in detention because of that who were actually innocent

[@theomega616]

Oh, I work in a pub, we have a room called the P.O.S (meant to stand for "point of sale" things like marketing banners/posters, event shirts etc but they always have cleaning products and other junk in there, so it gets called "the piece of shit room") room. Well event shirts would go missing ... well who cares? The shirts couldn't be worn on shift after the event ended but taking them after was theft apparently (people would take them 'cos they're pretty good quality and if you're short on laundry day, they come in handy) So the managers started forcing the door be locked at all times. So the P.O.S room started getting PILED FUCKING HIGH with t shirts AND the managers got sick of getting stuff out of their, then they got sick of giving keys to people so they could get the stuff they wanted ... so everything went back to how it was

[@skelebones7]

Not necessarily backfired but was definitely not the smartest thing. Two years ago in eighth grade my school started using the fitness gram pacer test and I’ve mainly forgotten what the tests were but the two that stick out the most were the running and push ups. The weird thing was we had to sit down if we did anything wrong so when we would do push his everybody just fell down so they wouldn’t do the test, with the running we’d look like we were trying until the last part where we had to cross to the other side of the gym, we didn’t do the Fitness Gram Pacer after that. Also the program was used for only 2 days before it was shut down

[@MeemahSN]

I still don’t know what the fitness gram pacer test is. Was never a thing in PE growing up. Is that an American thing, or just something outside of Australia?

[@skelebones7]

@@MeemahSN The Fitness Gram Pacer Tests is almost exactly what it sounds like, a fitness test. I’m not sure since I’ve only been outside of the US a few times and haven’t really heard or seen much. I’m pretty sure it’s just an American thing though

[@GMD_God_Gamer]

"the fitness gram pacer test is an aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as you progress."

[@daniellegammon967]

Ah, I remember that time my high school told me I couldn't have my bag in class, my response was "You want me here on time or with my shit? Because only one of those can happen in the time between classes"

[@FabianHunor]

MY high school was modern styled building (so lot of rectangles and overhangs) wich attracted barn swallows, wich then nested under the overhangs pooing everywhere. To combat this the school then installed an anti-bird speaker. The problems started when the sensors detected stuff and played literally all the predator bird noises (including owls) all at once. Add to that the fact that the sensors were incredibly sensitive, so anything approaching it triggered the speakers. They turned the anti-bird speaker system off after 3 days and installed transparent plastic spikes to the places where swallows preffered to nest.

[@maddybeary1307]

3:33 Strapless bras: Allow me to introduce myself

[@z0mbieKats]

My school has a uniform, but they also allow small accessories. You are not allowed necklaces, any variation of an earing that isn't an earing, scrunchies, obnoxiously big hairclips. You are allowed one ring, a watch and earings. However, they did not specify that you could only have studs, not hoops. I had just gotten some small hoop earings for my birthday, and I decided to wear them on my first day of Secondary school. Unknown to us, the teachers would come in and check your uniform in the middle of the class, and give you a detention if you did not meet the dress code. Teacher comes in, and immediately notices my incredibly small hoop earrings. I would've been fine if I didn't have a ponytail in that day. I get a ten minute detention after school because I wore hoop earings.

[@MeemahSN]

That’s just rough. All of these stories suck. I’m realising just how laid-back my school is. We have a uniform, but they never try to dictate what we wear as accessories. I see girls wearing heaps of bracelets, earrings, make-up, scrunchies, etc. Basically they only really care if you’re doing a food-based subject that involves cooking. Otherwise, you can wear whatever jewellery or accessories you like as long as it’s not ridiculous. I feel bad for the kids at your school - sounds like a boring place.

[@z0mbieKats]

@@MeemahSN It is, but I could honestly never switch. I have tons of friends there, and each year we have a school play, and I've devoted my time to doing it every year. That's cause the teachers who run the play don't get paid for it. They also really let us wear anything we want during the rehearsals. Of course, we still aren't allowed anything too big, or else someone's hair clip could go flying and hit someone in the face. But other that, they don't really care what you have on during rehearsals

[@agkawaii9267]

My elementary school in 2017 had one of those stop lights. It had always sat there but they finally decided to turn it back on. The teachers said it was noise controlled but i found the remote they used to select the colors. I also caught one of the monitors using the remote and the light changing shortly after. It was infuriating bc most of the time when it turned red it wasnt actually that loud!

[@kendratsou5636]

My story is also schools confiscating phones at the start of the day. Turns out one poor kid lost his mom and wasn't told about it until he went home. Few other kids turns out to have health complications and need medication during accidents. Unfortunately they couldn't call their parents in time and some were sent ti the er. It was rumored that one of those kids died because of her airway closing in. Thankfully, the school board is having an investigation into this and the rule is likely to be removed.

[@GMD_God_Gamer]

I feel bad for the missing mom kid, and the er kids but most importantly, fly high kid.😢

[@heatherweir8726]

Story 34. Shift swap forms are very common in workplaces. In case of an emergency managers have to know who is there. Lets say in case of a fire they can have an accurate head count to know if anyone is still in the building. If names on the master schedule don't match who is there they could assume someone is still in the building.

[@Blaetant.aerys.tauraus]

Not at school but at the job I got after graduating was at a gas station, lovely right? The manager there wasn't the worse if you didn't mind the little to no communication with newer employees. She had this rule where if you were late coming in too many times or were seen as "unreliable" you wouldn't get any hours for a whole week. I don't remember if it was paid or not but I wasn't about to let a whole week be thrown away waiting for any hours so when I was seen as unreliable I took it :D Side note: I came into work almost half an hour EARLY and asked for specific days off and was still seen as unreliable :) Didn't stay too long to see if that manager had gotten rid of that rule seeing as how most if not all the staff left for school or other things considering 90% of us were high-school graduates-

[@Dr.Sho_Minamimoto]

18:00 Ah yes, the people who single handily makes sure parachutes do their job. Also a job that KZbin bots think is another *WORD* entirely.

[@paytonlescalleet9714]

Unless the doors automatically unlocked when a fire alarm went off that's a violation of fire safety and against the law due to the fact that if there's a fire you would have to wait until someone manually unlocked the door and I'm pretty sure it's still illegal even if they automatically unlocked because of the risk of malfunction and becoming trapped

[@Cheese_Face]

The same thing in story 8 happened in my school too, by the next month they had the buzz noise removed, so we just got a cool decoration

[@manithemaniqwin9196]

One time in Middle school we were taking a state mandated test and they had to take phones. If you didn't give them a phone you got in trouble and a 0 on the teast for cheating .The problem is I did not own a phone at that time and thus did not have something to give. So low and behold I tried to explain that I don't have a phone when the teacher asked for it and got in trouble. They had to call my parents to check if I had one and still the teacher at the time said "I didn't have to be so rude" when I emptied all possible places I could hide a phone. I even unpacked my period purse I kept in my backpack. Some teachers man...

[@WarDragon72345]

6:44 Staff at the after-school care program I went to picked up one of these once and very quickly got rid of it because it was very unfair that kids that had to sit close to it would set it off much easier than ones sitting further away.

[@Void_of_thoughts]

Bathroom/ Normal Passes 8th Grade 2021-2022 In my eight grade year school introduced virtual passes. We had a allowance of 3 passes a day to go anywhere, had to be accepted by a teacher, and has a 5 min timer it had to be approved or it was wasted and you had to make an new one. We had to use the passes for the bathroom, nurses office, other teachers, or to the library. Only exception was if you were called down or it was a real emergency. (Think of women things or bloody noses) Lots of people hated it because either teachers didn’t accept it or if they needed to do something they waisted it going to a teacher or the bathroom. But we didn’t have to use them during lunch or pe. Freshman year 2022-2023 Paper passes. In a school with even more students each student got a half paper with their name on it. There was 10 passes, had to be signed by a teacher and were for an entire quarter. People hated these even more because It could be lost, Ripped, Forgotten, and if you had used the 10 passes either go rest or the quarter with no bathroom breaks or go to your DEAN to get a new one and talk about why your going so often. Sorry miss my period started that week and I care about my hygiene so that’s why I went 6 times that week. But again didn’t have to use them during lunch and Breakfast so HA

[@sevynwarr]

I work for the post office. The district manager had a bright idea to limit dog attacks on carriers. Carriers would be required to carry something for any deliveries to the door to beat dogs with if they were attacked. This new policy leaked to PETA. PETA took it to local news. The news went national. Congressmen were screamed at by constituents. Post office revenue went down catastrophically for about 3 years before recovering, and the district manager was forcibly retired.

[@denkithedhmislover]

They made us stay in our own lines at lunch and we were not able to talk to our actual friends. That backfired in about a week or 2.

[@Thescott16]

All of these remind me of the scene in _Yellowstone_ where Kevin Costner's character becomes the governor and goes into the office for the first time, listens to the bureaucrats and advisors throw their ideas and "solutions" around, and then fires all of them.

[@Messiah_Breen]

My teacher in high school had us reading To Kill a Mockingbird and had us read it out loud to the class since we where all reading it together, how it worked was each of us took turns reading 5 pages or so and then it would go to the next kid. Well it came to my turn and I had always been taught never to say the N word and so I just said say "N word" in place of the actual word and the teacher got actually angry at me for not saying it and said that "it was a part of history" and I just said I don't want to say it and he told me to "read it right or to go to the office" and I was pissed but I figured I would get in trouble so I just got it over with and read it and so did everyone else. Fast forward to senior year for me and the teacher gets fired for doing that exact same shit to some kid and the kid just told the principle what was going on and the principle got pissed, he wasn't around long after that incident. I don't think its wrong to read that book how it was written but reading it out loud just made me uncomfortable and turns out I wasn't the only one I guess.

[@Stuart_Dooley]

8th grade, the concession stand was closed for the year to “be healthier” and that just incited a school riot

[@delanovanraalte3646]

That story about teen kids getting "evil" thoughts thats just teen kids and they get the thoughts anyways a time it's the teachers that might get said thoughts

[@immortalsofar5314]

Boss (to whole team approaching Christmas): We're in crunch mode so if you haven't booked any holiday for the next 3 months, you'll probably not get it. Me: Okay, if we can't have vacation for 1/4 of the year, can we carry that 1/4 forward? Boss: No. Me: Then why do we have to take our remaining holiday in the coldest, most miserable months of the year? If a quarter of the year is out of bounds then we should be able to carry it forward. Boss: Did you want to take any time off? Me (not particularly but...): Yes, I'll take that week off. Boss: Okay, you've got it. Probably the fastest reversal in industrial relations history - it didn't even last until the end of the conversation!