"There was a rule against hanging off pipes at an old job because someone tried doing chin-ups on them. Pulled the pipes out of their bracketing and flooded the entire building."
"I worked in an office where one numb nut decided to take his lunch break at 4pm every day so he could leave early. Manager said to stop doing that so he quit taking a lunch break Monday-Thursday. On Friday, he took all 5 lunch breaks at once and went home at noon. After that, the manager assigned everyone a lunch break time. If you didn’t take it during your assigned hour you did not get a lunch break."
"Label on engine oil: “not safe for human consumption.” Thanks, Fast and the Furious."
"The “Not suitable for flying” label on Halloween Superman costumes"
"In Alberta, it’s illegal to set fire to a wooden-legged person. shouldn’t that just be common sense?"
"The “no drinking allowed at work” rule at my job is because of me back when I was an alcoholic.
Before that, it wasn’t an official rule because they just assumed everyone would realize it wasn’t allowed.
Got it written in the handbook and everything! I’m a bringer of change"
"I bought some fishing hooks, the package stated not for human consumption. Ruined my dinner plans."
"Taking off shoes in American airports."
"A classic example is the “Do not use in the shower” warning on hair dryers, which exists because someone once tried to use one while in the shower and got injured."
"My Alma mater now has a line in the student handbook that charcoal grills are not permitted in the dorm rooms."
"On almost every clothes iron in the United States, there is a warning label to “not iron your clothes while wearing them.” I assume there are a few stories behind that warning."
"How overtime was bid for.
A coworker figured out a way to game the system so he could maximize the available overtime, leading to complaints that there was very little left over for others to sign up for. The rules were changed 4 or 5 times and each time he found a way around the rules. Eventually, they just started skipping over every other of his OT requests and put in a maximum number of OT hours someone could work in a calendar month and boy did he cry about that for months that he wasn’t getting 20 hours a week of OT."
"Horses are forbidden to eat fire hydrants in Marshalltown, Iowa. I would love to know WHY IN THE HELL IS THAT A LAW?"
"One guy poisons his kids’ Halloween candy, now every parent has to confiscate their kids’ Halloween candy and go through it for razor blades that aren’t there"
"Man, it makes my stomach hurt thinking about this – but all those signs at the Hoover Damn that tell you not to put your dog on the railing… How many puppies fell in the Hoover Damn for this sign to exist?!"
"I worked in a place where Post-it notes were banned. Because a person once wrote something important and stuck it on another person’s desk but it fell off."
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