If you’ve ever worked in an office, you’re almost certain to have brushed shoulders with a power hungry manager with couple of ridiculous rules designed solely to mess up your working day. Every now and then, though, there are office rules so crazy that they’re truly difficult to actually believe. We gathered different stories from users across the Reddit world about the nonsense they’d experienced when tackling the office grind, with some of the stories being unbelievably stupid. For instance, apparently non work related conversations are technically holiday time being taken!? Prepare to be blown away by the rest and check out the craziest office rules according to Reddit.
“Non-work related conversations are technically holidays?”
“My last manager (global company) tried to tell us that if she saw us at each other’s desks discussing non- work related things, we had to keep track of those minutes and take them as vacation. She didn’t last long.” -PB_Sandwich
“Don’t mess with the snack machines”
“If two snacks fall from the vending machine, we have to turn in the extra one or its considered “stealing company property”. Had a manager follow me to the front desk to turn in some cookies last week.” -razlplaz
A super suspicious boss…
“I work for a very superstitious Korean man. The rules are no red pens, no shaking your legs and no whistling after the sun goes down. These aren’t official ‘rules’, but he gets very serious about these things and doesn’t allow joking about ghosts/the supernatural.” -Blair-s
“Don’t mess with the microwave!”
“If the microwave and printer run at the same time it trips a breaker that only property management can reset. So whenever anyone microwaves something they have to yell ‘MICROWAVE!’ so nobody prints.” – bromley2
The ridiculous front desk rule
“I’m a librarian. If somebody asks me where anything is, I have to redirect them to the front desk. No matter what. Example of how this is dumb:
“Where’s the bathroom?”
I’m pretty sure the front desk can help you with that.” -z91x
“There will be absolutely no sitting!”
“We weren’t allowed to sit at my old job. Even though our job didn’t require us to walk, or stand for any reason. We weren’t allowed to sit because a worker in the past once pushed two chairs together and slept.” -DMagis
“Mobile phones go in the bucket for the working day!?”
“Because of some new s**its we got working who don’t understand the concept of not using a phone when there is work to be done, everyone has to put their cell phone in a bucket at 6 P.M. (or whenever the evening rush starts).” -apatheticthegirl
“Wheelchair users don’t get saved from office fires?”
“Our safety protocol states that if there is a fire and there are wheelchair bound students or employees on the second floor, we are to leave them at the top of the stairs for the fire fighters and emergency personnel to help once they arrive. Sooo…. basically they get to burn to death.” -TheDodoBird
