If I had been a business owner, I could have made the work rules. What kind of work rules would you have insisted on? Or did you insist on? For example, one of mine would be no visible tattoos, another no sweat pants or leotard pants. I seem to be in the majority. There are dozens of entries of the worst company rules on the internet.
So here are some of the common rules:
Banning water breaks and cooling measures.
Banning high heels for women at work.
Bearded ban.
No long looks or unwanted advances.
Banning headphones to avoid distractions.
The following rules make me think they are jokes and fabrications:
Do not mop up the floor of the walk-in freezer.
Do not climb into the rubbish compactor.
If you have sex in the parking lot, please take off your vest and name tag first.
... And there were more like the last one.
Then the specific companies named: At Walt Disneyworld, there is rule against pointing with one finger. Its is considered offensive in a number of cultures. There is also a rule that employees are not allowed to say "I don't know".
And some anecdotes from the complaint type articles:
"I had a restaurant manager make a rule that servers were not allowed to wear makeup unless they wore makeup every day. If you rarely wore or never wore makeup, you were not allowed to wear it because it would 'disturb' the regulars.
No employees could use a red pen because the deceased company founder had forbidden it. He was the only one who could wield a red pen. Even after his death, this rule persisted."
Here's one of the watercolours from our Monday morning class. A splish splash sort of style.
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