28 Of The Most Ridiculous Workplace Rules Ever
By Zachary Brenner
Updated Nov. 2 2018, 9:48 a.m. ET
I once worked in an office that would always end department-wide emails with a gif of a cute animal. It happened so often that it became an unofficial rule in our office. People would be upset and complain if a gif was left off an email.
One day I noticed that mammals were getting all the love so I attached a gif of a snail to try to mix things up.
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People were furious with me and shortly thereafter people stopped sending animal gifs to each other and morale dropped. I guess the lesson here is never try mess around with the rules, and never, ever show a mollusk love.
1. F Yeah!
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2. What's the worst that could happen?
3. We like to stay dehydrated here.
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4. By the way, UPS trucks do turn left.
5. It's important to maintain your image when no one will see you.
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6. Someone is trying to start a fight.
7. This sounds creepy.
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8. How is this supposed to help?
9. We want everyone to be miserable.
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10. We're your family now.
11. How about a photocopy?
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12. So you're better off not showing up at all.
13. We can't have you getting hurt.
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14. She said no.
15. This is problematic.
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16. Is this a dumb rule, though?
17. This seems pointless.
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18. Woah.
19. Bad plan, man.
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20. Sorry. Safety hazard.
21. This leads to friendship and we can't have that.
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22. Promote or freeze.
23. Take that!
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24. Eh, same thing.
25. I did not know this was something people fought over.
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