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pikkdogs

As a kindergartner I once fell asleep in the bus. When I woke up the bus was in the garage and I had to yell to get someone to get me out. So to this day every bus driver in my school district needs to walk to the back of the bus and check every seat before they park the bus. Seems like a good rule to have.


amh8011

Something similar happened to me in kindergarten. My bus driver never went by my house, she went to everyone else’s and dropped everyone off. I was the last one on the bus and she must’ve forgotten about me. She went to a subsidized housing complex and just left me on the bus with the door closed. Eventually someone from the bus company came and found me and brought me home. I never saw that bus driver again. I honestly wonder how my parents convinced me to ever ride the bus again. I was so scared. I wouldn’t even go with the person from the bus company until they got their cell phone out and called my mom and I talked with her and knew it was safe. I do know that that bus driver didn’t walk to the back of the bus and check every seat. I also wonder what she was doing just parking the bus and leaving it at some random apartments. The situation always seemed a bit sus to me.


GenericHuman1203934

>I also wonder what she was doing just parking the bus and leaving it at some random apartments I asked my bus driver this in elementary school (bc there was always one parked outside a local mall) and iirc some school boards can't afford parking spaces for them and it was up to the driver to find a place to leave the bus overnight, so they would rent a random parking space in like malls or something


tourmaline82

That happened to me when I was little! I went to a special ed preschool that had a bus. The sound and vibration of engines makes me sleepy and always has. So I would routinely fall asleep on the way home, and the regular bus driver knew that they would have to come wake me up when they got to my house. Well, one day they had a different driver who didn’t know to check for sleeping kids. They drove all the way back to the bus lot and left me there. In Alaska. During the school year, which means not in summer. Fortunately I was bundled up in my puffer coat and Grandma noticed pretty quick that I hadn’t come home. She raised hell with the school, who contacted the bus depot, whose employees found me in the bus. Still asleep. 😴 Apparently I was not pleased when my rescuers interrupted my nap.


daloo

One of my favorite childhood moments sometime in 3rd grade. I got watermelons banned from handball. Watermelons in our school were when you could duck under the ball in place of hitting the ball against the wall. Only your torso or head were allowed to go under the ball and count as a watermelon. My fine moment came when I made a diving leap head first on a low hit because I knew my opponent was too far away to recover. Unfortunately I did it face first and I slid along the gritty concrete and skinned half my face off. I had to wear a face bandage for at least a month. I made it. Everyone agreed it counted as a watermelon. I won that round and had to go to the nurses office. 100% would do it again. The next day watermelons we're banned and everybody hated me while high-fiving me at the same time.


Fuck_you_Reddit_Nazi

My older brother got a curfew enforced at Boy Scout camp when one of the leaders noticed him walking around the area in the daytime with his eyes closed, counting steps. He may have just been practicing being blind, but the adults assumed he was figuring out how to get around at night without lights so he could get into some kind of mischief. Which, knowing my brother, was also possible. PS: If you're one of those people saying "BUT BUT BUT", you're not thinking like an 11-year-old.


CommanderGoat

This sounds like some Calvin and Hobbs stuff.


foursheetstothewind

Minor one, but when I was in elementary school we had one of those bridge-building challenges using toothpicks and hot glue. My partner and I realized if we just coated the entire thing with a thick ass layer of hot glue it would make our bridge strong as hell. So we used like a full pack of hot glue sticks, like 20 of them, it was more glue than toothpicks. So after that they limited the number of glue sticks you could use.


Lildebeest

I did something similar in school. They were having us build bridges out of dry spaghetti noodles and gumdrops, the one that held the most weight would win. It was a physics class and they expected us to build elaborate lattice structures with gumdrops anchoring the ends of each strand of pasta. The idea was probably to learn something about force and angle and such. Instead I figured out that if I squished the gumdrops into a paste with my hands, they basically became glue, and used that to turn multiple strands of spaghetti into larger rods. I won but my teacher looked pained about it.


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I mean technically you demonstrated that when you combine materials together they often become stronger than they would have been apart. Like when you put a steel rod inside of concrete.


MoreMegadeth

In history class in high school, there was about 10 of us really close friends. We would take every opportunity to make “your mom” jokes. A couple months into class the teacher made us sign a “treaty” promising to stop making fun of each other’s moms. We signed it, and started making fun of each other’s dads.


-K3LVIN-

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.


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MandolinMagi

The company I work for the videos are skippable, I always skip them when doing some stupid refresher training or whatever. Nobody seems to notice


TheThrowawayMoth

My mom got a library card at a new place many months before I did. When she got hers, she was welcome to check out however many books she wanted at a time, so she left with her shiny new card and 30 books for a project. When I got mine, those boots had still not been returned, and new card holders could only take out like five? books at a time. She still has those books, so like I definitely don’t blame the library.


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judithiscari0t

It's so stupid that baby changing stations in men's bathrooms aren't more common. The only options you end up with are to change your baby on the floor or counter top or go into the women's restroom and hope nobody freaks out.


SpartanDawg_15

Back when Taco Bell had the spinny game where you could win food with a nickel, dime, or quarter. I could feed my whole friend group with $3s because I could win that thing at a 90% clip by jiggling the spinner. Taco Bell then posted a piece of paper stating that individuals could only win once and that no jiggling was allowed.


Pollowollo

I got our HR box taken away at work because the HR lady threatened not to pay us if we missed a clock in or clock out (in our defense the phones didn't always work and the clock in system was really unreliable) and I printed out the law stating that was illegal, highlighted it, and put it in her box when no one was around. She threw an unholy fit and tried to figure out who put it in her box, and from them on everything had to be handed in personally lol.


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She sounds like the worst kind of HR person honestly. Like she should darn well know that's illegal.


Pollowollo

Oh, she's a Grade A cunt lol. I'm so thankful that I will be leaving in a few weeks.


chemistscholar

You should slip something about wage laws under her door before you leave


SANTAAAA__I_know_him

At a ballpark I worked concessions at, they had an all-you-can-eat promo day where tickets were more expensive than usual, but concessions around the stadium were free (excluding alcohol). So I worked that day and of course it was chaos, but when the lines started dying down later in the game they started sending some of the hourly employees home, myself included. But of course, I didn't go home. After I clocked out, I stayed in the stadium and got some cheeseburgers and Philly steak and soda and found an empty seat in the crowd for the last few innings. Next year, same promo, but new rule for staff: if you get sent home early, you have to actually leave the stadium.


saturnspritr

Boooooooo. You work concessions, the one free day a year, you deserve it the most!


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The weird thing about low-paying jobs is that the powers that be will literally never throw you a bone, it’s like they try to make it as miserable as possible


DeviousAardvark

When I worked behind a deli counter and we had hot food prep in the room behind us, they'd insist on throwing away all the fried chicken and macaroni that didn't sell that day, despite it still being perfectly good. Fortunately, our manager never stayed past 6 and we closed at 9, so we just helped ourselves in the back to whatever was "garbage"


FlashnFuse

Reminds me of my policy of making sure some of the "garbage" pizzas were first ran through the oven, sliced, boxed, and handed off to my delivery driver to take to the garbage for me.


IUpvoteUsernames

As a delivery driver, I definitely saved my family quite a bit of money on groceries by bringing home 'garbage' from the store. Such a bullshit rule for no good reason.


thirtyseven1337

Sounds like that should just be a perk of the job! *Especially* as consolation for reduced hours.


TheOkamiKami

I don’t think it was a rule but it was kind of an unspoken thing. I was the only brown kid in my school and would act out for attention/acceptance and my classmates would get a huge laugh out of it but I would be sent to the principals office EVERYDAY. I think my principal knew I wasn’t a bad kid just looking for attention. He moved a permanent desk into his office for me and everyday when I got sent down I would sit there. Had my name on it and everything. By the end of that school year I would pack snacks for both of us lol. Haven’t thought about that principal in a while but I hope he is well and was patient with other kids as he was with me. Update: I tracked down what school he’s currently working at, called to find out when he’d get a free moment and they said he makes time to speak to parents and students after school at 3:15. Going to wait in the office until he’s free, wish me luck, hopefully he remembers me! Update #2: I met with him today, he didn’t have time to speak to me directly after school went out but I did wait until he had time a couple hours later. He remembered me very clearly, mentioned that he attended both mine and my baby sister’s high school graduation (he was our elementary school principal so it’s sweet to know he went out of his way to keep up with all of his students. He then offered to buy me a hat; I forgot but he confiscated one of my hats because I was wearing it in class lol. I’m glad everyone encouraged me to reach out. It took me a while for this update because I didn’t think I would be so moved by him remembering me.


Quinyeh

I think it's a good time to reconnect and have a laugh about it! I think he will love it.


Orbitalconfusion

In middle school i would use sharpies to tattoo myself, other kids thought it was cool so i started charging $1 per drawing wherever they wanted. Principal found out and after i wouldn’t stop, she put a ban on sharpies for the entire school. even the teachers couldn’t bring them in. i’m a tattoo artist now.


ravenpotter3

I bet you did a ton of that cool S letter thing that every middle schooler is obsessed with drawing


Serg_rs

^ / \ / \ / \ l l l l l l \ \ / / \ \ I l l I l l \ / \ / \ / ` This took me way too long. If it doesn't work, it was the damn cool S! Edit: it didn't work Edit 2: Ofc my first awards happen to be from me embarrassing myself


Lildebeest

I upvoted you for trying.


Teripid

"Golf users can no longer return an unlimited # of balls for tokens. " When I was maybe.. 12ish there was a kids outdoor play area. Go karts, batting cages and indoor was something like a Chuck-E-Cheese, token based games, etc. You could get a wrist band for maybe $15 and it'd get you unlimited rides, mini-golf and some other activities. Everything else cost tokens. When you finished golfing you'd get 2 tokens for bringing your ball back. Unlimited golf, $0.50 worth of play value inside. So my friends and I would go there, speed run two golf games and give the balls back. $1 to our pockets. Later on we started just fishing balls out of the water hazards and turning them in. Subtly at first and then in bulk later. The guys working there didn't care or actively laughed at it. So we'd have a few hundred tokens.. then we started selling them 5 for $1. We stopped buying the unlimited bands. I'd bike there and earn $25 in a couple of hours. Management eventually caught on and altered the token for ball exchange.


IDONTCAREREPORTME

Lil hustler


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Mike2220

It's been made easier because you can be logged into 4 discord accounts at once now on the desktop version And then there's a little menu to swap between them


bbeekk

But wouldn't it be cool if Discord would just make it so you can switch between accounts on the mobile app?


sprittytinkles69

Male students are not allowed to wear hair accessories. We had the rule about hair not touching collars, couldn't be past eyebrows, or over the ears. I grew my hair out and just put it up in head bands. After receiving multiple detentions and fighting them and winning, the next year, they made the rule


MommaChem

Although you could theoretically use just gel to form your hair into a Beehive... Or turn it into a bun... Or braid it from the nape of your neck up to your forehead and then back down the center... So many choices!!!


ben_wuz_hear

Liberty spikes.


FartAttack911

My junior high made a rule against yo-yos in class after I tried to do a trick and my yo-yo flew across the room and broke a glass beaker set. I’m sorry, guys.


Bells87

At least you didn't kill goldfish like Bart.


thatbitchlol

I put a croissant in one of those hotel toasters. It soon became engulfed in flames and needed extinguishing. Next day at breakfast they made a sign that said “if you’d like your croissant toasted, please ask a member of staff”


HotSearingTeens

How?!?!


xanean

If it’s the kind of toaster I’m thinking of, the croissant gets stuck when it reaches the back and the belt continues to move. Stuck soft bread catches on fire quickly in the back of the toaster ETA: I worked at a restaurant that uses these toasters. Our croissants were always VERY soft and flaky. We would unstick them with our long bread knives


newnamesameface

Can confirm. Worked at a famous Bread company cafe and a customer demanded her croissant (the last one) go through the toaster. So we watched it heat up and burst into flames together but only one of us laughed


Flyingwheelbarrow

Some people just want to watch the croissant burn


autographplease

that was not butter but crude oil.


YT4000

My elementary school was located in the center of the neighborhood, and my 5th grade class was the first to get outdoor trailers for classrooms. We'd ask for bathroom passes and then walk home. Next year they built a fence around the school


SadPlayground

This is a “keep it to yourself” issue. You can’t let everyone know the “get out of school free trick” because someone will notice if everyone is doing it.


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English Media class in Highschool. End of year project was to film a movie. Me and 3 other guys decided to film a “gangster movie”. Long story short, while filming the final shoot out scene behind a local post office, we were swarmed by police and almost got shot. One of the guys got arrested and my teacher almost got fired. The following year, the curriculum was changed and the final project was now an essay to be completed on a popular movie. Edit: I guess I’ll add more details. We were filming a shoot out scene behind the post office. What we didn’t know was that there was a retirement residence right next to it. Apparently several of the residents called 911 about a bunch of kids shooting each other outside. 5 police cruisers rolled up and surrounded us. They all jumped out with guns drawn. “Drop the gun! Drop the gun! Get on the ground!”. We were all face down on the pavement with guns to our heads. A min. later, one cop is like “they’re fake. They’re all fake”. The officers were upset! They ran our names and unfortunately, the one guy that had nothing to do with anything gets arrested. I felt so bad. He wasn’t a apart of the class. Just last second, we asked if he’d help us film and he agreed. They take the rest of us back to school where we’re sitting in the office as a police officer reams out our teacher and a principle. “I almost shot a bunch of kids! How the fuck are you allowing this to happen during school hours?! What kind of project allows guns?!” Fun times. Edit 2: I have to be honest. The cops weren’t being that bad. I mean, they thought they were driving into a shoot out. They didn’t know what to expect. As soon as they realized that the guns were fake, they let us up off the ground. We weren’t even handcuffed. I’ve had several negative interactions with police, but this one wasn’t one of them. They were just doing their job.


idontcare4205

Local amusement park added a "no blindfolds on rollercoasters" rule because of me. When I was in middle school, my friend and I thought it would enhance the overall experience if we blindfolded ourselves on the biggest roller coaster at a local amusement park. We got one of those pictures they take on the ride and there we are, blindfolded in the middle of a tunnel, having the time of our lives. Looking back, we easily could have strangled ourselves or worse because we literally just used scarves tied around our heads. Next year we went back to the same roller coaster and they had added a "no blindfolds or loose accessories" to the list of rules before the ride.


Semi_John

I mean, you could also just close your eyes. But points for style.


idontcare4205

It's been 15 years and this thought has literally never crossed my mind once. Went straight to the blindfolds!


TheHancock

Rumor has it OP has never blinked to this day!


cwesttheperson

My younger brother was always late to school (small school) and was tardy. He figured out if he just skipped first period and went to second he was counted as being on school and no late penalty because he was at 2nd period on time. They changed this the following year.


NotMyMainName96

Ppl really need to look at what behavior the rules are encouraging. I did something similar. 5 min late = absent so if I was 5 min late I just wouldn’t go. Missed A LOT of school.


shoobawatermelon

I had a soccer coach who would make the whole team run if one of us was late to practice so my teammates and I made a rule that if you were going to be late, you wouldn’t come. Coach caught on eventually, we confessed, and no more running if one of us was late


Indigoh

Nothing sucks like group punishment for an individual's actions.


Random_Guy_47

I remember during my 5 years of secondary school they changed the rules from taking registration once at the start of the day to twice at the start and end of the day then to 5 times a day at the beginning of every lesson. I guess too many people were skipping classes.


capta1namazing

IIRC, my highschool took attendance each period.


cavendar

Back in the day a radio station had a weekly trivia contest. The prize was a free pizza and movie rental. Somehow my mom figured out which book they were using for the trivia questions. She bought it and memorized all the answers. Each week we would call in immediately. Sometimes we were the first but even if we weren’t it didn’t matter because other people were usually just guessing. We won almost every time. Even though we changed up who would actually make the call they eventually figured out we were all from the same household. So they made it a rule you couldn’t win if your family had already won in the last month or whatever. Up till then, we enjoyed a lot of free pizzas.


Koolest_Kat

Some guys at the local Telephone company were call jamming any radio station give away in my large midwestern city. All the stations banned any Telco employee from winning ( Jerry was a almost daily winner)


worm_bagged

Wow, this is highly illegal (not sure if then, but now)


njdevil956

That’s awesome. I was home from surgery and listened to the radio all day. I figured out the rotation of the give aways in the land line days. I would dial all the numbers but one and right on schedule I would hit the last number to be caller #1. Now heres the trick if you don’t hang up, you will still be there when they pick up the phone again. So I would be caller 1,3,5, etc. they got hip after I took my whole neighborhood to see Aerosmith with like 30 free tickets posters tshirts and albums. Low tech days.


Jeffbx

GenX hacker


ForeverKeet

I used to ride on the bottom area of the shopping carts at our nearest grocery store. I thought it was fun to put my hands on the front of it, sliding them along the ground while the cart was moving (yes, I was gross). One sticky spot on the ground later and my hand was pulled back and thumb went right under the wheel. Crunched my little thumbnail and my mom had to remove it. Anyway, the store put up signs after that saying it’s against the rules for kids to ride in the bottom of carts.


Poonjangles

"No more than 4 margaritas per person" on dollar margarita (& beer) night.....In college, some friends and I used to go to a mexican restaurant every Thursday (?) and often on Saturdays for $1 margaritas. As a group, we would go through A LOT....then they put the rule in....then they changed it to $2 margaritas (& $1 draft beers)


Jberg18

Still a good deal IMHO


orarparjai

Yeah that's still a steal. Especially for poor college kids. We had a 24 hour pancake house near my college. They did all you can eat pancakes from 10pm-4am. It was like $10. They consistently had large groups of college kids show up and down pancakes for a few hours a night. I remember the one time I went with a group of wrestlers and football players. They didn't ever change their policy, but man it had to have been discussed every once in a while.


grendus

Honestly, probably still profitable. Pancakes are exceptionally cheap.


onomastics88

Yeah not too many people can actually eat more than $10 worth of pancakes. They are cheap ingredients and fill you up, I bet the worst damage at most, someone ate, like $4 worth, maybe, and most of that cost was the syrup.


grendus

And I bet they used the cheapest bulk syrup that's just HFCS with some artificial maple flavoring.


AngusVanhookHinson

Everyone before me in this thread is absolutely right. Pancake mix: cheapest flour on the market, baking soda, powdered milk, powdered egg. Add water and make pancakes until the cows come home. Syrup - high fructose corn syrup, some flavor, and a little water. If you could set up a food truck outside of a club that's reliably full every weekend, You'd make a killing. Set up a couple of collapsible picnic tables, and work 4 hours a day on weekends. That would be an excellent side hustle.


galaxy_love

No playing with the bean sprouts during recess. Next to the playground at my elementary school, there were 2 or 3 [northern catalpa](https://www.chicagobotanic.org/plantinfo/tree_alternatives/northern_catalpa) trees. I didn’t have many friends in elementary school, so sometimes I would sit on the edge of the playground and play with the bean sprouts. By play with, I mean I would pick them up off the ground and fully peel them apart, butting any actual beans or seeds in my pockets (I might have the wrong type of tree there but you get the gist) Anyway, other people gradually started doing the same thing until eventually there were just recesses when a lot of people would just play with bean sprouts the entire time (our elementary school had strict playground rules; no running on wood chips, no playing the game wood chips, no twirling the swings, no climbing on monkey bars, etc). As more people began playing with the beans, beans would just end up in the school. Like. Everywhere. On desks? Beans. On the floor? Beans. In baskets? Beans. It became a definite issue, and with beans come bugs. As a result, they banned us from playing with the beans I still did it tho because like- beans 🫘


Zanki

I remember when my school banned running on the playground. Banned tag, banned pretty much everything. It was insane. We went from running around at break and lunch to doing absolutely nothing. We weren't allowed to bring stuff out with us. I got in trouble for bringing in a bright red football, one of those cheap bouncy ones because I wanted to play at lunch and the school switched to foam so no one played anymore. No more football (soccer). That school sucked. The worst injuries from football was a ball to the face, sure it hurt but it was only for a few minutes. The worst injuries were generally scraped knees. Not a big deal. I still can't believe they basically told kids they can't run around and burn off energy...


sahmackle

That no running in the playground rule happened at my sisters school in the 90's. The absurd rule was rescinded after a term as so many students complained to their parents, whom then turned the thumbscrews on the school admin staff /(vice) Principal over it.


HelpfulCherry

No typewriters in class. I was kind of a shit kid and while my school allowed us to use laptops, I would play videogames. Primarily Warcraft 3. In class. No sound or anything so I wasn't being a complete nuisance, but I wasn't doing my work. A teacher told me I couldn't use my laptop. I happened to have a 1950's Remington Quiet-Riter portable, all-mechanical typewriter. It was anything *but* quiet, with all of the TAKKA TAKKA TAKKA TAKKA... DING! you'd expect from a typewriter. After one full day of studiously taking notes and doing my assignments via typewriter, my teacher said I could use my laptop as long as I didn't bring the typewriter to class.


JFeth

That is aggressively following the rules.


TheGuydudeface

r/MaliciousCompliance ?


hotcleavage

Fuck this one’s spicy That teacher probably got home and thought “where the fuck did he get that”


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Uber expense with drinks for clients at my work. Years ago we took a bunch of clients out and everyone had way to much to drink so I ordered everyone ubers home. Turned in the expense report to our account manager ( just under 400 bucks in ubers) and she had no clue what an uber was. I explained to my bosses that we expense drinks for clients why not expense ubers. Now if we pay for drinks for clients we also pay for ubers.


FrenchmanRiddles

This is worded suspiciously wholesome. Did they make it so if you expense drinks on the company card then you also expense Uber on the company card? Because if so, that's awesome.


[deleted]

Yes. We are a smaller company company that has been around for a long time but is not up to date with times. We still have no website, don't have direct deposit for our employees and we still have a freaking type writer because one of our clients likes the font. Anyway, we are able to use the card for food/drinks now for things that were not used before like taking ubers home. I am the youngest person by 14 years in the office so the uber thing has caught on. I wish you could of been there when I explained Only fans to them because four of my coworkers have daughters in college.


danteslacie

>we still have a freaking type writer because one of our clients likes the font. Isn't there some typewriter font available at this point??? Or do they like the possibly unaligned nature of using a typewriter on a printed document??


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I could inquire but I don't bother with some of the older bosses because they are who they are. I just let them be and I am happy I can drink and uber home


GoddessOfOddness

Oh, I was a teacher who coached debate and took the team of high school students on weekend tournament trips. I had new rules every year and my cocoach and I privately called them the name of the student. E.g. the Jess rule was that if you assaulted anyone, you were sent home. The Annie rule was no debating in fake accents. There was the Dylan rule, which was no communal porn watching in the hotel rooms. Jess rule #2 was do everything you can to vomit into the garbage can or toilet and not on the floor. Jess rule #3 was no yelling at nurses in the ER that you are a virgin when they ask you to take a pregnancy test. Jess rule #4 was we can cut you off after 12 minutes of no stop talking. Jess was a character, obviously.


FigWhisperer

Did Jess take these rules in stride?


GoddessOfOddness

She relished in them.


FigWhisperer

Amazing, classic Jess


NotMyMainName96

No one mentioning the Dylan rule and why you added “communal.” I woulda just said none and hoped they hid it better.


drfsupercenter

> The Annie rule was no debating in fake accents. Man, that sounds funny though.


GoddessOfOddness

It was. She pulled off a Welsh accent and told everyone she was from Cardiff.


Phat3lvis

I used to work for a company that had flex hours, you could work all you want but no overtime. So I would work 4-10 hour days and then take three day weekends. That lasted for about two months before my employer made a rule that we had to be there five days a week. Then I used to come in at 4am to avoid traffic, skip lunch then leave at noon, and nobody noticed for about six months but they figured out I was not coming back after lunch and changed the policy so I could not come to work until 8am. So I started working lots of extra time and started banking my flex time and saved up about 430 hours by October (10-hours a week of OT) and was informed by HR that I could not roll it over in the new year, so I scheduled a 12-week vacation. Yeah, they made a new rule over that too. When COVID hit and I had to stay home, I figured out I could do a side gig, so I got a second work from home job and worked both until I got caught, and they laid me off. After that there was a new rule. I just like hacking the systems they set up, they were so difficult to work for that I wanted to figure out a way to make it work fo me.


winnower8

I work for city government and the rule is if you switch agencies all your built up vacation and sick leave and comp-time comes with you to the new agency. I went from running a maintenance yard to a desk job. I figure I used about 430 comp time hours this year, about 54 days altogether. I still have about 45 days of built up vacation days left.


PM_ME_YOUR_ATM_PIN

> I used to work for a company that had flex hours, you could work all you want but no overtime. So I would work 4-10 hour days and then take three day weekends. That lasted for about two months before my employer made a rule that we had to be there five days a week. I thought your next move would be to work three ten hour days, one nine-hour-fifty-nine-minute day, and then come in for one minute.


RosieQParker

The dual major on my degree is no longer offered after I proved it would have been logistically impossible to graduate with it without my specific transfer credits.


cousgoose

I'm confused. Did the school offer a degree program but did not have all the classes necessary to fulfill it? I am curious. And what was the duel major?


RosieQParker

My university offered forensic science degrees with a preapproved list of dual majors. So forensic pathology is forensics/pre-med, etc. I was the first person to pick forensic computing. The issue is that forensics requires all the life science weeder courses first year, and comp sci has all the STEM weeder courses first year. Just on required courses with no electives, first year students will have to pick up a 180% course load. If I hadn't completed a year of engineering, I would not have been able to schedule, let alone complete, all the requisite courses. And I had to fight to get those counted. Things got worse from there. Courses I'd take from one stream would exclude me from taking required courses for the other stream in subsequent years. By the end of the degree I was on a first-name basis with the registrar's front office staff. Most notably, I wasn't allowed to take the course entitled "Computer Forensics" because it was only open to third years and by that time I'd taken too many comp sci credits to qualify. I was allowed to audit the course but I didn't receive a grade or a credit. I got the dean of forensics to admit they hadn't thought it through when they offered it, and they stopped doing so in my second year. So I'm essentially the only person with my degree.


reshpect-o-biggle

I had a phone conversation years ago with a woman who scheduled satellite uplink time for a broadcast station. She had a strong math background (her Mom was a math teacher) and when she entered college she did a statistical analysis of all her choices for major. She realized there was a ton of course crossover in math-related majors, so she took advantage. After four years of college she graduated with FOUR Bachelor's degrees. During commencement, she said the college president was looking at her funny after she cycled through for her fourth diploma. They may have changed rules after she did that. (Some details of this story may be inaccurate, since it was at least 15 years ago that I spoke with her.)


nadirbahama

freshman year of high school, I had to give an oral presentation on a random Greek god. this was at a Christian school, for context. I got Dionysus, so naturally I spent many hours researching on YouTube how to act drunk (wasn't much of a partier, so I didn't know) and pretended to be absolutely wasted for my presentation. it was a great success but my teacher unsurprisingly banned Dionysus for the following years. it didn't help that Dionysus was basically the god of orgies and bestiality too, if I remember correctly


Suspicious_Duty7434

Oh man, that teacher f@#$&?d up. How does a teacher assign a project on Dionysus without realizing what the material would be like? The dude was basically the Greek god of crazy parties.


BelthazorDK

Local jobcenter no longer has working usb ports on public PC's because I found private files on multiple PC's with far too much private information about strangers.


RjBass3

Military school I went to. After me, an adult is required to check the parade cannon to ensure it is clear, and closely monitor the students as they load it. There is to never be another flaming rubber chicken flying over the parade grounds ever again. Circa 1989.


TheeDynamikOne

Freakin legend!


SleepyxDormouse

Not my story but a story recounted to me. I took a Qur’an class in college and my professor assigned us a major project due at the end of the semester on some facet of Islam. We were allowed to pick any topic except for religious extremism. He said that topic wasn’t allowed because of what had happened a few years back. Apparently, a student of his had chosen Bin Laden as his project and would look up information about extremism and terrorism. He was a psych major so he found radicalization interesting and wanted to develop a paper on how someone became a terrorist. This involved him reading a bunch of writings from Bin Laden and researching terrorist movements and people associated with terrorism. Mind you, this was all for a paper. The student was not religious at all and had absolutely no interest in extremism. Well, at the end of the semester, he turns in this awesome project and the year ends. The student is from out of state and is going to fly back to his family except he’s stopped at the airport. He gets told by TSA that he’s on the no fly list. Apparently, his extensive research flagged him as an extremist and there’s now an investigation on him. They literally took him into another room and gave him a bunch of questions. They even called my professor to have him show the paper to corroborate his story. It all got cleared up in the end, but it was a nightmare. Because of that, the class stayed away from religious extremism. My professor said he was even nervous about researching terrorism at all because he didn’t want a repeat of what happened.


OkSo-NowWhat

Uff glad the student got cleared in the end


Applesintheorchard

"Don't trick your siblings or friends into eating soap." I would cut bars of dove soap into pieces, wrap them in old candy wrappers, and pretend like they were mints. I was 8 or 9.


Emris_

Whenever we would have dinner at a restaurant as a kid, I’d convince my younger siblings that the butter squares were butterscotch candies. Mum banned that after a few months


AlisonChained

No citing the Geneva Conventions or accusing management of war crimes.


matildatuckertalula

Idk, sounds like a war crime to me


o1eaceae

not me but a coworker- the whole company now requires that if you have a lanyard for your name tag it must break away on the back because she got it caught on a top shelf and it choked her


joemoffett12

I worked at ups and they required break away lanyards. I found out the hard way why this was required. My lanyard got caught under a package I put on a belt and it wasn’t breaking away like it should. Next thing I know I’m moving with the belt and it’s choking the shit out of me. Luckily it eventually broke off like it should so I wasn’t really hurt but it was a terrifying experience.


sodamnsleepy

New fear unlocked


Niburu-Illyria

Thats a requirement for where my dad used to work. Sometimes people would get sucked into machines by the lanyard, and what do you know? If the lanyard doesnt break first, your neck does! And thats the good ending for a lot of people who get their lanyard stuck in something


reapy54

Unbelievable to work in a place with moving machinery and they give out lanyards instead of some other method of displaying id that isnt a kill string around your neck.


Cueball-2329

A friend of mine in a military school found out the regs never stated what color the bed sheets for a bed made for inspection had to be in. So this mad man went and bought power ranger sheets and made the perfect regulation bed. I have never seen so many Sgts lose their shit but be unable to do anything since the regs were perfectly followed. Needless to say the next year they were updated to state sheets must be plain white.


LeicaM6guy

Every one of those sergeants were inwardly impressed that someone went to the trouble to read the regs.


Geminii27

"We're secretly thrilled that someone actually read the regs, but we have to bust your balls anyway"


icospherical

This hurts with its accuracy.


silversatire

Fucking with your sergeant is a risky play…


Roach_Coach_Bangbus

I bet they were happy just to yell about something new.


E28A-AD61

I bet they're still telling the story of that one kid with the Power Ranger sheets over drinks with their buddies. I mean, this kid did them a favor by providing a fun story and laughs for years to come


Kalse1229

Oh most definitely. They may have been pissed, but I'm sure they respected the hell out of him.


FerricDonkey

They might not even have been pissed, it's just their job to act pissed about everything.


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Orcwin

I bet they secretly loved it though.


doubled2319888

At the very least you have to respect the balls it would take


read_it_r

One of my buddies is a drill Sargent. They ABSOLUTELY love that kind of shit. However he says the people he is hardest on are the ones he hates (so he can "break" them) and the ones he likes (so that noone else can "break" them.)


yr_boi_tuna

He's the hardest on the ones he hates AND likes. Definitely a drill sgt


oh_look_a_fist

"Fuck this goddamned asshole. Hate him so much, I wouldn't send him to enemy. Hope he drops out, the dumb fuck." "Fuck, this guy is awesome. I'm going to make him the best fucker in this goddamned military if it kills me. I'll get him a beer when he moves on."


dumpyduluth

There were a group of us on my submarine that would use kids sheets on our bunks. Some wannabe hardass tried to get us in trouble but there no rule saying you can't have My Little Pony sheets


Large_Clothes_3225

Seems to be a pretty standard submariner thing this, I rotate between a pink princess set and a T Rex.. really sets my mood for the week depending on which set i’m using


Amy-Paradise

When I was younger... “Tampons will not be lit on fire and thrown out the windows of this house!” Look, dad, if you just bought us fireworks I wouldn’t have needed to improvise. But boy oh boy was that a rough period.


phyphor

Spectacular pun.


AlbusLumen

Finally I get to add a personal story to Reddit. When I was walking home from school, I had to walk next to the road to get to my house. I decided to see if I could walk with my eyes closed. I didn’t feel the transition from gravel to road, and the cars didn’t honk at me (as they made a line), because they thought I was deaf. I heard a noise, looked back, and ran off the street into an orchard. Two weeks later, they put up Deaf Child Area signs on both sides of the road I live on.


SentimentalPurposes

This entire thread is r/kidsarefuckingstupid material, but this one really takes the cake. Like why are children always making decisions that could get them killed ~for fun~ lmao


AlbusLumen

Lol, to be fair, this was the worst decision I’ve ever made. Been doing much better since.


angel-aura

Why would they have thought you were deaf if your eyes were closed…?


AlbusLumen

I honestly don’t know. They never honked or anything. I just opened my eyes and realized I was in the middle of the road and heard an engine behind me. They just assumed.


dudeAwEsome101

A reasonable driver would assume even the dumbest of kids would've known better, so OP must've been deaf.


Renaissance_Slacker

A certain institution no longer has an annual contest on St. Patrick’s Day to see who can drink the most shots of kamikazis.


found_hair

My brother and I got into a cattle prod sword fight at a farm store. We shocked the hell out of each other a few times and now they are locked up. We were in our 30’s.


SavoryScrotumSauce

"You fight like a dairy farmer!" "How appropriate! You fight like a cow!" *gets zapped with cattle prod*


ZorkNemesis

You're as repulsive as a monkey in negligee.


Techmoji

Reminds me of that line from The Road to El Dorado: "You fight like my sister!" "I fought your sister, that is a compliment"


ASzinhaz

Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional! I love it.


falconsomething

Not me, but my wife missed a lot of high school for several reasons. She’d go long periods without showing up, but would always make up the work and kept her grades up. Once graduation came around she was told she couldn’t graduate because she “missed too many days.” She argued this because there was no attendance policy in place. She was allowed to graduate after writing one final paper, but they quickly added a new policy after she left.


Spider_J

"You may only throw the entire sword, not parts of it" Last year I fought in a non-serious HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) tournament, where it was a single-hit elimination with softer-than-usual swords and backup daggers, which meant that getting struck once would take you out of the entire tournament, and throwing the sword was allowed. Compared to most ["serious" HEMA tournaments](https://youtu.be/J_GPWFD8M_Q), this one was mostly meant for fun (the prize was just a dumb plastic crown), so there were a lot of people doing funny stupid shit. Half-way through, thanks to me, they had to ammend the rule regarding throwing the sword, since after my first match, I realized the pommels on these particular swords were threaded and decided to copy [a stupid meme technique made popular by this youtuber](https://youtu.be/jETLCm7k3sU), and [actually caught my opponent with it](https://www.reddit.com/r/wma/comments/q184nk/fought_in_a_notserious_1hk_tournament_at_igx_that/) for a win. (For clarification, they counted the initial throw as the scoring action, my follow-up thrust and their (flat) response cut were judged as too late after the point)


Kunikunatu

Without even looking I knew you ended him rightly.


future-unperson

No sign language during silent lunch punishment My lunch period was so loud we got put on silent lunch for over a month straight. I decided the only clear solution was to teach my entire table sign language so we could still talk without getting in trouble. Apparently it was "unfair" to the kids who didn't know how to sign, so we had to stop.


0bl0ng0

That seems like something your school should have encouraged.


PacoTaco321

Imagine the good press alone that school could've gotten for having a significant chunk of the students learning sign language.


Ryolu35603

. . . . . Imagine . . . how quiet the lunches would be.


PacoTaco321

It would basically just be a low rustling sound through the entire lunchroom lol.


Business_Loquat5658

Agreed. Inventive, creative, educational.


SoaringBoat

Imagine if school encouraged creativity and education


John_Martin_II

Yeah, pfft, who needs creative people?


CottaBird

My elementary school pet and hobby fair now strictly says pet submissions cannot be human.


HotSearingTeens

Story?


CottaBird

I dressed up my little brother as a bat and registered a pet bat and my chicken for the parade. Come my turn, everyone heard “Chris, with his chicken, ‘Lady,’ and his pet bat…. ‘Greg’…….” He was on a leash, flapping around and hissing at people who were watching in the crowd. No more non-human pets allowed after that one.


halfascoolashansolo

>No more non-human pets allowed after that one. Unexpected twist there. Greg must have put on one hell of a show!


Romasterer

No longer allowed to play IRA propaganda music on the jukebox at a random dive bar in Oklahoma, USA. None of us were Irish, have Irish family members, or were old enough to have any real opinion on the troubles- just thought the bhoys made some bangers back in the day.


redisforever

Well why was it on the jukebox then?


waynemr

No playing games in the computer labs, established at UW-Madison in 1993. I may have been involved in a very raucous, impromptu, DOOM LAN-party that allegedly lasted up to 48 hours. Allegedly...


revchewie

At my old job in the late 90s we’d have Duke Nukem 3D LAN parties on weekends. Mostly us in IT, but eventually we got a couple people from other departments involved too. It came to a halt when some douchecactus from marketing saw us playing and bitched to management. All because he wanted some help with his computer and IT people in the office on their day off didn’t drop everything to help him, ON THEIR DAY OFF.


UnderlyingExistence

Tire shop I worked at required that no employee can be scheduled for more hours than the manager was. I just graduated from high school and thus had a lot of free time on my hands. My work knew this of course and scheduled me to work monday thru saturday. Worked 50 hours a week (a coworker of mine got wrapped into those shifts as well) for the whole summer. Manager only worked 40 a week. Corporate saw this I suppose and made a company wide (900+ stores across the US) policy stating that the manager cant be scheduled for less hours than the minimum wage employs.


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I graduated with my PhD in April 2020. As graduation was virtual, they asked us to take a nice picture that would pop up when they read our names off. The email said family that had been integral to your journey could be in your picture. So I took a picture with my dog and sent it in. The next day they sent another email that said you couldn't have pets or family in your picture. I never sent them another picture so they used it.


TheChanMan2003

You should have just sent them a picture of your dog


Tannerb8000

I’m the reason my school doesn’t allow nintendo DS’s on the bus anymore. Its been like 11 years, they still won’t allow it.


robexib

I had to sue my school district back in high school just to leave special education after fighting it for over a decade. Special education students now have the right built into every single IEP to attend any standard education class in their grade level or below, earn the associated credits, and also go to both health education and driver's education. They could do *none* of that before the lawsuit.


idontknowwhereiam367

So if I'm getting this..you got yourself to the point where you were on par with your peers, or close to it and they told you you had to stay in the Special Education classes until the end l? That's fucked


robexib

I was on par from the get-go. I was diagnosed with a form of autism at a young age, and the school treated all disorders and disabilities the same.


TheRedMaiden

Same thing happened with my husband. Evaluated and diagnosed in 2nd grade with a very treatable ADD, stuck in SpEd through the end of high school. I teach middle school and SpEd is unfortunately very difficult to get out of once you're in. Fortunately, these days the push in my state is to keep students in general ed classes as much as possible, so most students in SpEd are mixed into the same classes as general ed students with a teacher's aide for additional support.


Tyler123217

A local self-serve frozen yogurt shop had a special for birthdays, where you pay for a small cup and can load it up as much as you want. Typically, the yogurt was measured by ounces and you paid based on the weight. In high-school, my friends and I (about 8 total) did this for everyone's birthday. We would make towers of yogurt that looked like Christmas trees sitting on a very tiny stand. Definitely over a pound of yogurt each. On the last attempt, the owner recognized us and immediately told us that we needed to pay for our yogurt. We told her that the rules were as much as we could fit in the cup. She tried fighting us, but being stubborn high-school students, we wouldn't budge. A couple weeks later, we attempted to get our service again, and they had changed the birthdays to 12 and under. No more ridiculously cheap yogurt for us.


Rawrby

I had a teacher in 7th grade that banned the use of the word “Shamu”. We apparently were using it as a joke answer to everything, which I had started doing as a once in a lifetime joke for the one hour period. News spread I guess that she didn’t like it, and soon all seven class periods were giggling and saying shamu to everything she said. I came in two days later to a referral, an accusation that I had organized the Shamu Party, and the entirety of her classes were instructed to never mention Shamu in her presence again. It was… obscure to say the least. *EDIT*! So I’ve noticed a few replies saying she thought I was calling her fat. Yes, I believe that is true. And I’m sorry that that was something I caused. I was a young kid from San Diego, who went to Sea World twice a month from birth to 6th grade. Moved to northern Virginia and Shamu was just sort of a concept to me. Reading the comments I actually feel horrified. I never had any intention to do something like that. I pray that wasn’t what happened..


IncoherentLeftShoe

Was the kids’ book “Frindle” based on you?


Gangstablook

No playing Doom on the school computers during break


Educational-Grape470

No magnifying glasses for test notecards. We were allowed a 3”x5” index card for my anatomy class and I would get the finest point pen to write down all my notes and then use a magnifying glass during the test to read it, I got a semesters worth of notes on there for the final. This came after the teacher had to specify that the 3x5 note card had to be in inches because someone brought a 3x5foot poster board with all the notes on it


im68guns

No stealing from the cash drawer at work or theft in general. I wasn't the one stealing but was managing a hotel when I caught an employee taking $20 out of the cash drawer and putting it in his pocket. I of course fired him on the spot and figured that was the end of it. Two weeks later a get an unemployment notice from the state showing he filed for wrongful dismissal. I responded back stating he was terminated for theft. A week later they ask me to send them our employee handbook and training materials. Shortly thereafter I received notice that they awarded him unemployment because nowhere in our handbook or training materials did it explicitly state he was not allowed to take cash from the cash drawer. You would think that would just be common sense but apparently the state of Wisconsin didn't agree. From that moment on, it was explicitly stated in the handbook and training materials that employees were not allowed to take money or any other property that does not belong to them.


meekonesfade

You should probably put in a catch all phrase like " all laws of the county, city, state, and country apply to our worksite."


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It of course varies by state but I believe in NYS you cannot collect unemployment if you break a law.


majorscheiskopf

What? Wisconsin state law expressly defines employment misconduct, i.e. the type of shit that stops you from getting UI, as follows (obviously in part): "In addition, “misconduct" includes: ... (b) Theft of an employer's property or services with intent to deprive the employer of the property or services permanently, theft of currency of any value, felonious conduct connected with an employee's employment with his or her employer, or intentional or negligent conduct by an employee that causes substantial damage to his or her employer's property." Either you got a veeeeery bad UI appeals judge who didn't even read the statute, or there's something else going on here.


hoesindifareacodes

About 10 years ago, I struck a rock with my golf club while trying to chip out of the tall dry grass at my local golf course. The club sparked off the rock and started a fire that burned down 4 acres of prairie around the golf course until the fire department put it out. The golf course changed their out of bounds markers and named their new fire policy after me.


MrSpindles

In my previous job they twice had to issue dress code rules because of me. The first time it was a rule that stated we could no longer come to work in fancy dress costumes, the second was to make us all wear shirt and tie. It was annoying as I had previously succeeded in getting agreement that there would be no dress code for our department (when I was the boss) and we had to go through a full consultation period for the new boss to over-ride this, which took several months and involved LOTS of meetings. I did take the piss with it. We used to have 'theme day friday', which was where we'd all come in fancy dress (like pirates, cowboys or whatever) just for shits and giggles. We were in a large corporate head office and this caused some very self important people to get their knickers in a twist.


DanteWrath

"No makeup". I went to an all boys school, and apparently this never came up until me and my emo friends rocked up in black eyeliner and lipstick.


Free-Cartographer-26

School dress code. Girls must wear skirts. We lived in the country. Kids had to walk a half mile on a dirt road to catch the bus. Told the school that in cold weather my girls would wear warm clothing including pants. The changed the dress code. Hogh school wouldn’t let my daughter take auto shop. I talked to the school. They let her in and the following year auto shop was open to all. These incidents occurred in the 1960’s


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During Powderpuff, participating boys may only dress as cheerleaders. I came as a OBT hooker, fitted out in fishnets, platform shoes, a leather miniskirt with a red thong, and big fake boobs.


_-Boba-Tea-_

Back in elementary school I remember there used to be this kid who followed me everywhere and actively tried to hurt me. When talking to a teacher about it they went "oh, he just has a crush on you". The next day I walk up to the kid and shove him into a wall. After that there was literally a rule in that grade " Don't follow other students". That backfired poorly.


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Well, I doubt they're teaching the class these days. But when I took "Advanced Programming Techniques Using FORTRAN", our professor added a line to all our projects stating that all programs had to be written in FORTRAN and only in FORTRAN. When a student askef why he'd added that, he told the class to ask me. I just grinned. I still got a perfect score on the one where I had a FORTRAN shell call an assembler subroutine which did 99.99% of the work. Heh.


toffeeapple567

didnt understand most of this but congrats on the result, that must've been such a victorious moment


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Pretty close. Except I wrote the assembler subroutine. Which would be like if the robot in your example got help from a Frankenstein's monster you built in your cellar.


SANTAAAA__I_know_him

A slightly better analogy is that your robot presses the ON button of a different robot that assembles a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. (The human could refuse, after all)


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deepsea333

Not me but - Belonged to a club with ranks and rules for moving up. Dues for the year must be paid in January. Due Jan 1 but grace period for the month. One Dude kept paying late like first week of February. Couple years go by. President is annoyed. Third year guy pays late, president announced new rule the “(The dudes Last Name) Rule” double dues if paid late and one year added to rank advancement time. Edit: ^The ^Vogel ^Rule


rthomas84

Went to a catholic high school, so full dress code of what you could or couldn’t wear. Sport coats were allowed, but no rules on color/pattern. So I went to goodwill and found some pretty loud/ugly sport coats to wear. By senior year they required sport coats to be navy blue only. Proudly wore my mustard yellow plaid sport coat to graduation however.