Surviving the Workday

Today’s theme: Stupid Workplace Policies

Please vote for whichever one you think is the stupidest.

1. A lunch lady is suspended because she allowed children to substitute something else in the place of veggie burgers.
-School’s position: The parents pre-order lunches for their children and we have no right to override that.
-Lunch Lady’s position: They delivered veggie burgers instead of grilled cheese, so the kids already weren’t getting what the parents ordered.
-Holly’s position: I loves me a good veggie burger, but a bad one is life-scarring. And I can’t imagine that school veggie burgers are all that tasty. I’m torn.

2.  A man was finally found unconscious after an eleven hour search that was hampered by Verizon refusing to turn back on his cell phone service for a trace, until the $20 owed on the account was paid.
-Verizon’s position: Unknown, but I’m guessing that a supervisor wasn’t involved, and even if they were they are basically told don’t break policy or you get fired.
-The police’s position: Turn on the frigging phone for ten minutes, already. Assholes.
-Holly’s position: What Sheriff Williams said. Assholes. But I don’t blame the poor phone rep.

3. A breastfeeding mother was told she would have to stop, due to no food or drink allowed by the pools.
-The pool’s position: Um ooops. We sorry. We’ll re-educate.
-The mom’s position: Good.
-Holly’s position: Yeah, good. (I’m guessing it was a teenager.)

4. A man is suing the NOPD for threatening to arrest him when he wore a skirt to court instead of pants.
-NOPD’s position: No comment.
-Skirt-wearer’s position: “I am a heterosexual male of Scottish ancestry” and you’re trampling my rights.
Holly’s position: As an avid skirt-wearer in the summer, and a former goth, I feel sorry for men who don’t/can’t wear skirts. Boys, the breeze is worth it.

5. An English town filled potholes only halfway, after carefully drawing a line down the center, so as not to fill the parts on private property.
-The town’s position: “If we had repaired the pothole on (private land) land we could have been liable should an incident subsequently have occurred.”
-The private citizens’ position: “The water is gathering in the other half of the holes, so surely that will ruin the part that has been fixed. What a waste of money.”
-Holly’s position: WTF is wrong with people?

Vote in the comments… And don’t let my positions influence you in any way…