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<h2>Some rules are strictly enforced in a school or work setting because of a former incident involving safety, but sometimes a rule is so blatantly pointless that it fills everyone forced to follow it with extreme, unbridled rage...</h2><p>Shout out to the staff of my middle school who strongly enforced a rule for the cafeteria that meant every student had to raise their hand before walking to the trash or that there had to be complete silence for the last four minutes of lunch for no reason at all, but some rules are just objectively ridiculous. Dress codes that change depending on the wearer&#39;s body type, trying to understand the parking hours on city signs, or the entire process of getting off a plane--rules can often be a confusing nightmare of &quot;why&quot; and &quot;how.&quot; The sign at your local grocery store that says &quot;no swimming in the lobster tank,&quot; or the &quot;no rollerskating through the airport&quot; warning can make you wonder what went down before you walked in. Do you dare attempt to do something so rare but potentially dangerous that you create a new confusing rule or do you just blindly follow the &quot;no hats&quot; sign?</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/nkp6ah/whats_the_most_dumb_rule_youve_had_to_deal_with/">Reddit </a>user asked, &quot;What&#39;s the dumbest rule you&#39;ve had to deal with in your life?&quot; people were ready to share the silliest, most pointless rules they were forced to follow.</p><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>Every time I went to play in the woods, I had to spend a good chunk of time &quot;cleaning&quot; the woods, i.e. picking up twigs and leaves so the woods wouldn&#39;t look &quot;dirty&quot; - qxeenkhxleesi</p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>Had to wear an aerial harness to climb a 6&#39; ladder. - Irene1111</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>I had a teacher who if someone sneezed and you said bless you he would say only a priest can bless someone and if you do it again I&#39;ll write you up. - Chase185</p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I worked at Target, we had to refer to customers as &ldquo;guests&rdquo;. Not just when we were facing them, also in places like the break room. If a manager overheard someone use the term &ldquo;customer&rdquo;, they would usually say something like &ldquo;did you just say the c-word?!&rdquo; - IAmNotScottBakula</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>No elbows on the table. You&rsquo;d get a pink slip at lunch. - ExcellentCattle602</p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>I worked at Pizza Hut for awhile. We got an order for 5 pepperoni pizzas. So I laid out 5 discs of dough, stretched them all, then sauced them all... you know, the most efficient way to do it. The manager came over, and said I was doing it wrong, that I had to make each pizza start to finish, place it in the oven, then make the next one. I told him he was an idiot and kept doing it the efficient way. GM came in later and totally had my back. Christ that&#39;s a pathetic victory. - feigneddistant</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>Back in school there was a zero tolerance bullying policy. Basically means &quot;we can&#39;t be bothered actually investigating the incident, so we just punish all parties involved&quot;.</p> <p>I got jumped and was held back after class along with the guy who jumped me as punishment for...being...beaten up? - Je_me_rends</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>Someone kept drawing on the bathroom stalls in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade bathrooms. Until they were caught we had to go to the bathroom with a buddy and only two people in the bathroom at a time - Bruhboi311</p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was building a theater set in high school, as a slacking senior taking a shop class, and wearing my hard hat. I left the theater to use the bathroom and a random teacher stopped me for breaking the no hats in school rule. She escorted me back to the theater and told my shop teacher he should write me up for my infraction.</p> <p>He told her to get off the set because she wasn&#39;t wearing a hard hat as required by safety rules.- ThadisJones</p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was working in editorial our publisher decided to become a &lsquo;Green&rsquo; company. Every email we sent out would have a footer that had a picture of a tree and said something like &ldquo;save the trees don&rsquo;t print if you don&rsquo;t have to&rdquo; on it. Except that my job required me to have credit information (from companies of the products we shot) printed out and given to the copy editors for fact checking, so every single credit request email would print an extra page per email reply with just the footer on it. They wouldn&rsquo;t let us take that stupid thing off the emails. I would have over 400+ emails with 400+ extra pages printed per issue. - theWildBore</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>My school enforced a &quot;no running on the playground&quot; rule because a kid fell over and broke his leg - strawberrylynx</p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>I worked in IT for a company that had its server room in a building owned by a different company. Because I was classed as &quot;third party&quot; by this other company, every time I needed to enter this server room there was a rule that I had to watch a 20 minute long safety video before being allowed to enter. It was maddening to have to watch this 20 minute video just to enter the room for 10 seconds, press a power button, then leave.</p> <p>I left this job in 2010, I messaged an ex colleague who worked there for a few years after and they did finally scrap this rule a year or so after I left. - BeverageBeast</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was in the military for 6 years and by far the dumbest rule was that you would get issued all of this really nice cold weather gear that would keep you nice and warm even in the coldest weather... yet we weren&#39;t allowed to wear any of it. When we went to the field we would still have to pack all this sh*t, but then it would just stay in your ruck while you froze your nuts off because we all had to be in the same uniform. - agill_iam</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>At a previous job, I was instructed not to keep any document or email for longer than six months, and that my computer would be audited to ensure compliance. This included program source code. I was a programmer. - ascensionpurr</p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>In middle school we weren&rsquo;t allowed to talk between classes. - duckdystopia</p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>In 5th grade, my friend and I were walking through the mostly empty school to get to our bus at the end of the day. A teacher was walking in the opposite direction towards us, and yelled at us to walk in a line. So we made a line, just the two of us, and walked like that to our bus. - slaterepair</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

16 people share the dumbest rules that their school or work actually enforced.

Some rules are strictly enforced in a school or work setting because of a former incident involving safety, but sometimes a rule is so blatantly pointless that it fills everyone forced to follow it with extreme, unbridled rage...Shout out to the staff of my middle school who strongly enforced a rule for the cafeteria that meant every student had to raise their hand before walking to the trash or that there had to be complete silence for the last four minutes of lunch for no reason at all, but some rules are just objectively ridiculous. Dress codes that change depending on the wearer&#39;s body type, trying to understand the parking hours on city signs, or the entire process of getting off a plane--rules can often be a confusing nightmare of &quot;why&quot; and &quot;how.&quot; The sign at your local grocery store that says &quot;no swimming in the lobster tank,&quot; or the &quot;no rollerskating through the airport&quot; warning can make you wonder what went down before you walked in. Do you dare attempt to do something so rare but potentially dangerous that you create a new confusing rule or do you just blindly follow the &quot;no hats&quot; sign?So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;What&#39;s the dumbest rule you&#39;ve had to deal with in your life?&quot; people were ready to share the silliest, most pointless rules they were forced to follow.1. Every time I went to play in the woods, I had to spend a good chunk of time &quot;cleaning&quot; the woods, i.e. picking up twigs and leaves so the woods wouldn&#39;t look &quot;dirty&quot; - qxeenkhxleesi 2. Had to wear an aerial harness to climb a 6&#39; ladder. - Irene1111 3. I had a teacher who if someone sneezed and you said bless you he would say only a priest can bless someone and if you do it again I&#39;ll write you up. - Chase185 4. When I worked at Target, we had to refer to customers as &ldquo;guests&rdquo;. Not just when we were facing them, also in places like the break room. If a manager overheard someone use the term &ldquo;customer&rdquo;, they would usually say something like &ldquo;did you just say the c-word?!&rdquo; - IAmNotScottBakula 5. No elbows on the table. You&rsquo;d get a pink slip at lunch. - ExcellentCattle602 6. I worked at Pizza Hut for awhile. We got an order for 5 pepperoni pizzas. So I laid out 5 discs of dough, stretched them all, then sauced them all... you know, the most efficient way to do it. The manager came over, and said I was doing it wrong, that I had to make each pizza start to finish, place it in the oven, then make the next one. I told him he was an idiot and kept doing it the efficient way. GM came in later and totally had my back. Christ that&#39;s a pathetic victory. - feigneddistant 7. Back in school there was a zero tolerance bullying policy. Basically means &quot;we can&#39;t be bothered actually investigating the incident, so we just punish all parties involved&quot;. I got jumped and was held back after class along with the guy who jumped me as punishment for...being...beaten up? - Je_me_rends 8. Someone kept drawing on the bathroom stalls in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade bathrooms. Until they were caught we had to go to the bathroom with a buddy and only two people in the bathroom at a time - Bruhboi311 9. I was building a theater set in high school, as a slacking senior taking a shop class, and wearing my hard hat. I left the theater to use the bathroom and a random teacher stopped me for breaking the no hats in school rule. She escorted me back to the theater and told my shop teacher he should write me up for my infraction. He told her to get off the set because she wasn&#39;t wearing a hard hat as required by safety rules.- ThadisJones 10. When I was working in editorial our publisher decided to become a &lsquo;Green&rsquo; company. Every email we sent out would have a footer that had a picture of a tree and said something like &ldquo;save the trees don&rsquo;t print if you don&rsquo;t have to&rdquo; on it. Except that my job required me to have credit information (from companies of the products we shot) printed out and given to the copy editors for fact checking, so every single credit request email would print an extra page per email reply with just the footer on it. They wouldn&rsquo;t let us take that stupid thing off the emails. I would have over 400+ emails with 400+ extra pages printed per issue. - theWildBore 11. My school enforced a &quot;no running on the playground&quot; rule because a kid fell over and broke his leg - strawberrylynx 12. I worked in IT for a company that had its server room in a building owned by a different company. Because I was classed as &quot;third party&quot; by this other company, every time I needed to enter this server room there was a rule that I had to watch a 20 minute long safety video before being allowed to enter. It was maddening to have to watch this 20 minute video just to enter the room for 10 seconds, press a power button, then leave. I left this job in 2010, I messaged an ex colleague who worked there for a few years after and they did finally scrap this rule a year or so after I left. - BeverageBeast 13. I was in the military for 6 years and by far the dumbest rule was that you would get issued all of this really nice cold weather gear that would keep you nice and warm even in the coldest weather... yet we weren&#39;t allowed to wear any of it. When we went to the field we would still have to pack all this sh*t, but then it would just stay in your ruck while you froze your nuts off because we all had to be in the same uniform. - agill_iam 14. At a previous job, I was instructed not to keep any document or email for longer than six months, and that my computer would be audited to ensure compliance. This included program source code. I was a programmer. - ascensionpurr 15. In middle school we weren&rsquo;t allowed to talk between classes. - duckdystopia 16. In 5th grade, my friend and I were walking through the mostly empty school to get to our bus at the end of the day. A teacher was walking in the opposite direction towards us, and yelled at us to walk in a line. So we made a line, just the two of us, and walked like that to our bus. - slaterepair 

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