i work for a big multinational and there was this woman who walks around with a little yappy thing. she's the only one and i haven't seen any rules about it in the employee handbook. i think she just turned up with it one day.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I've seen this kind of thing too many times to count. First it was in high school, then the workplace.

Person notices there is no explicit rule for a thing, or maybe there's a loophole somewhere
Does the thing
Annoys someone
Now there's a rule for the thing

Some people just want to push the envelope. Other times, people can have a poor grasp of social norms, or they simply don't respect others. But on the other side of the coin, people get annoyed for good and bad reasons; sometimes, no reason at all.

Bottom line: it's a mess, so we get rules. But nobody wants to spend time writing these things and enforcing them, so there's usually a reason/person/event why they're there.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah. But it's still rare to see "no unicycling" signs so the unicyclers need to get on that.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Those times you see an oddly specific and very weird rule and you just know there's probably a great story around it.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

The worst ones are safety rules: those are (sometimes) written in blood, with stories to match.