@Lilienthal I have a friend who is allergic to choco and her son keeps buying her choco Pudding because she starts sounding funny when she eats

People are crazy

Really curios where they work though

Every time I think I've found the craziest workplace story I'll ever read, I'm usually wrong. Case in point: my team is super into tarot cards, the Secret, and sharing our personal “visions”

WOW, thats even worse than the semi opional d&d play (atleast) once a month.

Can't seem to find the link :(

@Air You are probeply right, but then again are you going to have so many records that it will end up there? if so you probeply want something else than Excel ^^

@Lilienthal I'm old and jaded enough to assume anything couldn't be real. I've had my bathroom time monitored, been accused of faking a broken foot, seen employee theft at a massive scale, had work stolen, and read employee handbooks that were just slightly less complicated than the rules for dragon poker.

I've known companies in Utah that would have mandatory employee prayer meetings, an employer who left a man out in the hot sun for 8 hours without water and removed air conditioners from trucks so the men wouldn't have a place to cool down. NOTHING surprises me any longer

Oh, I once had a manager insist that the team play tug-of-war as a "team building" exercise. I mean the literal tug-of-war, with a rope and all, not the figurative one, which was ... uhm, business as usual.

@RichardU Three cheers for the employee protection laws of this Socio-Communist hellscape I live in then. :)

I only realised that a related question and half-duplicate was asked before when it got an upvote on my own answer there. I swear my memory has just gone.

@Lilienthal It wouldn't be so bad here if we didn't have the government propping up horrid companies because they are "too big to fail". The proper fate of employers who abuse their employees is ignominious failure

@RichardU Bailouts and judicial indifference for those companies aren't that related to employment abuses though.

Larger companies typically have decent HR departments who prevent outrageous situations like this from happening.

Even if it isn't illegal, it can cause huge morale/ethics/reputation problems after all.

@Lilienthal You'd be surprised. The one that monitored the bathroom activities is a HUGE company, so huge that if I named the field, there'd only be 2 or three companies to guess at.

I worked the financials for years. Let's just say that the ones that got the bailouts SHOULD have failed, and they were VERY abusive to their employees.

but if they know the gvt will step in and bail them out, they continue to be abusive

@RichardU Dollars to doughnuts: the bathroom one was a call centre or something similar? :)

^Consider it a side-effect of reading a US-based workplace blog. ;)

@Lilienthal the bathroom one was actually a developer position. They were just insane. The company had been bought out and people with 15 even 20+ years were quitting.

I should have followed suit

@RichardU Yeah, if they're tracking bathroom time the culture has gone so far off the deep end I wouldn't even bother.