Through the years, we’ve heard about individuals who selected some fairly odd hills to die on — individuals who grew to become so strongly dedicated to a minor combat that they misplaced all sight of logic and decorum. To wit:
“Our break room has an enormous whiteboard calendar in it. Final 12 months the corporate despatched us a brand new one and requested us to start out utilizing it on the first of this 12 months. Not likely positive why … the opposite was completely usable and there was no differing data on it, however hey, no matter! The brand new calendar is barely smaller than the earlier one – as within the earlier calendar was 36×48 inches and the brand new one is 32×44 inches. The girl who updates this calendar was FURIOUS about this modification. Oh the marketing campaign this girl has waged to get the outdated calendar again – she sends emails, complains to each single worker not less than as soon as a day, has began excursions of our department within the break room (she factors to the board and proclaims ‘that is the piece of crap calendar they count on us to make use of’), and holds that fury in her coronary heart. Lately a number of massive wigs within the firm had been visiting and she or he began her tour as normal after which she paused as if anticipating them to agree together with her. They didn’t, she sighed closely and moved on together with her tour. Earlier than they left she made positive to ship them again to the house workplace with an inventory outlining why the brand new calendar sucks. You understand they only crumpled that crap up right into a ball the second they acquired into the automotive.”
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“Once I began an workplace IT job, certainly one of my first assignments was to scrub up and replace everybody’s computer systems. The primary time I labored with this one coworker’s pc, it was an entire mess. He had some form of add on for IE that added a little bit animated Olaf (from the film Frozen) that will dance round and sometimes have animated snowflakes fall down the display. Evidently, it slowed his pc to a crawl, and he was at all times complaining about how sluggish his pc was. So, amongst basic scans and cleanup, I eliminated the add on. He was LIVID. Went to my boss, to HR, to the top boss, as a result of his animated dancing snowman that tousled his pc was gone. Phrases like ‘she has no proper’ and ‘how dare she’ had been thrown round. He made a giant present of downloading another hideous animated nav bar add on as an alternative, and saved making an attempt to flaunt it at any time when I used to be close by.”
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“Upon being instructed that it was now obligatory to put on your badge on a lanyard (no, not a clip, not in your belt, it needed to be a lanyard), one girl utterly misplaced it. She stood up (this was a gathering) and ranted about how lanyards had been UGLY and so they RUINED her outfits and WHY OH WHY was this a rule as a result of EVERYONE hated it (no, the remainder of us had been wonderful) and so forth. She in contrast it to ‘papers, please’ and the way this was the slippery slope that will result in robotic staff and oh there was a lot extra however I can’t keep in mind all of it. Over the subsequent few weeks she tried sporting her lanyard inside her shirt (no, the purpose is that the badge is seen) and claiming she simply forgot till she acquired written up… and SHE QUIT. Effectively, took early retirement, however nonetheless.”
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“Once I labored at a Scout camp, we’d normally get two shirts every summer time particular to the 12 months: a polo shirt in that summer time’s shade, and a t-shirt itemizing what space of the camp you labored in. For years we wore the polo shirts on Mondays and the realm shirts on Wednesdays, when households came around. Then one 12 months administration determined we should always swap that, so campers might see who labored the place firstly of the week and we’d all look good and fancy when Mother and Dad confirmed up.
There was a minor rebellion. Yelling arguments. Flat refusal to cooperate. We had employees for YEARS after the change who would put on the incorrect shirt and say “oh — you didn’t inform me we had been doing it totally different this week from how we’ve at all times carried out it.” We had employees members going as far as to hold two shirts with all of them day Monday and Wednesday so they may placed on the right shirt when administration was round, then change again to the opposite shirt when no person was trying. Among the worst offenders had been our outdated retired guys (who’re like gold, it’s onerous to search out adults to work at summer time camp, in order that they weren’t disciplined over minor shirt disobedience) and carried the torch for his or her most well-liked shirt rotation for a literal decade after the change.”
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Within the remark part, let’s focus on the weirdest hills to die on you’ve ever seen at work.
