“Chris and Jan have damaged a Swiss regulation. What regulation is it?”
It is a query I exploit on a regular basis for an improv immediate. The viewers then suggests a regulation and the scene begins.
Now, whereas Switzerland has all the conventional legal guidelines about not stealing and never murdering and never rushing (they actually imply that final one–there are pace cameras EVERYWHERE), the viewers all the time picks the Swiss legal guidelines that we discover humorous. For instance:
🔴 No recycling on Sunday
🔴Rubbish can not exit till 7:00 PM the evening earlier than
🔴You need to shake fingers with everybody once you stroll right into a room. (There was a court docket case about this, by the way in which, involving a instructor and male college students who wouldn’t shake her hand.)
🔴Completely no crossing the highway towards the sunshine.
The scene is all the time hilarious and enjoyable to play.
However right here’s a little bit of a actuality chew. We make enjoyable of those “foolish guidelines” however they’re additionally the explanation individuals love dwelling right here.
Our streets are clear as a result of individuals deal with our rubbish. Folks can stay subsequent to the recycling assortment spots as a result of they aren’t disturbed in any respect hours of the evening and weekend by the clanking of bottles.
And I feel that is true about quite a lot of issues. The little issues that make a rustic or an organization enticing are the very issues that individuals say are foolish.
Take away the overly stiff guidelines and also you run the chance of dropping the very factor that made your organization an awesome place to work.
This isn’t me arguing that we must always put an previous Swiss girl with a cane answerable for each enterprise, permitting her to smack anybody that will get out of hand. However it’s me arguing that earlier than you do away with a coverage or follow, ask your self what that coverage or follow results in and say, “Are we able to lose this outcome?”
I can chortle concerning the overly inflexible guidelines of when you possibly can put your rubbish out, however I definitely don’t need to stay in a spot the place individuals put their rubbish out on a regular basis.
(The notes on these rubbish baggage say, “Please observe the designated occasions for placing out rubbish for assortment! Assortment days on this neighborhood: Monday and Thursday. Put out rubbish the night earlier than.)
