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Strange Company rules and manipulations
langwadt:
--- Quote from: EEEnthusiast on September 19, 2019, 12:44:28 pm ---Just opening a new thread to discuss strange company rules and various techniques used by companies to manipulate employees (engineers who are actually working).
Strange rule on sexual harassment
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In one company I worked, there was a set of rules on sexual harassment as was needed by law. It had many clauses like, employees should not indulge in pornography and sexual acts while at office and so on.... One strange clause was "Indecent exposure of body parts". I could never understand what is the difference between a "decent exposure" and "indecent exposure". So I asked the HR lady to explain what length of a skirt worn by some lady would contribute to "indecent exposure". Or how many inches below the waist line can a guy wear his jeans? Does the company have a minimum length criteria? For unknown reasons, the email was never replied and I'm still in the dark about this rule.
Have you come across any such rules or any other manipulation methods?
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what were you trying to accomplish by asking such silly questions?
FreddieChopin:
--- Quote from: langwadt on September 19, 2019, 05:45:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: EEEnthusiast on September 19, 2019, 12:44:28 pm ---Just opening a new thread to discuss strange company rules and various techniques used by companies to manipulate employees (engineers who are actually working).
Strange rule on sexual harassment
=========================
In one company I worked, there was a set of rules on sexual harassment as was needed by law. It had many clauses like, employees should not indulge in pornography and sexual acts while at office and so on.... One strange clause was "Indecent exposure of body parts". I could never understand what is the difference between a "decent exposure" and "indecent exposure". So I asked the HR lady to explain what length of a skirt worn by some lady would contribute to "indecent exposure". Or how many inches below the waist line can a guy wear his jeans? Does the company have a minimum length criteria? For unknown reasons, the email was never replied and I'm still in the dark about this rule.
Have you come across any such rules or any other manipulation methods?
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what were you trying to accomplish by asking such silly questions?
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Sometimes its not about accomplishing anything but just pissing off people for the fun of it. Chaotic neutrals will understand.
SiliconWizard:
Strange and ill-defined rules are the best for those that enforce them. They get to decide how the rules are applied if it ever comes up.
Of course you will never get any answer. They didn't answer not just because they thought it was silly of you to ask. Answering that in a clear fashion would COMMIT them to clear criterions, something they will never want to do. Especially for something as subjective as "indecent".
Brutte:
One of my former corporations had an official regulation that we were not allowed to archive any emails that "could be of any value to government authorities" in case of a potential investigation and litigation. The limit was set to 3 months, older emails were wiped out.
I suppose all corporations have these rules.
tooki:
There’s the old adage that rules are a history of all the stuff someone has done at some point...
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