Managers making decisions that just make workers’ lives harder is a tale as old as time. As just as often, legitimate pushback gets ignored unless the employee can provide some untenable bit of evidence.
But one drug-store manager shared their experience with an older worker who enlisted a doctor to one-up management. Due to a new rule, a 65-year-old employee with a medical condition was not allowed to have water at her workstation unless she had a doctor’s note, as that was the rule. So she decided to take things to the next level.
Upper management sometimes implements rules that go against basic medical logic
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An older worker who needed to drink water frequently had to get creative to circumvent a new rule
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Readers expressed their enjoyment of the doctor’s solution and even gave some suggestions
Others wanted some more details from OP
A few readers shared their own stories of dumb rules and how people got around them
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