Sometimes, sticking to the rules is the best way to prove a point.

This man was tasked with inspecting trains in a busy railyard.

Part of the safety protocol was to constantly update the control office about the trains they were working on.

While using the mobile app was much faster when updating via phone, the new personnel prohibited them from using the app.

Instead of complaining about it, the workers decided to get even.

Read the story below to find out more.

Want us to call in? Sure!

I work on the railway, and I was assigned to a project to check all incoming trains to the railyard during specific times.

Now, for safety reasons of everyone involved, we need to tell the area control office when we are fiddling with a train in case someone else is doing work on it.

Bad times if we engage the brakes while someone is working on them, for example.

This man and his coworkers were instructed to call in when they needed to check a train.

We get told that we should call in when we start checking a train and once when we are done.

So far, so good.

The control office, however, was not prepared for how many trains we were gonna check.

We were a handful of people, calling in twice for every train. A lot of calls, basically, but it worked.

Then, they were asked to use the railyard’s mobile app.

Day 2, however, we got new orders.

We are to use the railyard’s own mobile app, where they make a list of all the trains we check, and we just check in and out of the app.

This was super good for us since we can see if anyone else has entered and was working on a train in the app.

But the new personnel clarified that they didn’t have time to enter all details into the app.

It was super good for everyone involved!

Well, that is until day 3, when we left our list of trains for the day at the office.

New personnel proclaimed that they certainly did not have time to enter that whole list of trains into the app.

Fair enough, we know we are a drain on their resources, and tell them that’s fine. We will just call in when we start working on a train.

So, they went back to calling in for the trains they would check.

Now, we could sometimes call in and say, “I’ll be working on train XX, then YY, and later ZZ.”

They would just check us into all of them since the trains just sit there most of the time, especially, if they are not being shunted or repaired.

We could work around cleaners and other personnel safely.

The control office started noticing what they were doing.

But not now.

Now, we call separately for the start and finish of each train.

You can hear the control office people started figuring it out.

They complained to our project manager, who basically said that we were clear to just phone in according to the rules.

Using the app is obviously much faster and more efficient.

It took half the shift before the message came in that all the trains were in the app. Just use the app for all of it.

Apparently, it was faster to just enter our list than taking oh-so-many calls for something rather trivial in the grand scheme of things.

Entering the trains in the app may be time consuming, but it’s quicker than taking all of those phone calls!

Let’s check out the comments of other people on Reddit to this story.

Here’s the simplest and most accurate description for it.

This user shares their personal thoughts.

LOL. Makes sense, right?

Finally, this person got inspired to sing.

Play petty games, win petty prizes!

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