This story reminds me of something an old boss once said to me…

I was walking around the office carrying a large mug of iced coffee and, for some reason, she totally lost it on me.

It was a place where the public would come in occasionally and she thought it set a bad example and signaled to regular folks that they could carry drinks around the building.

I told her that was fine and it wouldn’t happen again, but I’m not sure why an international incident needed to made about it.

Good grief!

Check out what this worker had to say about a boss who gave her a strange directive…about her can of Diet Coke.

My boss told me to hide my can of Diet Coke in my coffee mug.

“I work in IT as help desk for a fairly large organization.

Our set up is that we have a shared office, with a service desk out the front. Person walks up needing help, we walk out and assist, then we walk back in.

My former boss decided that we needed to be out at the service desk all the time, even when nobody was around. Stupid rule, but whatever.

One day I had a can of Diet Coke with lunch, and took it out to the desk with me to finish it off.

What…?

My boss didn’t like that.

She told me that children might see the can and be tempted to walk to the supermarket across the road and get their own sugary drink, which would be bad for them.

Her solution was for me to put the can in my coffee mug.

Not “empty the contents of the can into the mug”, but “place the can inside the cup”.

Sure…

The can was taller than the mug, so it stuck out like a sore thumb, but that was the solution she was happy with.

She had lots of other dumb rules, like insisting we clean our own area (e.g. wipe down tables etc.) even though we paid cleaners to do those exact things in the rest of the building.

I was so happy when a restructure meant she was no longer my boss.”

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Well, that was time well spent!

Doesn’t the boss have anything better to do?

Apparently not!

Some bosses are really great at wasting time on dumb issues…