Through the years, we’ve heard about individuals who selected some fairly odd hills to die on — individuals who turned so strongly dedicated to a minor struggle that they misplaced all sight of logic and decorum. To wit:
“Our break room has an enormous whiteboard calendar in it. Final yr the corporate despatched us a brand new one and requested us to start out utilizing it on the first of this yr. Not likely certain why … the opposite was completely usable and there was no differing information on it, however hey, no matter! The brand new calendar is barely smaller than the earlier one – as within the earlier calendar was 36×48 inches and the brand new one is 32×44 inches. The girl who updates this calendar was FURIOUS about this variation. Oh the marketing campaign this lady has waged to get the previous calendar again – she sends emails, complains to each single worker not less than as soon as a day, has began excursions of our department within the break room (she factors to the board and broadcasts ‘that is the piece of crap calendar they count on us to make use of’), and holds that fury in her coronary heart. Just lately a couple of huge wigs within the firm had been visiting and he or she began her tour as traditional after which she paused as if anticipating them to agree together with her. They didn’t, she sighed closely and moved on together with her tour. Earlier than they left she made certain to ship them again to the house workplace with a listing outlining why the brand new calendar sucks. You realize they simply crumpled that crap up right into a ball the second they acquired into the automobile.”
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“After I began an workplace IT job, one in every of my first assignments was to wash up and replace everybody’s computer systems. The primary time I labored with this one coworker’s laptop, it was a whole mess. He had some form of add on for IE that added slightly animated Olaf (from the film Frozen) that may dance round and sometimes have animated snowflakes fall down the display screen. Evidently, it slowed his laptop to a crawl, and he was all the time complaining about how gradual his laptop was. So, amongst normal scans and cleanup, I eliminated the add on. He was LIVID. Went to my boss, to HR, to the pinnacle boss, as a result of his animated dancing snowman that tousled his laptop was gone. Phrases like ‘she has no proper’ and ‘how dare she’ had been thrown round. He made a giant present of downloading another hideous animated nav bar add on as an alternative, and saved attempting to flaunt it at any time when I used to be close by.”
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“Upon being informed that it was now necessary to put on your badge on a lanyard (no, not a clip, not in your belt, it needed to be a lanyard), one lady fully misplaced it. She stood up (this was a gathering) and ranted about how lanyards had been UGLY and so they RUINED her outfits and WHY OH WHY was this a rule as a result of EVERYONE hated it (no, the remainder of us had been high quality) and so forth. She in contrast it to ‘papers, please’ and the way this was the slippery slope that may result in robotic staff and oh there was a lot extra however I can’t bear in mind all of it. Over the following few weeks she tried sporting her lanyard inside her shirt (no, the purpose is that the badge is seen) and claiming she simply forgot till she acquired written up… and SHE QUIT. Effectively, took early retirement, however nonetheless.”
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“After I labored at a Scout camp, we might normally get two shirts every summer season particular to the yr: a polo shirt in that summer season’s shade, and a t-shirt itemizing what space of the camp you labored in. For years we wore the polo shirts on Mondays and the world shirts on Wednesdays, when households came around. Then one yr administration determined we must always swap that, so campers may see who labored the place at first of the week and we’d all look good and fancy when Mother and Dad confirmed up.
There was a minor rebellion. Yelling arguments. Flat refusal to cooperate. We had workers for YEARS after the change who would put on the flawed shirt and say “oh — you didn’t inform me we had been doing it completely different this week from how we’ve all the time achieved it.” We had workers members going as far as to hold two shirts with all of them day Monday and Wednesday so they might placed on the right shirt when administration was round, then change again to the opposite shirt when no person was trying. A number of the worst offenders had been our previous retired guys (who’re like gold, it’s onerous to seek out adults to work at summer season camp, so that they weren’t disciplined over minor shirt disobedience) and carried the torch for his or her most well-liked shirt rotation for a literal decade after the change.”
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Within the remark part, let’s focus on the weirdest hills to die on you’ve ever seen at work.