Last Tuesday I watched our office manager spend 20 minutes unsticking a copier while everyone pretended not to notice. Turns out there's an unspoken policy that no one can leave the floor until the machine is running again, even if we're just waiting on nothing. Has anyone else worked somewhere with a weird unwritten rule like that?
While visiting my aunt at St. Mary's in Chicago, I noticed the janitor had a 20-item checklist that included wiping light switches twice but not once the door handles, so is that strict routine actually protecting patients or just padding someone's shift with pointless busywork?