What's a RULE that was Implemented somewhere, that EXTREMELY Backfired? - Reddit Podcast

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  @amithegenius · 3 years ago · pinned

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  @yasmin7903 · 3 years ago

  The Grenada-Barbados story: I mean, by this point Barbados deserved to win. Managing to defend both goals at the same time? Wow!

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  @anakaliaeastwood · 3 years ago

  &quot;No overtime without approval.&quot; I worked for a program serving people with mental health and/or substance use challenges. The employees who were paid the least (which included myself) were expected to stay after hours and to call the police of folks did not leave the property while the managers went home a little before 5pm. After nearly 2 months of doing this, I decided not to clock out until I confirmed that nobody was on the property. One day, this netted me thirty minutes of overtime. The next day, I was yelled at and told very loudly, &quot;You do NOT do overtime without approval from a manager.&quot; That means I was supposed to clock out, check the property, and go back inside (without clocking in) to call a manager, get (or not get) approval, and clock back in ONLY with said approval. This is what they told me. The next day, I clocked out promptly at 5 and went home. There were two clients on the property when I left. That night, the building was broken into and several things were stolen. I was called into my manager&apos;s office and asked if anyone was on the property when I left. I said yes. Manager asked me why on EARTH I left without clearing the property. I said, &quot;Well, I realized that in order to check the property and call a manager for approval, I must stay past 5pm. Anything after 5pm is overtime. I would technically be staying for overtime without manager approval, since I am required by law to be paid for my time.&quot; They changed the policy the next day.

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  @horngeek9115 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I’m halfway through, but my favourite example of this is the cause of a dynasty-toppling rebellion in Chinese history.<br><br>“What is the penalty for rebellion?”<br>“Death.”<br>“And what is the penalty for lateness?”<br>“Death.”<br>“Gentlemen. &nbsp;We are late.&quot;<br><br>EDIT: IIRC, the lateness was to a battle against an already-ongoing peasant revolt.

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  @kristineguetschow9134 · 3 years ago

  My dad and uncle had just completed their tours of duty (WWII) in the military and were adjusting to life back in the US. The only jobs available to them was peeling poplar, which involved peeling the bark off of poplar trees to be used for building, etc. At the end of the first week, the company truck dropped all the workers off downtown, and dad and uncle started walking home. My uncle spies a movie house, and a new feature in the theater was air conditioning. Cool air sounded heavenly to the guys, and even though sweaty and dirty, they decided to go on in and watch the movie in cool comfort. It would be dark in the theater so they didn’t worry about being seen in their bedraggled work clothes. The movie had already been running a good bit when two ladies came in wearing huge hats and sat in front of the guys. There were other available seats open, but they chose to sit in front of these two guys. Uncle politely asked if they would remove their hats so dad and uncle could watch the movie. The ladies refused to remove their hats or to move down a couple seats so as not to block the view of the film. The women declined. So dad and uncle remained sitting where they were and began plucking wood ticks they found on their clothing off and placing them on the ladies’ hats. They didn’t see the movie, but enjoyed watching the wood ticks crawl all over the ladies’ hats. The ladies never found any of the wood ticks while they were in the theater. Dad and uncle had a great time and enjoyed the AC.

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  @GodofToast · 3 years ago

  What I like about this channel is that the thumbnails aren’t oversexualised and are… y’know… normal

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  @HardlyBardly · 3 years ago

  Reminds me of a banned book report I did back in high school. &nbsp;I got Silas Marner - which I had read before, so I was very curious as to why it got banned. &nbsp;As it turned out, nobody in this one school district wanted to read it because they assumed it was just a dry old classic - UNTIL the school board banned it as an attempt at reverse psychology. &nbsp;Every student that had previously had a class assigned with that book to read got a copy to read. &nbsp;The English department head at the time said, “it was the only way to get students to read the damned thing…within weeks of banning it, every last one of [them] knew it by heart.”

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  @Kpracn0va · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXFcmR8soYA&amp;t=1044">17:24</a> my school didn’t ban Harry Potter, despite Parents arguing, and explained the underlying Christian narrative and basically said “Harry Potter is Jesus &amp; Voldemort is the devil, because he’s a snake”

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  @ericb3157 · 3 years ago

  this always makes me think of a story i read about in two sources: &quot;the Bug Black Market&quot;.<br>a company decided to give programmers bonuses for every &quot;bug&quot; they found.<br>so, OF COURSE, the programmers started deliberately putting IN lots of bugs.<br>that ended after only THREE days.

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  @azerkahn · 3 years ago

  If banning a book makes everyone want to read it, would then a public service announcement stating the official support for a book be the best way for a government to silence it?

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  @KenshiImmortalWolf · 3 years ago

  shows you how old the actual post is that they say tumblr would only have 1 blog on it after banning the &apos;adult content&apos; as tumblr while it suffered a large shrink in the wake of the ban, is still going pretty strong and there are even a number of &apos;tumblr funny men&apos; on youtube still that have plenty of new content to go around.

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  @buttercup-b4d · 3 years ago

  The &apos;Harry Potter&apos; &nbsp;ban is much like I imagine. &nbsp;When I read about a head-teacher banning the books, I wondered if she was as stupid as some people suggested. &nbsp;I imagined groups of kids &nbsp;gathering in the bike shed for illicit readings - rather than smoking.

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