Mastodawn

For The Flip, I need to write both an employee handbook and a volunteer handbook. I need your stories of That One Guy.

My theory is that an awful lot of those manuals exist because of incidents where somebody did something stupid but not covered, so the boss rolled their eyes and said, "Ok, Terry, I'll write it down for next time."

So please give me your best dumbass-colleague stories. Think of them as handbook test cases. I'll open source the results!

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nick 4d ago

@williampietri It's not quite what you're asking but I moved into a little serviced office years ago, and in the contract was a clause about no drilling holes in the walls, and I asked if it'd be a problem to mount a whiteboard on the plaster wall and the agent said, no this is about *big* holes in the *exterior* walls and I was like what? who'd do that? and she showed me where someone had tried to run a 100mm or so diamond core drill into the structural reinforced concrete beam of this multistorey building ... apparently they'd wanted extra cooling and figured they could just DIY an exhaust port for a portable aircon on a Sunday and no-one would notice.

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William Pietri

@nickzoic Wow! I've just been going through this with our new landlord. So many of the clauses are from my perspective quite broad, but when I ask about them in practice it's all, "Oh sure you can do that, it's totally reasonable."