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!
@williampietri A little different, but the same principle. I rented an old house near campus with 3 friends junior year. The lease had rules like:
- No containers of water greater than 1 gallon
- No rollerblading in the kitchen
- DO NOT GO IN THE BASEMENT
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You just tweaked my memory of being maybe 11 or 12 or 13 and at the urging of a parent bringing my skateboard (which I was very bad at) to Bronte Creek Provincial Park to practice in the area outside the pool. The rest of the family were off at the farm or something.
Despite how fashionable skateboarding happened to be at the time I was, as mentioned, very bad at it so spent most of 45 minutes falling off my skateboard onto the concrete, usually catching myself with my feet or hands. (It was the 1980s and values around padding were different.)
The very next time we went to Bronte Creek there was a sign, in the same signage style as the rest of the park but absolutely brand shiny new, prohibiting skateboarding in the area. I felt at the time that my lack of skateboard skill was being singled out there.
(If you have noticed that this parent was urging me to practice skateboarding unpadded on concrete, yes, that's how things went at the time.)
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