Every company secretly (and often not so secretly) thinks that it’s the best thing since sliced bread and that people should be falling over each other to work there. But sometimes it goes too far.

Take Health IQ in the USA. According to this article , the company has office rules that make you laugh out loud. Let me summarise them for you:

And here is my favourite…and remember this is supposed to MAKE YOU WANT TO WORK FOR THEM…

This is unreasonable, because in Sydney, you would never make it home from work in time to go to the gym, eat anything more than peanut butter on toast and lose a screaming match with your three year old who refuses to sleep in her own bed before having to log back on to work. If you wanted to eat that healthy dinner they bang on about, you would have to forgo something else and you get in trouble if you don’t interact with the spawn of your loins.

Needless to say, the company became a bit of a joke on the internet and they had to reword a few rules to stop being mercilessly mocked, but I suspect they still promote these values behind the scenes, in those middle of the office treadmill meetings.

Go on, tell me what outrageous, funny or downright stupid office rules have you discovered in your job(s)?