All company policies grow in the telling

Have you noticed how most company policies are just dreadful?

Those policies came in to being because someone, and it is usually just one person, did something that someone else didn’t like.

And so meetings were held.

Opinions were put forth. And a new company policy, writ in HR language so as not to offend, was created that now applies to all employees from that day forward.

The problem is, most of those policies are reactionary responses with ridiculous provisions designed to handle a situation precisely once.

A situation that is never likely to ever occur again.

And should you ever enquire, even as the CEO, to getting rid of even of those preposterous policies you will meet with stonewalled indifference and justification full of circular logic and the unassailable “we must be prepared for it happening again” silliness.