“Do you have any rules in your house?”
I asked this question of the three-year-olds I teach in my Sunday School class. The lesson was the 10 commandments. Did the kids have rules? You betcha. Here are some of them:
No eating hairNo climbing on the tableEveryone goes potty before we leave the houseThese are all very good rules that you probably don’t have in your handbook. And all were undoubtedly made because of the child who shared the rule.
If you spot a weird rule in your employee handbook, it’s probably there for a very specific reason.
It would be super awesome if our handbooks could just be “do what’s right.” But we work with humans, and humans sometimes need very specific instructions.
What rule is in your handbook for a very specific reason? Or what rule do you have in your household that is specific to your family?