Most pointless covid restrictions you’ve seen by an organisation or workplace?

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Cordoning off every other toilet and sink in an attempt to enforce social distancing...meaning people are clustered tightly in a queue, chatting for longer

@thisisnotwhatisignedupfor that’s just laugh out loud

Shopping a few weeks ago at a big shopping centre. Every other Changing room closed off in a few of the clothes shops. Meaning that we was all stuffed together queuing for a cubicle outside, instead of just being able to go straight in to our individual cubicles

Zara changing rooms - I had to hovver outside for my 10 year old to try on clothes and every time walk out to show me them even though it was completely empty and somehow later on friends were allowed to go in together but apparently "Covid regulations" mean that mums can't go in with their daughter.

A splash park near us is enclosed with a playground. When the water is on they have a capacity and a big queue of people gather to be let in. When the water is off they open the gates and it's a free for all.

In the pub. Have to be sat down to drink, I mean.... why?

Those people who stand at the front of shops squirting gel for you, who then block the entrance so you can't get past them whilst socially distancing.

At work, the one pen next to the signing in book, that's touched by everybody.

My local Waitrose stopped using their delicatessen counter since the beginning of the pandemic, despite it having a glass front and top, fair enough, it’s to stop the spread of Covid-19, but then why does the WR 15 miles away still have theirs up and running?

A bank insisting we use their special hand sanitizer rather than the tube I have in my pocket.

Got told off when 1 y/o DD who I was carrying lowered my mask to give me a kiss - we were outdoors at a garden centre and there was no one within at least 4m of us.

We then went into the indoor cafe, where we could of course take off our masks.

Logic has gone out of the window and the jobs worths are loving their rules.

Also at the cinema the other day there was a sign up saying only 4 in toilets. However you actually have no way of knowing how many are in the toilets unless you go in and count how many cubicles are in use. Also they only had 4 cubicles (in a aisle of about 20) open for use but you had to walk right down the aisle to find one that was vacant and then if they were in use you had to walk back out and wait outside. I mean why not just open more cubicles because it creates more traffic walking up and down trying to find an empty one. I went with my 5 yo who obviously needed the toilet about 9 times through the film and this was making me irrationally angry!!

@thisisnotwhatisignedupfor

My work has removed the kettle from our staffroom the fridge, microwave, vending machines and pool table have been allowed to stay but apparently the kettle is just too dangerous!

It was the microwave in ours! We still had the kettle, fridge and photocopier, and all the shared mugs and cutlery, but apparently the microwave was a step too far!

Got it back now, though.

Oh, and my local Sainsbury's still hasn't upended their café, not even for takeaway. I can go and sit in a cinema for two hours or a pub, but I can't get a takeaway coffee from Sainsbury's? I just don't understand it.

@ThisIsMeOrIsIt it’s because it has given a lot of people the ability to be lazy or irrational.

Local shopping centre has a 'strict' walk on the left rule, huge signs and bright arrows everywhere reminding you to walk on the left at all times.... but half the shops have the entry on the right 🤦‍♀️

Yes at the toilets! Needing X-ray vision and the ability to see around corners in order to obey the "do not enter if more than 4 people are present" signs.

At the dentist they have a raft of pointless measures including taking your temp when you arrive (so the receptionist has to get close to you), closing the toilets, making you put your coat and bag in a plastic box (presumably in case somebody feels compelled to lick them), forbid you from rinsing and spitting and yet.... the dentist sits within a few centimetres of your open mouth with only a surgical mask. I don't get it!

@majesticallyawkward

Local shopping centre has a 'strict' walk on the left rule, huge signs and bright arrows everywhere reminding you to walk on the left at all times.... but half the shops have the entry on the right 🤦‍♀️

Oh yes forgot this

Our outdoor shopping centre has it

Kids swimming lessons at a private pool. Changing rooms are all closed as well as all toilets apart from the men’s which everyone is using, needless to say they’re a bit rank. Everyone has to wear their costume to the pool and wear a wet one home. All good on a hot sunny day, not so much during the cold spring we’ve just had. Most are getting changed in the car park

Shopping centre near me. Three cash points, from last year the outside two have been off, leaving just the middle one, to help with SD. This now means there is a massive queue waiting to use the one cash point which is right where everyone walks by to get in and out.

@Lemons1571

The co-op. A slightly odd officious bloke directing people at the self service tills with commands such as “please step back one step and to the right two steps, as in 5 seconds I need to walk in front of you to reach the carrier bags”

The result is chaotic, with people all confused trying to get it right and bumping into each other, which starts conversations between them

We don’t need entertainment to open. Just go in the co-op and loiter by the meal deals to watch the fun unfold.

I wended my way to the till at the Co-op. I was the only customer in the shop. At the till I was told I had arrived there from the wrong direction so had to go back to where I started and do it again correctly. So I did, and in doing so had to pass the shelf-stacking manager twice more, with my germ ridden body.

At the dentists we have to put shoe covers on like the ones you wear at the swimming pool.

The Sainsbury thing with the cafe- wouldn’t be surprised if they never reopen.

They’ve closed their fish counters and deli counters and meat counters - saying you can get it pre packed on the aisles but you don’t have the same selection especially of fish.

They are now closing their patisserie counters.

I’ve been a loyal Sainsbury shopper for 20 years but have just signed up for an Ocado account.

One more...We recently went to out local Clip and climb. They’ve significantly reduced their staff numbers and due to covid are now heavily reliant on parents to clip their own children onto the ropes which effectively means there’s an even higher number of people milling around on the mats. I noticed a number of near misses during a two hour period. I’m surprised their public liability allows them to operate like that.

when asda closed off the phone charger aisle (wales) but kept the headphone aisle open so i could buy some new headphones to listen to my music but couldn't charge my phone to do so

Schools patents have to queue out side to collect one small gate that only allows one at a time through .Parents who wear the mask and queue get the children last as the vast majority rush to the small gate.
Local shopping centre has those arrows but building works mean the put way is covered.