They Banned Hugging

• Zeo wrote on 2012-02-04 00:40
  Even if it was just a "friendly" hug, it still can give people the wrong idea. Most of the company do this, including school because they want to keep a clean reputation.
  
  Also... really... you guys are throwing "they're just single rest of their life" or "they're just jealous" excuses for banning hugs? No offense but that's a very pathetic reason to get mad at people who made up rules to ban huggings... .__. You guys aren't going to die with no hugs in the work place.
• Skye wrote on 2012-02-04 01:15

  Quote from Zeo;761638:

  Even if it was just a "friendly" hug, it still can give people the wrong idea. Most of the company do this, including school because they want to keep a clean reputation.
  
  Also... really... you guys are throwing "they're just single rest of their life" or "they're just jealous" excuses for banning hugs? No offense but that's a very pathetic reason to get mad at people who made up rules to ban huggings... .__. You guys aren't going to die with no hugs in the work place.

  
  
  Hugs are actually proven to make people happier or something like that.
  So people may very well die without hugs.
• Nithiel wrote on 2012-02-04 01:18
  Yeah.. I don't understand the big deal with this rule. Why do you and everyone you work with want to hug each other so bad?
• Phunkie wrote on 2012-02-04 01:33

  Quote from Skye;761675:

  Hugs are actually proven to make people happier or something like that.
  So people may very well die without hugs.

  
  
  :XD:
  
  You sound so scientific when you speak like that.
  
  
  

  Quote from Akemii;759592:

  okay im tired of ppl stereotyping.
  
  jsut cuz sum1 works at a bakrery does NOT maek dem happi ppl liek omg srsl Joel

  
  
  Sounds like you need a little bit of happiness in your life.
  
  Come apply to Magnolia.
• Kueh wrote on 2012-02-04 01:41

  Quote from Zeo;761638:

  Even if it was just a "friendly" hug, it still can give people the wrong idea. Most of the company do this, including school because they want to keep a clean reputation.
  
  Also... really... you guys are throwing "they're just single rest of their life" or "they're just jealous" excuses for banning hugs? No offense but that's a very pathetic reason to get mad at people who made up rules to ban huggings... .__. You guys aren't going to die with no hugs in the work place.

  
  
  But the other people aren't going to die having to see people hug either. You may think I'm pathetic as you like, but the fact remains that it wasn't so big a deal that one should complain to the point that hugs are banned.
  
  Besides, when you break it down, I'm still not as bad as the people who did the complaining.
  
  They: Thought down on others for something (hugging) > Let it bother them > Took it upon themselves to punish said others.
  Me: Thought down on other person for something (banning of hugging) > Let it bother me > Made snide remarks behind their back.
  
  Say what you will, because it will only make you as bad as me.
• Jana wrote on 2012-02-04 01:57
  Hugging simply isn't professional conduct in the workplace. I like hugging my friends just as much as you seem to, but most workplaces (and even some schools nowadays) are enforcing these rules for that reason alone.
• Kueh wrote on 2012-02-04 02:04

  Quote from Jana;761739:

  Hugging simply isn't professional conduct in the workplace. I like hugging my friends just as much as you seem to, but most workplaces (and even some schools nowadays) are enforcing these rules for that reason alone.

  
  
  You say "the workplace" as if there are standards that apply to every place where work is done.
  
  There are certain levels of professional conduct associated with each individual workplace. In construction yards and automotive repair garages, you will find some of the most absolutely stupid and immature behavior that would make you question how some of those people even made it this far into society.
  
  In the lab that I worked in last year, it was pretty much the same, except no roughhousing. Don't want to spill anything, you know?
  
  As long as it doesn't interfere with the task at hand, the behavior is acceptable, and that's from an economic standpoint. Why waste energy and time enforcing a rule that won't improve anything? And, in the OP, it was clearly stated that the hugging was not disrupting any work. So the only reason why they should ban hugging is A) to appease customers so they continue to shop, or B) there's some "hugging" going on in the back that's being disruptive to the work effort.
• Jana wrote on 2012-02-04 02:10
  Maybe I misread the OP, but it sounded like a sales floor. That would certainly require some degree of professionalism. :P
• Kueh wrote on 2012-02-04 02:15

  Quote from Jana;761776:

  Maybe I misread the OP, but it sounded like a sales floor. That would certainly require some degree of professionalism. :P

  
  
  Brad works at WalMart. I don't know how professional you have to be in the middle of the night at Walmart, but...
• Jana wrote on 2012-02-04 02:19
  Oh, that isn't quite what I thought it was then, haha. Still, chances are that if your manager is kind of a hardass, he/she's more likely going to see it as "professionalism" then anything else.