Every so often, a company's employees will see reason to suspect that a workplace policy was put in place just to exert some petty control over them.
We can often find that these codes have to do with an aspect of someone's appearance, but they can also force employees to find a more roundabout way to do their jobs just because some manager doesn't like their preferred method.
But as annoying as these managerial decisions can be, some workers will find that the people responsible for them didn't think them through as carefully as they assumed.
So by following them to the letter in just the right way, they can quickly make whoever set the rules just as miserable about them as they are.
And in the case of one hospital's workers, that clever tactic couldn't have worked out better.