Following Legless
In my capacity as a proofreader, I was once asked by a boss to deliberately spell words wrongly because (A) they'd been spelled that way for ages before I'd joined and (B) they 'looked nicer' spelled wrong. In the same job, I was overruled by a sub-literate secretary on a spelling because she'd "always spelled it differently"

As a teacher, I was asked to assign monthly percentages to each student in my care: a number for how much they knew and another for how quickly they were learning. Why? So they could make a graph about it. Since there was no use explaining that this was senseless, I made percentages up at random and had to explain why one student had unlearned everything I taught him in a month.
(frankspencer, Wed 25 Apr 2007, 12:06, Reply)