'Attention: Bathroom breaks have been limited': Insane sign written in highlighter prohibits employee bathroom breaks longer than five minutes

For example, you should never break up with your significant other via a text message or using a hastily handwritten note scribbled on a piece of toilet paper explaining that you have to leave for a while in order to evade your mortal enemies — or really using any other text-based medium. 

The “break up” is a conversation that is best-held face to face in order to give weight to the importance of the idea that you don't want to see, talk to, or be around someone anymore — and, most importantly, to let them know that you respect them despite not wanting to see, talk to, or be around them anymore. Understandably, sometimes there isn't time for such a conversation — such as when evading an ancient order who have just discovered your hidden identity and want you dead as the last heir to the secret of their undoing and are, even now, rapidly closing in on your location. In these instances, a handwritten note on toilet paper will have to suffice.

This rule extends to any situation in which one is trying to convey a message of any importance: Job interviews probably shouldn't be held over text message; legal documents shouldn't be written on a birthday cake (or any other edible medium); and chocolate sprinkles are not a good way to convey condolences for the passing of a friend's loved one — no matter how expertly they are arranged. 

Perhaps, also, important (and highly illegal) workplace directives forbidding bathroom usage shouldn't be handwritten in the same tool that you use to notate the best sections of your favorite romance novel (for easy identification during later private rereading). No, a highlighter is not the best way to get this message across to your workers — who will be squinting their bleeding eyes trying to make out the rest of the message as they hurriedly strap on their adult diapers. One would argue that these directives would best be delivered in a method that highlights their gravitas, like in a typewritten memo attached to the organization's most trustworthy homing pigeon. 

Our esteemed B here failed their course in “Effective mediums for important communication” and made the brazenly brain-dead move of writing their important message with the closest thing they had at hand. Predictably, the internet has been roasting the author of this sign since images of it went viral earlier today; its insane directive and equally unhinged means of being relayed have earned it the ire of the internet.

Keep scrolling for the full images and screenshots, as well as a smattering of reactions. For more, check out this insane sign that was posted by a restaurant manager that actually got them fired. 

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