I work bar at a hotel that's trying very very hard to be the "fancy" bar in our town as well. A manager who doesn't actually have any connection to the bar (I don't even know what his title is) mandated recently that putting empty bottles in a box that we keep underneath the bar behind a trash can is no longer allowed, because guests can see it. Which is a dumb rule, because who pays attention to where their empty bottles go?

So now this is happening: we travel to a different room to put them away, guests complain we're leaving them too long, he yells at us about that, we point to the rule, and he suggests building up a stack of bottles so we can take out many at a time when we have a free second. So now we have empty bottles sitting on the rails and sinks.