It's not, but the corporate world is rife with stupidity and incompetence. Businesses are perfectly willing to do all manner of things that jeopardize the long term sustainability of that business. And sometimes all it takes it some low level manager going on a power trip. Does that mean this story in particular actually happened? *shrug* Not really and I certainly wouldn't know anyhow, but that's always the problem with these reddit tales. There's never any way to verify them.