Have you ever noticed how many fixes for problems just make things harder? I see this pattern everywhere, where bosses get an idea from some article and push it without a real test. It's like they're so stuck on the idea that they forget how things actually work (which, come on, is where the job gets done). Your salon story shows this perfectly, with the oven mitts meant to help hands but making it really hard to hold shears. You see similar things in all kinds of jobs, like when a new rule to stop errors just creates more busywork and delays. It's a classic case of good intentions going wrong.

Which tools are acting weird, and did you tell the developers about the problem?