[Bender]

Had to walk to a hydration corner like it was a video game quest.

To me that sounds more like a form of Submission, Domination and Humiliation being enforced on employees. a.k.a. sexual harassment as a policy unless your desk is something like a circuit board fab and there is a legit reason not to have water at that location.

[jamessmithe]

There were desktops and other electrical stuff so they made the rule like that. According to the management, once they had a serious incident so they came up with that rule.