Businesses do this shit all the time. There are rules and guidelines that must be ignored for the job to work smoothly. They exist to cover the ass of the employer if something ever goes wrong, they say "due process was not followed" and move on.
What are some of these rules at your place of work?
Obviously don't, erm, dox yourself or anything please.
The major safety mechanism on the machines I run don't work. There's pretty explicit rules about not running machines with broken or faulty safeguards.
There's also loads of quality control processes that we just ignore to make our production schedules. I've had a supervisor sign off on parts we all knew were bad just because we needed them ready to ship in a few hours.
Also basically the entire training process was non-existent, and they actually have a very thorough training plan laid out. Turnover and production demand is just too high to actually follow it.