We had so much Sarbanes-Oxley bs anything seemed possible. "Oh you can't use an IM client that isn't approved by us, as it's against S-OX". (Approved by us meant that they paid some inferior crappy IM company to install their client on all company computers. Then they paid a fee per user) Nothing like corporate waste :)
I've worked in many corporate environments, some where things were perfectly logical and others that aspired to be as good as Dilbert.
But I never had to fill out anything in triplicate. I guess I should have realized the sarcastic flag was up. Sorry.