Work cf stories. Anyone else work cheeky fuckers?

"l left after a year and despite knowing I was leaving for a new job I only gave them a weeks notice as that’s what it said in my contract if I left while on probation HR was surprised my 3 months probation review had never been done"

Excellent malicious compliance, @Spendysis!

Where I used to work my line manager I use that term loosely as never had any appraisals feedback didn’t get my probation signed off as she was to busy or would do it after her next holiday she seemed to have a ridiculous amount of annual leave but had been there 20 years

she used to clock in then go and make her breakfast sit at her desk eating it doing nothing Did a bit then have to go and make a drink to take her tablets then go and sort her lunch eat it at her desk again doing nothing then take her actual lunch break and go out for a walk do a bit then go and make another drink then potter off for half an hour to go and wash her Tupperware tubs then clock off for the day

l left after a year and despite knowing I was leaving for a new job I only gave them a weeks notice as that’s what it said in my contract if I left while on probation HR was surprised my 3 months probation review had never been done

Mostlycarbon · 24/07/2024 14:08
"Secondary school teaching department. We are supposedly responsible for different year groups. I plan e.g. Year 10 well in advance, put everything on the system for colleagues to use.
Colleague who is supposed to plan Year 11 and is also head of department, just doesn't do it. Right up to the last minute before I'm supposed to be teaching the topic she still hasn't done it. The night before, I end up doing it myself. She breezes into my classroom. "O... what's that? Don't forget to put everything on the shared drive!" I end up planning everything for both year groups. She's my line manager."

Can you only plan the lesson just due to keep things going until her "official" planning appears?

Hybrid working for the team leaders of which I am one, can be 2 days from home then 3 office/field. Here I am paying for nursery, yet my colleague and boss have been working from home 5 days a week during the school holidays. They say it’s fine their kids require minimal supervision because they are primary school aged, yet on every call I can hear their kids and they are muting themselves to talk to them.

I worked in a school where you had to get to the food before the PE department or there wouldn't be enough for everybody.

And in a workplace where a very nice lady (generally) would her put food on her plate and food in her bag at the same time on the first pass around.

@Redflagsabounded that is outrageous! I’d have refused to pay, especially as you’d shown the receipt.

@AvrielFinch it doesn’t come from the free school lunches for children- on a school trip, FSM lunches should be individually prepared for individual children, and each child should get a named lunch (as would lunches ordered and paid for).

Providing staff lunches in lieu of actually paying them for hours worked would clearly come from a different budget .

Not exactly CF, but talking of gannets, I once worked for a Director who on two occasions that we all witnessed ate leftover food out of the bin!

Department bitch's birthday, collection, I got sent to buy the £60 gift card for her. Put the receipt in the gift card wallet.

3 months later she claimed she'd just tried to use the card but it had no money on it. Hinted I'd kept the money and passed on a blank card.

The receipt (which I'd shown my manager)? Oh no, she hadn't kept it.

I was made to replace it with my own money because it wasn't bitch's fault the money hadn't registered on the card. My protestation that it wasn't mine either and she should have kept the receipt got nowhere. I'm sure she was lying about the whole thing. Fucking bitch in many ways but this was so shameless!

I was the lowest paid person in the dept - admin. She drove a Porsche.

I refused to get involved with buying any more gifts.

I have literally sat and read each post this morning, wish I could contribute but also glad I can't!

Exactly. In any case, public transport isn't a cheap option, even assuming it was available 'in the middle of nowhere'. A train ticket for a 40 min journey to my nearest city costs me £13; it's about £2 in petrol and takes half the time. Obviously parking in the city negates any saving, but parking fees wouldn't apply where someone was just being picked up .

Again you're igoring the "least costly option" part of the post! Whats your reasoning that she should have picked the more expensive option?

Her mum and dad aren’t employed by the company, but the person they were transporting is. Same as if she got a taxi.

Not to mention that being on a train sick is horrific not just for the ill person but everyone else in the carriage. I’d say inflicting that on other people when there’s another option available is more CF behaviour.

Going home when sick? Fine

Travel home by taxi and public transport, do the reverse journey when better

Calling mummy and daddy to take her and her car home, then claiming for people not employed by the company?

Not fine

Nope, and she still works there.

You haven't answered the other points in @Sethera's post

She was too ill to complete the course, and picked the least costly option to get herself and then later her car home. What should she have done instead?

Mileage is for employees, not the relatives of employees and certainly not twice for the return journey - once for colleague to bring the pair of them up, then colleague's dad to bring her mum up and then two lots of expenses on the return for dad's car and mum to drive the colleague's car back home

All the while leaving the poster stranded and having to call her husband to collect her

She failed to manage the entire course too

My colleagues are great but my poor husband has to manage a bunch of needy, whiny, emotionally stunted snowflakes. And they are supposed to be professional adults - spend more time crying about another colleague giving constructive criticism and bleating about having to WFH than actually getting jobs out.

Can you whistleblow on your way out?

Please report it there must be some kind of ombudsman. Please, it's public money

@Aconite20 - I wonder how your senior manager's family feel about being given the weary leftovers from an office lunch? I wouldn't be surprised if they don't even get eaten.

On way to a funeral, friend / colleague took receipts for tolls etc for claiming back because she travelled for work and could get the tiny amout back. What was really bad is that I paid the tolls!

Just vile.

One senior manager regularly takes the leftovers from the monthly training meeting home for their family. We are talking boxes of food.

Another senior manager has awarded themselves the amount of annual leave it takes us lesser mortals ten years to earn and has taken it in blocks that are a week longer than the maximum you're supposed to take.

Another one was never even interviewed for their senior job and has never worked anywhere else but holds themselves up as a world expert.

Another one spent about a week in total of staff time looking for accommodation when they first started in post and also had the whole department ferrying them about, running after them, taking them to the supermarket and generally propping up their ego. There is no one we can report them to. When I leave they'll be a major factor in the decision.

I'm also fairly sure fiddling of expenses has been rife but am not in a position to do anything about it.

This is all on public funds. If Labour are serious about investigating waste in the public sector they can start with this kind of thing.

We had a temp who worked for us order ASOS stuff to work, not just when she was there but for months after she left our employment, ‘as it’s convenient for when I do childcare pick up’. We had no idea how she was accessing to the office until we found out she hadn’t handed her pass in (and I strongly suspect she was photocopying stuff for her church as well)

She was mortified when she was told be her ex-boss that her latest parcel had been refused and returned as would all future despatches, and asked to give her pass back. She accused her boss - married to an Iranian - of being racist.

I used to work with a man who would fill in his holiday form (to have the days taken off his allowance) and would just forget to give it to HR.

I didn't like it yet I also really did because it meant more time without him being awful to me.

stop milk filchers