Work cf stories. Anyone else work cheeky fuckers?

I left a job (teacher) and was bought a garden chair and a plant pot by my department. (6 people)

Some years later my great friend left too.

Years later we chatted about gifts and I told her what I got. She had donated £50 to my gift - which had cost about £10. She rang another friend who had donated £50 to her gift - approximate cost £25.

Our head of department had been collecting large sums of money and then keeping most of it.

Big boss was treating our department to a buffet lunch. She gave one of the managers money to order from M&S. The manager thought she'd save money and ordered from god knows where. The day after anyone who had eaten the meat or fish options was off with food poisoning - some people were really unwell - just so some manager thought they'd earn brownie points by saving the boss a quid!

Years ago I conducted a welfare meeting at an employee's home.
The downstairs interior of his house was painted blue, grey and yellow - our bespoke colours made for our company.
He'd pinched all the paint from work.
It was really awkward as I tried to pretend I hadn't noticed, I don't have a "game face" 😬
I don't know how they looked at those colours every day

One man I worked for was a stickler for re-charging private 'phone calls made from company 'phones. Fair enough. I worked out the cost, & the staff paid up.

The money recovered was much less than the cost of my time in calculating it, but CF insisted "It's the principle that matters".

He was livid when I presented him with a large bill for the overseas, peak-time calls he'd made to his family. I quoted "It's the principle that matters" back to him, & he was extremely rude to me. I was a temp, so I left - after I'd told CF's boss why I was going.

There are plenty of people for whom the “free” part is way more exciting than the item itself. I’ve worked in offices where you could have left a lump of shit on the table and someone would’ve eaten it because it’s free.

I once worked with someone who went to every leaving do if a buffet was laid on (a large company and she had worked there for quite a few years so knew a lot of people a little bit). She never stayed long but always filled her large handbag because "it will probably be wasted at the end of the evening".

Is there a year group head?

Or the deputy?

I'd forget to share...

If it’s google, save your stuff to your drive, not the shared one. I have a very similar situation. I’d go to the line manager, what is the head of department actually contributing?

Think I've seen it all

• the top manager who after getting all his cutlery and plates and glasses from the work canteen continued to take all the free sachets of salt, pepper, ketchup etc so he didn't have to buy those.
• the manager who was given a few boxes of wine as a donation to our charity, took the ones she liked and gave out the others as Christmas presents to some of the staff (but not me).
• the team member who was off sick months at a time (he was in the office 4 months total in the 5 years I worked there) and the first thing he'd do when he came back to work was ask how many holidays he had available to take and that he needed to book them immediately despite our holiday quota already being full. Not getting the holidays he wanted meant he would call in sick.....

But my all time favourite was the political party donation fiddle done by a place I worked overseas.

To explain - a small donation to a political party didn't need to be reported to anyone official but big ones over $5k did need to be reported and also noted on a company's annual report so shareholders etc could see political affiliation.

So I was working for a retail chain that had about 5,000+ employees. And noticed on my payslip showed a $20 bonus. And a $20 deduction for a donation to a particular very right wing political party. So I was net zero so presumably had nothing to complain about. Just like all the others in the shop I worked in.

What the company had done was a payroll fiddle where all 5,000+ employees were given a small bonus which then showed as us as making the political donation not them. It also meant they could claim on the tax accounts that there was an extra $100,000+ paid to their staff thus lowering their tax liability. And they didn't have to report it officially anywhere that they had donated $100,000+ to a bunch of fascists.

Well they wouldn't have had to report it except that someone sent an anonymous report to the newspapers about what had happened. Cue the fireworks!

My friend runs a yoga business, I looked after her DC for several months, (picking up every evening from school, cooking their tea etc) whilst she trained.
Once she had to go to a city for an assessment and I had them stay at mine for 3nights.
I never charged her a penny, she's a friend, why would I?
She persuaded me to try yoga (never really been my thing) and I said I'd give it a try. She said great, that'll be £25 please.

Surely that's straightforward theft?

What was actually said to him?

A manager at work is currently, and has been since the beginning of the year (knowingly), fiddling their hours.

Senior leaders have know for several months and done nothing.

They know, other employees know, I’d even say they themselves know everyone else knows. It carries on and no one says anything. Absolutely baffling.

Two managers who embezzled from the same company (one took money, the other took things ordered for the staff to use on residents - stuff like shampoo/shower gel, and then seemed puzzled when we kept running out. She also stole a full sized fridge from the kitchen!)

When I had a college weekend job, my rich bitch boss had a go at me for various things, including changing the (murky, greasy) water I was washing dishes up in too frequently, throwing a wet tea towel on the floor after she pointed out where she wanted me to put it, and wouldn’t do anything when I pointed out the cleaning products had worn out, illegible labels.

It could have been a coincidence I suppose, but both the glasses and the cutlery bring the same is less likely. Also the glasses were quite distinctive, not just bog standard tumblers.

She never had any unpaid overtime. Do you know the cost of ink/toner cartridges? No, it wasn't a few pages either. It was reams of paper she was going through, A4 and A3. A few here or there, I wouldn't have noticed. She was dismissed soon after for gross misconduct- nothing to do with the printing though.

Whenever someone brings birthday treats in we tend to include some Gluten Free things. One member of staff has decided that these are meant for her sole use, so will swoop in and pick up ALL GF treats and stash them in her locker. Last time it happened she was challenged and agreed to take one thing and return the rest of the box. But in a devious counter attack upended a box of Celebrations into her bag and scuttled off!

I don't know the ins and outs. I'm just a serf. It was lottery grants under various headers is all I know. He used to come into the postroom and ask if "my" [his - quite literally as it turns out] lottery cheques had arrived. And we would all ho-ho-ho about winning the lottery - but that cheeky fucker literally did. Presumably he wanted to get a hold of them fresh from the envelope so no one else in his department saw them.

RockahulaRocks reminded me of the colleague who expected paid compassionate leave when David Bowie died. She didn't know him, she was just a fan.

Colleague moved from a big city with good transport links, to a rural area. Doesn’t have a driving licence. Got a dog and then came in on the Monday after having his son bring him and the dog home, to say ‘might need a favour today, a lift to check on my dog’. So apparently couldn’t have the consideration BEFORE collecting dog to say ‘picking up my dog at the weekend, is there any chance you could please take me to check him at lunch for the first few days’

if this wasn’t bad enough, he then sat in my car on the way to his house at lunch and said his mum was saving her car for him until he passes his test, but did he really want the extra expense when he’s just taken in a dog!! Whilst using my expense!!

Soon nipped that one in the bud. Give an inch…

Not sure if it’s CF or just entitled knobhead behaviour but I used to work with someone who requested reasonable adjustments, not because they had a disability but because they were put out that someone else in the wider team had some adjustments in place because they were registered blind. Apparently it was unfair and therefore against the Equality Act (?!), but he had no disability or concerns that he wanted to declare.

His list included not being contacted for at least one day per week, because he found meetings pointless, as well as working from home more often because his commute was too long (he’d moved out of town just after lock down). The company even arranged an assessment with OH to see if there was anything which may meet the need for reasonable adjustments but found no disadvantage to be alleviated.

I had the same thing at a school that I worked in.
But not only SoW, but handovers for shared classes, and exam results.
He left to go to a new school, didn't last a term but the old school had him back as the SLT loved him.

I organise food for events and do take the odd thing home for other half if lots left over, save binning it but most of the time it is stale so don't. We leave left overs in kitchens for people not at the events and it normally goes. Had one woman tell me I needed to arrange to go 2 miles in to town and give it to the homeless when was binning some stale sandwiches. I told her she is free to do it if she wishes. I tend to under cater now so not much waste.

My sister used to work at a charity in the late 80s - early 90s. A new CEO came onboard from an academic background who brought a new PA with him.

One day my sister came into work to find that the charity was being wound up and she was out of a job. The CEO and trustees had held a meeting over a slap up lunch in London and decided to shut up shop. My sister knows the meal cost about £500 as another employee who was being laid off showed her the receipt from a SOHO eatery submitted as expenses. The CEO went straight into a prestigious job at a University. He had spent the 18 months as CEO as leverage to get a prestigious academic job, employ his girlfriend as PA (he was married) and treat himself and his pals to fine dining.

At a place I used to work we did secret santa. I wasn't overly bothered about taking part but did in the spirit of things.

My santa was one of the most senior managers, which i worked out after the occasion. Just before the works christmas party we all gathered to each receive our presents which were all laid on the table, except I didn't have one. They were going round the room asking each person what they got. I felt my stomach fall and tears stung my eyes. I just quietly walked out of the room and the building and went home and didn't bother with the Christmas plans that afternoon.

A bottle of prosecco turned up on my desk a few days later. Nice, but I'll never forget being excluded. The same person also absolutely promised my job would be safe and I would be coming back post furlough. I was made redundant. Fuck you, EM.

Can you not simply make your yr10 resources as expected and put them in the shared area for yr10 but keep your yr11 resources (made in desperation) in your personal drive. Obvs, depending on your school's policies, they may ultimately belong to the school but at least you're not stuck making the plans and resources she's supposed to make.