Work cf stories. Anyone else work cheeky fuckers?

I'd been getting lifts to event with another girl as we were going to the same thing and I didn't drive. I always split the fuel costs with her of course.

After quite a few of these I discovered she was claiming the mileage for them!! I asked her about it, she admitted it and agreed to refund my fuel back and said "but I need to factor in my tax, insurance and wear and tear"!?!?!

I said if you must take of some wear and tear ok but I am in no way responsible for your tax and insurance - she gave me back all my money (it was long time ago but I think it was about £350 and I was on a very low wage).

This was told to me by a former colleague and happened a very long time ago.

He used to work as a lowly technician for a government ministry at a research establishment and was sent out to do testing with a much senior colleague on a little boat that had a small outboard motor. After the testing was finished the senior colleague put the outboard motor in the boot of his car and covered it with a tarp “you’re to tell anyone who asks that the motor fell into the water and was lost otherwise you’ll lose your job”. Also this senior colleague submitted a patent (on his own behalf and not the research establishment) for an application that someone else had invented and made quite a bit of money from it.

I used to work at a bank call centre. At the time for Christmas we would each get £10 a head to put towards a Christmas lunch. Due to it not being feasible for everyone to be off and not manning the lines for calls, the manager of each team went out for a meal instead. 10 staff per manager = £100. It was even on a Friday evening when the phone lines would have been shut!!!!

Not about me but when I worked at Lamesburys, a colleague won the mystery customer service and was offered a biscuit from an already open tin but management.

One tightarse senior manager who was probably on £70k (and this was 10 years ago) but would happily and openly steal other people's food from the fridge.

A fellow music teacher was basically "managed out" by a new head, keen to present a new, whizzy image. He was also contemptuous of the existing HOD, a reasonably competent keyboard player but a mere woman (with other talents to offer which he disregarded) My friend was the acknowledged keyboard whizz for public occasions.
When New Head scouted around for a new appointment, he found that nobody local applied (word had got around) but he appointed a very good brass specialist, who was, incidentally horrified when he realise what was going on.
The union supported my friend and he received compensation, the despised HOD did a sideways move to a nicer school, and it then dawned on the silly man that nobody was available for the first big occasion on his watch, the Carol Service. The new guy was a brilliant brass teacher, but his keyboard skills were limited; OK for a run-of the -mill lesson, but not a big public event.
Mr, Whizzo New Head seriously tried to ask both of his "rejects" how they would feel about coming back for old times' sake to ensure that the Carol Service could go ahead.
As I used to say to some of my pupils; "There's a two-word response to that suggestion, and the second one is OFF!"

I temped at some horse racing events while doing my working holiday visa in Australia. I got assigned this bar once working with a permanent staff member. One of the first things she did was criticise me for being short, but she was stuck with me because no one else showed up. She ended up taking the drinks orders while I poured the drinks. We were really busy the whole shift, and didn’t get any help from other sections until about 3 hours in. At the end of the night, she kept all the tips for herself. I wouldn’t mind so much, but my now husband had been one of the staff who came to help us, and had put in tips he got himself, so she actually took from both of us.

We had two trainees in our department during one rotation (law firm, the trainees do 6 months in 4 different departments). The male trainee was astonishingly lazy and entitled. The female trainee was hardworking and cracked on with everything.

I noticed she was doing a lot of late nights in the office and looked stressed and close to tears on occasion. I pressed her about her workload and she admitted she had far too much. This included tasks redelegated to her by the male trainee as he was "so busy". Oddly this busyness never resulted in him doing any late nights in the office. I probed colleagues who confirmed that they had allocated tasks to both trainees roughly equally. It turned out male trainee would almost immediately pass on his tasks to female trainee claiming he was already at capacity. Yet he was doing barely anything. He'd also take the tasks back once complete or almost complete so he could hand it back to the instructing solicitor and take the credit.

When called out on it he just brazened it out and seemed to find it amusing that he'd got away with it for so long. More astonishingly, when he qualified the firm offered him a permanent role (not my department thank God). By all accounts his old tricks continued. He was very posh, handsome and charismatic which just seemed to completely fool many people. The equity partners would say things like "well he's always a bit short on his hours but he's the sort we like to put in front of clients". I guess because he exuded confidence and old money. Yuck. He's at another firm now - got head hunted - and I expect he hasn't changed.

Sorry that was more of a rant than an amusing story. I'll try and think of some more.

"We found out he was stealing the industrial size rolls of toilet paper from the office because he was too tight to stump up for his own"

I know someone who did this too. He ended up quite well off I think.

Took a client ouf for a meal, he bought his wife which was borderline but she worked with him so it was ok.
This was a regulated industry and if I broke the rules I could be sacked
After the meal he legged it sharpish but I was ok with that UNTIL I went to pay and had a huge bill for 3 of us. I queried it and while we had been eating the CF had arranged a takeaway delivery from the restaurant to be delivered to his home for his extended family.
Apparently the restauarant always did this for him and when I objected they offered to give me some food to take home as well.
It seems that this person was known for this and got free meals from this Restaurant due to all the business he brought them.
I managed to "massage" a few facts and get away with it but I never took him out again

I wish more of my colleagues would! I'm fed up of all the bad stuff hanging around the office.

Not a CF one, but about 25 years ago, we were handed out goody bags when the company got taken over. We got a rather useful faux leather messenger bag with the usual sort of stationery in it.

Just one colleague asked around if anyone didn't want theirs so that both his DSs could have one. I thought that was really nice.

I still have my bag.

Are you usre they were actualy taken from the office though, or is just that they are the same?

I have the same glasses at home and work, but because they're the 1st cheap ones that come up on Amazon, not 'cos I'm a theif!

A girl I worked with was on a weight watchers diet and would bring in 5 different ready to go meals from WW each week. It came to Friday and her last one was gone - the empty package was found in the boss / owner's bin in his office. I don't think anything was said to him directly but enough comments were made around him about "who would take "Mary's" last ready meal and not replace it" etc. it never happened again. Shameful arsehole!

That's an unreal level of greediness! Was he even embarrassed?!

I used to work on a butchers stall in local market. Owner was rich as fuck. Big house, land, flash car, fancy holidays etc. Long term relationship with a woman, 2 kids etc.

Every Christmas as a bonus for all the hard work we did (it was fucking exhausting for at least 10 days) we would get a turkey crown, 1lb streaky bacon, 1lb of chipolatas AND most importantly a £100 bonus. One year he got caught having an affair. On Christmas eve while giving us our turkeys he announced out of the blue we wouldn't be getting a cash bonus that year as his affair had made things shakey at home and there was a risk his dp would leave and 'screw him for the house'. And the bonus was just a nice thing to do, not compulsory.

I was OK money wise, but 2 of the other women were gutted, they were relying on the £100.

Anyway, when he started doing the Christmas rota the year after he came to me to ask what extra days I was doing. I was only working 2 days a week by that point. I just said 'oh I am not doing any extra days this year, they were just a nice thing to do, not compulsory'.

He did reinstate the extra £100 but I didn't get it. Wasn't arsed, I gave him my notice Christmas Eve and that was that.

"Do people really lose their minds when something is 'free'? Just buy your family a pizza! I'm sure he could afford it."

Sometimes the most well off are the stingiest. I used to work somewhere that handed out free T-shirts for events and you'd get the very higher ups being obsessed by their free T-shirt that I wouldn't wear if you paid me.

Team was bought 2 tubs of Celebrations, which everyone in the office was enjoying dipping into. Got to the end of the first tub only to find out one guy had secretly eaten the whole second tub (still in the cupboard) on his own.

Not sure if it's cf but our (then) manager

Some charity had got in touch with her to see if she could raise donations-shampoo,soap,toothbrushes,toothpaste etc to help domestic abuse women who had fled and had nothing

She put a plea out,so we all raided our bathrooms and donated (between us) at least £600/700 of stuff

Didn't hear a thing about it until her face was plastered all over the local paper as the one who had donated it all

'Massive thanks to x!look at what she has donated!how generous is she???shes put it all together out of the goodness of her heart!'

No mention of us who had actually put the products together,just her smug face,lapping up the gratitude (she hadn't put anything in herself)

Then it all came out in the wash,that she'd helped herself to most of the 'good stuff'

She's on triple our wages-she was told that if she'd been that desperate for a few bottles of shampoo,we would have clubbed together to buy her some

She wasn't bothered-it bounced off her but nobody donated a thing a few months later when she demanded food for the food bank,which left her scrabbling about out of her own pocket to save face

(which was a shame-we would have cheerfully donated,as we are a generous bunch but not if she was A-taking all the credit for single-handedly putting it together and B-helping herself to the goodies to stuff her face)

I sort of admired the ingenuity of it! He must have planned very long term to steal an entire dinner set and 12 glasses! Taking a load of stuff at once would have been noticed, but the odd glass or knife over time just looks like a breakage or something accidentally being binned - or doesn’t get noticed at all.

My boss also had business cards printed with my personal and company number on but no indication as to which was which.
They also spelt my very normal 1st name wrong so instead of reprinting the cards they set me up a new email account with the same wrongly spelt name.
I put all my family, friends, personal contacts ect into one big group on my phone and set a a ring tone for it. Any call that were not in that group defaulted to the other ring tone which was War Of The Worlds 😄

It’s how rich people stay rich, I suppose!

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We once had our tuck box taken away cos it was filled with notes with IOUs instead of the correct change. I think that was more well meaning forgetfulness really.

Your story is another level haha.

I can see her point to be honest, especially if she's ever done any unpaid overtime, which she could equally call her time being stolen.
Lots of workplaces tolerate a bit of personal use of equipment and Sunday School classes aren't usually huge