Work cf stories. Anyone else work cheeky fuckers?

I worked for a local health care charity. The trustees were all pretty well-off, own businesses, big houses etc. They decided that as a show of appreciation to staff and volunteers they would hold a summer barbecue for us. We were all on a lower salary that we would get were we employed by a private provider or NHS. Imagine our surprise when a couple of weeks before the date we received a list of all food and drinks required with a request that we should put our name by what we’d be supplying.

One of my bosses (not owner, employed the same as the rest of us) would just fuck off most days on "site visits" when we all knew he was either going home or carrying out personal tasks like MOT his car or doing his food shopping. He was spotted numerous times. He then had the audacity to be an absolute tyrant in the office if anyone even looked like might not be working hard enough. When I started there I was 20 and I quickly got very good at HIS role. He would take the credit for the work I did all the time. He was also another one who would take the best of the rep gifts and guts all the treats.
He was complained about multiple times but nothing ever came of it. When he retired a few years after I started he was most put out that nobody contributed towards a gift for him.

Two weeks before Christmas, in a restaurant, the 3 family members who owned it decided they were entitled to a share of the tips we’d saved up all year. I don’t know how big a share, because they refused to tell us how much there was.
I’m very happy to report by the next day they did not have one member of staff left, except for a teenage girl they treated appallingly. She left shortly afterwards.

I do think its when something is "free"- there's a certain personality type (and quite a few of them I might add) who MUST have the free thing. Interesting, I wish I knew the psychology behind it. Not work but I remember being on a flight from the USA - lets say American Airlines - and we were told that senior management were on board monitoring staff, so all passengers were offered a big basket of chocolate to choose from - British sweets so things like Kit Kat, Bounty, Diary milk etc. I took 1 bar which was nice, but hey, I can buy chocolate any time I like, I have money and there are shops where I live. But everyone else was trying to empty the basket into their bags each time it was offered - some passengers taking half a dozen bars and then dipping in again when the baskets came back round.

Why?

(Sorry just edited to say chocolates were handed out to put passengers in a good mood in case management came round and asked us all how our flight was going etc. So not "why" were the sweets handed out but why did people take so much?)

It is strange how ime it is the very highest earners who always grab the freebies and make sure they’re at the front of the queue for any handouts or perks. Vile grabby people.

Boss brought his old wheelbarrow in on his last day - we giggled watching him wrestle it out of his very average sized car, wondering what the twit was doing this time.
We got our answer at closing time when he put the new work’s wheelbarrow in his car and left forever.

He had a 6 figure salary.

I work as a trainer, regular contract at a conference centre for the same company. At Christmas I and the other trainers bought the reception/conference staff some chocolates, because they’d been very helpful sorting out rooms and resources.
in January the head of resources said ‘ I hope you enjoyed the wine’ - turned out they’ve given the company a bottle of wine for each of us … which we never saw!

I used to work in-house for a large company and every so often there’d be a buffet provided for training meetings. Any leftovers would be put in the kitchen. The moment this was announced, you’d be knocked over by the stampede round to get a free sandwich … these were people with an average income of about £90k. 🙄

I worked for a charity.

We had front row Little Mix tickets donated and one of the managers was told to donate to one of our young clients. Except she took her daughter and went herself.

Oh yeah and we once had a guy who was unbelievably tight. Always in the gents when it was his turn to get in a round, etc.

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

His justification was that he sent so much time at work and often did his bowel movement there, therefore he should not be expected to buy his own loo paper for his home (illogical yes I know)

Tight CF took at least 3 foreign holidays a year!!!

People who " take a slice home for my hubbie, the kids, the cat" do my head in
Why just why??

I had this during my teacher training year as we had just had a new curriculum so needed new content for everything 😅

Christmas party when I worked at a large estate agent firm, the bosses made out to have a great time and enjoy the buffet, drinks etc. Wages came in a week later with a random £10 deducted. We questioned it and they had deducted £10 to cover the buffet.

They also claimed the buffet back as some sort of tax perk. So they got double back. I left a few months later best decision I ever made. The fat cat boss retired and his son took over and drove the firm into the ground which included sexual harassment cases from young female staff. To pay the awards to the women they had to sell their houses here and abroad

It's tricky- she literally does my performance management reviews. I guess the nuclear option would be to complain to her line manager but that would be major.

Homelessness organisation. Every Christmas we would get loads and loads of food items, presents, etc. A small group of staff would raid everything and steal as much of the decent stuff as they could. They did get caught but were simply told not to do it again.

Mind you, the whole place was corrupt in ways that would have horrified the donators.. I walked out in the end

A younger guy who joined the company specifically as my junior but thought he was superior to me because he had been to uni and I was - gasp - a middle aged woman.

Refused to listen to me or take direction (took it from the senior male management, obvs), constantly compaining in emails to me about how overworked he was and rang in sick for at least 4 working days every month (usually on a Monday or a Friday, funny that).

He basically saw me as a Matron -cum -agony aunt, as well as the person who should do all the work whilst he attempted to get all the glory.

Karma came eventually when I started my own business and eventually took a couple of his clients...plus I now can rocognise his type a mile off and can make sure never, ever to offer them a job when they come looking!

Local authority dept head used to come in at 10, leave at 3.30 and take an hour for lunch every day. His argument was that he had to commute and it took him ages. If his secretary organised a meeting for 2pm he'd bollock her because there was a chance of it overrunning and encroaching on his 3.30 clock out.

Also worked for a charity, head of fundraising applied for a bunch of grants and put the money into his personal account. He was at least got rid of, although they let him resign and didn't prosecute.

Worked in a school, head teacher, deputy and chair of governors also diverted funds into their own pockets. All resigned and no one was prosecuted.

Went to work in another school, private this time, people paid a fair whack to go there. Deputy Head turned out to be a massive nonce, had cameras rigged up around the school that he sat and watched from home, all sorts.

Stop putting your years classes in the joint folder until they start putting their resources. If she asks where they are, tell her you didn't think you were sharing anymore as she hasn't been planning the year 11 classes like she was meant to and you were now planning for both classes. Who cares if she is your line manager, she's not following the rules so why should you. She probably set it up so you would end up planning everything and giving her all resources.

Funnily enough it's only the well-paid senior management I've seen doing this kind of thing. As a pp said, they can easily afford to buy the bloody stuff!!!! The low paid admin team never ever do it

We had a similar CF boss - one of our contractors always brings bottles of wine etc in for the admin staff, prob about 3 dozen bottles to go around.
One year we clocked the boss has intercepted the contractor in the car park and was loading the good stuff straight into his own car boot!

In one place I worked, international calls were barred on the phones. However, they were enabled on one phone, as some members of staff has to call abroad. Yes, you’ve guessed it, it was discovered that someone was routinely calling their family a road for lengthy chats.

In a different office, we were given a large box of chocolates to share. The individual chocolates were large and looked very nice. There were ten of us in the office. I wasn’t the only one to think they looked good. I saw a colleague run over as soon as they arrived and then struggle to carry ten chocolates back to her desk. This was probably a third to half of the box. I know it was ten chocolates because she announced it, ate the lot and then complained she felt sick.

Very, very senior member of a company, which I happily don't work for anymore, not once but twice shared a cab with me to a work event, let me pay, then took the receipt saying 'I'll make sure you're reimbursed for this'. Never saw a penny. Found out later this was why everyone else teamed up to fill cabs without him, because he'd just claim the tenner or so for himself!!!!!!

I went to a party at a colleague’s house once. I thought “These glasses look suspiciously familiar…” They were all from our office, as was all his cutlery! 😆