Work cf stories. Anyone else work cheeky fuckers?

I'm sorry but you should not have put up with this. You should have said if you don't pay me by x date then unfortunately I can't include you. Then you wouldn't be out of pocket and it's their own fault for not being included

My husband shared a flat, when working abroad, with a colleague. Tight as a DA. When DH snapped and told him he had to buy toilet roll it all had the company name on it. Got rid of him very quickly after that

What that's cheating with the sats paper. Did anyone say anything?

In the US president of an non profit agency applied for multiple grants for the agency. Most funds, half a million US$, that came in were not given to the agency. She deposited some of them in her personal acct. Others deposited in agency accounts but she "accidentally" wrote a check $80,000 US, for her new ultra luxury car on one of those agency accounts. She got jail time - 6 months. If one of the clients her agency served, ex-felons, had robbed a bank, they would had gotten a 30 year jail sentence.

My dad always said that religious clergy of all denominations were the biggest culprits of bad behaviour. Looks like he was right. Next time donate spoons from the pound shop.

Why? If the business schedules training courses in the middle of nowhere, they should accept the risk that in some circumstances, additional travel costs might be incurred.

If the so-called CF hadn't involved her parents, she'd have had to get a taxi/uber home, then another one back to the venue once she'd recovered, and then drive home incurring the original fuel costs. That would have cost far more than her parents' mileage.

Charging for her parents' petrol expenses was definitely cheeky fuckery

It illustrates the perils of car-sharing, but not sure she was a CF in this situation - if she was too ill to drive, what else was she supposed to do?

I don't understand...

When I started a new job, I noticed that the staff kitchen was very short of teaspoons. As I was doing a lot of decluttering at home, I took in a dozen that I would otherwise have donated to charity. Good quality ones, Arthur Price.

It took less than a fortnight for them all to vanish.

The place where I worked - a cathedral!

Company I used to work for. The owner-directors arranged a lunchtime meeting for me and my report. Right at the beginning, one of the directors gets on the phone to a fancy sandwich place, puts in an order and asks the other director what he’d like. These were delivered halfway through the meeting. They never asked us if we would like a sandwich. It was a two hour meeting, 12-2pm, and our tummies were audibly rumbling as we sat and watched them eat. Not just rude, but uncomfortable. A couple of months later the company moved offices to bigger premises in the same building. We were asked to come in on a Saturday and move our own desks, chairs, pedestals and cabinets. When I asked if we were going to get overtime for giving up a Saturday (and saving them a fortune on getting a proper officer movers in), the answer was “Goodness no, you won’t get paid at all. But we’ll get a platter of sandwiches in for you all.” Terrible place to work. I left after eight months and earning them £1.5million in new contracts during that time.

One of the things I've learned from this thread is to put "this contains laxatives" on every piece of food I bring into an office I don't want stolen

Oh this has unlocked a memory!

I went on a training course (4 or 5 days, I cant remember) along with a colleague. She drove (as it made sense to car share) and it was in the middle of nowhere.

A couple of days in, she came down ill and decided she was going home. Her parents drove down to pick her up (both came so one could drive her car back) and I was just left there with no way of getting myself home (middle of nowhere).

My DH drove down to pick me up.

On returning to the office, she put in a petrol claim for both her own car and her parents car which the boss was not impressed with. I don't know whether he paid it, but he made sure I put in a petrol claim for DH coming to get me.

We didn't car share to things after that.

Yes I knew someone who would use the office milk for their cereal and pour herself large glasses.

Wow @mansviewpoint , PM thought he was Teflon because he was snagging the HR director, a.d totally underestimated you.

Well done!

Brilliant @mansviewpoint well done for fighting that!!

Another one about food theft from a manager.

A lovely colleague/friend was leaving for a new job, and had given our manager and his counterpart for another team a posh packet of biscuits each to share with the rest of their respective teams.

When I saw her on a night out, she asked me whether I'd had any, and I told her that I wasn't even aware of them, so she told me to ask my line manager whether he had them.

I wasn't actually too bothered about them, but when I remembered to ask him about them, he said they will be brought out on a special occasion. WTF? I thought it was odd, but left it at that and didn't ask him about them again.

When I saw my friend again, I told her what he had said and she was indignant of the fact that he had withheld them from his team, as if he was saving them to give to us as doggy treats when we were good.

Anyway, nearly a year later at the end of the academic term, she visited us and asked my line manager what had happened to them, and he confessed that he had kept it for himself! So not only did he steal them, but he lied about it too to!

Same manager, the HODs were having a meeting with some very important visitors; manager went over to the other department's office and took an unopened packet of biscuits as refreshments for his visitors.

Honestly, what is it about managers and food theft? It's so fucking embarrassing!

My project Manager asked if he could catch a lift to customer site, 250 miles away. We both were due to attend the meeting. We did this 3 times in a month so 1500 × 50p. 45p plus 5p for passenger. I was more than happy because I was driving and he would just fall asleep ten minutes in...bliss. He had a company car, I had my own car. I put my claim in with a couple of fuel receipts. Waited a week but didn't get the expenses go in to my bank. A week later I spoke to payroll, who said that I had missubmitted the claim and that I needed to do it again. Checked it, resubmitted, couldn't see anything wrong. 2 days later HR Director arranged a meeting with Me. CF of the PM had claimed it himself and they had already confirmed with him that we went in his car and he was driving and I was under investigation. I pointed out to them that he had a company car so he can only claim for actual fuel used not the 45p rate. They said that they had asked him that and he told them he had 2 cars and his wife was using the company car. I asked if the car reg he was claiming against was the same one I had entered. They said they couldn't tell me because it's personal information.I was livid obviously. I asked them how can I prove to you that I'm not conning them. They couldn't answer. I hasten to add that the company we worked for was the biggest fuel card and one of the biggest fleet car company in the UK. So I spoke to our fraud team who I'd been creating reports for, and asked them if they could help. They phoned up the garages and asked for stills of the car being filled up, clearly showing me filling up the car whilst he sat sleeping in the passenger seat. I then spoke to our enforcement team who deal with passing on parking or speeding tickets to drivers of our vehicles... and they got that registration plates details showing that I owned the car. I then went back upstairs to HR asked for a meeting about it all, and saying that I had something I had to admit to. I did this because I hoped they would take that seriously enough to arrange a meeting straight away which they did. I think they were thinking gotcha. I then simply said that I had to admit that I have abused the time of 2 employees to prove my innocence and gave them the evidence. Outlining how easy it had been for me to prove my innocence and that HR clearly hadn't even tried to investigate it and that they had taken a project managers word rather than mine. Was it because I was 21 and the PM was in his 40s? HR director looked shocked and tried to placate me, but I had become more angry with them. So I said "work out how you want to apologise for calling me a thief. I'm now off to do my job where I don't make unfounded accusations." The following day payroll lady came to see me and apologised. I told her that she did her job perfectly, she highlighted a potential fraud and had just reported it into HR and I had no grudge with her at all. She had been told by HR the precious night that she had done everything wrong and that she needed to apologise. We started chatting and she said that she was worried about reporting it, because the HR director was shagging the PM and it was embarrassing to have to report him and me.
2 days later the PM was in a foul mood and a week later he had gone. Later found out that HR director had dumped him. HR director didn't report that she was in a relationship with him, tried to get him to go quietly, because she knew she had done bad... she was then gone 2 months later after the head of fraud team had reported what had happened to CEO.
It took 3 months for my expenses to be paid. Didn't get any apology from the people who should apologise. PM had a months salary and HR director was given a golden parachute. CEO then asked for me in his office and he then apologised that this had happened under his watch, explained to me that the company had to pay these people off, or suffer bad press. I'm happy I had the experience because I've never trusted managers ever again and therefore have saved every single email I've ever been sent regarding anything which could affect my employment. Those emails have saved me at least once a year since by being able to prove that I had told managers of upcoming issues which they denied ever being told.

The burglar won because it was premeditated and there were no signs / warnings
Mental that you should have to consider the safety of some miscreant who's decided to break into your home 🤯

If you are aware that it's likely to be taken, then obviously lack of labelling would mean that you are likely to be prosecuted as intent to poison which is covered under offences against the person act. If you labelled it appropriately then I can't see how you could be criminally prosecuted.However that doesn't stop you being sued in a civil case. I couldn't say that they would win, but remember burglars who sued home owners because the home owner had created traps? The burglar won because it was premeditated and there were no signs / warnings. The same reason why building sites have to be cordoned off. Also you would most likely loose your job and the person you is the victim might even be able to sue the employer because its an unsafe work place.

I think the difference here was that yes the manager was getting the points for his own stays, but was also taking the points for everybody else's stays - the clue to me was the poster referring to it being the engineers being the ones on the trips.

My Husband worked away during the week for years, he got the hotel points, as did his colleagues who also worked away from home. This would get us probably 10 nights of free hotel stays a year in an average hotel/room. Having this little perk made not having him home 4 -5 nights out of 7 slightly more bearable.

As there were several staff members who stayed away if the person booking the rooms had got the points, they'd have had luxury stays with food all paid for too...doesn't sound fair when they aren't the one leaving their family.

I think it was a fair point for another poster to make.

He must have had some charm, if he managed to get colleagues to basically carry him!

Had someone work for me once, he came in as an apprentice.

He would question everything I told him and a male colleague junior to me would have to back me up.

He used to take work off a task board and I noticed that prior to about 1030am or after about 1430 he wouldn't pick a new task up. These tasks were about 10-15 minutes worth of work and needed to be done in a certain timeline.

I did the standard stuff, set expectations, told him he needed to be working his hours etc. I then told him I needed him in the office full time, he told me the brakes had gone on his car and there was no public transport from where he lived (it would have been a very long journey), so told him to get it fixed and come into the office ASAP.

He then went AWOL. Had a meeting to review his probation in which he admitted a job just wasn't for him right now.

I then found out after he'd gone that other staff members had been covering for him and knew he was doing nothing. They felt sorry for him because he was skint and didn't want him to lose his job.

Omg! Did you tell the police about the cameras? That's really awful.