Work cf stories. Anyone else work cheeky fuckers?

... In Wuhan 😜

Exactly, that's how it stays legal. You just cannot put an excessive amount of the laxative in the food. A double dose, which some people medically need, would work just fine in making the food thief known.

I was her 2x manager, not that it makes a difference, and it wasn't a few pages she was printing! This person was going through reams of paper and ink every week, otherwise I wouldn't have noticed. She was soon dismissed for other reasons- the printing was minor in comparison.

Prawn sandwich maybe that you 'forgot' to put in the fridge overnight, what a shame left it in the full sun.

Department Manager had his house up for sale. People went on the web to have a nose about it and saw a company branded clock on his kitchen wall.
He was on about £100k.

Here are mine (might be missing some because I've seen A LOT):

I worked in a medical lab compound around a decade ago. I primarily sorted medical samples and delivered them to the separate labs in the buildings. I kept catching mislabeled and misdirected samples. When I repeatedly looked up who was making the errors, ONE man was REGULARLY the cause for approximately TWO THIRDS of them. When I repeatedly informed management, NOTHING was done. He didn't even receive written reprimands.

I worked at a grocery store where either the front end manager, her assistant, or BOTH were regularly STEALING money from the safe (to my knowledge, they got away with it). There also was a cashier who would call out sick just to go to concerts; another cashier would repeatedly no-call no-show because she "wrote down the wrong hours" and she never bothered to ask for help, just would be like "Oh well, I'm here now".

I worked at the distribution center for some thrift stores and my direct supervisor kept overtly sexually harassing me, which MOST supervisors did to subordinates there.

I worked at a gas station where a coworker stole A LOT of cases of beer by claiming she was picking it up for legitimate work-related reasons (something to do with inventory, not sure why, that the manager was going to do).

I worked at a supermarket/retail store where the woman initially training me was instructing me to go against store policy and CHASE customers suspected of theft, something that according to policy I could get IMMEDIATELY fired for that she did ALL THE TIME.

I worked at a retail store where the store manager would "fix" our timesheets and by that I mean she committed WAGE THEFT.

I worked for a pet store where, instead of giving one employee more hours (who really needed more hours and if they got the hours wouldn't be full-time), they kept hiring inept teenagers who rarely showed up.

I worked at a fast food place (two yellow and conjoined arches) where the store manager took me by my shoulders and SHOOK me because the fries weren't cooking fast enough (this happened when I was 16).

Those are all I can think of for now.

Gah! Busted 😂

Thank you, but if you hadn't realised- I was being sarcastic!
I wasn't suggesting the person ACTUALLY put a laxative in HER OWN drink that others in the office were stealing from her!🙄

My DD worked as a member of police staff for a short time. The fridge in the admin kitchen had to have a lock on it to stop police officers allegedly liberating food during their night shifts. One night the lock was smashed and food and milk were removed. No one took responsibility and the station Inspector didn’t care. The fridge was then moved to an office and the door was locked when the last member of the admin team left for the day. Due to the fridge being out of bounds, the Inspector started a Tuck Shop but had to close it down after a couple of months due to missing stock and too many IOUs in the “honesty” box.

Care home around 10 years ago. When a resident died a large sum of money was donated to the residents fund, along with a 50 inch tv for the main lounge. Both disappeared home with the manager and her assistant manager husband…. They’re both on suspended sentences for abuse.

I would either not do it, or do it but not tell the CF I had, and keep it only for the students I taught.

Do not do it. Just no. don't share it. Grrrr these fuckers make my piss boil and they are always someone's manager. bastards.

Well it would teach them to keep their sticky fingers off other peoples property 🤣🤣

My husband worked for a big company, probably about 100 members of staff at their particular branch. For Christmas meals they were given £20 per head to organise a meal/party so about £2k in total. It was during covid and no one heard about a Xmas party so assumed it wasn’t happening. In January it came out that the treasurer had arranged and been on the meal. Took her 3 closest work friends and 6 other people who didn’t even work for the company! 10 people had £2k between them for a splash out meal! She didn’t even get fired! But she did get told she had to go and ask everyone who went for their share of the money, which they weren’t too happy about!

Still a crime. Not spiking, though, unless you obtain the bacteria from somewhere and deliberately contaminate the food. You’d be setting a boobytrap which is illegal.

Also, considering the practicalities, you’d need food that was good enough you could convince people you intended to eat it that was rotten enough to cause illness. Not sure that’s particularly easy.

"Gone off" food does not necessarily contain any bacteria that will cause food poisoning, and if it does it doesn't guarantee that the consumer will get food poisoning.

What about if you make it with a filling that you know has gone off, so the thief gets food poisoning?

I worked with an awful, older primary teacher once and she would regularly at the end of term try and take any gifts from parents home with her. One child got so fed up with it she took chocolates out of her bag and said ‘these are for you not her’. She was a nightmare, never should have been a teacher. Still gives me the chills.

You may not. The law disagrees (at least in England and Wales, I can’t comment on elsewhere).

If food is deliberately ‘spiked’ with something intended to injure a thief (and laxatives fall into this category even though the injury is unlikely to be permanent), it’s a crime.

Technically using hot sauce with intent to injure is also a crime but it’s a lot easier to pull off wide eyed innocence and a complete denial you had any such intention over something people regularly eat in food. Most people don’t preemptively crush laxatives into their lunch (or, in fact hide their tablets in food in the first place).

I agree it's not a great idea and could result in illness, but I don't see how stealing and drinking something that contains someone else's medication is 'spiking'.

Not a good idea. Sounds funny in theory, but dosing someone medication without their knowledge is spiking, and is illegal. And giving someone a strong laxative might not just give them the shits, it could cause serious electrolyte imbalance, and they could end up in hospital or worse.

Okay the gods work thing is a bit weird but I wouldn’t class that as stealing and I’d turn a blind eye unless I was the owner of the business.

I would have added a strong laxative to the carton instead! 😆

You clearly know that isn't what the OP meant.

Dunno about the posters who are saying various central government departments or local authorities were turning a blind eye to people manipulating their leave, I've worked for 1 government department & 3 local authorities & never even had the chance to fiddle time off - quite the opposite in fact at one place.

We were working on a major IT project, travelling all over the country and working silly hours; no budget for overtime so were being given flexi toil instead. Got round to about October, and both me & my boss put our respective feet down & said if they wanted us to do the hours then they would have to start paying us overtime. The previous leave year we had both "lost" annual leave as we hadn't been able to take time off due to the prep for the project and both had more left than the maximum amount we were allowed to carry over.

Obviously the senior management wanted us to continue to work flexi for toil - right up to us going in with the calculations that if we immediately took off the time we were already owed for that leave year (half way through), we would be back some time after Christmas in my case and Mid-January in his. We got overtime pay after that!

One of these managers would come in to "help" on the Saturday if we had implementation over a weekend (overtime pay from day 1 of course). She would sit in her office, which was in a different building to the ones we were doing the hardware installs in, and get on with her day to day paperwork unrelated to the project. Then again she was a classic credit stealer - ask you to do some work then change maybe 2 words and a punctuation mark (so it showed as being done by her on the system) then present this brilliant paper to her bosses.