Work cf stories. Anyone else work cheeky fuckers?

Instead of going out for a xmas meal our boss also did the pizza thing.. half per person..but some of the younger staff said they wouldn't attend lunchtime pizza unless they could have a whole pizza each?! They didn't like fo share in case of germs?!

This reminds me of a work colleague, our assistant manager, who earned much more than us receptionists; a patient left a box of fancy hand made chocs on the desk for us- by the time they reached me there were 2 chocs left. Assistant Manager announced she "didn't really like chocolate" but still took the largest chocolate of the two! She was a bit weird though; a patient complimented me on my earrings, Assistant manager butted in that she had nicer ones!!

Chocolate champagne? 🤮

People in my office were always drinking from my carton of milk, and never buying any for themselves. So I decided to drink from the carton one time 😁

I worked for a multinational company and my role encompassed managing the departmental budgets. My boss wrangled a two year secondment to Germany but his PA remained in the UK. He had managed to promote her to a grade that gave her a company car....even though she didn't like driving, took the bus to work and gave the car to her husband.

In order to continue doing her role, she travelled to Germany every few weeks...arriving at the airport mid morning, plenty of time for a bit of shopping and a full lunch. Then early afternoon flight but too late to go into the office when she arrived. A couple of days in the German office and then a full day travelling back. Meanwhile if any one else travelled over, they were expected to be on the 7am flight and a full day of meetings when they arrived.

I began to see large charges to our department cost centre and realised that she was using a limousine service to travel backwards and forwards to the airport - the service that visiting directors would use when they visited the UK. I flagged it to our mutual boss and he felt obliged to tell her to stop. She was furious with me and still refused to drive as her husband had the car so ended up using public transport to the airport which was very inconvenient.

As a teenager I worked in a local carvery type pub restaurant as a waitress. My shift was 8am-6pm on a Sunday. I got one 15min break all day (totally illegal but 15yr old me didn’t know this) and wasn’t allowed to eat any of the restaurant food so would spend my 15 min break out the back door of the kitchen smoking and telling the two pervy chefs to piss off. The manager was a hugely obese man who each shift would waddle into the kitchen with an overflowing plate of carvery food that he would pick from as he reminded his young workforce not to “pinch any potatoes” 🙄

We had a contractor join for a short term project and she clearly had her sights set on my boss’s job. She was vile to him in ways that caused me second hand embarrassment for her. Being the stand up gentleman he is, he included her in our Christmas lunch. He didn’t have to. She didn’t report to him, she reported to another department in another country.

She of course came along. My boss picks up the bill for lunches as the company won’t pay. She ordered up big, took over the wine list and then didn’t even thank him.

It was such bizarre and unnecessary CFery.

I'd have taken both.

what a selfish tightarse! People who are mean spend their lives wondering how they can get everything on the cheap and this was free-even better! No thought for anyone else.

I was temping as a head chef in a drop in centre just before Christmas. A fishmonger sent in four sides of smoked salmon as thank you presents for ordering exclusively from him.

My client told me that he did this every year. Then he went to the fridge and hid two sides of smoked salmon for himself behind some items. I was told the other two were for certain senior staff members.

I removed one and took it home!

A company my DH worked in, the accountant fiddled loads of money, hundreds of thousands. He was sacked, but he was close to retirement anyway. It was reported to the police, but they were not interested. DH and others were made redundant as a direct result. The company is still struggling to recover.

It doesn’t surprise me one bit; it was rife in one I worked with as well as the MOD where someone I knew worked.
She would fiddle her AL days so effectively she had as much leave as she fancied- more than 16 weeks a year. And everyone at the MOD establishment where she worked got a free week leave to do Christmas shopping, another for watching Wimbledon and an extra day every Bank holiday (so that would be an extra 10 days now)
It shocked me that this was the norm.

I am the governor for cakeage at school... we have 166 staff... I buy a cake for everyone and a large amount of chocolate at Easter, otherwise it is not fair. It is, however, a bugger to carry them over from the supermarket.

@S1lverCandle thats exactly what it was junior school antics but these were grown women in their 20s, 30s and 40s with children of their own. It all sounds so petty when I read it back but it was a big problem I wasn't the only one they did it to but it was my food that was repeatedly stolen the most myself and colleagues complained so many times and nothing was done because certain managers felt it was petty but as I and a couple of others pointed out we aren't food banks its costing us a lot money having to constantly replace our food.

When I worked in retail in a bookies the cheekiness of colleagues was next level. Two lazy colleagues pocketed a £30 tip between themselves when it was known to split the tips between colleagues who were on shift. I found out what they did when the customer who tipped mentioned it. I had no clue what he was on about then he told me. I told my manager that since they won't share with me I won't be sharing my tips with them and he agreed. Low and behold a good customer had a nice win and as I sorted the bet and paid it he handed me about £20 and said it was for me. I thanked him and put it in my back pocket and said nothing a little while after the lazy two who didn't split the tip with me asked for their share I took great delight in saying that since they don't share the tips they get I'm not obligated to share mine. They wasted no time in telling the manager who told them I was right and thats the new rule if you don't share your tips you can't expect a share of other people's tips. Didn't work out for those lazy sods because me and the others used to get tipped a lot whereas they didn't because they couldn't be bothered to make the effort with customers needless to say they used sit there with faces like a slapped arse whilst we enjoyed the fruits of our hard work. 🤣🤣

@PregnantWithHorrors they were entitled cheeky fuckers but they acted so fun and easy going not everyone saw the problem of them stealing other people's food until happened to them of course then it was a different kettle of fish. Cheeky fucker colleague 2 had no shame whatsoever she ponced off everyone and if you ignored her she would repeatedly ask again and again until you gave into her it was almost like she was trying to shame you into sharing with her. I ended up telling her I'm not bloody food bank and to buy her own lunch if she was that hungry. She didn't care she would rifle through the cupboards and fridge and take anything she fancied. I did get my own back I came in one day and she had eaten my kit kats, chrisps, drank my can of coke and finished off my butter and milk. I went apeshit and called my managers boss raging and he said to take the money out of the till to replace my food. I hid all her stuff, sweets, chocolate, chrisps etc and when she came in and couldn't find it she accused me to which I replied "not me maybe its the same person who keeps stealing my food" she then texted my other colleagues and manager in the group chat accusing them of eating her food and I was seething at her nerve I chucked it all in the bin when she wasn't looking so she had to replace it all, served her right the greedy cow!

We have often have treats at work. My supervisor will go up and get one, again and again, across the course of an hour or two, and essentially decimate the entire offering. He sees no problem with it and loudly declares it each time!

Being a temp doesn't usually give you any rights in a company but me being a young naive eejit I was back then just made it more embarrassing than it ever would now.

Of course you weren't in the wrong.

Sounds more like junior school antics than a workplace.

Back in the 80's I was doing a lot of temporary work, a few weeks/months here and there. I was working as PA to the MD for a company for about 5/6 months when he asked me to organise the Xmas lunch. This was before email so I had to type up individual invites to all employees (about 25 I think - small company) and hand them back to him to sign off on. Stupidly I made the mistake of doing one for myself only to have him come in and tell me that as I was only a temp that I was not part of the company. I was so embarrassed. Another employee tried to speak to him on my behalf but he was having none of it.

I know some people will say that I was in the wrong but all I was was mortified. I was only early 20s at the time also.

This also happens at our place- global manufacturing, if you are a contractor or working for an agency you are not allowed for xmas dinner or xmas party or attend any events we have - Also don't get a welcome pack when you start ( now its nothing special, a water bottle, notepad, pen etc) I think its shocking., like they are working with part of our team. we have some colleagues there for a few years and they not allowed, so so bad - If i ever bring anything in, i always make sure that they get some of it

ElTortilla · Yesterday 16:58

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

A good few years ago, I got pressured into SS. I don't really like Christmas in any case; we were told to spend £10 - £12 and given examples of what to get. I got some hand made chocolates for my recipient, just under £12 and got a cheap, shitty deodorant and show gel, which cost £2.99.

Never again.

I do seabed surveys and years ago, we had a huge internet cable job, from Asia, Africa, Middle East and into Europe. We got to the end of a crucial section and went back to the office, pulling 18 hour days, 7 days a week, for weeks. We got it done a little bit early and Alcatel gave out team £500 for a night out. We all went on leave for a few days.

When we got back, we found that a woman who was nothing to do with our department had taken the money. She was French and she and a French department head had taken two other French colleagues, from another company out and spent it all. They were bragging about the £100 bottles of wine they had.

We were really pissed off and complained, only to be told, "Oh, that's Cecile! It's gone now, don't worry about it!"

Stupid blonde, eyelash fluttering performative weeper she was, she had all the male managers sniffing round her and letting her off with all sorts.

Your colleagues sound very odd @WickedWitchOfTheEast87!

God where do I start I have encountered so many CF colleagues I could fill this thread up alone!

I seem to attract a lot food thieving/scavenging colleagues. In my first job cheeky fucker colleague 1 was a greedy cow she would remark "hmm that looks nice" and just take food off of people's plates whilst they were still eating! She once ate my entire lunch so I had to go out and buy mine so I bought some chips. Got back sat down in the staff room and the cheeky cow said "they look tasty" and reached her hand out but I was quicker moved my box of chips out of her reach and said "aren't you full from eating my lunch" she was shocked but not shocked enough to reply "you're so selfish WickedWitch sharing is caring" which she said repeatedly whenever someone rarely refused to share their food with her or do her any favours it used to drive me nuts because in the 18 months I worked in this place she never brought any food in for lunch or to share with other colleagues and the managers were too shit scared to tell her to stop because 'she got things done' i.e. she bullied people and they were fine with that as staff did as they were told rather than risk upsetting her but I had no such qualms the nasty cow never cared for anyone else's feelings so I gave zero fucks about hers.

Cheeky fucker colleague 2 another food thief when I worked in retail would help herself to my food replace it, show me she has replaced it then would open it up and eat half or most leaving me with a small portion then replace again and do the same despite me asking nicely to stop then straight up telling her to keep her greedy hands off my stuff! She once saw my cigarettes in my bag and called out to me casually "WickedWitch I'm gonna nick a ciggie off you" and reached into my bag for my pack, I snapped "no you're not, get your hand out of my bag now!" To which she huffed then went to her coat pocket where she got her own nearly full pack of ciggies out and didn't offer me one despite poncing about 5 ciggies off me that week! I was glad when she got sacked the lazy thieving cheeky cow.

Cheeky fucker colleague 3 was the perfect example of the sin gluttony and a very greedy madam indeed. We were friends at first but she was two faced and lazy, any tasks she didn't want to do she would cry how she struggled and could I or anyone help (do it for her).

We used to get boxes of chocolates from our service users and one bought us two big boxes of celebrations for all of our team. I ate 4 of the twix and about 2 other chocolates that was it. Within two days the celebrations were finished. The cheeky fucker told our team leader and deputy manager that I ate most of the chocolates and anyone else barely got a look in. Thankfully team leader knew me well and told deputy manager she didn't believe that. Deputy manager questioned me and I admitted eating the twix and 2 other chocolates but left the rest and I don't like nuts of any kind in chocolate or as a snack and asked her to check the cameras as proof of what I was saying (it was similar to a refuge but not one so we had vulnerable people, and sometimes children on our premises hence CCTV everywhere but the toilets and bathrooms). Anyway cameras get checked and cheeky fucker colleague was seen grabbing handfuls of chocolates every time she went into the kitchen. When she got pulled up the stupid cow continued to insist I had eaten the chocolates until the deputy manager told her she was caught on camera she then backtracked and said she hadn't realised it was her! 😯

Another time I was needed for a shift which was on my day off so the deputy manager said she'd buy me a takeaway if I would come in and also do some really important admin work for her which I agreed. When I ordered my food I asked everyone if they wanted to order anything they said no. Within minutes of my food arriving cheeky fucker came in said it smells nice and can she nick a bit of my food. I told her no as I was still pissed off at her blaming me over chocolategate and said she had her chance to order food, she actually tutted at me and 'jokingly' called me tight!

I could go on and on but there'd be no more space on this thread lol I honestly don't know why I attract food thief CF but everywhere I have worked there is at least one who helps themselves to my food and drinks without asking then act offended when I say no their entitlement is shocking I wish I had the guts to put laxatives in my food and drink to teach them a lesson but that's taking it to the extreme plus I don't wanna risk someone having a bad reaction but it really pisses me off when it happens.

I think I can now safely say it was Avon County Council. Everyone was at it Half the councillors were on some kind of fiddle.