Work cf stories. Anyone else work cheeky fuckers?

@Inertia why should that lunch come out of the money for children getting free school meals? She was literally stealing from the children. Get management to pay for her lunch if she was entitled to one. Although management should also then provide lunch to the volunteers and TAs.

My section was packing in preparation to move to a new site when the goods inwards guy wheeled in a brand new executive chair into the office. The paperwork showed our section number on it meaning the cost had come of our section’s budget. Turns out “Mr Cheeky” the marketing manager who was taking over the office once we moved out was taking advantage of the move’s confusion to get himself a really nice work chair as well as a large office all to himself. I tried to get the cost shifted to Mr Cheeky’s budget but I was told to leave it as he was a friend of the managing director and it’s not good to “stick your head above the parapet”

The site we moved to had a different sales/marketing department. One of the administrators noticed that the foreign travel of “Mr Air Miles” coincided with major sporting events (not F1 but a similarly high money sport) that took place in various countries around the world. His business class travel and high class hotel bookings were all on expenses (but he had never achieved any sales from these visits). The administrator mentioned this travel pattern to one of the directors, but unluckily for her he was a friend of Mr Air Miles and the director sacked her.

Because it's pointless. I have been paid, and I have no intention of ever working for him again, and if I commented on every pompous arse thing that comes out of his mouth, I'd never get any work done.

Head office always buy each of us a nice Easter egg at Easter.
A few years ago, our then manager wanted to take four of the eggs home for his kids! He told us that we could share the remaining ones. Nope, that's not happening!
He got sacked when it was discovered that he was filling both his and his wife's car up with fuel on the company card instead of just the company's pool cars.

Interesting. I worked for them years ago and didn’t reckon them as an employer. Management were dreadful.

Ah well - we called them lockers but they didn't actually lock, they were just cupboards really - they were in the staff room so I suppose we all thought people would behave like professionals. It was the thought that she must have systematically gone through looking in staff lockers and mentally noted what was there.

It was the same in a few schools I worked in then - the only lockers which actually locked were in communal areas.

One of my colleagues brought in a pack of new biscuits to try from a fancy store. So her own personal biscuits.
The CF saw her take them out her bag and put the pack down on the worktop to pour a drink and CF opened and took one and announced that they tasted amazing and took another 2.
There was only 4 in the pack.
My colleague was too shocked to say anything.

If it makes you feel any better, teacher lunchtimes are unpaid so she’ll have worked an hour unpaid , saving the school at least a tenner.

Most schools can’t afford to pay teachers for doing a lunchtime duty, so many ask teachers to volunteer to do a lunch duty in exchange for a school dinner( which costs the s hook far less than paying for the actual work done) .

The school in question may have had such an arrangement in place, as the teacher was very much working on duty over her lunchtime.

I miss my old workplace but one thing that really used to annoy me was I was expected to organise everything. Christmas dos, maternity gifts, leaving stuff.

Regarding christmas dos- the places often required a deposit which I had to pay out of my own pocket, for quickness before the booking was given up. Getting the money back from colleagues was murder, a couple of times someone said they'd pay me the deposit back on the day of the meal and never showed up!

If ever anyone was leaving or having a baby/milestone birthday, ex colleagues used to come up to me and say 'Wouldn't it be nice to get something for x' then ' you do it because you are good at it' . Muggins here would email about a collection, rarely got any money on time. People would say put me in for £5 , then either forget to give it to me or not be in. Of course I had to buy said gift anyway. I'm sure I'm at least £200 out of pocket from working there over 10 years.

You didn't have to, and shouldn't have bitten your tongue . Why not say something?

Surely all you would have to say is you prepared the food for yourself specifically because you were constipated? Not your fault if someone stole it and got a raging case of the trots from it.

I've just had to listen to someone moan and whinge about late payers, all the while biting my tongue about the FIVE MONTHS it took him to pay me for some work I did for him.

@DoorPath This was in 1995. And I assure you the chair was £7.99 and the plant pot (no plant) was plastic and £1.99. All from Sainsbury's Superstore.

There is ALWAYS someone like that in every workplace. Ethically & morally bereft, constantly on the take. This is a big part of why I prefer WFH, not having to witness that type of behaviour.

Yes I think.hot chilli sauce is the way to go. It's not illegal and you couldn't be prosecuted for bringing it in to work. An old favourite saying of my mothers and one that doesn't seem be relevant nowadays is "on your own head be it"
I say it's not relevant because yoi read so many stories of people claiming compo for doing stupid things off their own back

Yes, that makes sense.

Generally the cross over between the sort of person who has the balls to steal from colleagues and the sort of person who then has the balls to complain about the food is not zero.

Also, if the person has a bad reaction and ends up in hospital, it may all come out.

There are perfectly legal ways to alter food. It just seems silly to to use a way that could result in the victim of the theft being sacked for gross misconduct / prosecuted but you do you.

And could be risky too! I wouldn't go and shove my hands in someone else's lunch anyway because I'm not a dirty fucking scrote, but I especially wouldn't if I knew very well they had serious, dangerous allergic reactions.

How would it ever be proved that you got the squits from food nicked from your work colleagues? Who would have the balls to complain?!

If they were any good as a Medium they should have seen it coming!

urgh - i have so many - One colleague always got 'signed' off sick when on holiday to extend holiday by weeks - the last one he 'broke his leg' - all lies as he actually just told me he didn't want to come back and has a dr friend who helps him, i know some who steal toilet paper and soaps, quite a few who 'pretend' their Christmas gift never arrived so will get an extra one (our company is generous with gifts - most cost over £100), and a few who oder more food at company do's to take home.

While I know you are joking, spiking food as a trap for a thief is a criminal offence for which people have been prosecuted in the past.

Far safer to stick to chili sauce - if you can say you actually intended to eat the item, there’s no case.

There was an equity partner at our firm (he was later removed from the partnership for not doing enough work but that's another issue) who was an absolute greedy gannet with food. Oddly he was quite a nice chap otherwise.

If anyone brought in cakes for their birthday they'd try and let everyone else know before he noticed as he was like a human hoover. One time someone had brought in a Victoria sponge cake and a coffee cake which would have been plenty for our department (about 12 of us). Gannet unfortunately spotted them as soon as they were put out and came over and cut a huge piece of Victoria sponge, almost a third of the cake! One of the secretaries exclaimed "oi, you can't do that" and he just pulled a sulky face and said "but I don't like coffee cake and I was worried there wouldn't be enough of the other one" and trotted off to fill his piggy face. He never brought in cake when it was his birthday though!

If we can client meetings that went over lunchtime, there would be a sandwich platter. This cost usually went onto the client's bill as a disbursement. It was customary to offer the platter to the clients first. However, Gannet would watch the platter coming in and as soon as it was on the table he would stand and lunge for his favourite (tuna) and pick up all four triangles at once, removing all of that option. The first time I saw it I was so shocked. On later occasions I witnessed the shock on the client's faces. This was a bloke earning drawings of £250k a year ago could have afforded to buy as many tuna sandwiches as he wanted!

Years ago when moving from a flat to somewhere else we put all our big stuff in storage.

The first storage manager was a woman and she was a brilliant manager and well liked and respected by staff and customers. Lovely lady with an hilarious sense of humour but she was also tough. She then left to become cabin crew for a well-known airline.

Then we got this dickhead in, male, totally in love with himself, thought he was a gift to Mankind. Treated his hard working staff ... the same ones that were treated well by the woman manager ... like filth.

We had our storage unit for almost 2 years but while Mr Dickhead was awkward with us, the staff continued to stick with us so once it was time for us to leave the unit we bought 7 bottles of champagne, 1 each for the staff and the manager but we found out later, thanks to one of the lady staff quietly telling us, he nabbed all 7 for himself before the other staff could even see the bottles!

Arsehole!

am part of a team organising a massive sports event with hundreds of volunteers and only 3 or 4 paid people involved - guess who is ALWAYS first to appear when the lunch delivery is made, before it is bagged up for volunteers. Don't even get me started on thank you treats for volunteers ...