Work cf stories. Anyone else work cheeky fuckers?

I worked for M&S once, retail side. Uniforms took ages to arrive even though it was from their own range.

They advised to order a size either size of your normal size as they accepted their sizings weren't consistent even across the same product.

They also advised Hotter shoes as M&S ones were known not to hold up long.

After waiting several weeks for the uniform to arrive I arrived at work to find a package for me, ripped open, new stuff removed (all sizes) and someone's scuzzy old dirty uniform stuffed in there. Normal practice apparently.

My manager was about as interested in that as she was in everything else that didn't directly affect those above her in the food chain - i.e. not all.

No, I didn't stay long. Horrible, bullying employer.

That's really unfair. A garden chair and plant pot cost a lot more than £10.

It's the opposite in our work.

A couple of veggies and one vegan on our team of 30 So they only order vegan pizza, which most non vegans would never order.

So much pizza left over as it's so disgusting. I just buy my own sandwich as do many others

We have a CF at work who uses all her annual leave in the first half of the year and then blocks out days and days as "not available" - usually in the school holidays, funny that

It makes me livid as the rest of us manage our leave, and it's basically theft. Many of us have flagged but the overall boss is very weak and will not tackle.

She was definitely cutting off her nose to spite her face just to have something ‘free’.

A school where I taught, was doing a PD day, the headteacher said instead of everyone bring a packed lunch, could we each bring something for a buffet for everyone to share!
Everyone brought something, apart from him. He also invited staff from other schools to share our PD day and we later heard, he charged them for the PD day and the lovely lunch we provided! 🤪

Looks like I'm the cf here 😂 not bought a bin bag in years! No regrets though management consistently steal hours while I'm left dealing with the shit they should be doing

Years ago we had a ‘bring a dish’ lunch for work. One of the guys ask if he HAD to contribute food to it. I replied ‘if you don’t bring, you don’t eat!’

When I was in my NQT year, one of the other teachers had a child at the same school, in her own class. Guess who was chosen for absolutely everything? Class rep, Eco council leader, football captain, lead role in the Christmas concert, in every photograph taken by local papers.

The final straw was when the SATS papers arrived and she took her kid into the PPA office to go through the paper with him before the exam.

When other children in the class had birthday parties, she would turn up with her son, as well as her daughter, who was a good few years younger, so very little. She'd either bugger off and leave them both, or hang around and ensure the second child got food, cake, party bags etc. Because she was the class teacher, the other parents just let her do it, and wouldn't speak up. Awful woman.

I had a manager running her ‘side hustle’ from the shop selling competitive products to her other business. Shed get deliveries of those products to work and sell them to our customers. She also only turned up for work from 10-2 and was claiming for 9-6. It was a happy day when hr found out and she was gotten rid of

I saw a 'skit' (I hope it was a skit) on Instagram the other about work food thiefs. A worker sitting at the next desk was tucking into a nicely filled bread roll but stopped and pulled out a condom from the middle.

Amazing!

In my old place of work my line manager asked me if I could start dropping off a colleague home as their house was in the next town to mine, and so they didn’t have to get the bus.

Although most of the time I didn’t go straight home from work. I’d either go to the gym or do the food shop. I felt incredibly awkward.

Just remembered another charity based one, although not a workplace I guess although I was helping at a charity event.

It was a medium night and there was a raffle. One of the mediums had his eye on a very nice rug that had been donated by a local carpet company and asked the organiser, me and a friend who was also helping if he could have it. I told him he could buy some raffle tickets and have the same chance as everyone else to win it.

This wasn't good enough apparently. He bought tickets and the organiser marked them and put them at the bottom of the bag, instructing me and my friend to do all the raffle draws ourselves and to make sure we got the marked one for the rug.

We didn't do that, we don't like cheats, so we gave the bag a good mix and his face when he didn't win the rug was a picture. And he couldn't complain in front of all the other participants.

Not sure where the line between CF and criminal falls here tbh.

I volunteered in a charity shop in my late teens when I was a lot more trusting and naive than I am now. We always had two members of staff on to sign off for the takings before they'd be taken to the bank deposit box.

This day the guy I was on with asked for my signatures on the takings and volunteered to take them to the bank so I wouldn't miss my bus home. I gladly accepted as there was an hour between them at that time.

I turned up the next day to the shop being totally locked up and I had no idea what had happened. The manager phoned me later to say I'd be getting a visit from the police because the guy had stolen all the takings and the floats from the safe and had gone off to the casino with all the money.

I worked nights and was dieting, I brought really big salads (yes I’m a mumsnet cliche 😂) to work with olives, feta, grilled peppers, home made humous, capers and roasted new potatoes or deli meats, pickles and cheese.

Other staff members commented on how nice it looked but then suddenly my lunch boxes started going missing.

Everyone denied it but it coincided with a new staff member starting, for the sake of this I’ll call her Vicki - it’s also her name and if she reads this I hope she recognises herself as a thieving little cheapskate.
I got sick of spending all night on a 12 hour shift with no food, all the shops were shut and I didn’t want to order a takeaway when I had spent considerable time preparing my meals!

I bought a George Foreman grill and griddle and put it in the staff room and said others could use it as long as they cleaned afterwards.
Vicki admired it and said she fancied getting one for herself and said she’d seen one in the sale on Amazon.
I bought mine from Argos because although it was cheaper on amazon I noticed a lot of reviews saying the griddle had stopped working.

I still had my food going missing but a lot less since I’d ordered the grill, it was easier to nick a ready prepared meal rather than ingredients that needed the effort of cooking.

I came in for my shift after two nights off and went to grill some chicken for a salad, unfortunately the griddle had stopped working.
I suspected Vicki had ordered hers off amazon and swapped mine with hers unfortunately I couldn’t confront her without proof.

I asked the security guard to check the CCTV footage of Vicki leaving and arriving on my days off, lo and behold there was footage of her arriving early carrying a box and then later leaving holding a grill!

Management asked me to just let it go when I complained and asked if I could just return my grill if it was under warranty. We had a big argument and they weren’t happy I wanted her holding to account but they asked me to keep it quiet from other colleagues to prevent the possibility of bullying.
In the end she just got a slapped wrist so I handed my notice in and got a much better job.
I did tell Vicki I knew it was her and had seen CCTV footage of her swapping them, she refused to admit it and said she’d brought hers in to compare it to see if they were the same model!
It was an obvious lie but unfortunately CCTV didn’t show her actually swapping them and she wasn’t going to back down.

The little thief finally got her comeuppance when she continued stealing food until she had a severe reaction from ingredients in else’s meal and had an allergic reaction and had to finally confess she’d been helping herself to identify the allergen.
Everyone knew it was Vicki all along but I wish I’d been present to see her fess up after months of denying it.
She left a few weeks later after being teased mercilessly, I still don’t think she was officially punished though.

I don’t know what causes people to feel entitled to other people’s food at work, I’ve experienced it in a few jobs. Reading some of these stories though it’s prolific.
Stealing is stealing and stealing other people’s work meals is as low as you can go, you are stealing time, ingredients when food isn’t cheap and leaving the victim either spending more money to replace it or going hungry.

I heard a rumour that Vicki has had her lunch stolen a few times in her current job, I know it’s mean but I really hope it’s true.

I've no idea about working conditions for TAs. Or provision for volunteers.

I was commenting on the teacher being called CF when they weren't.

@echt what about the TAs and volunteers om the trip? They did not get a sandwich. The money allocated to children on fsm. If she was entitled to a paid lunch that should not come out of money allocated to those children.

About 20 years ago, I worked with someone that took advantage of absolutely everything they could under HR policies.If you are sick, take sick leave. If you need special leave, take special leave.

They took absolutely everything and were not in the least bit flexible. If someone got a reasonable adjustment, they wanted it too. Even when the protected characteristic did not apply to them.

There was a threshold for sick days, they took the maximum every year. When it changed to number of absences, their sick leave pattern changed too. That was just one example. They knew the HR policies by heart and took every scrap they could wing.

They didn't want to work in between Christmas and New Year and school holidays because they had DC. Every year they tried to book the best holidays off at the start of the year.

Everyone had children If other people had already booked off half term, they would kick off. If they needed them, they wanted names in a hat. If they booked them, it was first come first served.

If they were scheduled to be in over Christmas, they always call in sick. We had a skeleton staff requirement. It meant we had to up the number of people required to cover to compensate. They had 30 days a year leave, flexi leave, 14 days sick leave, 5 days special leave. I have no idea how they got away with it every year.

They did not care about anyone but themselves. They were very unpleasant to be around, lazy and kicked off regularly.

I hosted a work lunch for charity - everyone was asked to bring a plate of food to share and make a donation to the charity. Half the office came and bought so much food, lots homemade and some shop bought. They all donated too. There was far too much food for us to eat so what was left was taken back to the office with the donation box. The food got scoffed up by the rest of the office but not a single donation was made.

It's so satisfying hearing the stories of the CFs who actually get caught and stopped!

Another Christmas basket one...

I work in transportation, all management and admin upstairs, and the operations and planning happening downstairs (my area). One day near Christmas I had a call from one of the upstairs managers that there was a basket available if anyone wanted to come up and get it.

I went upstairs to find an empty basket. in the lunchroom. Yes, a wicker basket with the little shredded paper bits at the bottom. The manager thought that someone downstairs might find it useful. I thanked him with a confused grin, and you should have seen the looks from my co-workers downstairs as I came in with an empty basket! It has caused endless chuckles for years since.

We would also be granted the leftover sandwiches and bits of parsley from their meetings on occasion.

I'm sure I've told this one before

CF Team Manager in the NHS, her mum worked in HR

Any staff member with a car was charged through payroll for a parking pass, most of us on £16k or £18k

She had a sporty, low slung, two door car, which she parked using her late father's Blue Badge

She was on at least £39k per annum

On being told that disabled parking was going to be charged, she went on a rant...

...to an office full of people being paid less than half she was on and who all were paying for a car parking pass

Place I worked at over 20 years ago shared a building with a toiletries company who were moving offices. They brought down several large carrier bags of full sized and sample sized products for our staff. I sorted through and worked out what people could take, think 3 samples and a full sized product. I then messaged everyone to say it was all laid out in the committee room and was available to take, plus how much they could have. My colleagues were very grateful, those who were in meetings asked me to pick them something. Except the Assistant Director that is who took a carrier bag in and filled it for his wife. I called him out and made him put everything back except for the 3 samples and one product. This was the same person who 'borrowed' a book I had left on my desk. He was seen taking it and I was told. It took several weeks but I got the book back.

Another place I worked I brought some sweets back for the staff when I returned from a holiday. One of the volunteers was caught filling his pockets with the sweets for his daughter. He thought that was his right as he wasn't being paid for his work. That was his last day volunteering for the organisation.

These were charities as was the one where the Director used to have breakfast meetings at Claridges in London paid for by money donated by the membership.