Strangest thing you have ever got into trouble for at work?

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Not 'looking like I was listening in a meeting'- I was actually listening and was able to recite information but apparently that wasn't good enough!

For 'not having a degree'- I was a Saturday girl in a shop, I was 16 at the time.

For 'being tired'-I had a baby at home and was getting up at 4am to look after them so wasn't feeling well rested but was expected to pretend I was energetic .

He was probably huffy because he didn't get an invitation.

I worked in a bakery. I was on the till and the shop was busy with a massive queue. An elderly man came in and asked could he have one of the wrapped cakes from one of the shelves. I said "yes of course, help yourself". To which he said " I will take my custom elsewhere" and stormed out. It was then I realised he wanted me to leave the till, go to the shelf and hand him the cake.

He came in the next day and repeated his request for the cake. I left the till and walked round to the front to get his cake. He said " thank you, that's what I expected you to do yesterday". I just don't get why someone would go out their way to do that, he could clearly see I was busy on the till on my own, customers were picking their own food and bringing it to the till. I've no idea why he expected me to hand deliver it.

I was only 16 as well, which is probably relevant.

I had a similar experience to this, not directly but I worked with a lady whose late teenage daughter was having some mental health problems. One morning she emailed in and said she'd be in late because she had to sort something out with her daughter.

The rest of the team were dragged into a meeting room and told that this was NOT acceptable behaviour and if we weren't coming in we had to ask not tell.

that's daughter in her late teens by the way. It sounds like I mean she has sadly died!

@Newestname002 she laughed at her I believe. And then got a disciplinary when the manager called the owner in specially. Absolutely bananas place, and only two venues, very small business so no HR to go to and young staff cohort so no real awareness of ACAS etc which the owner fully took advantage of

Having a resting bitch face

Someone complained about my coughing this week. I’m post Covid (which everyone knows) and didn’t return to work until I was sure I wasn’t infectious.

A co-worker went to our department head (public service) and demanded that she ‘do something’ about my coughing. Boss told me about the complaint as she thought it was an outrageous request. If everyone stayed home until their post Covid cough was gone we’d be in trouble!

Tasked with fixing a problem by one boss, fixed it, second boss went mental saying I'd shown him up.

All with one line manager, the horrible and incompetent bitch.

Not copying her into every email I sent, then for copying her into every one (I sent at least 50 a day).

Using certain non offensive phrases that she then used.

Not being able to do something that wasn't my job.

Getting on with people too well.

Having annual leave when my job wasn't finished. 11 years later that job still isn't finished.

Not being able to do everything all the time to the same deadline.

For not accepting a lift from
a colleague after a training course. The bus which went down my road went from a stop was 3 minutes walk from the training course. My colleague lived on the other side of the main town, so I'd have been given a lift to her road and then have to get another 2 buses to get home.

Apparently my telling her that and thanking her for the thought meant that I thought she was a bad driver and I had hurt her feelings by not accepting the lift. 🙄

For not handing in my worksheet of cases I had worked on the previous Friday. I pointed out that I didn't ever work Fridays and was told that she had checked the holiday book and I wasn't in it, so why hadn't I been at work. I had to produce my letter of appointment which spelled out my actual days and times of work that I was contracted to do before she let that one go.

Coughing. I’d had Covid but was way past the point of being infectious and had a post viral cough. My office is open plan and we have some very noise sensitive employees. One complained directly to the head of the department and asked him to ‘do something’ about my coughing!

Department head told me about this request but laughed at the ridiculousness of it.

Oh dear, had no idea this was an old thread and I’d given the same reply months ago. Whoops!

For 'losing' a lot of money in stock during a stock take that I wasn't at. I replied that they were wrong and it was all there. They said it wasn't. I went back in on my next day and pointed it all out. Fucking idiots