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 .

You'd think a contractor would be ok with contractions...

Apparently gave negative eye contact to the boss

😂🙄

Should have run there and then

Commenting on the amount of food the girl on the next desk came in with. I've..wow is that really all yours.....yup "disciplinary"

Got told off for producing year planners for my department.

I’d used a calendar template and added holiday, exam, assessment, changeover, parents’ evenings dates. Printed out a few copies and spiral bound them - in my own time.

As I was doing one for myself anyway so printing out 5 more wasn’t a vast effort. They found them useful although I think one of them dobbed me in - probably under pressure. Par for the course, I’d been about another member of staffs ‘weaknesses’

The head didn’t give any reason just that I shouldn’t have.

Accused of sighing down the phone to a client. I was made to apologise - became known as sighgate.

For failing to use less than 1 litre of toilet descaler in one week,…… to clean 75 toilets being used by 300 people daily that required cleaning 6 times per day.
so 3150 cleans and still have liquid left over form a 1 litre of already diluted fluid …. I quit the same day.

Not wearing enough makeup!

I worked my backside off in the run up to Christmas even doing deliveries in my own car to make sure everything got done and, as was the practice, took my documented expenses from the till on Christmas Eve and let the boss know when I rang with an update on our takings. Apparently I told her I'd taken my expenses in the wrong way and she wanted to see me on the first day back in January [to haul me over the coals for insubordination or some such crap].

I went to see her, handed in my notice and walked into a better job as a temp. Got made permanent after two days and have never looked back. My old boss didn't know when she was well off. We were a hard-working, cohesive team, but she couldn't see that.

I got a real telling off for an email that I sent the whole team.
Within the leadership team we regularly shared presentations. These presentations then got sent to the wider team after refining.
The head of the company was upset that the wider team did not know the current company numbers from these slides.
Through staff churn these presentations took on many names;
PowerPoint slides
Slides
PPT
Slide decks
Decks.
Bemused my the changing terminology and in my efforts to coax the team to open my attachments, I typed in the following subject line, "wanna see my deck".
Literally seconds later the first call came in... it was taken extremely seriously. 🙈

@Nevergoingtobemrsjones so sorry you had to witness that 💐

Both your bosses and the customers are horrid, thank you for showing the man who passed respect.

For not going to an optional meeting.
For sitting down too much.
For being too friendly.
Then not being friendly enough.
For getting to work "only" 5 minutes before my official start time instead of at least 20 minutes.
For printing too many sheets on a printer instead of a photocopier.
For saying hi at the start of an email instead of something more official.

For getting to work on time and leaving on time straight after we had been told that there was a ban on overtime. Had routinely done at least an hour a day by arriving 20 mins early and leaving 40 mins late.

Then got in trouble for not completing tasks as no overtime meant that there was not enough time to do my job some days (relied on the weather so had do things in long days when it was good, office hours when bad).

I left and the company went bankrupt (although I'm sure the two things were not related!).

Not necessarily got in trouble for but I was recently told I was making someone else look bad because they were deemed as being miserable. Apparently the fact that I was so positive and happy was the reason for this. I was told this by the miserable person, presumably in the hope that I would change. Sucks to be them- they have since left their post without notice and I am happier and more positive than ever!

Too many wees !!!!

Oh god, I'm looking for a new job at the moment and I'm so scared of ending up with a shitty line manager or team!
Mine was being told off for going home for lunch instead of going to the staff room. I lived 5 minutes from the work place and apparently I wasn't showing team spirit by going home. Except no one had told me that was what was expected, so I started and when I did no one spoke to me - because they thought I was antisocial because I'd been going home!

@janeseymour78 Actually howling at Sighgate !

For wearing a plain thumb ring when most of the managers wear both wedding and engagement (complete with stones) rings.

For wearing leggings under my skirt rather than tights. I'd gone arse over teakettle in the car park on some ice and ripped my tights to bits. The leggings were all the nearest shop had in the right colour and size.

Ages ago, for putting the wrong tack on a horse. I'd deliberately gone to check with the manager and been told just to use what was in his stable locker (stables were numbered, so he was in box 8 and I got the tack out of locker 8). Turns out the owners had swapped stables but not lockers so horse should have had tack from locker 7.

I'd worked there for less than a week and had no idea about the swap.

Same woman screamed at me in front of prospective boarders and their parents for leaving lights on the day before. I'd been home the day before, a full 70 miles away, and had just got back that morning!

That was at a notorious boarding school in Yorkshire!

Oh another one from the last place - for coming in from the midday sun in August to use the loo and get a drink. All we were doing was collecting stones from sand paddocks and there wasn't a single bit of shade. It was absolutely boiling and all I wanted was a glass of water and a bit of shade for ten minutes but that was unacceptable apparently!

This happened at my workplace, maybe it was you!! The person accused was nearly 6ft tall and had a model-like body. She took the skirt off there and then in the meeting to prove it and the managers started going nuts! She was standing there in her blouse and knickers, she didn't give a shit!! I could hear the fracas and she came out laughing, they came out red faces and flustered. Totally unacceptable behaviour on both sides but she put them back in their box for good. She was so lovely and I think was assumed to be some stupid bimbo but nothing was further from the truth.

I got fired for not doing the cleaning in the office, told I wasn't a team player, it wasn't in my job description and only I was asked, only woman in the office.

Also told I wasn't focusing on my targets, hadn't been given any, and when I did they changed every week at managers will. Hideous experiences!

Post was for @Blueotter10 !

For saying good morning and being too happy.

I actually think such a nasty personal remark deserved a telling off.

For not walking to the opposite end of the office when I came in of a morning and saying good morning. I asked why the person who complained couldn't come down and say good morning to me?

For allowing our customers to pay their bills - my boss was desperate for money, but so disorganised that loads of clients had been waiting months, and a few had still not been billed for YEARS, despite being quite willing to pay and actually asking for their invoices! So while she was on holiday, I went through every bit of paperwork, found all the missing details, phoned up clients and double-checked the info and did all the bills up to date. My boss received cheques for thousands of pounds. She was livid that I'd interfered... but she's kept the bills up to date from then on!

My books were too distracting for the poor men in the workforce.
As a team leader I would speak to my team at the start of my shift, just a quick hello, how are you doing, do you need anything? And when they left I would thank them for the work they had done that day. Apparently this was unacceptable.

Not me, but my dh:
Told that if he left work when dd was born he wouldn't have a job to go back to. He came home anyway.
Advised of a disciplinary meeting to discuss his failure to turn up for a work shift- on a day he never worked, hadn't been asked to work and knew nothing about. We wrote a letter asking them to provide the evidence prior to the meeting. The meeting got cancelled.

Some people are just arseholes and life's to short to work yourself into a grave to make someone else rich.