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Things coworkers have said which disgusts you?

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Inmy50s · 04/10/2023 20:16

About 15 years ago, I worked in a place where people openly admitted to each other that they have lied to their insurance companies about what job they do, their car/driving history etc. to get cheaper insurance.

One time, when I worked in a job, not very well paid, a couple of women told a new starter that when applying for benefits, to ask the bosses for the lower paid days/shifts, for several weeks to make your income appear lower than it actually is, to get more benefit than they should.

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toadasoda · 04/10/2023 21:45

I worked in a hotel and one of my jobs was to set up the carvery so i had to carry a tray of empty milk jugs through the kitchen. Hotel kitchens are very long with lots of different stations. I am rather well endowed, even back then at 19. Everytime I walked along everyone would shout 'nice jugs' to me. I have to admit I did find it funny and used to laugh along, it might have disgusted and upset someone else though. It still makes me laugh when I think of it, so stupid.

Hanlonsamazer · 04/10/2023 21:46

toadasoda · 04/10/2023 21:29

I have to agree with OP here, I find fraudulent behaviour absolutely disgusting, especially if its insurance or tax related because its stealing out of everyone's pockets!!

My worst quote:
"thats the problem with women, they start to talk and they never know when to shut the fuck up".

This was said within ear shot of me, at a formal dinner where 2 male colleagues and I were sitting in a row. The middle one , sitting beside me always ignored me at work and I thought was quite rude, I thought the other was ok but didn't really know him . After chatting to each other for an hour and blanking me, the middle one tried to include me by asking me a generic question, like 'any holiday plans' etc, and I answered, appropriately I thought, but within a few minutes the other guy chatted to him, and he did that awkward thing of trying to turn between 2 people. Next thing I heard the other guy say the above quote. The middle man at least had the decency to look mortified and always was a bit nicer after that, he knew I heard. I honestly was so humiliated and never really engaged with the other guy again, thankfully I left the company shortly after.

After 15 years though… therapy probably a better solution than starting a benefit bashing thread on here.

WhatWhereWhenHowWhy · 04/10/2023 21:46

roseopose · 04/10/2023 21:39

I used to work with troubled teens and one guy at work claimed to have told an unaccompanied minor who was complaining about their accommodation to go back to where they came from if they didn't like what they had here. That's probably the worst thing but there have been others.

That makes me so sad, such an awful attitude from someone who is meant to care

applesandmares · 04/10/2023 21:52

In the midst of the Wagatha Christie saga my (male) manager called Rebakah Vardy a "slag". When I questioned him he said it was because she had children by different men. He also has children by different women but amazingly didn't see the parallel 🙄 He also referred to Angelina Jolie as "on the turn".

CatamaranViper · 04/10/2023 21:52

One youngish man at work decided to go on a rant about how women coming into the workplace ruined employment opportunities for men and destroyed the proper family dynamic and that no woman should have a child after the age of 30 and that only horribly selfish, shit women do that.

Said all this to me, a 30yr old woman in the workplace who was ttc at the time and did not see a problem with this.

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