Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Tell me your juiciest workplace gossip!

181 replies

ToriMJ · 10/10/2024 21:00

Something that floored everyone and shook HR to their core.

Saw this as a tiktok and thought mumsnet would have stories galore!

Please Daffodil

OP posts:
inneedofaglowup · 11/10/2024 11:22

Stanley's having an affair with Cynthia behind his wife Teri's back. He thought he had kept it quiet but the officer interns saw him at a night club and the boss Michael found out and told everyone.

lifeisnotstraigtforward · 11/10/2024 11:22

My direct line manager (who nobody liked, she was truly awful) was having an affair with the area manager (he was a prat, no idea what she saw in him). The area manager eventually divorced his wife and married my line manager, then within the year he started having an affair with his ex-wife and eventually left my line manager to go back to his ex-wife. It was an all-round shit show. 😆

UmbrellaEllaEllaElla · 11/10/2024 11:23

Nothing out of the norm just endless affairs.

inneedofaglowup · 11/10/2024 11:23

Also the Regional supervisor Jan slept with my boss but they didn't do anything they just fell asleep in the same bed together and talked all night but it's a total scandal and now everyone knows.

flyingeffs · 11/10/2024 11:23

Someone flushed paper towels down the toilet and the toilet was blocked. Our boss had to call a plumber abd he said that you can’t flush paper towels down the toilet only toilet paper. Noone is confessing.

inneedofaglowup · 11/10/2024 11:26

Jim and Pam shared a spur of the moment kiss. Pam's boyfriend Roy found out, he works in the office warehouse and he came to punch Jim in the face. Luckily Dwight was there and he pepper sprayed Roy before he could get to Jim. Roy got fired obviously.

flyingeffs · 11/10/2024 11:28

inneedofaglowup · 11/10/2024 11:26

Jim and Pam shared a spur of the moment kiss. Pam's boyfriend Roy found out, he works in the office warehouse and he came to punch Jim in the face. Luckily Dwight was there and he pepper sprayed Roy before he could get to Jim. Roy got fired obviously.

Does Dwight often pepper spray people at work?

inneedofaglowup · 11/10/2024 11:30

Flyingeffs This was the only time but he says he has various weaponry scattered around the office just incase.

Calliopespa · 11/10/2024 11:30

Dental surgery receptionist left something at work after closing time and went back to get it.

As she retrieved it, she heard a trapped dog whimpering in the consulting room. She went to investigate and found not a dog but the dental nurse 👩‍⚕️ fully clothed lying face down on the dentist’s chair which had been moved to almost horizontal position and the leg section lowered with dentist standing between her legs with a very red face. Receptionist was not of the easily startled variety so held her ground in the now open doorway . Married Dentist explained he was giving the married nurse a back massage! He was clearly putting a lot of effort in as he looked very worked up. Curiously he was reluctant to step away from the slightly hitched skirt of nurse . Similarly, nurse was finding it very relaxing as she continued to lie still with her face facing away from the door, even through the massage conversation. Receptionist said “ you both disgust me” and left. Nothing was said next morning. A couple of months later she took early retirement.

flyingeffs · 11/10/2024 11:35

inneedofaglowup · 11/10/2024 11:30

Flyingeffs This was the only time but he says he has various weaponry scattered around the office just incase.

Good idea, you just never know I guess.

MurdoMunro · 11/10/2024 11:36

I did a massive smelly shit and Barbara used the loo just after I left so everyone thought it was her. Barbara ran with it and got herself 3 weeks off to deal with her bowel issues, everyone signed a card for her and when she came back was given my seat by the window. Fucks sake. So I told everyone it was me and that Babs is a lying bitch and now I get my own personal 1-1 with the boss every week. Ha! Still discussing with the boss when I get my window seat back, don’t get too comfortable Barbara.

inneedofaglowup · 11/10/2024 11:37

MurdoMunro · 11/10/2024 11:36

I did a massive smelly shit and Barbara used the loo just after I left so everyone thought it was her. Barbara ran with it and got herself 3 weeks off to deal with her bowel issues, everyone signed a card for her and when she came back was given my seat by the window. Fucks sake. So I told everyone it was me and that Babs is a lying bitch and now I get my own personal 1-1 with the boss every week. Ha! Still discussing with the boss when I get my window seat back, don’t get too comfortable Barbara.

I'm fighting tears right now

flyingeffs · 11/10/2024 11:38

MurdoMunro · 11/10/2024 11:36

I did a massive smelly shit and Barbara used the loo just after I left so everyone thought it was her. Barbara ran with it and got herself 3 weeks off to deal with her bowel issues, everyone signed a card for her and when she came back was given my seat by the window. Fucks sake. So I told everyone it was me and that Babs is a lying bitch and now I get my own personal 1-1 with the boss every week. Ha! Still discussing with the boss when I get my window seat back, don’t get too comfortable Barbara.

Next time you will just have to prove it was you, so you also can get three weeks off.

inneedofaglowup · 11/10/2024 11:40

IT came in to the boss' office and showed him how to use the intercom function on his office phone which sounds like a shopping centre announcement whenever he speaks. Now my boss uses this to announce and anything it's so annoying but a few times he has left it on when he's made personal calls to his doctor and now we all know he has a wart on his butt.

MurdoMunro · 11/10/2024 11:41

flyingeffs · 11/10/2024 11:38

Next time you will just have to prove it was you, so you also can get three weeks off.

Genius. Will prepare my gut to pull that off around 15th December. Will take photos to show boss at the 1-1.

inneedofaglowup · 11/10/2024 11:43

Dwight and Angela are having an affair. Angela's boyfriend Andy found out. Andy and Dwight had a duel and the winner was to get Angela. Andy tricked Dwight when the duel was scheduled to start in the office car park and he squashed Dwight with his electric Prius which is silent when driving under 5mph. Needless to say they both realised Angela was sleeping with the other when she had told them both she was only sleeping with them. They both ditched her. Also check this Andy and Angela were due to get married in the coming weeks. Andy cancelled the wedding cake. It was shaped as a boat.

flyingeffs · 11/10/2024 11:47

A colleague of mine is a massive Disney fan, and she likes to wear Minnie Mouse disney ears to work on Fridays. But another colleague has gone to HR, because he has a mouse phobia and finds it higly triggering. Our boss has asked her to wear maybe Pluto ears instead, but she doesn’t want to as she doesn’t feel as cute in them. I am torned.

Tell me your juiciest workplace gossip!
flyingeffs · 11/10/2024 11:48

MurdoMunro · 11/10/2024 11:41

Genius. Will prepare my gut to pull that off around 15th December. Will take photos to show boss at the 1-1.

Yes. You will get Christmas and New Year off. I feel inspired now.

widelegenes · 11/10/2024 11:51

So, I sit in a garden office all alone.
The most scandalous thing I can report is that I haven't had any breakfast, instead I had a bag of crisps at 11.30am.

flyingeffs · 11/10/2024 11:51

inneedofaglowup · 11/10/2024 11:43

Dwight and Angela are having an affair. Angela's boyfriend Andy found out. Andy and Dwight had a duel and the winner was to get Angela. Andy tricked Dwight when the duel was scheduled to start in the office car park and he squashed Dwight with his electric Prius which is silent when driving under 5mph. Needless to say they both realised Angela was sleeping with the other when she had told them both she was only sleeping with them. They both ditched her. Also check this Andy and Angela were due to get married in the coming weeks. Andy cancelled the wedding cake. It was shaped as a boat.

I’ve always said I want an electric car, I mean they are so expensive but in this case it was worth it!!

GrimpenMire · 11/10/2024 11:52

I worked at a company where the two partners used to physically fight in the car park.

The partners split and I went with one of them to start up elsewhere but he was never really able to get it off the ground.

He bought a new car on HP and immediately sold it to get an injection of money but the private individual who bought it. sold it at auction a few weeks later and it was bought by a car dealer.

This was before sophisticated interlinked systems that would have alerted the auction house to the fact that it had a load of HP on it still owing but the dealer came to realise this and turned up with a baseball bat to get his money back from my employer.

Same employer was an absolutely shocking womaniser and he made no effort to cover up that he was using escorts and prostitutes on an almost daily basis.

I left after I had worked for three months without wages in the hope that he would pull it all around by the nose but he never did.

These are just a tiny fraction of what went on there. I was young. I would never contemplate working with this level of fuckwittery now.

Calliopespa · 11/10/2024 11:52

MurdoMunro · 11/10/2024 11:36

I did a massive smelly shit and Barbara used the loo just after I left so everyone thought it was her. Barbara ran with it and got herself 3 weeks off to deal with her bowel issues, everyone signed a card for her and when she came back was given my seat by the window. Fucks sake. So I told everyone it was me and that Babs is a lying bitch and now I get my own personal 1-1 with the boss every week. Ha! Still discussing with the boss when I get my window seat back, don’t get too comfortable Barbara.

😂😂 And what about your three weeks!!

1offnamechange · 11/10/2024 11:53

ToriMJ · 10/10/2024 21:08

I'm not the daily Mail you dipstick.

That's exactly what someone who was the daily mail would say 😏

I've witnessed a few embezzlement, affairs and screaming out loud fights plus someone who both lived in the office for several months when he got chucked out, got caught both drinking and watching porn at work MORE THAN ONCE and still didn't get sacked (ah local government....)

but the funniest/most random was this guy who used to cook fish in the microwave at least twice a week for his lunch. It absolutely stunk and the canteen was open plan in the middle of the office so by the afternoon you could smell it everywhere.

He also would stick it in to cook and then go back to his desk rather than staying to keep an eye on it despite the fact we had 2 microwaves and 100 staff members queuing to use them.

This was complained about multiple times but managers did that wimpy thing where they posted general signs or made announcements to everyone about "please be considerate about the food you make" rather than just telling him directly.

Anyway one day this woman just had enough, grabbed his plate out of the micro, stormed over to his desk where he was in the middle of a call and threw it full pelt at his face, screaming something like "cook your stinking fucking fish at home you inconsiderate twat". The whole office just sat there completely silent as he just stared open mouthed with various fish slime, bits and tiny bones drizzled down his face and in his beard (from the part that disintegrated on impact - tbf she really launched it!) and then the remaining half a kipper nestled greasily on his shirt (I can still remember every detail 😁) before saying "um...I'll call you back."

the woman was the quietest most well mannered person in the office whom you'd have never expected to say boo to a goose let alone snap like that. It later came out that she'd been having personal issues at home and presumably that was just the last straw. She went on sick leave after the incident and I left before she came back - I did keep in touch with some people for a while but can't remember now if she just resigned when on sick or if she did come back to work for a bit but she definitely wasn't sacked.

My friend worked in HR at the time and I just remember her saying "how the fuck am I going to word this on the form?"
🤣😁

It was even funnier because fish guys name was something tangentially fish related (think Fred Mcgill sort of thing but not that). I did think about including this last detail in case it does end up in the daily mail but fuck it, he was a twat, it was years ago and half the office witnessed it so hopefully Im not identifiable!

Calliopespa · 11/10/2024 11:55

MurdoMunro · 11/10/2024 11:41

Genius. Will prepare my gut to pull that off around 15th December. Will take photos to show boss at the 1-1.

Forget the photos: ask him to come and look! 👀

LlynTegid · 11/10/2024 11:55

One of the joys of having some days wfh is not hearing about most of this, as our office does not have such amusing times as some of you do.

Liked the bowel movement one!

Swipe left for the next trending thread