In trouble at work- over a quiche

[Coffeandtoast]

Good morning

So on Friday we had a little gathering in the office at work. We all agreed to take in various food items and my contribution was quiches and sausage rolls.

so I took four quiches. At the end of the gathering there was one whole quiche left unopened.we agreed that we’d just share out the untouched food

I said that I’d just take the unopened quiche as we would eat it at home. In then comes Patricia, an older woman who I generally find quite difficult to work with. She’s self opinionated and knows everything. I generally try hard to get on with her but she’s a massive PITA. So she said something along the lines of “ you can’t just take the quiche until we’ve discussed who’s taking what” . I explained that I wasn’t to fussed about any of it and that she could just take the quiche, she carried on with her chuntering and huffing and puffing at me. So this is where it went pear shaped, I just snapped and shouted- “ just take the cunting quiche, Patricia”

it’s all kicked off and I have a HR meeting tomorrow regarding my foul language!!!!

There's no point in lying if the woman wasn't shouting and cursing and I assume there were witnesses as well

Why the need for this tweet nonsense 🤢

Yes. But she’d have the right to do so. I spend a lot of my professional life trying to avoid formal grievances for the benefit of all concerned!

You have my sympathy. I worked with someone just like the Patricia and it drains you. You spend your time just waiting for the next moan / criticism / negative comment. This is not about the quiche - this is the straw that broke the camels back and your HR need to be aware. Apologise for the language but explain that you were at the end of your tether. You may find you are not the only person who feels that way about Patricia. Good Luck OP and enjoy your Christmas.

I enjoy writing poetry so go away Grinch! You can’t destroy my festive fun with your meanness.

Are you Patricia??

Yep all us difficult miserable oldies are call Patricia.

Did this get sorted today?

@ moonstone no she said Patricia was cursing and muttering ect.

No, she didn’t say that she was cursing.

They didn't say Patricia was cursing

@Roobarbtwo @ moonstone20 pardon me she was chuntering

Funny how cunting is ok but if you say something is you get your post removed

Update us please OP!

doesn't even rise to the level of doggerel. fails to scan; non-rhymes; erratic metre👎🏾

👍🏾 i approve the language

EDIT- I originally quoted the person who said no one in a professional job would use that language but my quote has been removed and I can’t find it again.

Last week at my work a colleague gave a Nazi salute to another colleague and another referred to another in a way that included a racial slur and an ableist slur in the same sentence. Those acts/insults are not unusual or shocking in my workplace, they’re part of every day conversation. That “insult” was used in a joking manner, so you couldn’t even begin to imagine what is said when someone is actually insulting you in a serious way.

Just because swearing isn’t acceptable in your profession, doesn’t mean it isn’t acceptable or even considered completely normal in others.

And I don’t work in some grubby pub or male only environment, I work for a well known, household name company that almost every person in the UK uses on a daily basis.
If the British public found out what goes on at certain companies behind the good marketing and polished brand integrity image, they’d go into administration faster than you could blink.

Well. A headteacher helped get my mum arrested for something she absolutely did not do. She asked a child to move out of the way because she was moving a tv and the child went home and told her police officer parent that my mum hit her. The parents then met with the head and my mum was then accused of swinging the child around by her tie. There were two kids who gave a statement to staff in support of my mum and were then persuaded to change them by the parents of the girl who made the allegation

Despite a classroom assistant giving two statements to police saying nothing happened my mum was arrested charged - and I thought I was going to lose her at one point as she stopped eating due to stress - nothing came of it but it was a 6 month wait - and it was horrible

Her crime was not retiring when the head wanted her to

So - I'm afraid a cunting quiche is very low in my view - because I've seen other people go through much worse - myself included

BTW. I'm not trying to minimise how other people feel about Pat - just that some people go through a lot of shit in the workplace - and cunting quiche is nothing in my view

I also had a pair of cunting quiches who wanted me sacked because I got the job they wanted

They raked my bins. I used to come to work to get offensive letters from them on company headed paper

I put up with 15 months of it and I put in a grievance and my bosses suspended and then sacked me sacked me when I was off sick

Seriously. Cunting quiche would be water off a ducks back given some of the rotten jobs I have had in my life

In our office a lady named Tricia
Took umbrage at the division of quiche, hah!
Op said you're boiling my piss
Gave her a big Glasgow kiss*
Then faced the wrath of the Mumsnet militia.

*poetic license.

now we're getting somewhere 👌

3:30am here, so might be improved 'sober' but here's my revision:

In our office, a lady named Tricia

Took offence at division of quiche (hah!).
"Luv, you're boiling my piss!"

(OP gave Glasgow kiss
:
And faced wrath of the Mumsnet militia).

Oh yes, that is much better and you’ve added some violence and Scottish reference too, breaking from reality into wild rumour.

Where even was the reality?