To ask - what have you unbelievably got away with?

[Mollymoo78]

Normally I get away with nothing, however there was one day not so long ago I had to get something from the server room at work and I accidentally knocked over some strange thing with lights on. It looked like Johnny Five's head and was rather warm. I put it all back and crept but when I got back to my desk they said everyone in the building had lost their connection to the system!! I kept nervously silent while the IT bloke spent the entire morning trying to sort it out, listening to my colleagues moaning about not being able to work. To this day they don't know it was me!

So has anyone else got something they secretly got away with and can't quite believe it?!

trappedinsuburbia the exact thing happened to me, except the money cleared but i wasn't told so they were scamming me and taking the money out for themselves and kept telling me things were delayed etc but they were lying, i went to the bank and claimed ignorance and said i needed my job seekers as i was homeless and needed food, that bit wasn't a lie, they went and got me whatever money was left in the account which was around £465 and closed my account, unfortunately i wasn't allowed to bank with them any more but i gained £465 out of it so not too bad but i was shitting it, the guys then wanted me to share the money i told them where to go as i could see from my bank statement that they withdrew at least a grand and i never seen any of it. Wont do that again.

I've thought of another couple!

When I went from temporary to permanent at one job, I wouldn't have been paid for 6 weeks (temp wages were fortnightly but as I'd missed the date the accounts were done I wouldn't get paid on the permanent contract until the end of the following month), so the lovely little old lady who did the accounting said she would pay me 3 weeks wages this month and 3 weeks the next month. I agreed to that because it was still £375 which was a lot to me whilst still a student.

So she wrote a cheque from the company account, but mucked up and gave me the full £500. When I pointed it out she suggested I bank it anyway and next month she'd put down to pay me £250 instead, would that be OK. I decided as long as I budgeted well it would be fine.

You can guess where this is going, yes?

The next month I got paid by BACS - £500. She was on holiday and when she got back I forgot to mention it.

I worked there for another 2 years and was never asked for that £250 back. They're still in business, and the boss used to letch at my cleavage, so I don't feel bad.

In my current job I sometimes opt to take unpaid leave for things like when DS is ill etc. My manager and our department secretary logs this and sends the details to HR, who blatantly ignore it and pay me anyway, without reducing my leave allowance. I've rung HR before and the woman who I'm assigned to always gets snotty and says it can't possibly be wrong because 'the computer works it all out'. Except they've made major cock ups before like thinking I'm off sick and putting me on half pay when I've not been off sick in weeks. So I think it's a problem with the HR woman who puts what the Secretary sends into the computer as I've seen what the Secretary sends her and it's correct when it leaves her office! The result is I get extra days of paid leave and can't get it put right. What a shame!

Some arsehole at work once had me hauled into a disciplinary where he had made up total lies about me, after we had had a minor argument (because I had dared to stand up to his chauvinistic attitude).

Unfortunately for him, he was on a really complicated pay scheme with different rates and overtime, wasn't bright enough to check his payslip, and I was in charge of payroll for the following two years until he left.

This thread is strangely at odds with all the pearl clutching that seems to go on in mumsnet.

Has everyone grown up or it just fun to pretend to clutch your pearls?

Gonetosee I'm really surprised there hasn't been a post telling everyone off saying how disgusting some people are. These threads do tend to attract the pious and sanctimonious. There's still time I suppose. I was really at odds with myself once. I worked in a pub where the landlady was really rude and abrupt to the staff. Her husband the landlord was nice in comparison but even he would cringe visibly when he noticed her behaviour.
I'd been promoted to supervisor and worked alongside the asst. manager who I'd become quite close to. We were paid cash weekly in little brown envelopes. My wages went missing. After waiting a week and living off my tips I eventually had them given to me with that weeks wage. The landlady had this thing where if she was on the bar she'd have you on your hands and knees scrubbing the backs of the shelves, fridges etc while she served. She would also demand endless cups of coffee and send us to the supermarket rather than go herself. someone dropped a full tray of glasses on to my foot and she wouldn't let me go to the medical centre next door as I still had 40 mins to do on my shift. anyway me and the asst manager started clearing out the cupboard behind the bar to clean. As I passed him some bits of old papers, drinks coasters, ads etc a few brown envelopes fell to the floor. Mine was there along with some for staff that didn't work there anymore. I shouted her excitedly thinking that she was going to love me when he (asst manager) shot a look at me as if to say shut up. He then immediately dropped all the stuff he had in his hands just as she came around the bar. She stood there with her hands on hips barking "Yes, what now?!" My mouth automatically replied SPIDER!. She screamed and shot off. I told her I was taking stuff to the bin. The AM said he was finished and going home, we went to his car and opened the envelopes and split the £310.

I once nicked a £2 eyeliner from Tescos on the self service machines - scanned one eyeliner, the scales didn't register it, so I put another eyeliner on it and it carried on. I tried to look around for help, and there was no one, so I just thought fuck it.

Posted about it on here and got FLAMED! A couple of people on the thread said they'd done the same and not to worry about it, but the rest of the thread was full of sanctimony. It's funny how the mood on MN threads is set by the first few posters.

I did it again the other day with some Coriander

Oh and I forgot the best bit - I was sternly warned that Tescos probably had my face on CCTV and would be on the lookout for me, and was it really worth risking my job and a criminal record for a £2 eyeliner?

It was amazing.

I've told this on here before so apologies if it's familiar.

My mum used to buy a huge tin of quality Street at the beginning of December and put it under the tree with instruction it was not to be touched until Christmas day.
I was about eleven I think and I was rather partial to a quality Street.

I carefully peeled the sticky seal and nicked one, resealing the tin when I was done.I did the same the next day and the next and the tin was decidedly light by Christmas morning. Mum opened the tin with her usual flourish and her face said it all. I thought 'oh shit now I'm for it '.
She looked at my dad and shouted "bloody Rowntrees have done me!"
I made some sympathetic noises and breathed a sigh of relief.

After Christmas some poor sod at Rowntree got a stinker of a letter about their under weight tins and in return mum got about £20 in vouchers which was a lot at the time.

I finally fessed up a few years ago

Boring but the feeling was of such relief. Before I passed my driving test I had quite a long journey to get ds to school with baby in the pram as well. The last time I had to do it by bus it was running very late and I was worried that ds would be late for school despite the fact that it was meant to be the early bus.
The bus finally came and I realised that I'd spent all my cash the night before. It would have been a 20 minute walk home and back to find some cash, and longer still to a cash point, and the bus only runs until 10am as the town had terrible transport links. Ds would have been beyond late, baby would have missed a feed and been hysterical.
I dont know what made me board the bus anyway, perhaps a feeling that Id find a fiver in the bottom of the nappy bag or something, I just had a feeling. I got on and the bus driver said "Sorry love, I cant do you a ticket I can offer this journey for free you can pay later if you're coming back". DS got to school on time. (I did pay later).

Ungoogleable I remember that thread, I have been looking out for you on Crimewatch!

DH and I stayed in a five star hotel for our wedding night and the night after. We had glasses of champagne sent up and ordered room service, as well as drinking from the mini bar. When we left DH went down to pay the bill. We had left when he said it had been about £40 in total

Many moons ago I drove into the back of someone at the roundabout. My car was fine but his bumper got dented and scratched a bit.

When I got out the guy smiled and told me not to worry because the back of the car was about to be replaced for an accident that happened before this one. Then he wishes me a good day and drove off!

Accidentally stole £10 worth of led light bulbs from b&q. We picked them up first and shoved them in the pushchair basket whilst we then went and got some bigger stuff to put on the trolley. By the time we got to the till we had completely forgotten about them, folded the pushchair with them still in the basket and didn't realise until we started unloading the boot at home and one of the boxes fell out of the basket. Didn't go back to pay for them.

My gm once stole a punnet of plums from asda, she gave them to dd1 to hold and forgot to put them through the self service till

Many years ago as a student I rode a scooter. One day I parked it with about 20 other motorbikes beside the SU. Leaving later on ( at lunchtime when the whole uni was arriving for or leaving after lunch and therefore watching) I accidentally nudged the next door motor bike to mine which fell over , knocking the next one which knocked the next one , 20 bikes went down like a stack of dominos.
Someone suggested I scarper, so I did!

Crocodillian they haven't felt my collar yet, so I think I just about got away with it

I was shocked at the sanctimony on the thread though - when I started it, I expected it to go the same way as this one has, with other people joining in with their confessions. The outrage at my self confessed criminal act was quite a surprise!

Nice to see more normal people here!

I remember getting away with something that I really didn't want to. I was badly bullied at school and could go for weeks without sitting with anyone at breaks and lunch. One day a big gang of girls asked me if I wanted to go shopping with them at lunchtime. I eagerly agreed. What they actually did was march me up and down the road and forcing me to shoplift while they (except one who kept an eye on me) waited outside. In the 3rd shop I caught the assistants eye as I was sliding stuff up my sleeve. I was being deliberate in the hope of being caught and separated from this gang. She saw but didn't say or do anything. It was horrible because my mum would send me in there for shopping and she was always lovely to me.

ooh Puffinity's post reminded me of another one I got away with.

Stayed at a large chain hotel, and during check in we paid upfront for a meal deal for that evening. On having our evening meal, we ordered extra fries on the side for £2. When we left the restaurant, there were no staff around despite us hanging around at the till for ages. We figured it would just be added to our room bill. When we checked out, we asked whether there was anything extra to add from last night's meal. She went to check... came back and said there wasn't.

RESULT - Free £2 Chips! Made my holiday!!

I was 16 and just broken up with my BF. I went out drinking down the park classy with a couple of lads. Me and three lads stayed at one of the guys houses (nothing happened) and woke up the next morning with a massive hangover, and at the same time school started. Got the guy whose house I was staying in to call up, pretending to be my big brother, and tell them I was ill. School bought it. Spent the whole day wishing I could go home and curl up in bed but obv couldn't. Timed it so I got the earliest bus "from school" claiming to parents that I had stayed up late watching films at a friends house and was really tired.

Never got in trouble with either school or parents. Might be kinda standard but my DM liked to act like she was Columbo so I was quite proud that I got it past her!

Two things I feel guilty about:
(1) I was an obnoxious teenager. I felt everyone owed me a living because the boy I was in love with for 5 years wasn't in love with me (he turned out to be gay!) I didn't like my DM's new partner so I stole some things of his including a prized coin collection and his DM's wedding ring. I sold them and kept the cash. My DSis had some rather undesirable friends from college (one of them was hiding a cigarette under the duvet once and set fire to it) and they got blamed for stealing and banned from the house. It's 25 years later and no one knows it was really me.

(2) When I started uni we had to sign up for the university health service (easier for them to keep an eye on us). I had to give a urine sample. I'd never done this before and managed to wee all over the carpet in my room in the Hall of Residence as I was too embarrassed to try and get a sample in the shared bathroom. On the second attempt I sat on the sink in my room and managed to wee into the container. From then onwards if I just needed a wee I did it in the sink in my room for the rest of the year, rather than walk down the long dark corridor to the shared bathroom. I feel SO sorry for the cleaners but no one ever said anything so I got away with it.

I remember once buying a number of items in Boots. My credit card somehow crashed the till but I got a receipt to say it had gone through.

Never got charged for it on my bill!!

Traveling free on the train in the Netherlands for months because I had to go to work and the university had effed up the amount they were supposed to cover my expenses so I couldn't afford to pay. The two times I was challenged, I pantomimed looking for a ticket then being dismayed I'd lost it and pretending I was a dumb tourist who didn't know you didn't buy them onboard.
Multiple ways of getting backstage/into gigs - wore an MTV crew tee-shirt I'd found in a dressing room a previous time and waltzed in. Got my then-bf to use his pass as mine. Recognised someone's manager and struck up a conversation about sport then said I was gutted I hadn't been able to get tickets was there any room on the guest list etc etc.

I can't remember anything major although I know it must have happened.

When i was 18 I drove my friends car the 3 hour journey home, I was unlicenced and uninsured. Nothing happened and I was bombing it down country roads and everything. That was pretty lucky

Ungoogleable I remember your story, very funny, you'd think you had comitted a bloody murder

Just remembered another.

We'd just got a new (second hand but still) car, I was reversing onto our driveway and lost concentration for a split second, causing me to reverse into one of our wheelie bins at the top of the drive, not hard but enough to cause a small dent. Dp didn't notice till a couple of weeks later, I pleaded ignorance and swore up and down that I had no idea where this dent came from.

He has now come to the conclusion that some careless person must have let their trolley roll into it as the dent is at the same height as a trolley handlebar. I agree profusely with this theory.

I used to smoke quite a bit of weed at 6th form, often in the smoking area between lessons frequented by both teachers and students. Me and my friend were sharing a joint one day in the empty smoking area, completely oblivious to our surroundings. Next thing we knew, one of the teachers is sitting mere metres away from us! We stopped smoking straight away whilst trying to stifle the giggles, we had no idea how long he had been sat there but by some miracle he didn't appear to notice and nothing came of it. We knew smoking drugs on college grounds would be a kicking out offence but we found the whole thing absolutely hilarious at the time. In fact I still do, purely because I have no idea how the teacher didn't notice and if he did notice why he didn't report us or at least give us a telling off.

Just realised I've gotten away with a lot more than I first thought, I'm a terrible person clearly

Thought of some more...

(Another Boots one!) Wanted some contact lenses and they said it would be better to join their scheme and then leave as I only wanted one pack.

They ordered me 3 packs and charged me for one so that I would get the best price.

Picked them up and got all 3 packs! Kept quiet

I also ordered a baby sling st a baby show. They had to order the one I colour I wanted and post it to me at a discount.

They sent me 2...kept the other for over a year then sold it!