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Anyone remember the Flexi-time CF?

885 replies

Abouttoblow · 09/12/2017 20:12

Thought I'd heard the last of her but unfortunately not. Colleague who left her job due to cheeky fuckery with her flexi-time for those of you who missed the first instalment.

I'm moving between fuming, embarrassed and incredulous at the moment. I've also laughed but I think that's shock more than anything Smile
DH and I were out for the afternoon at a Christmas market. Had a lovely day and stopped at an coffee shop with tables outside before coming home.
We'd been there about 10 minutes when I noticed a group of ladies in their 60's a few tables away and one of them was staring straight at me. I didn't recognise her and carried on with chatting with DH. I noticed her again when all her friends started turning round to have a look. I didn't know any of them.
I'm starting to think she may be someone I'd been in contact with in a work capacity as she is looking quite angry. As I said in the original thread I work with children/families and I have been approached by people previously who have been angry and upset. Only a couple of times though.
I continue to ignore it and we're getting ready to leave. DH goes inside to pay and use the loo and the minute he does this lady gets up and comes over, with her takeaway coffee cup in her hand. I can tell by her face it's not going to be a pleasant chat.
She asks if I'm pleased with myself and I say "I'm sorry, I don't know who you are". She says she's FTCF's mother and who do I think I am to refuse her daughter a reference! Do I realise I've ruined her career and I should be ashamed of myself. Everyone is looking now and I don't want to get into it so I just say she really doesn't have all the information.
She then takes the lid off her coffee and empties it into my fucking handbag on the table and walks off!!!!
I'm absolutely gobsmacked Shock
I'm home now and want to call FTCF and give her a mouthful but DH is trying to talk me out of it.
Maybe I should just have a large G&T Gin

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3023633-To-make-an-official-complaint-about-colleague

OP posts:
HidingBehindTheWallpaper · 11/12/2017 22:54

It does make sense

Are you trying to correct the spelling of my user name to ‘twat’?
That’s just pathetic. A bit like pouring coffee into the handbag of someone who wouldn’t lie on an official document for your daughter, your adult daughter.

Allthecoolkids · 11/12/2017 22:54

Oh HAPPY HAPPY DAY Grin

Mommyto2gorgeousgirls · 11/12/2017 22:54

Op I think some of her reasons for been off were silly. Obviously. But it wasn't your place to raise the issue with hr. It was her managers job, you reported it to him and should have left it at that.

Evilstepmum01 · 11/12/2017 22:55

Best thread update ever!

OP is a legend, and CF Mommy is the FTCF or a netmums hun/friend!

Katyjane12 · 11/12/2017 22:55

Just caught up on both threads - hope you are ok op, it's an awful feeling to have to involve the police.

Is mommy the FTCF?? 🍿

Traffig · 11/12/2017 22:56

I should really go to bed but this is just too good
Xmas Smile
We need a coffee to help stay awake. Do you take milk with your handbag?

HidingBehindTheWallpaper · 11/12/2017 22:56

Oh she isn’t the CF?
What about a friend?
Or the mother?

ArcheryAnnie · 11/12/2017 22:56

I am so pleased about the bridge club, OP. That is just perfect.

(And then Mommy comes along. Blimey.)

Fishfingersandwichnocheese · 11/12/2017 22:57

Milk and two sugars please.

ImpeachTheOrangeGibbon · 11/12/2017 22:57

Do you take milk with your handbag?

Grin - and one sugar, please!

Glitterbug76 · 11/12/2017 22:57

I think it's Cf mother !! An I think shes heading towards a restraining order or she needs sectioning !!
Take care in the snow ladies

HashiAsLarry · 11/12/2017 22:58

A splash of soy milk please

HidingBehindTheWallpaper · 11/12/2017 22:58

CF Mommy is the FTCF or a netmums hun/friend!

Is there a NetHuns thread about someone’s mum pouring coffee in someone else’s handbag?

Abouttoblow · 11/12/2017 22:58

Seriously Mommy have a word with yourself!
What a bullshit response.
What would you do if either of your children were let down in that situation?
Please answer honestly.

OP posts:
ImpeachTheOrangeGibbon · 11/12/2017 22:59

mommy could be the mum? Having had one too many large G&T's following 'the Humilation at Bridge Club' ?

Abouttoblow · 11/12/2017 22:59

Hiding She has 2 Hmm

OP posts:
HidingBehindTheWallpaper · 11/12/2017 23:00

But it wasn't your place to raise the issue with hr. It was her managers job, you reported it to him and should have left it at that.

What about the CF trying to get the op to lie in a reference and say she was the CFs manager?
That, you informed us, is what the mother was so pissed off about. That was no ones fault but the CF.

Fishfingersandwichnocheese · 11/12/2017 23:00

Ask a question only she would know...

HidingBehindTheWallpaper · 11/12/2017 23:00

Are they 2 gorgeous girls, About?

HashiAsLarry · 11/12/2017 23:01

I'm pretty sure mommy would march into the office responsible and throw coffee over the receptionist.

DistanceCall · 11/12/2017 23:02

Mommy, the OP reported no one. She asked HR to clarify how flexi-time worked. And then the CF went and kicked up a fuss and flounced off because she wasn't allowed to skive off during her working hours any more (and she was expected to compensate for the time she had unlawfully taken off).

But of course you must think that the OP ruined this good thing that the CF had going on, don't you?

JuneyK · 11/12/2017 23:02

I have work in the morning and DON’T have cheatytime so I have to get up. Where oh where will this end? I can’t sleep (resigns herself to being shattered tomorrow).

DistanceCall · 11/12/2017 23:02

She has 2

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

Abouttoblow · 11/12/2017 23:03

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time!
I smell coffee Brew

OP posts:
Pearlsaringer · 11/12/2017 23:04

Again, Mommy, the OP did not raise the issue of the CF’s conduct with HR. She raised the general issue of timekeeping with HR, as it was her absolute right and duty to do. The only person who drew attention to the CF was the CF herself. What bit of this thread do you not understand?

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