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Original poster

Have you got any CF stories/Experiences

127 replies

Lorddenning1 · 27/07/2018 12:38

Inspired by a couple of CF threads, what are your

CF stories, we are due a new thread of collective CFkery

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SchadenfreudePersonified · 27/07/2018 21:35

Stirner I respect your wishes.

Soap is a Lush Bath Bomb and is PROUD, everyone.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 27/07/2018 21:39

Back when I was 30 and worked in Lush a deranged woman threw a bath bomb at my head.

How awful Basinhaircut!

Did you sob for your Mummy?

Had you been trying to force the woman to do something she didn't want to? Is that why she threw the batch bomb at you? You aren't going to get into trouble. We just need to hear the truth.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 27/07/2018 21:40

*bath bomb, ffs

SchadenfreudePersonified · 27/07/2018 21:46

Oh! Is macattack52 serious?

As the thread went on I was genuinely convinced it was a running joke.

However, whatever the truth of macattack52's claim, I still fully support Stirner and soap's right to be a bath bomb - Lush or otherwise.

ShumpaLumpa · 27/07/2018 22:01

@Bramley71

Why should you get free lifts to work?

You benefitted so of course you should pay. You are the CF.

HunterofStars · 27/07/2018 22:36

I've got another one. I used to live somewhere where some of the residents hung out together and started a supper club where each person would chip in £2 and they would save it each week and put it towards a week's holiday in Haven or Butlins.

So the club saved up enough to spend a week in a caravan and one of the men, let's call him Craig, spent all his holiday spends on the fruit machines within the first two days and would join in the rounds when they paid but didn't buy anyone a drink the whole week.

A fortnight after the holiday, a new lady, let's call her Cynthia joined and she totalled up the night's meal takings and noticed that the numbers didn't add up. I was visiting my brother and he noticed Cynthia struggling and said "Hunter has a calculator on her phone, maybe she can check it"

Cynthia, my brother and I went through the payment book with a fine tooth comb and discovered that Craig had put himself in charge of taking people's money but hadn't contributed a penny in the whole time the club had started and basically got a free holiday out of it.

The club were furious and Craig was banned that night.

CrabbityRabbit · 27/07/2018 23:38

Fucking Craig! What a knob!

AmyRhodes · 28/07/2018 00:32

This thread is wonderful.

agnurse · 28/07/2018 03:51

I'll play! Got a couple more.

  1. This was before my time, but apparently in the nursing program where I teach a student brought her PARENTS to a meeting with the academic advisor. I'm sorry Sweetie, but you are an adult. You don't bring Mummy and Daddy with you. You would be welcome to have a counselor if you need support, but not Mummy and Daddy.
  1. My old roommate was a bit of a CF. She liked to appropriate my pillow at night. I had to buy her one. Then I was given a nice fleece throw and she decided that was hers too! Why didn't I kick her out? Well, her name was Froggie and she was my kitty so that would have been mean Grin
Isthisaproblem · 28/07/2018 06:38

Agnurse - why was the student meeting the academic advisor? Was she facing difficulties? I’m trying to work out why someone would take a counsellor but not a supportive parent (and why she was a CF).

ShumpaLumpa · 28/07/2018 06:48

Yes, I don't think the nurse was a CF either agnurse. And 'Mummy and Daddy' is quite sneery.

Alienspaceship · 28/07/2018 07:08

Agnurse - you don’t sound like a very nice teacher st all. Even adults need support sometimes and why not bring a family parent, for example, a parent? Hmm

Stirner · 28/07/2018 07:49

@Alienspaceship?- if somebody needs "support" to meet an academic supervisor what will they be like on the job? There's always someone on here looking to encourage wet behaviour

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Lorddenning1 · 28/07/2018 08:33

This thread is crazy GrinI saw over a hundred post and thought yeah lots of stories to share, that escalated quickly Confused

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Lorddenning1 · 28/07/2018 08:33

@TellMeItsNotTrue thank you Grin I didn't realise there was one already going, this thread is mental 😜

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wherearemtkeys · 28/07/2018 09:17

A neighbour once knocked on my door and said their son was emigrating to Dubai, and would like to take our cat. The woman had been feeding it (against my advice) and her son just liked the cat....

Echobelly · 28/07/2018 09:30

I had a bit of a pain-in-the-arse colleague (used to loudly boast how 'easy' the job we both did was and that he could 'do it in his sleep') who moved to a new job in the organisation. He worked in a different office to his manager, and only after people noticed some oddness in the timing of his emails and also had to ask him to attend some event or other did it turn out he'd moved to Germany to live with his girlfriend a few months ago and had been mostly working from there without telling anyone!

Hortonlovesahoo · 28/07/2018 09:36

This one happened recently. I’m a keen baker and often make “treats” to take into work for my colleagues (think brownies, cupcakes, muesli bars etc). They’re always on the same place and this time I had made some chocolate chip cookies. I come back from lunch and they’re all gone after barely an hour (there were originally over 60 cookies for a team of 20). Everyone is grumbling a little because they wanted one after lunch and asking if I had put them somewhere else. I hadn’t.

One of the girls went on the hunt and they were mysteriously found in the office of one of the secretaries. All of them. When confronted she said: oh, I thought no one wnated them so I was going to take them to friends tonight...! Apparently, she’d done it several times before and no one had noticed but because she took all of them this time, she was finally caught out

The girl brought them back and refused to say what she said to her but she never came to our floor again.

dentydown · 28/07/2018 10:13

My (very distant)uncle used to rent out caravans. He would always give the first rent to my nan because she would always clean them out thoroughly because they were always filthy after standing there through the winter.
We needed to leave in the afternoon. We booked an extra night. So instead of Saturday to Saturday, it was Saturday to Sunday but leaving on the Saturday afternoon. They can round on the Saturday morning, turfed is all out. My mum was livid, and said we should ask for a days refund.
Relative kept saying “you should be out in the morning”. My mum took the receipt off my nan, waved it under his nose and said “we had an extra day”. A lot of grumbling and he gave us a refund.

Alienspaceship · 28/07/2018 10:26

Stirner - because they’ve got a personal issue?? Been bereaved? Diagnosed with an illness? As an academic tutor myself I’ve seen it all - sibling committed suicide... all sorts of reasons why you might want to bring support. Or maybe I should have hold them your words ‘not to be so wet’

TellMeItsNotTrue · 28/07/2018 12:01

@Lorddenning1 Grin I'm glad you didn't think I was being a CF WinkGrin

dentydown · 28/07/2018 12:03

Friends partner was given a load of papers from their company, think promotional a3 pads/desk organisers that they couldn’t get rid of.
Friend donated them to the nursery as she didn’t know what to do with 20 a3 pads.
Parent of child, who did a drawing on one of these bits of paper, contacted the company and actually took out a contract worth a few thousand pounds. (Paid for the pads 100’s of times over)
Friends partner gets a bollocking for donating the pads to the nursery!

ShumpaLumpa · 28/07/2018 12:05

thank you grin I didn't realise there was one already going, this thread is mental 😜

those threads are much older, OP, there's always room for a new CF thread.

ShumpaLumpa · 28/07/2018 12:07

He worked in a different office to his manager, and only after people noticed some oddness in the timing of his emails and also had to ask him to attend some event or other did it turn out he'd moved to Germany to live with his girlfriend a few months ago and had been mostly working from there without telling anyone!

I quite admire him. It took months for people to notice?! He must have been doing his job well.