Your cf of the day story please.

[Aprilshowersnowastorm]

Just got into my car to do the school run-(not parked right outside) , glanced at my front door and see a man standing there, stared at him while he put out his cigarette in the ashtray my ds keeps tucked beside a plant pot!! Then he walked off!!
Speechless tbh!!
Who has been your cf today?

I have a work colleague, for whom, when she has annual leave, I have to cover some of her workload (the time sensitive stuff).
As this only happens a couple of times per year, I always ask her to give me plenty of preparation in advance (she doesn't), and while she's off, I generally put in a lot of extra hours, as I'm having to do her work, plus my own (I'm supposed to be part-time!).

Every time, when she returns from her holiday, she's in a foul mood, there's this terrible atmosphere and she treats me like I've done something wrong for days, (although when I ask there's never anything specific). There's not so much as a "Thanks for covering me while I was away lovedoughnuts' or anything. No appreciation there at all.

This time, before she even went away, she was predicting a delay on her return flight (a week in advance!), saying "I might not make it in on that Monday".

She arrived back at work on Monday (amazingly), and I walked in and said a bright and breezy " good morning", to everyone, and she was the only one who couldn't manage to say "morning" back to me, in fact, she actually looked away, as if I wasn't even there!!

Then she spent the rest of the day slamming things around, because she's 'too busy', there's so much catching up to do - basically insinuating that I had done nothing while she was away (not true), and yet, she had plenty of time to spend, standing around gossiping with anyone who would listen to her droning on about her dreary holiday...and yet she barely spoke to me at all.

She's then decided that she can't possibly answer the phone, as she's just too busy (never mind that I also have catching up of my own to do, as my job gets put on the back burner whilst I cover hers), so I end up having to answer all of the incoming calls too.

I feel so angry at her, that I am going to speak to my boss and ask that he gets someone else cover her in future.

@lovedoughnuts I think your being kinda cferish for wanting someone to be grateful for covering so she could have annual leave, which is an entitlement. It's the companies fault that they don't give you more notice and that your job gets put on the back burner not hers. She just taking what she is entitled to do

I was trying to think of a polite way to put that too. Yes, she should be more gracious but she’s entitled to A/L.

My yoghurt disappeared from the communal fridge at work. On a bit of a diet at present so was REALLY looking forward to something sweet after my salad

TBH, I never expect thanks, but do expect to be treated respectfully, by her, and that is sorely lacking.

I don't think it's about the covering the leave. It's about the lack of appreciation for all the extra work and treating her like she has done something wrong when she hasn't.

YouTheCat, that's it in a nutshell

We had a village fete this weekend. A neighbour decided to run an international food stall, all monies raised would go to a charity very dear to her heart (a home for disabled orphans in her native country). Quite a few of us all chipped in with home made contributions, decorations, signs, building the stall, taking shift to man the stall with her etc. She worked so hard, every single bit sold and she made over £1,000.

One villager, who is an incredible CF (I have posted about her before) made a couple of sausage rolls, and then rocked up to the fete, asking for a free lunch in return for her contribution.

We were all

Had one of those days in work. This cf looking down on u like ur a piece of shit, making u feel like a piece of shit and u have to bend over backwards to help and it still wouldn’t be enough. One of those people nothing will make them happy no matter what u do. Just wants a moan and then he hits out with “I will take my service else where”
I know a lot of people say this. Personally I don’t cause customer service assistants really don’t give a fuck. But seriously what do customers expect me to do - go down on my knees and beg 😒

Boulty

Years ago, my parents had a house where there was an alley up the side of the house between their house and next door (both had a gate into their respective gardens), after which there was a path up to the far end of parents garden and another gate leading into the street behind.

It was common to find random people using the garden as a short cut between streets, even though the whole garden was enclosed with no right of way.

I recall stopping one woman from trying to pass through, and sent her back the way she'd come. I wasn't falling for the "Oh, since I'm already halfway, I'll go out the alley gate".

Dad put new locks on the gates after a while.

On Saturday afternoon we sat and watched neighbour opposite crash her car for the umpteenth time attempting to navigate into her drive. (CF has already taken chunks of bricks out of our front wall and just driven away.) On Sunday morning DP drives out of gate as neighbour gets into her own car. She clearly sees him but drives straight into him. They both get out of their cars to inspect damage. Her car is scratched and dented. DP says, “Did my car do that?” Noting that his own was unmarked. “Yes,” she said and began to demand insurance details. “Hmm, it’s just that my car is undamaged and I noticed you had another accident yesterday.” “Oh yes. I’d forgotten that” and off she tutted without an apology!

Years ago we were leaving a European city and moving back to the U.K. At the end of June we packed as much as we could, got it into our minivan and my husband drove us back home. He was then going back, working a last month and driving the rest of our stuff in a rental van.

We left at the end of June. Husband goes back, pays the last months rent on July 1st, and goes back to work. A few days later the landlord gets in touch with him to tell him he's found new tenants and would like my husband to get the last of our stuff out as soon as possible. Husband says that won't work, as he's paid the month, won't get time of work to drive the stuff back, has nowhere to store it.

Another few days pass and the landlord gets in touch again with a "compromise". How about my husband lets the new tenants into the flat so they can decorate? Idiot husband agrees. New tenants come round for a few days to paint. (Yes, our stuff is still in there). Only the new tenants are fecking slobs and get paint all over our rug. Idiot husband tell them to pay for it, only he somehow tells them it cost €20 instead of €80. We're out €60 there.

Idiot husband rearranges things at his work so that he can get our stuff out a few days earlier than planned to let new people in to start their tenancy on the first of August.

You won't be surprised when I tell you there was no discount and we didn't get our deposit back either...

I rented my little house out while my DH was in the forces. One tenant vacated with 4 months rent arrears. The day after his tenancy expired i changed the locks as he didn’t return the house keys to the letting agent. He left lots of stuff behind which I told the agency about but he never came to collect. I spent £2k to fix all the damage he caused, including smashed window and ripped up original 1920s fireplace grate. 8 weeks later I got a really rude letter from letting agent saying ex-tenant came to collect his property (obviously this is why he the kept the key) but I’d changed the locks and I owed him £750 to replace it. I told the agent it cost me £2k to rectify damage caused that they would have been aware of (due to regular inspections) and he owed me 4 months rent! Imagine if a new tenant had moved in and the old one let himself in with a key! I can’t believe the agent stuck up for the tenant when he was the one being unreasonable’

Kate It wasn't a Belgium city perchance? My landlords moved back in the day we had our inventory check out done, even though we still had the tenancy for another two days, and didn't give us those two days rent back either! Bastards.

years ago when we were renting in London we moved into a so called groud floor flat which was really judt a crappy converdion job by the landlords, who lived upstairs. They just partitioned off the groudfloor lounge, kitchen and bathroom as a 1 bed flat. They had apparently forgotten that theyd put an extra meter in for the flat, but their original ine was also still in the downstairs cupboard in the flat. Soon after moving in we went on a 2 week holiday. Arrived back from Africa in the early hours of the morning to find they'd changed the locks to our flat while we were away. Apparently they'd needed to take a meter reading and because we were away, they broke into our flat, allowed workmen in to move the meter out into the hall, then changed the locks "to protrct us".

Dh and I are currently staying in a hotel and there is a group made up almost entirely of CFers.
At dinner last night I was walking to my seat when a waitress came along with a huge tray so I stepped to the side to let her past and a woman behind me grabbed me by the waist, shoved me to the side and walked past making the waitress move too.
Then in the bar last night we were at a table with just two seats on it and CF group were behind us. DH got up to go to the bar and immediately a man in the group lent forward, pulled DH's seat back and used it to lean on with his arms across the back of the seat. I was bemused by this and when dh came back he just calmly sat on the seat with CF arms on it then pulled it back to our table

I don't understand the problem with someone bringing an airbed to a sleepover if they've been told they're not being provided with a bed ButMuuuuum? Sleeping on a yoga mat or just on the floor with a sleeping bag sounds really uncomfortable! Nothing CF about bringing an inflatable mattress at all, that seems really sensible to me!?

ButMuuuuum

What on Earth is wrong with someone bringing an air mattress to a sleepover, especially when you told them to bring something to sleep on?!

I’m guessing it was one of those huge flock ones rather than a lilo type?

Years ago I had a catalogue and used to let a friend at work take a look. Friend used to order stuff regularly, always paying for whatever she bought on time. Then another "friend" asked if she and her mum could order a few bits. All was well for a while then "friend" started to lapse on payments saying "I'm a bit short this week, can I give it to you next week"? until it was getting embarrassing having to ask her for the money. Things came to a head when she calmly announced that she was not going to pay any more money for the items she and her mother had ordered as the commission I had made would cover the amount she owed!, it didn't

Our office hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm - my boss arrived yesterday at 9:30am and then left at 2:00pm to "collect his new glasses from the opticians" .... meanwhile our company is facing bankruptcy, we're all about to lose our jobs and he thinks a 4.5 hr working day is "fine". It's not his company - he's an employee like the rest of us.

And no - he wouldn't have been working from home before/after.

Oh Toasties, hugs to you. I lost 2 babies before my DD arrived - people are so insensitive. But your neighbour is off the scale. I sometimes cannot believe how bad other people are - then my friend reminds me that if the average IQ is 100, half the people you meet are below that!

Take care of yourself and try to avoid her if possible.

My bil and his new gf gave me the gift I’d bought for her birthday in April back for mine 5 days ago.

My mil was looking after their kids, and assumed that I would lend her my car because ‘it’s so much bigger and you have children in it so it’s already scruffy (it’s not) and I don’t want the mess in my new BMW’

@ButMuuuuuum How is that "unbelievable?" Or CF? You said to bring something to sleep on??? I'd have done the same???

To be fair I wouldn't want to sleep on the floor without a mattress etc so I wouldn't let either of my DCs to do the same - I remember sleepovers as a kid waking up in a lot of pain, having barely any sleep