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To think a colleague has no right to take something from your desk and throw it in the bin?

407 replies

WildflowerChild · 06/03/2020 18:23

I’m not talking about food/drink.

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RockingMyFiftiesNot · 07/03/2020 09:38

What reason did the colleague give for throwing it away?

OpportunityKnocks · 07/03/2020 09:38

Can you tell us why they did it?

TheSerenDipitY · 07/03/2020 09:39

so she/he stole something personal from your desk, destroyed it and then text you and bragged that they did it?
go to HR on Monday, they have given you proof in the text, no one should be removing anything from your desk, they had no reason to be looking at your desk, and if they did they should have asked you first where xyz that they needed was... it could be considered bullying behavior especially if it was a taunting ha ha in your face text... ignore people saying you shouldn't have personal items at work, if your work allows it that thats all that matters ( and ill bet half those saying dont take your own things to work take their own mug in...)

vodkaredbullgirl · 07/03/2020 09:44

Im still none the wiser, might be because ive been working all night. Had to come back and see what has happened since i was last on here.

StCharlotte · 07/03/2020 09:49

We still have Tip-pex at work. It is pretty much only used to initial staplers.

AnneKipanki · 07/03/2020 09:54

One way ticket to Mars ?
Not the chocolate factory.

AnneKipanki · 07/03/2020 09:56

Your P45 ?

AnneKipanki · 07/03/2020 09:59

The text says they "luffs you and don't leave meeeeeee ! "

MyNameHasBeenTaken · 07/03/2020 10:06

Why would you have to tippex your own name on to a card someone had sent you?

BigFatLiar · 07/03/2020 10:20

A valentine card from him and he was worried his OH may see it?

Runningonempty84 · 07/03/2020 10:23

The cat's eye (as used on roads) was invented in 1934 by Percy Shaw of Halifax, after he got the idea from watching a cat walking towards him

Yes, and Halifax now has a pub named after him and everything. It's the better one of Halifax's two Wetherspoons.

Largeyellowdaffodil · 07/03/2020 10:27

Was it political, religiosity or sexual ?

Thedogscollar · 07/03/2020 10:29

This has to be the most waste of time useless threads ever.

marcopront · 07/03/2020 10:41

This has to be the most waste of time useless threads ever.

Not for the people who now have cat's bum pencil sharpeners.

ThatUserNamesTakenTryAnother · 07/03/2020 11:04

This threads hard work

donquixotedelamancha · 07/03/2020 11:05

A signed photograph of Adrian Harrop

I think we have a winner for 'most unpleasant suggestion'.

NotaRealLawyer · 07/03/2020 11:16

I think we have a winner for 'most unpleasant suggestion'
I already torched the lip stick imprinted photoshopped one from Haydenself.

scarbados · 07/03/2020 11:18

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Percy had a brother who was a resident in a nursing home I worked in and he provided me with a memory that still makes me smile.

Me - Come one, let's get you into your room and out of those wet trousers.

Him - Out of my trousers? I do like you. You say the nicest things, darling.

He was an absolute darling and flirted with everyone

scarbados · 07/03/2020 11:18

Come on, not come one

AlCalavicci · 07/03/2020 11:30

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll
proper laughed at you snapped post Grin

I think it was a post card from another college that had won a works prize holiday and sent it to OP with something like HA HA glad .>> insert name of thief /disposer

Daffodil55 · 07/03/2020 11:47

I don't want this thread to end.

I once stole something from a work mate's desk. She had an opened packet of digestive biccies sitting there and I took one when she was out of the room. She was known for being a tight arsed mean bitch and never offered anyone a bic so I adjusted the wrapper to disguise the theft.

I still live with this guilt over 20 years later. If I was catholic I would be absolved of my sin but I am non religious so probably can not be saved.

Sad
Hurricane10 · 07/03/2020 11:49

Prompting a run on cat's bum pencil sharpeners may yet be my proudest achievement.

HeronLanyon · 07/03/2020 11:50

Funny how that digestif is repeating on you daff

Daffodil55 · 07/03/2020 12:04

Funny how that digestif is repeating on you daff

Yes

I have shoplifted too. As a teenager a small gang of us high school girls would nick Milkyways and fruitgums from the local newsagent near our school. We never got caught.

I never said I was perfect. Pens and paper disappearing from offices I have worked in was normal but one factory office I was employed in was a hoot one day. The floor manager came and demanded a meeting with the boss. A gross of toilet rolls had vanished overnight from the workers' storeroom.

It wasn't me and Coronavirus had not even been invented!

AnneKipanki · 07/03/2020 12:11

Was it a post it with "Birdie is my friend " on it .