small scale work drama

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hello all

inspired by a reddit thread, does anyone have any juicy work drama going on right now

We reckon a senior member of staff is sleeping with an younger more junior member of staff from a different dept. I myself and colleagues have seen them in deep conversation in dark corners several times. Very juicy as senior (male) staff is happily married with several small children

do fucking excuse me

Seems to be a spate of cynicism and unpleasantness going round the site rn, don't take it personally

I forgot to put the put the put of office answer machine in.. bet I get moaned at tomorrow! Oh well. No one leaves any messages anyway.
I might not bother telling boss about it.. bet he checked before he left anyway

Seems to be a spate of cynicism and unpleasantness going round the site rn, don't take it personally

Isn't that 'spate' at least a decade long now?

@ASaucerfulOfSecrets

"I built a miniature theatre diorama depicting hamlet.

Small scale work, drama."

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@JayniSummers

I'll go I work in this team , the weirdest bunch of people , there's drama ALL THE TIME one female , think really glamourous type , hair never out of place , comes from a very naice rich family but takes ridiculous risks and flirts outrageously with another collegue who acts like the leader ( he isn't we are all peers) he's harmless enough bit too good looking for his own good .hes also a flirt but we think hes possibly in the closet... the worst in the team is a bloke who is a complete stoner , totally under the influence, does nothing but get the munchies , scruffy as hell, is allowed to bring his pathetic dog to work ....who has huge anxiety issues

Anyway , we drive round in a van , solving mysteries and shit.......

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I don't understand the stoner story! Can someone explain?

Somebody took it upon themselves to replace the old kettle that was pretty much knackered with a fancy branded one at their own expense.

It looks great, but it's too heavy for half the staff, the water only comes out in a trickle and we'd already ordered a decent replacement. But now it would offend whoever donated the current kettle RRP £74.99 and we don't know who did it anyhow, so we're stuck with the posh kettle from Hell.

From their point of view, I reckon they've managed to offload a wedding present that pissed them off for being heavy and crap at pouring without arousing suspicion in their auntie or nan 'oh yes, it was so lovely, I took it into work because ours was broken. Everybody says how good it is' whilst they get to enjoy using a bog standard Russell Hobbs.

Someone deliberately destroyed someone else's work. This led to shouting, a bit of pushing and shoving, and a few tears.

This all happened in the sand pit. I work with 4yr-olds, who are mostly built to small scale.

@HollowTalk

I don't understand the stoner story! Can someone explain?

Scooby Doo

Our ineffectual team supervisor was in a mood with us all today so sulked off on a job alone. I think he did it so that we would need to contact him for support throughout the day. We didn't, we had a better planned more productive day than ever before.

My boss is willing to give me an alibi should this woman mysteriously disappear.

I think we’d all be happy to give you an alibi @VillanellesOrangeCoat

I was jesting with other work friend B if we'll get the boot before or after Easter if we've not passing probation successfully. (we work bank hols so got to get the priorities right, I wouldn't want to work all of it and then be dismissed, who am I kidding!)

Our other friend C just got the boot recently fairly out of the blue and B has been given the impression probation can totally be extended.. so why didn't that happen with C. Good to know one rule for one and another for another.

B was trying to convince me best to resign then be dismissed but in this instance, where the company goes by stats on dodgy software (and a lack of work which is even worse) I disagree, don't really fancy on an interview where I look like a job hopper for no good reason - I've decided it if happens I'm going to tell it as it is!

Hopefully the drama comes to nothing.

@VillanellesOrangeCoat

I didn’t answer an email within 5 minutes for a non-urgent trivial issue (along the lines of “Jane has opened a window & it’s noisy outside. Can you do something about it”) so the staff member who I manage reported me to my boss. Same person moaned at me for a full 15 mins yesterday that someone who covered her work hadn’t left the handover sheet in her in tray but instead left it on top of her keyboard. And when I suggested it was so she didn’t miss it it went down so well she (you guessed it) reported me to my boss. My boss is willing to give me an alibi should this woman mysteriously disappear.

Ah! But now that Jani knows, you will never get away with it.

Bravo @JayniSummers, bravo.

Though until the van was mentioned I was thinking it sounded exactly like a radio station I use to work for.

Becca in our office brings a cake she baked every friday, which is a dick move because she know Trace, Shelly, Teresa, Pete the Perv and cokey Mark are saving their syns for Malibu and Cokes and a greasy kebab over the weekend but they've got no control, so they eat the dry horrible cake and don't lose at group. She's got an agenda, I'm telling you. She's got a fucking agenda....

About a fortnight ago someone put a yogurt in the fridge and when they went to get it it was gone. They had written their name on it. They then prowled all the offices to figure out who had it. Found the culprit and sent HR to get the yogurt back. Brazen bastard had it unopened on his desk 😬🤣

@HollowTalk

I don't understand the stoner story! Can someone explain?

This

The drama in my office
Someone put the air con on there was nearly a riot
Someone put the heat on nearly a riot
Someone couldn’t find their mug
That’s about as exciting as my office is

@JayniSummers 😅😄😁

Typical Brenda move @sexiestdogwalker

I have to keep explaining that the money was just resting in my account
the housekeeper forces tea on me 24/7
my two colleagues are awful - one thick and obsessed with rabbits, the other a violent alcoholic
I try and ring a co worker for support but he never rings back
I holiday in a caravan - filled with adolescents and a shrieking co worker
I was caught kicking my boss up the arse

it's a load of bollox

Someone on nights stole Emily's mouse and swapped her keyboard for a crappy one, so she went to our big boss and now the Even Bigger Boss's secretary is investigating. Heads may roll.

@JayniSummers
Best laugh I had all day! Believed it until the last line as well!

Oh the heating is always a problem in offices. One place I worked was always cold on a Monday morning because it cooled over the weekend and the timer for the heating only came on about an hour before the first workers came in. So every Monday morning someone who felt the cold would whack the thermostat way up. Which was pointless because it didn't make it get warm any faster, it just made it get much too warm later on in the day.

Still, the office manager solved the problem. Not by the logical way of setting the timer to come on earlier on a Monday morning, no, she had the thermostat moved to 10ft high on the wall.