Work cf stories. Anyone else work cheeky fuckers?

[PizzaFecker]

Our business has passed an important audit so we ordered dominos for lunch.
Enough dominos pizza to give everyone 1/2 a pizza each and sides and drinks.

Total cost was £450.

One of the senior managers just had to have a word with one of the other senior leadership team that putting 3 entire pizzas, sides and a drink in his car because 'he wanted to take it home for his family and would freeze the leftovers' isn't appropriate when the admin staff haven't even had chance to get any pizza yet.

Our work generally have No issues with people taking leftovers but not when other people haven't even had lunch yet!!

Anyone else work with cheeky bastards?

The work photocopier was going through alot more paper and ink than normal. I came in early to see a staff member with a pile of pages printed off. She taught Sunday School when not working with us. When I pointed out it was stealing, she said she didn't think it mattered because she was doing God's work!

A manager years ago was a stickler for us signing in the book all of our possessions and phone credit /money. Nagged at when wasn't done properly.. He always signed in with NIL.. Until someone queried why he was always eating. Biscuits /boxes of chocolates open on his desk.
Cf was a thief! Didn't even get sacked just demoted!

Oh my word!!

Did he steal the biscuits from work??

How could I forget 1 horrid place.

• They had business cards printed with my personal home and mobile number. I didn't have a work phone, didn't WFH nor work out of hours. They also spelt my 4 letter name incorrectly! When I queried why my personal phone numbers were on there, they said 'well the company director has his phone number on there!' They wouldn't re-print them due to the cost!
• They used to offer 'internships' as a prize at swanky events in London. The poor person, usually a girl 16-18, spent every day shredding paperwork on a domestic shredder- because they were too tight to buy an office shredder. On 1 girls last day- she was 'allowed' to open the door to the client and show them to the waiting area!
• I resigned, my final pay was wrong. Apparently I'd take over 1hr at lunch to attend their Christmas party. I pointed out that in fact I had left the office last and locked up, and also returned within the hour because they had booked a client in to see me DURING the Christmas party.

Every Christmas (until covid) the big,big boss would send a hamper of goodies for us all to share

We where very good at rationing them out so everyone who wanted a few,got some (I didn't as I don't like them)

One Christmas I saw them being delivered and put in our staff room

About an hour later,I saw the boss (who was an utter twat) carrying large boxes down the stairs and into his car

Didn't think much of it until a rumour started that he'd stolen our Christmas chocolate-he'd filled the large boxes (using our branded boxes) with the smaller boxes of sweets

Apparently,he loved thorntons and thought we wouldn't notice!

Covid kicked in,he left and we've not had any goodies for Christmas again

Took his bounty from the warehouse....

@PizzaFecker Did they make him put the pizza back?

Secondary school teaching department. We are supposedly responsible for different year groups. I plan e.g. Year 10 well in advance, put everything on the system for colleagues to use.

Colleague who is supposed to plan Year 11 and is also head of department, just doesn't do it. Right up to the last minute before I'm supposed to be teaching the topic she still hasn't done it. The night before, I end up doing it myself. She breezes into my classroom. "O... what's that? Don't forget to put everything on the shared drive!" I end up planning everything for both year groups. She's my line manager.

The treat-denying ones are the worst, aren't they?! Reminds me of when I worked at a travel agent's. It was bought by a guy who owned a mini-mart. He had zero experience of the travel industry so we carried him big-time, plus he was a skinflint. Anyway, at Christmas he made a big deal of us getting hampers, which turned out to be some tins and jars from his shop that were all months out of date! Seriously, how long had those jars of olive paste been sitting in his shop?!

The scenario like yours really baffles me. Do people really lose their minds when something is 'free'? Just buy your family a pizza! I'm sure he could afford it.

Similar, I worked in a school as a TA and whenever we had a field trip, the kitchen would prepare a packed lunch for children who had school lunches. Very basic, a sandwich, fruit and drink.

EXCEPT if a trip was on a Monday. Kitchen wouldn't do it as they would usually prep the night before.

So because we'd planned the trip for a Monday, the school gave us some money instead to go to Lidl and buy the ingredients, and the TAs had to prepare the sandwiches. They were the sorriest things, made by non-professionals with the cheapest ingredients.

When I was taking the orders from the children, the teacher put her hand up saying she was absolutely having a lunch on the school. Pathetic. I didn't even have them. She was a teacher there for years so would have been on a more senior salary, had grown children and lived at home with her working husband. Surely she could have afforded a £3 meal deal.

I don't understand this one, sorry

I went to a party at a colleague’s house once. I thought “These glasses look suspiciously familiar…” They were all from our office, as was all his cutlery! 😆

Very, very senior member of a company, which I happily don't work for anymore, not once but twice shared a cab with me to a work event, let me pay, then took the receipt saying 'I'll make sure you're reimbursed for this'. Never saw a penny. Found out later this was why everyone else teamed up to fill cabs without him, because he'd just claim the tenner or so for himself!!!!!!

In one place I worked, international calls were barred on the phones. However, they were enabled on one phone, as some members of staff has to call abroad. Yes, you’ve guessed it, it was discovered that someone was routinely calling their family a road for lengthy chats.

In a different office, we were given a large box of chocolates to share. The individual chocolates were large and looked very nice. There were ten of us in the office. I wasn’t the only one to think they looked good. I saw a colleague run over as soon as they arrived and then struggle to carry ten chocolates back to her desk. This was probably a third to half of the box. I know it was ten chocolates because she announced it, ate the lot and then complained she felt sick.

We had a similar CF boss - one of our contractors always brings bottles of wine etc in for the admin staff, prob about 3 dozen bottles to go around.
One year we clocked the boss has intercepted the contractor in the car park and was loading the good stuff straight into his own car boot!

Yes they did

No way!!

Funnily enough it's only the well-paid senior management I've seen doing this kind of thing. As a pp said, they can easily afford to buy the bloody stuff!!!! The low paid admin team never ever do it

Stop putting your years classes in the joint folder until they start putting their resources. If she asks where they are, tell her you didn't think you were sharing anymore as she hasn't been planning the year 11 classes like she was meant to and you were now planning for both classes. Who cares if she is your line manager, she's not following the rules so why should you. She probably set it up so you would end up planning everything and giving her all resources.

Local authority dept head used to come in at 10, leave at 3.30 and take an hour for lunch every day. His argument was that he had to commute and it took him ages. If his secretary organised a meeting for 2pm he'd bollock her because there was a chance of it overrunning and encroaching on his 3.30 clock out.

Also worked for a charity, head of fundraising applied for a bunch of grants and put the money into his personal account. He was at least got rid of, although they let him resign and didn't prosecute.

Worked in a school, head teacher, deputy and chair of governors also diverted funds into their own pockets. All resigned and no one was prosecuted.

Went to work in another school, private this time, people paid a fair whack to go there. Deputy Head turned out to be a massive nonce, had cameras rigged up around the school that he sat and watched from home, all sorts.

A younger guy who joined the company specifically as my junior but thought he was superior to me because he had been to uni and I was - gasp - a middle aged woman.

Refused to listen to me or take direction (took it from the senior male management, obvs), constantly compaining in emails to me about how overworked he was and rang in sick for at least 4 working days every month (usually on a Monday or a Friday, funny that).

He basically saw me as a Matron -cum -agony aunt, as well as the person who should do all the work whilst he attempted to get all the glory.

Karma came eventually when I started my own business and eventually took a couple of his clients...plus I now can rocognise his type a mile off and can make sure never, ever to offer them a job when they come looking!

Homelessness organisation. Every Christmas we would get loads and loads of food items, presents, etc. A small group of staff would raid everything and steal as much of the decent stuff as they could. They did get caught but were simply told not to do it again.

Mind you, the whole place was corrupt in ways that would have horrified the donators.. I walked out in the end

It's tricky- she literally does my performance management reviews. I guess the nuclear option would be to complain to her line manager but that would be major.

Christmas party when I worked at a large estate agent firm, the bosses made out to have a great time and enjoy the buffet, drinks etc. Wages came in a week later with a random £10 deducted. We questioned it and they had deducted £10 to cover the buffet.

They also claimed the buffet back as some sort of tax perk. So they got double back. I left a few months later best decision I ever made. The fat cat boss retired and his son took over and drove the firm into the ground which included sexual harassment cases from young female staff. To pay the awards to the women they had to sell their houses here and abroad