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?

It doesn’t surprise me one bit; it was rife in one I worked with as well as the MOD where someone I knew worked.
She would fiddle her AL days so effectively she had as much leave as she fancied- more than 16 weeks a year. And everyone at the MOD establishment where she worked got a free week leave to do Christmas shopping, another for watching Wimbledon and an extra day every Bank holiday (so that would be an extra 10 days now)
It shocked me that this was the norm.

A company my DH worked in, the accountant fiddled loads of money, hundreds of thousands. He was sacked, but he was close to retirement anyway. It was reported to the police, but they were not interested. DH and others were made redundant as a direct result. The company is still struggling to recover.

I was temping as a head chef in a drop in centre just before Christmas. A fishmonger sent in four sides of smoked salmon as thank you presents for ordering exclusively from him.

My client told me that he did this every year. Then he went to the fridge and hid two sides of smoked salmon for himself behind some items. I was told the other two were for certain senior staff members.

I removed one and took it home!

what a selfish tightarse! People who are mean spend their lives wondering how they can get everything on the cheap and this was free-even better! No thought for anyone else.

I'd have taken both.

We had a contractor join for a short term project and she clearly had her sights set on my boss’s job. She was vile to him in ways that caused me second hand embarrassment for her. Being the stand up gentleman he is, he included her in our Christmas lunch. He didn’t have to. She didn’t report to him, she reported to another department in another country.

She of course came along. My boss picks up the bill for lunches as the company won’t pay. She ordered up big, took over the wine list and then didn’t even thank him.

It was such bizarre and unnecessary CFery.

As a teenager I worked in a local carvery type pub restaurant as a waitress. My shift was 8am-6pm on a Sunday. I got one 15min break all day (totally illegal but 15yr old me didn’t know this) and wasn’t allowed to eat any of the restaurant food so would spend my 15 min break out the back door of the kitchen smoking and telling the two pervy chefs to piss off. The manager was a hugely obese man who each shift would waddle into the kitchen with an overflowing plate of carvery food that he would pick from as he reminded his young workforce not to “pinch any potatoes” 🙄

I worked for a multinational company and my role encompassed managing the departmental budgets. My boss wrangled a two year secondment to Germany but his PA remained in the UK. He had managed to promote her to a grade that gave her a company car....even though she didn't like driving, took the bus to work and gave the car to her husband.

In order to continue doing her role, she travelled to Germany every few weeks...arriving at the airport mid morning, plenty of time for a bit of shopping and a full lunch. Then early afternoon flight but too late to go into the office when she arrived. A couple of days in the German office and then a full day travelling back. Meanwhile if any one else travelled over, they were expected to be on the 7am flight and a full day of meetings when they arrived.

I began to see large charges to our department cost centre and realised that she was using a limousine service to travel backwards and forwards to the airport - the service that visiting directors would use when they visited the UK. I flagged it to our mutual boss and he felt obliged to tell her to stop. She was furious with me and still refused to drive as her husband had the car so ended up using public transport to the airport which was very inconvenient.

People in my office were always drinking from my carton of milk, and never buying any for themselves. So I decided to drink from the carton one time 😁

Chocolate champagne? 🤮

This reminds me of a work colleague, our assistant manager, who earned much more than us receptionists; a patient left a box of fancy hand made chocs on the desk for us- by the time they reached me there were 2 chocs left. Assistant Manager announced she "didn't really like chocolate" but still took the largest chocolate of the two! She was a bit weird though; a patient complimented me on my earrings, Assistant manager butted in that she had nicer ones!!

Instead of going out for a xmas meal our boss also did the pizza thing.. half per person..but some of the younger staff said they wouldn't attend lunchtime pizza unless they could have a whole pizza each?! They didn't like fo share in case of germs?!

Dunno about the posters who are saying various central government departments or local authorities were turning a blind eye to people manipulating their leave, I've worked for 1 government department & 3 local authorities & never even had the chance to fiddle time off - quite the opposite in fact at one place.

We were working on a major IT project, travelling all over the country and working silly hours; no budget for overtime so were being given flexi toil instead. Got round to about October, and both me & my boss put our respective feet down & said if they wanted us to do the hours then they would have to start paying us overtime. The previous leave year we had both "lost" annual leave as we hadn't been able to take time off due to the prep for the project and both had more left than the maximum amount we were allowed to carry over.

Obviously the senior management wanted us to continue to work flexi for toil - right up to us going in with the calculations that if we immediately took off the time we were already owed for that leave year (half way through), we would be back some time after Christmas in my case and Mid-January in his. We got overtime pay after that!

One of these managers would come in to "help" on the Saturday if we had implementation over a weekend (overtime pay from day 1 of course). She would sit in her office, which was in a different building to the ones we were doing the hardware installs in, and get on with her day to day paperwork unrelated to the project. Then again she was a classic credit stealer - ask you to do some work then change maybe 2 words and a punctuation mark (so it showed as being done by her on the system) then present this brilliant paper to her bosses.

You clearly know that isn't what the OP meant.

I would have added a strong laxative to the carton instead! 😆

Okay the gods work thing is a bit weird but I wouldn’t class that as stealing and I’d turn a blind eye unless I was the owner of the business.

Not a good idea. Sounds funny in theory, but dosing someone medication without their knowledge is spiking, and is illegal. And giving someone a strong laxative might not just give them the shits, it could cause serious electrolyte imbalance, and they could end up in hospital or worse.

I agree it's not a great idea and could result in illness, but I don't see how stealing and drinking something that contains someone else's medication is 'spiking'.

You may not. The law disagrees (at least in England and Wales, I can’t comment on elsewhere).

If food is deliberately ‘spiked’ with something intended to injure a thief (and laxatives fall into this category even though the injury is unlikely to be permanent), it’s a crime.

Technically using hot sauce with intent to injure is also a crime but it’s a lot easier to pull off wide eyed innocence and a complete denial you had any such intention over something people regularly eat in food. Most people don’t preemptively crush laxatives into their lunch (or, in fact hide their tablets in food in the first place).

I worked with an awful, older primary teacher once and she would regularly at the end of term try and take any gifts from parents home with her. One child got so fed up with it she took chocolates out of her bag and said ‘these are for you not her’. She was a nightmare, never should have been a teacher. Still gives me the chills.

What about if you make it with a filling that you know has gone off, so the thief gets food poisoning?

"Gone off" food does not necessarily contain any bacteria that will cause food poisoning, and if it does it doesn't guarantee that the consumer will get food poisoning.

Still a crime. Not spiking, though, unless you obtain the bacteria from somewhere and deliberately contaminate the food. You’d be setting a boobytrap which is illegal.

Also, considering the practicalities, you’d need food that was good enough you could convince people you intended to eat it that was rotten enough to cause illness. Not sure that’s particularly easy.

My husband worked for a big company, probably about 100 members of staff at their particular branch. For Christmas meals they were given £20 per head to organise a meal/party so about £2k in total. It was during covid and no one heard about a Xmas party so assumed it wasn’t happening. In January it came out that the treasurer had arranged and been on the meal. Took her 3 closest work friends and 6 other people who didn’t even work for the company! 10 people had £2k between them for a splash out meal! She didn’t even get fired! But she did get told she had to go and ask everyone who went for their share of the money, which they weren’t too happy about!

Well it would teach them to keep their sticky fingers off other peoples property 🤣🤣