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Work cf stories. Anyone else work cheeky fuckers?

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PizzaFecker · 24/07/2024 12:49

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?

OP posts:
theonlygirl · 25/07/2024 20:23

Mostlycarbon · 24/07/2024 14:08

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.

Do not do it. Just no. don't share it. Grrrr these fuckers make my piss boil and they are always someone's manager. bastards.

BlueMongoose · 25/07/2024 20:23

Mostlycarbon · 24/07/2024 14:08

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.

I would either not do it, or do it but not tell the CF I had, and keep it only for the students I taught.

noosmummy12 · 25/07/2024 20:49

Care home around 10 years ago. When a resident died a large sum of money was donated to the residents fund, along with a 50 inch tv for the main lounge. Both disappeared home with the manager and her assistant manager husband…. They’re both on suspended sentences for abuse.

BeeCucumber · 25/07/2024 20:51

My DD worked as a member of police staff for a short time. The fridge in the admin kitchen had to have a lock on it to stop police officers allegedly liberating food during their night shifts. One night the lock was smashed and food and milk were removed. No one took responsibility and the station Inspector didn’t care. The fridge was then moved to an office and the door was locked when the last member of the admin team left for the day. Due to the fridge being out of bounds, the Inspector started a Tuck Shop but had to close it down after a couple of months due to missing stock and too many IOUs in the “honesty” box.

JC03745 · 25/07/2024 20:53

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 25/07/2024 19:17

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.

Thank you, but if you hadn't realised- I was being sarcastic!
I wasn't suggesting the person ACTUALLY put a laxative in HER OWN drink that others in the office were stealing from her!🙄

Isittimeformynapyet · 25/07/2024 20:54

HausofHolbein · 25/07/2024 19:03

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

Gah! Busted 😂

Brighteyes2368 · 25/07/2024 20:57

Here are mine (might be missing some because I've seen A LOT):

I worked in a medical lab compound around a decade ago. I primarily sorted medical samples and delivered them to the separate labs in the buildings. I kept catching mislabeled and misdirected samples. When I repeatedly looked up who was making the errors, ONE man was REGULARLY the cause for approximately TWO THIRDS of them. When I repeatedly informed management, NOTHING was done. He didn't even receive written reprimands.

I worked at a grocery store where either the front end manager, her assistant, or BOTH were regularly STEALING money from the safe (to my knowledge, they got away with it). There also was a cashier who would call out sick just to go to concerts; another cashier would repeatedly no-call no-show because she "wrote down the wrong hours" and she never bothered to ask for help, just would be like "Oh well, I'm here now".

I worked at the distribution center for some thrift stores and my direct supervisor kept overtly sexually harassing me, which MOST supervisors did to subordinates there.

I worked at a gas station where a coworker stole A LOT of cases of beer by claiming she was picking it up for legitimate work-related reasons (something to do with inventory, not sure why, that the manager was going to do).

I worked at a supermarket/retail store where the woman initially training me was instructing me to go against store policy and CHASE customers suspected of theft, something that according to policy I could get IMMEDIATELY fired for that she did ALL THE TIME.

I worked at a retail store where the store manager would "fix" our timesheets and by that I mean she committed WAGE THEFT.

I worked for a pet store where, instead of giving one employee more hours (who really needed more hours and if they got the hours wouldn't be full-time), they kept hiring inept teenagers who rarely showed up.

I worked at a fast food place (two yellow and conjoined arches) where the store manager took me by my shoulders and SHOOK me because the fries weren't cooking fast enough (this happened when I was 16).

Those are all I can think of for now.

Prouddoggieparent · 25/07/2024 21:00

Department Manager had his house up for sale. People went on the web to have a nose about it and saw a company branded clock on his kitchen wall.
He was on about £100k.

WoollyRosebud · 25/07/2024 21:09

Sethera · 25/07/2024 19:55

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

Prawn sandwich maybe that you 'forgot' to put in the fridge overnight, what a shame left it in the full sun.

JC03745 · 25/07/2024 21:09

Nobodywouldknow · 25/07/2024 19:12

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.

I was her 2x manager, not that it makes a difference, and it wasn't a few pages she was printing! This person was going through reams of paper and ink every week, otherwise I wouldn't have noticed. She was soon dismissed for other reasons- the printing was minor in comparison.

Brighteyes2368 · 25/07/2024 21:14

Downunderduchess · 25/07/2024 12:02

Surely all you would have to say is you prepared the food for yourself specifically because you were constipated? Not your fault if someone stole it and got a raging case of the trots from it.

Exactly, that's how it stays legal. You just cannot put an excessive amount of the laxative in the food. A double dose, which some people medically need, would work just fine in making the food thief known.

Polythene · 25/07/2024 21:18

WoollyRosebud · 25/07/2024 21:09

Prawn sandwich maybe that you 'forgot' to put in the fridge overnight, what a shame left it in the full sun.

... In Wuhan 😜

HausofHolbein · 25/07/2024 21:19

F.

GettingStuffed · 25/07/2024 21:20

We had a work local awards day. Morning presentation and afternoon group activities and then in the evening a meal and overnight stay in a hotel. Between the afternoon event and evening we had an open bar. Whilst most of us drank sensibly there was a group necking triple Jack Daniels and cokes. On Monday we were all called in to our managers office and asked what we'd drank and who we were drinking with.

Four people were put on report and the next year we had pitchers of warm lager or orange juice.

Rottweilermummy · 25/07/2024 21:29

Collections at work, always seems to be the lower paid that put in to the collections than higher paid

IncompleteSenten · 25/07/2024 21:43

HausofHolbein · 25/07/2024 21:19

F.

Edited

"Humour me. What offence in UK law would you be guilty of by putting laxatives in your own sandwich?"

Administering a noxious substance maybe?

HelloMyNameIsElderSmurf · 25/07/2024 21:46

Two from the same place: when I was a lot younger I worked in recruitment/sales and it was all very social. We'd regularly go out for team dinners/drinks, probably once a month or so, and would all chip in and pay for ourselves. Found out just before I left that the manager would make a big show of paying for the first drink, accept all our contributions to the bill, then charge the whole lot back to the company on expenses.

At the same place, I bought a touché Eclat for the first time at what seemed like a horrendous price. Showed it to a colleague who grabbed it off me, said 'oh I always wanted to try it' then started plastering my brand new untouched concealer over her own mucky face. When I said 'oi, give that back' she called me a selfish cow and THREW it across the office, denting the little tube.

HelloMyNameIsElderSmurf · 25/07/2024 21:49

And just remembered my favourite CF story - when I was a student I worked at a big hotel and there was a specific bar tending job that involved setting up the bars for functions in all the different spaces. Much easier to nick bottles in that sort of set up.

So anyway, he'd been caught on CCTV lifting something so the head of security visited him at home in the early morning, to be greeted by bar tender and girlfriend wearing hotel branded robes and slippers, then when he was invited into the house the guy actually had an armchair that he'd lifted from the hotel! God knows how he got it out the door.

I have to say though that is Christmas parties were flipping legendary. You've never seen so much booze in your life.

AnnaBegins · 25/07/2024 21:49

I worked for a major retailer a few years ago, and we had to keep a sample of each product we sold in the back room at head office, plus the leading brand as a comparison. This included OTC medication like cold and flu tablets, and it was generally acceptable to ask for one if you had a cold. All the low paid admin staff would ask nicely for one own brand tablet, but all the directors on £100k+ salaries would simply steal the whole box of branded product, meaning we had to go out and restock to keep within policy.

Ilovecleaning · 25/07/2024 21:55

S1lverCandle · 24/07/2024 16:47

Just one colleague asked around if anyone didn't want theirs so that both his DSs could have one. I thought that was really nice.
What was really nice about trying to blag a second freebie?

I know. I don’t get that either.

BorsetshireBanality · 25/07/2024 21:59

I worked at a place that had a work shop that did gold plating (for circuit boards) and it was said that the foreman had gold bathroom fittings in his house.

My then boss lived in a large house with a paddock next to Forestry Commission land and he bragged how he moved his fence back to land-grab more room for his horses. He’d bring his horse box into work and root around in the scrap bins for bits of wood at lunchtime.

TeaOrCoffeeOrHotChocolate · 25/07/2024 22:16

NotSentFromIphone · 24/07/2024 18:54

Used to work with someone who grabbed the Christmas chocolates (Quality Street, Roses tins etc) provided by chief exec and some suppliers and fished out every one of the purple caramel ones and stashed them in her drawer. We're talking probably a dozen tins of them that were handed in over the festive period.

One year, someone must have sneaked into her drawer and crushed them all to bits leaving her drawer covered in caramel. We never found out who did that but it was hilarious!

Did she do it again next year? I hope it taught her a lesson!

BashfulClam · 25/07/2024 22:25

Just remembered she. I worked for a TV company. The presenters could claim back clothing that they bought to wear on screen. One CF tried to claim for 3 designer bags, I bounced that back as no one had a handbag on screen. She was not happy and tried to go above my head but was told I was right. Another tried to claim for an expensive MAC palette..,they didn’t do their own makeup.

The stolen uniform reminds me of when I had a Saturday job in WH Smith. We changed for a while from the polyester crap to a polo shirt and jeans. My uniform was in a bag in the staff area waiting for me and someone took my jeans as they obviously like the idea of an extra pair. They were all dicks. My manager gave me money to nip across to the jeans shop across the road and buy some.

Pomegranatecarnage · 25/07/2024 22:25

Mostlycarbon · 24/07/2024 14:31

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.

You have to stand up to her. Or leave!