Work cf stories. Anyone else work cheeky fuckers?

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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?

Didn't he have to buy a stamp for his letter to them?

Yes! 😂

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Worked in a v small company - less than 10 of us. On a Friday the boss would buy us all a maccys / kfc. Been there so long he would just give the card out to whoever volunteered to go get it. CF started after first 4 weeks he volunteered to go get our Friday lunch.

Boss had banking app on his phone and noticed that payment had been so much higher than usual.

He confronted CF and asked for a receipt. CF didn't have one so boss threaten to drive and get a print out receipt.

CF admitted to purchasing Maccys for all of his family and had them in his car which he was going to take home later for tea.

Food Friday stopped until CF left / was pushed - 4 weeks later !

I used to work for Social Services in a building that had previously been a children's home. A very senior and extremely well paid member of staff came to visit and said that they were redesigning the ground floor to make better use of the very large reception area and old kitchen. He came round chatting to us all about it. My friend (we'll call her Barbara) and I worked on reception and were the lowest paid staff in the place. My friend thought she was being helpful and sketched out an idea of how she thought the new floor plan could look, dividing the space up into offices/interview rooms/cupboard, etc. It was brilliant and well thought out. When the manager had gone, I remember saying to her, let's have a look at that sketch again, it was really good. We couldn't find it anywhere. About a week later, we were all called into a meeting with the manager who proceeded to present us with an overhead projector slide show incorporating the EXACT floor plan that my friend had come up with and claimed it as his own brilliant idea. I was outraged and couldn't help myself and called out, "That was Barbara's bloody idea". The manager went bright red and mumbled something and there was a very long tumbleweed moment. Nothing more was said and he got all the thanks and praise for designing the new floor plan and it was built exactly as Barbara had suggested. It still irks us to this day! The building has since been demolished. I like to imagine him being made to watch. 😂

Same happened at my last employer. Management did the same even though we all chipped in £1 each. Some of the staff didn't get any Pizza but a box had been taken home by Management.

Apologies - it isn’t always easy to get sarcasm from the written word.

I wonder if the other people who have suggested or applauded this plan are being sarcastic too?

Also not a work experience. I visited an upmarket fair some years back with my DM and bought some aromatherapy products as a treat for myself. We met my Aunt afterwards for lunch and a gang of her cronies. She asked if I had bought anything and I showed her the products which included some gel for cooling the skin. Aunt opened this, stuck her fingers in it to 'try it out' and passed it round all her friends as well. When it was finally returned to me half empty and with the odd hair in it was unfit for use. Aunt knew I was annoyed and thought it a highly amusing wheeze to have done this.

I did sort of get my revenge a couple of years later. Aunt was planning a return visit to the restaurant we ate lunch at. I found out the restaurant had recently been closed down as it was over run with cockroaches and was generally filthy. It was Aunt's favourite eating place in London and I took pleasure in telling her what had happened.

Back in the 1980s I did some work for a major UK government department. At that time, there was a major difference between whether you were "full time" or "part time" with better benefits for full time workers in terms of holidays, sick leave, pensions and maternity pay. To be designated a full time worker you needed to work 40 hours/week in this government department.

When I was going through employment contracts it suddenly struck me that in this Department

• All of the men were on full-time contracts at 40 hours per week (apart from a handful of hourly paid casual staff)
• All of the women were designated "part-time" - on 39½ hour contracts.

It was an outrageous loophole.

.... Just for reference I worked for a different government department - full time - on 37 hours/week

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All our admin staff put £10 or so in a purple purse each month kept in a staff members drawer with the idea we would have an evening out when we'd saved enough.
The next month we went to put our contribution in we found the purse completely empty.
A member of staff had failed their probation the week before. No proof but v suspicious as no money has ever gone missing before.
We no longer try and save monthly. It only takes one act to sour the whole thing!

Yup - same way they always claim the most in expenses that admin don't bother about.

Omg! Did you tell the police about the cameras? That's really awful.

Had someone work for me once, he came in as an apprentice.

He would question everything I told him and a male colleague junior to me would have to back me up.

He used to take work off a task board and I noticed that prior to about 1030am or after about 1430 he wouldn't pick a new task up. These tasks were about 10-15 minutes worth of work and needed to be done in a certain timeline.

I did the standard stuff, set expectations, told him he needed to be working his hours etc. I then told him I needed him in the office full time, he told me the brakes had gone on his car and there was no public transport from where he lived (it would have been a very long journey), so told him to get it fixed and come into the office ASAP.

He then went AWOL. Had a meeting to review his probation in which he admitted a job just wasn't for him right now.

I then found out after he'd gone that other staff members had been covering for him and knew he was doing nothing. They felt sorry for him because he was skint and didn't want him to lose his job.

He must have had some charm, if he managed to get colleagues to basically carry him!

My Husband worked away during the week for years, he got the hotel points, as did his colleagues who also worked away from home. This would get us probably 10 nights of free hotel stays a year in an average hotel/room. Having this little perk made not having him home 4 -5 nights out of 7 slightly more bearable.

As there were several staff members who stayed away if the person booking the rooms had got the points, they'd have had luxury stays with food all paid for too...doesn't sound fair when they aren't the one leaving their family.

I think it was a fair point for another poster to make.

I think the difference here was that yes the manager was getting the points for his own stays, but was also taking the points for everybody else's stays - the clue to me was the poster referring to it being the engineers being the ones on the trips.

If you are aware that it's likely to be taken, then obviously lack of labelling would mean that you are likely to be prosecuted as intent to poison which is covered under offences against the person act. If you labelled it appropriately then I can't see how you could be criminally prosecuted.However that doesn't stop you being sued in a civil case. I couldn't say that they would win, but remember burglars who sued home owners because the home owner had created traps? The burglar won because it was premeditated and there were no signs / warnings. The same reason why building sites have to be cordoned off. Also you would most likely loose your job and the person you is the victim might even be able to sue the employer because its an unsafe work place.

The burglar won because it was premeditated and there were no signs / warnings
Mental that you should have to consider the safety of some miscreant who's decided to break into your home 🤯

My project Manager asked if he could catch a lift to customer site, 250 miles away. We both were due to attend the meeting. We did this 3 times in a month so 1500 × 50p. 45p plus 5p for passenger. I was more than happy because I was driving and he would just fall asleep ten minutes in...bliss. He had a company car, I had my own car. I put my claim in with a couple of fuel receipts. Waited a week but didn't get the expenses go in to my bank. A week later I spoke to payroll, who said that I had missubmitted the claim and that I needed to do it again. Checked it, resubmitted, couldn't see anything wrong. 2 days later HR Director arranged a meeting with Me. CF of the PM had claimed it himself and they had already confirmed with him that we went in his car and he was driving and I was under investigation. I pointed out to them that he had a company car so he can only claim for actual fuel used not the 45p rate. They said that they had asked him that and he told them he had 2 cars and his wife was using the company car. I asked if the car reg he was claiming against was the same one I had entered. They said they couldn't tell me because it's personal information.I was livid obviously. I asked them how can I prove to you that I'm not conning them. They couldn't answer. I hasten to add that the company we worked for was the biggest fuel card and one of the biggest fleet car company in the UK. So I spoke to our fraud team who I'd been creating reports for, and asked them if they could help. They phoned up the garages and asked for stills of the car being filled up, clearly showing me filling up the car whilst he sat sleeping in the passenger seat. I then spoke to our enforcement team who deal with passing on parking or speeding tickets to drivers of our vehicles... and they got that registration plates details showing that I owned the car. I then went back upstairs to HR asked for a meeting about it all, and saying that I had something I had to admit to. I did this because I hoped they would take that seriously enough to arrange a meeting straight away which they did. I think they were thinking gotcha. I then simply said that I had to admit that I have abused the time of 2 employees to prove my innocence and gave them the evidence. Outlining how easy it had been for me to prove my innocence and that HR clearly hadn't even tried to investigate it and that they had taken a project managers word rather than mine. Was it because I was 21 and the PM was in his 40s? HR director looked shocked and tried to placate me, but I had become more angry with them. So I said "work out how you want to apologise for calling me a thief. I'm now off to do my job where I don't make unfounded accusations." The following day payroll lady came to see me and apologised. I told her that she did her job perfectly, she highlighted a potential fraud and had just reported it into HR and I had no grudge with her at all. She had been told by HR the precious night that she had done everything wrong and that she needed to apologise. We started chatting and she said that she was worried about reporting it, because the HR director was shagging the PM and it was embarrassing to have to report him and me.
2 days later the PM was in a foul mood and a week later he had gone. Later found out that HR director had dumped him. HR director didn't report that she was in a relationship with him, tried to get him to go quietly, because she knew she had done bad... she was then gone 2 months later after the head of fraud team had reported what had happened to CEO.
It took 3 months for my expenses to be paid. Didn't get any apology from the people who should apologise. PM had a months salary and HR director was given a golden parachute. CEO then asked for me in his office and he then apologised that this had happened under his watch, explained to me that the company had to pay these people off, or suffer bad press. I'm happy I had the experience because I've never trusted managers ever again and therefore have saved every single email I've ever been sent regarding anything which could affect my employment. Those emails have saved me at least once a year since by being able to prove that I had told managers of upcoming issues which they denied ever being told.

Another one about food theft from a manager.

A lovely colleague/friend was leaving for a new job, and had given our manager and his counterpart for another team a posh packet of biscuits each to share with the rest of their respective teams.

When I saw her on a night out, she asked me whether I'd had any, and I told her that I wasn't even aware of them, so she told me to ask my line manager whether he had them.

I wasn't actually too bothered about them, but when I remembered to ask him about them, he said they will be brought out on a special occasion. WTF? I thought it was odd, but left it at that and didn't ask him about them again.

When I saw my friend again, I told her what he had said and she was indignant of the fact that he had withheld them from his team, as if he was saving them to give to us as doggy treats when we were good.

Anyway, nearly a year later at the end of the academic term, she visited us and asked my line manager what had happened to them, and he confessed that he had kept it for himself! So not only did he steal them, but he lied about it too to!

Same manager, the HODs were having a meeting with some very important visitors; manager went over to the other department's office and took an unopened packet of biscuits as refreshments for his visitors.

Honestly, what is it about managers and food theft? It's so fucking embarrassing!

Brilliant @mansviewpoint well done for fighting that!!

Wow @mansviewpoint , PM thought he was Teflon because he was snagging the HR director, a.d totally underestimated you.

Well done!

Yes I knew someone who would use the office milk for their cereal and pour herself large glasses.

Oh this has unlocked a memory!

I went on a training course (4 or 5 days, I cant remember) along with a colleague. She drove (as it made sense to car share) and it was in the middle of nowhere.

A couple of days in, she came down ill and decided she was going home. Her parents drove down to pick her up (both came so one could drive her car back) and I was just left there with no way of getting myself home (middle of nowhere).

My DH drove down to pick me up.

On returning to the office, she put in a petrol claim for both her own car and her parents car which the boss was not impressed with. I don't know whether he paid it, but he made sure I put in a petrol claim for DH coming to get me.

We didn't car share to things after that.