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?

I had this during my teacher training year as we had just had a new curriculum so needed new content for everything 😅

People who " take a slice home for my hubbie, the kids, the cat" do my head in
Why just why??

I've no idea! My DH wouldn't touch anything wrapped up in a scuzzy piece of tissue!

Oh yeah and we once had a guy who was unbelievably tight. Always in the gents when it was his turn to get in a round, etc.

We found out he was stealing the industrial size rolls of toilet paper from the office because he was too tight to stump up for his own

His justification was that he sent so much time at work and often did his bowel movement there, therefore he should not be expected to buy his own loo paper for his home (illogical yes I know)

Tight CF took at least 3 foreign holidays a year!!!

I worked for a charity.

We had front row Little Mix tickets donated and one of the managers was told to donate to one of our young clients. Except she took her daughter and went herself.

I work as a trainer, regular contract at a conference centre for the same company. At Christmas I and the other trainers bought the reception/conference staff some chocolates, because they’d been very helpful sorting out rooms and resources.
in January the head of resources said ‘ I hope you enjoyed the wine’ - turned out they’ve given the company a bottle of wine for each of us … which we never saw!

I used to work in-house for a large company and every so often there’d be a buffet provided for training meetings. Any leftovers would be put in the kitchen. The moment this was announced, you’d be knocked over by the stampede round to get a free sandwich … these were people with an average income of about £90k. 🙄

Boss brought his old wheelbarrow in on his last day - we giggled watching him wrestle it out of his very average sized car, wondering what the twit was doing this time.
We got our answer at closing time when he put the new work’s wheelbarrow in his car and left forever.

He had a 6 figure salary.

It is strange how ime it is the very highest earners who always grab the freebies and make sure they’re at the front of the queue for any handouts or perks. Vile grabby people.

I do think its when something is "free"- there's a certain personality type (and quite a few of them I might add) who MUST have the free thing. Interesting, I wish I knew the psychology behind it. Not work but I remember being on a flight from the USA - lets say American Airlines - and we were told that senior management were on board monitoring staff, so all passengers were offered a big basket of chocolate to choose from - British sweets so things like Kit Kat, Bounty, Diary milk etc. I took 1 bar which was nice, but hey, I can buy chocolate any time I like, I have money and there are shops where I live. But everyone else was trying to empty the basket into their bags each time it was offered - some passengers taking half a dozen bars and then dipping in again when the baskets came back round.

Why?

(Sorry just edited to say chocolates were handed out to put passengers in a good mood in case management came round and asked us all how our flight was going etc. So not "why" were the sweets handed out but why did people take so much?)

Two weeks before Christmas, in a restaurant, the 3 family members who owned it decided they were entitled to a share of the tips we’d saved up all year. I don’t know how big a share, because they refused to tell us how much there was.
I’m very happy to report by the next day they did not have one member of staff left, except for a teenage girl they treated appallingly. She left shortly afterwards.

One of my bosses (not owner, employed the same as the rest of us) would just fuck off most days on "site visits" when we all knew he was either going home or carrying out personal tasks like MOT his car or doing his food shopping. He was spotted numerous times. He then had the audacity to be an absolute tyrant in the office if anyone even looked like might not be working hard enough. When I started there I was 20 and I quickly got very good at HIS role. He would take the credit for the work I did all the time. He was also another one who would take the best of the rep gifts and guts all the treats.
He was complained about multiple times but nothing ever came of it. When he retired a few years after I started he was most put out that nobody contributed towards a gift for him.

I worked for a local health care charity. The trustees were all pretty well-off, own businesses, big houses etc. They decided that as a show of appreciation to staff and volunteers they would hold a summer barbecue for us. We were all on a lower salary that we would get were we employed by a private provider or NHS. Imagine our surprise when a couple of weeks before the date we received a list of all food and drinks required with a request that we should put our name by what we’d be supplying.

I can see her point to be honest, especially if she's ever done any unpaid overtime, which she could equally call her time being stolen.
Lots of workplaces tolerate a bit of personal use of equipment and Sunday School classes aren't usually huge

😂😂😂

We once had our tuck box taken away cos it was filled with notes with IOUs instead of the correct change. I think that was more well meaning forgetfulness really.

Your story is another level haha.

It’s how rich people stay rich, I suppose!

My boss also had business cards printed with my personal and company number on but no indication as to which was which.
They also spelt my very normal 1st name wrong so instead of reprinting the cards they set me up a new email account with the same wrongly spelt name.
I put all my family, friends, personal contacts ect into one big group on my phone and set a a ring tone for it. Any call that were not in that group defaulted to the other ring tone which was War Of The Worlds 😄

I sort of admired the ingenuity of it! He must have planned very long term to steal an entire dinner set and 12 glasses! Taking a load of stuff at once would have been noticed, but the odd glass or knife over time just looks like a breakage or something accidentally being binned - or doesn’t get noticed at all.

Not sure if it's cf but our (then) manager

Some charity had got in touch with her to see if she could raise donations-shampoo,soap,toothbrushes,toothpaste etc to help domestic abuse women who had fled and had nothing

She put a plea out,so we all raided our bathrooms and donated (between us) at least £600/700 of stuff

Didn't hear a thing about it until her face was plastered all over the local paper as the one who had donated it all

'Massive thanks to x!look at what she has donated!how generous is she???shes put it all together out of the goodness of her heart!'

No mention of us who had actually put the products together,just her smug face,lapping up the gratitude (she hadn't put anything in herself)

Then it all came out in the wash,that she'd helped herself to most of the 'good stuff'

She's on triple our wages-she was told that if she'd been that desperate for a few bottles of shampoo,we would have clubbed together to buy her some

She wasn't bothered-it bounced off her but nobody donated a thing a few months later when she demanded food for the food bank,which left her scrabbling about out of her own pocket to save face

(which was a shame-we would have cheerfully donated,as we are a generous bunch but not if she was A-taking all the credit for single-handedly putting it together and B-helping herself to the goodies to stuff her face)

Team was bought 2 tubs of Celebrations, which everyone in the office was enjoying dipping into. Got to the end of the first tub only to find out one guy had secretly eaten the whole second tub (still in the cupboard) on his own.

"Do people really lose their minds when something is 'free'? Just buy your family a pizza! I'm sure he could afford it."

Sometimes the most well off are the stingiest. I used to work somewhere that handed out free T-shirts for events and you'd get the very higher ups being obsessed by their free T-shirt that I wouldn't wear if you paid me.

I used to work on a butchers stall in local market. Owner was rich as fuck. Big house, land, flash car, fancy holidays etc. Long term relationship with a woman, 2 kids etc.

Every Christmas as a bonus for all the hard work we did (it was fucking exhausting for at least 10 days) we would get a turkey crown, 1lb streaky bacon, 1lb of chipolatas AND most importantly a £100 bonus. One year he got caught having an affair. On Christmas eve while giving us our turkeys he announced out of the blue we wouldn't be getting a cash bonus that year as his affair had made things shakey at home and there was a risk his dp would leave and 'screw him for the house'. And the bonus was just a nice thing to do, not compulsory.

I was OK money wise, but 2 of the other women were gutted, they were relying on the £100.

Anyway, when he started doing the Christmas rota the year after he came to me to ask what extra days I was doing. I was only working 2 days a week by that point. I just said 'oh I am not doing any extra days this year, they were just a nice thing to do, not compulsory'.

He did reinstate the extra £100 but I didn't get it. Wasn't arsed, I gave him my notice Christmas Eve and that was that.

That's an unreal level of greediness! Was he even embarrassed?!

A girl I worked with was on a weight watchers diet and would bring in 5 different ready to go meals from WW each week. It came to Friday and her last one was gone - the empty package was found in the boss / owner's bin in his office. I don't think anything was said to him directly but enough comments were made around him about "who would take "Mary's" last ready meal and not replace it" etc. it never happened again. Shameful arsehole!

Not a CF one, but about 25 years ago, we were handed out goody bags when the company got taken over. We got a rather useful faux leather messenger bag with the usual sort of stationery in it.

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.

I still have my bag.