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?

Are you usre they were actualy taken from the office though, or is just that they are the same?

I have the same glasses at home and work, but because they're the 1st cheap ones that come up on Amazon, not 'cos I'm a theif!

I wish more of my colleagues would! I'm fed up of all the bad stuff hanging around the office.

Took a client ouf for a meal, he bought his wife which was borderline but she worked with him so it was ok.
This was a regulated industry and if I broke the rules I could be sacked
After the meal he legged it sharpish but I was ok with that UNTIL I went to pay and had a huge bill for 3 of us. I queried it and while we had been eating the CF had arranged a takeaway delivery from the restaurant to be delivered to his home for his extended family.
Apparently the restauarant always did this for him and when I objected they offered to give me some food to take home as well.
It seems that this person was known for this and got free meals from this Restaurant due to all the business he brought them.
I managed to "massage" a few facts and get away with it but I never took him out again

"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"

I know someone who did this too. He ended up quite well off I think.

We had two trainees in our department during one rotation (law firm, the trainees do 6 months in 4 different departments). The male trainee was astonishingly lazy and entitled. The female trainee was hardworking and cracked on with everything.

I noticed she was doing a lot of late nights in the office and looked stressed and close to tears on occasion. I pressed her about her workload and she admitted she had far too much. This included tasks redelegated to her by the male trainee as he was "so busy". Oddly this busyness never resulted in him doing any late nights in the office. I probed colleagues who confirmed that they had allocated tasks to both trainees roughly equally. It turned out male trainee would almost immediately pass on his tasks to female trainee claiming he was already at capacity. Yet he was doing barely anything. He'd also take the tasks back once complete or almost complete so he could hand it back to the instructing solicitor and take the credit.

When called out on it he just brazened it out and seemed to find it amusing that he'd got away with it for so long. More astonishingly, when he qualified the firm offered him a permanent role (not my department thank God). By all accounts his old tricks continued. He was very posh, handsome and charismatic which just seemed to completely fool many people. The equity partners would say things like "well he's always a bit short on his hours but he's the sort we like to put in front of clients". I guess because he exuded confidence and old money. Yuck. He's at another firm now - got head hunted - and I expect he hasn't changed.

Sorry that was more of a rant than an amusing story. I'll try and think of some more.

I temped at some horse racing events while doing my working holiday visa in Australia. I got assigned this bar once working with a permanent staff member. One of the first things she did was criticise me for being short, but she was stuck with me because no one else showed up. She ended up taking the drinks orders while I poured the drinks. We were really busy the whole shift, and didn’t get any help from other sections until about 3 hours in. At the end of the night, she kept all the tips for herself. I wouldn’t mind so much, but my now husband had been one of the staff who came to help us, and had put in tips he got himself, so she actually took from both of us.

A fellow music teacher was basically "managed out" by a new head, keen to present a new, whizzy image. He was also contemptuous of the existing HOD, a reasonably competent keyboard player but a mere woman (with other talents to offer which he disregarded) My friend was the acknowledged keyboard whizz for public occasions.
When New Head scouted around for a new appointment, he found that nobody local applied (word had got around) but he appointed a very good brass specialist, who was, incidentally horrified when he realise what was going on.
The union supported my friend and he received compensation, the despised HOD did a sideways move to a nicer school, and it then dawned on the silly man that nobody was available for the first big occasion on his watch, the Carol Service. The new guy was a brilliant brass teacher, but his keyboard skills were limited; OK for a run-of the -mill lesson, but not a big public event.
Mr, Whizzo New Head seriously tried to ask both of his "rejects" how they would feel about coming back for old times' sake to ensure that the Carol Service could go ahead.
As I used to say to some of my pupils; "There's a two-word response to that suggestion, and the second one is OFF!"

One tightarse senior manager who was probably on £70k (and this was 10 years ago) but would happily and openly steal other people's food from the fridge.

Not about me but when I worked at Lamesburys, a colleague won the mystery customer service and was offered a biscuit from an already open tin but management.

I used to work at a bank call centre. At the time for Christmas we would each get £10 a head to put towards a Christmas lunch. Due to it not being feasible for everyone to be off and not manning the lines for calls, the manager of each team went out for a meal instead. 10 staff per manager = £100. It was even on a Friday evening when the phone lines would have been shut!!!!

This was told to me by a former colleague and happened a very long time ago.

He used to work as a lowly technician for a government ministry at a research establishment and was sent out to do testing with a much senior colleague on a little boat that had a small outboard motor. After the testing was finished the senior colleague put the outboard motor in the boot of his car and covered it with a tarp “you’re to tell anyone who asks that the motor fell into the water and was lost otherwise you’ll lose your job”. Also this senior colleague submitted a patent (on his own behalf and not the research establishment) for an application that someone else had invented and made quite a bit of money from it.

I'd been getting lifts to event with another girl as we were going to the same thing and I didn't drive. I always split the fuel costs with her of course.

After quite a few of these I discovered she was claiming the mileage for them!! I asked her about it, she admitted it and agreed to refund my fuel back and said "but I need to factor in my tax, insurance and wear and tear"!?!?!

I said if you must take of some wear and tear ok but I am in no way responsible for your tax and insurance - she gave me back all my money (it was long time ago but I think it was about £350 and I was on a very low wage).

Oh I thought about this one a long the years (20+ in fact) so will be interesting to gauge if I’m being petty of if this is in fact CF territory.

Big FTSE 100 company gets a swanky new headquarters and the Queen comes to the opening. Who does the CEO pick from his 5000+ employees to greet her at the top of the steps….. his children. Presumably takes them out of school for a day for their once in a life time opportunity of meeting the queen. How is that appropriate for an office opening. Left a really bad taste in my mouth. But am I just being petty as obviously he couldn’t pick everyone and presumably the c-suite / board members all got to meet her.

A long time ago student me worked in a training department of the civil service as a holiday job. Refreshments were set out with an honesty box and price list. Everything put out was counted. Lower grades were always spot on with paying for what they took. The higher the grades being trained, the bigger the discrepancy between what was taken and what was actually paid for. The most senior grades never paid for anything, but generously helped themselves. At the time I was shocked- now I am much older and have experienced the type of people who generally get to the top of organisations I am entirely unsurprised.

That's how he could afford the holidays by being tight and looking after the pennies, he has the pounds available to spend

At my old job we were all working on Easter Sunday and I bought everyone a full size Easter egg each, given out in our midday briefing meeting.

Two of my team couldn't get to the meeting so I said I'd bring the eggs up to them, at the end of the meeting I caught one woman putting three eggs in her locker. I said "It's only one per person, those are for Alex and Ben" and she stuck her bottom lip out and said "That's not fair, I can't go home with just one egg I have three children".

I left that job two years ago now but it still pisses me off 😂

Last week, as we were breaking up for summer after a particularly hard year at school, the governors sent us a box of cupcakes which was a really lovely thought. However, there were 4. We have 60 staff in school 😅

Someone I worked with was dismissed for stealing food. There had been an afternoon Xmas office party and the owners had specifically bought a sandwich platter, boxes of chocolate champagne for the outsourced cleaning company staff (which had been made clear to staff). She took some of these home so was fired for theft.

She was notorious for hoovering up any left overs for meetings/birthdays.

I'd have to call that out - that just isn't fair.
How about a cheeky "I will when you will" kind of response to this 'manager' who is basically getting you to do their homework for them??
Do you have anyone you could go to about how your work is being passed off as theirs? Can you put a watermark on your work (perhaps hidden in white on a white background) so that you could protect your work and claim credit for it if/when the time comes?

Nah you don't go to Australia and the Maldives in one year on the price of a massive roll of bog roll and 6 pints of lager

He was from a very wealthy landed family

He was just a tight arse

Had a coworker running a re-sale shop out of her (glass walled) office. You could see the garments piled up, hanging over chairs, hanging on a coat rack. She took photos, posted the photos, sold items, had mailroom staff send out the items. She also received items that she marked up and re-sold so she had a lot of incoming deliveries.

I never faulted her. This was a management problem. She wasn't hiding anything.

Husband and wife both working for the same organisation (but different departments). Both off at exactly the same time, sick leave on full pay.

Which amazing coincidentally was the exact time their sone was relocating from the other side of the world.

Colleague was a local councillor (with a salary and bonuses for being on various committees).

He spent more time doing his council work than his job in the office. Using his work email, printing things off on our printers, and he gave council staff and his constituents the office phone number (we didn't have direct lines) and refused to give them his home or mobile numbers! And he never told them when he was on leave.

One of his constituents was extremely rude and unpleasant every time he rang. And the council staff spoke to my colleague and I (because he was always the last to answer the phone) as if we were his PAs!

So many of these revolve around food, as does mine.

Old workplace used to put on a free in-house conference for all staff once a year. A buffet lunch was provided but due to the layout of the venue there was often one very long queue. A couple of years running the food ran out before the people at the back of the queue got near the tables (even though numbers had been considered) so someone decided to look into it. Turned out certain members of staff were loitering near the table to ‘network’ and were helping themselves to seconds and thirds whilst people were still queuing. They claimed they hadn’t realised and thought this was extra available for the taking. The certain members of staff were of course the senior management 🙄

I don't know if this counts as it was a voluntary role, but I used to run a community facility and the thefts of stuff left out for public use were constant

Regular hirers had their own storage cupboards, so the time came when I had to do spot inspections and ask for them to be opened, and the OAP group in particular went bananas ... "Ooooo NOOOO Puzzled, not the old people!!!"

When unlocked it was like Aladdin's Cave in there