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?

A manager at work is currently, and has been since the beginning of the year (knowingly), fiddling their hours.

Senior leaders have know for several months and done nothing.

They know, other employees know, I’d even say they themselves know everyone else knows. It carries on and no one says anything. Absolutely baffling.

Surely that's straightforward theft?

What was actually said to him?

My friend runs a yoga business, I looked after her DC for several months, (picking up every evening from school, cooking their tea etc) whilst she trained.
Once she had to go to a city for an assessment and I had them stay at mine for 3nights.
I never charged her a penny, she's a friend, why would I?
She persuaded me to try yoga (never really been my thing) and I said I'd give it a try. She said great, that'll be £25 please.

Think I've seen it all

• the top manager who after getting all his cutlery and plates and glasses from the work canteen continued to take all the free sachets of salt, pepper, ketchup etc so he didn't have to buy those.
• the manager who was given a few boxes of wine as a donation to our charity, took the ones she liked and gave out the others as Christmas presents to some of the staff (but not me).
• the team member who was off sick months at a time (he was in the office 4 months total in the 5 years I worked there) and the first thing he'd do when he came back to work was ask how many holidays he had available to take and that he needed to book them immediately despite our holiday quota already being full. Not getting the holidays he wanted meant he would call in sick.....

But my all time favourite was the political party donation fiddle done by a place I worked overseas.

To explain - a small donation to a political party didn't need to be reported to anyone official but big ones over $5k did need to be reported and also noted on a company's annual report so shareholders etc could see political affiliation.

So I was working for a retail chain that had about 5,000+ employees. And noticed on my payslip showed a $20 bonus. And a $20 deduction for a donation to a particular very right wing political party. So I was net zero so presumably had nothing to complain about. Just like all the others in the shop I worked in.

What the company had done was a payroll fiddle where all 5,000+ employees were given a small bonus which then showed as us as making the political donation not them. It also meant they could claim on the tax accounts that there was an extra $100,000+ paid to their staff thus lowering their tax liability. And they didn't have to report it officially anywhere that they had donated $100,000+ to a bunch of fascists.

Well they wouldn't have had to report it except that someone sent an anonymous report to the newspapers about what had happened. Cue the fireworks!

If it’s google, save your stuff to your drive, not the shared one. I have a very similar situation. I’d go to the line manager, what is the head of department actually contributing?

Is there a year group head?

Or the deputy?

I'd forget to share...

I once worked with someone who went to every leaving do if a buffet was laid on (a large company and she had worked there for quite a few years so knew a lot of people a little bit). She never stayed long but always filled her large handbag because "it will probably be wasted at the end of the evening".

There are plenty of people for whom the “free” part is way more exciting than the item itself. I’ve worked in offices where you could have left a lump of shit on the table and someone would’ve eaten it because it’s free.

One man I worked for was a stickler for re-charging private 'phone calls made from company 'phones. Fair enough. I worked out the cost, & the staff paid up.

The money recovered was much less than the cost of my time in calculating it, but CF insisted "It's the principle that matters".

He was livid when I presented him with a large bill for the overseas, peak-time calls he'd made to his family. I quoted "It's the principle that matters" back to him, & he was extremely rude to me. I was a temp, so I left - after I'd told CF's boss why I was going.

Years ago I conducted a welfare meeting at an employee's home.
The downstairs interior of his house was painted blue, grey and yellow - our bespoke colours made for our company.
He'd pinched all the paint from work.
It was really awkward as I tried to pretend I hadn't noticed, I don't have a "game face" 😬
I don't know how they looked at those colours every day

Big boss was treating our department to a buffet lunch. She gave one of the managers money to order from M&S. The manager thought she'd save money and ordered from god knows where. The day after anyone who had eaten the meat or fish options was off with food poisoning - some people were really unwell - just so some manager thought they'd earn brownie points by saving the boss a quid!

I left a job (teacher) and was bought a garden chair and a plant pot by my department. (6 people)

Some years later my great friend left too.

Years later we chatted about gifts and I told her what I got. She had donated £50 to my gift - which had cost about £10. She rang another friend who had donated £50 to her gift - approximate cost £25.

Our head of department had been collecting large sums of money and then keeping most of it.

Young family member of mine took a job at a prestigious venue as a bartender. They did a lot of wedding parties and family member was often left alone serving the bar, collecting glasses etc. It was relentless. The manager told FM that they shared tips out but new staff members had to work one month before qualifying for a share. I told FM that it sounded dodgy at best, illegal at worst. I told FM to disregard this and pocket their own tips. (A lot of the wedding parties had plenty of generous tippers. One evening FM was quizzed about the lack of tips accrued from a big wedding party, and manager felt there should have been more so would deduct what he thought was an appropriate amount from FMs wage. That was the final straw and FM told the manager to shove his job up his arse and walked out leaving a bar full of thirsty wedding guests and nobody to serve them 🤣🤣

For my sins I did the milk ordering for the staffroom coffee/ tea . Milkman delivered the order on a Monday and it lasted the week. Suddenly realised we were running out by Wednesday lunchtime so I had to nip over to the shop to top up for Wednesday then go to Tesco on my way home to cover Thursday and Friday. Asked around and found that two members of staff used it for cereal in the morning, and the HT often fancied a glass of cold milk when he was working in his room after school. Had to explain in words of one syllable that they paid for milk to go in tea or coffee, not daily cereal or refreshing glasses of the cold stuff. I then gave up the honour and decided I would drink fruit tea, which didn’t need milk. One of the cereal eaters took over and told me I still had to pay even though I wasn’t using the milk.because otherwise the fund was short! I explained , without shouting, that I had been subsidising her cereal habit for weeks so she could whistle for it.

(I am pleased to say that the cereal habit was stopped shortly afterwards because they didn’t keep their packets in secure containers , and they found mice droppings in the boxes, shame!)

I used to work for a national charity that had milk filchers just like this.

I had a similar experience with an art class I went to. I was clearing out some mugs, so donated them to the art group, and they were put away in our cupboard.

Within a few weeks, all of the nicest mugs had gone missing, and they turned up in the mums and tots group cupboard. We stole them back and marked all our mugs with the art class name.

In their mid teens my lads worked in a pub, collecting plates, glasses, you know the stuff, there was a kp and chef as well. All tips into a pot.
Landlord took the tips as his daughters pocket money. She was 8ish, and definitely not on staff.

Oh my lord!

Don't see anything wrong with that

When I worked in the local authority in the nineties, the office photocopiers were supporting a variety of local community groups with leaflets and posters. It all stopped as soon as you had those electronic ones that clocked up how much photocopying everyone was doing.

Back in the very olden days, mid '90s. we only had a couple of computers with printers in the staff room but every morning no-one could get on there because a couple of Aussies were having on-line chat with friends and family back home and when they were told to leave them free after 8am were most put out.
We found that the printer wasn't printing stuff, someone had managed to jam it and left it. My department managed to sort it out and found there were dozens and dozens of pages queued up of holiday offers, when we managed to clear the queue again, much annoyance.

Very common in schools, nicking other people's work. I soon learned to put my name in white in the footer and on more than one occasion I changed it to black ink so it was legible,

This was way back in 2015/16, but a colleague would often come in half an hour late, watch movies and read Reddit all day, take 3 hour lunch breaks and sometimes not return from their lunch break. A couple of people pulled them up on it, but they were so hostile that those couple of people gave up. They were eventually made redundant in 2017 due to budget issues. It's a shame as they were very good at their job, when they did it, which was rarely. That round of redundancies (yes, there were more later) was just before Christmas, so they were very angry. I did find it hard to feel a whole lot of sympathy for them given how much they slacked off and bitched out colleagues trying to keep them from getting into trouble.

The school I worked in for 20 odd years had a chronic milk filching problem. We didn't have a milk fund - everyone had to provide their own. I could take a pint in every day and by morning break it would be gone with me only having had one drink.

I tried labelling it with my name - that was even worse, people seemed to think, oh kittylion won't mind. I tried labelling it as dog's milk or badger milk - no difference. I even came in one break to find one woman sniffing with her hooter right up to the rim of my bottle (with not much milk left I might add) asking everyone if it was off, cheeky mare. I said yes it is - off into my coffee because IT'S MINE!! Even though i didn't much fancy it after she'd virtually wiped her nose all over it, but still, it was the principle.

In the end I didn't put my milk in the fridge, I bought a little flask and kept it in my locker. I think people might even have pinched it from in there, but they didn't know about it.

In a previous school I went into the staffroom at break to see someone chatting away to a colleague, very coolly go up to my locker, take out my jar of Nescafe, spoon some into her mug and go back to the kettle. I thought it had been disappearing quickly. She must have tooted into all the lockers until she found a brand of coffee up to her high standards. After that I bought a jar of cheap coffee and when it had gone I decanted my Nescafe into it.

Don't even ask me how many mugs I took in over the years only to be pinched.

These were teaching staff! Cheeky fuckers - so glad no children witnessed it.

Oh, how unlucky! They must have been gutted to be so ill when their son arrived.