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?

Not my story but once overheard someone on the train saying that her managers had been bigging up a bonus for hard working staff and were promoting colleagues in the team to do overtime and having a 'big push'. Managers wouldn't reveal what the bonus would be but everyone assumed it was a cash bonus and so staff on the team were rising to it and coming in early, etc. Anyway, it turned out to be a 'wear your own clothes day'

I have named changed for this because I have told a few people about this.

I worked for a company that ran the cleaning contract at a really exclusive London school. We were invited to a charity quiz night. It was hosted by a left wing comedian who had children at exclusive school.

Charity auction with some really expensive prizes, think a weeks stay in luxury ski lodge etc etc. The prize that went for the most money was a week's work experience on BBC Radio 4 today show. At that point, I realised the absolute inequality of opportunity in society. That the 'left' elite are just as smug and complacent as the right.

It still makes me feel cross.

@S1lverCandle @ToxicChristmas . At the time I mentioned to CF that the left over food was going to be used up the next day for all staff to enjoy, but no one else said anything at the time, though they soon slagged CF off when they had gone. This is the same CF that complained that there was no milk for their tea one morning because I had a hospital appointment and came in late, so had not yet put my personal 2 pints in the staff fridge.

Bloody hell

I'm quite petty so I'd have cheerfully said 'oh dear, you're right, that won't do at all'. And taken all three from her. Problem solved. Now no eggs for anybody.

Enjoying all these stories keep em coming. Racking my brains to contribute

Secondary school one. Y10 options.

I worked in a department of 5. A practical subject with several related subject areas.

A couple of us noticed that one of us always had more than her fair share of nice /easy to teach pupils. Whilst a 'girls' subject you'd expect a few more boys to be in the group. My and colleagues groups were somewhat polarised - either pupils really keen to do the subject as well as more than our fair share of the headbangers.

The departmental policy was that if a subject was oversubscribed then places would go to those who had made a decent effort in Y9. not just academic prowess (or blond hair)

Every year the HOD sorted the options - with her 'helping'. She was of a domineering nature.
One year he was off ill and we all had to sort out the options - as a 4 some.

Much fairer - but still not quite right. We found out that she'd have a word in those pupils she didn't want to see again in Y10's ears when they were in Y9.

"Don't pick my subject because I won't have you" So to an extent her groups were self selecting.

She got better results, it was the rest of us having to see the Head every September to explain our poorer results.

Hard to prove this - but we knew it happened.

So later when I was HOD I'd have all Y9 together at option time. I'd talk about fairness, free to choose what ever you want, you don't have to be good at a subject to get that option - just to have tried. A bit better but still a bit of a bias - she was unpleasant to those she didn't want with her in Y10 and 11.

A club I was part of had a dinner dance to celebrate a special occasion and the committee had commissioned engraved wine glasses to mark the occasion and put one out at each place setting. During the dancing some members went round sweeping them up to get a set of the glasses, fully aware that would mean stealing them from other members. Awful behaviour. The committee announced an amnesty for the glasses but virtually none came back.

It's called 'sarcasm'.

It's a very poor example of 'sarcasm'.

@StillAngryYearsLater

At that point, I realised the absolute inequality of opportunity in society. That the 'left' elite are just as smug and complacent as the right.

What's that got to do with the 'left elite', whatever that is?

This is MN, not the Times Literary Supplement or the New Yorker.

Oh another one, though not sure this classes as a CF. We were recruiting for someone to work in my team, managed by me. Every single candidate was asking for at least the same salary I was on as a minmum, including newly graduated people whereas I had 2 decades of experience. The guy they ended up taking on was actually paid about £3k MORE than me, and when I pointed this out to my boss he muttered something like what they paid me didn't reflect how much they valued me. And there was me thinking that that was exactly what pay reflected, silly me!

Then they cut a layer of management (mine), then 6 months later added one above me & the other former team managers. In the interim, we'd had the annual pay rounds and I'd been given a moderate (if that) rise. Somewhat unimpressed, I found another job & resigned. My new boss at the time was actually a lovely woman and said she understood completely. The HoD was on holiday when I handed in my notice then I was on holiday when he came back. When nice new boss told him I was leaving, with his head in his hands he asked what they would need to do to keep me. She took great glee in telling him it would take another £8K a year and my old level back before I'd even consider it. When she told me afterwards, she said she'd told him that because she knew the new higher salary I would be on and how angry I'd been at what I'd seen as a demotion for me and others at my level. She'd also seen the results of a customer (internal) survey of my department, and I'd been praised to the skies and was almost the only person the project teams actually knew by name or recognised in the office from my area, and that she'd tried to push for a big rise for me but had been ignored.

This was the company that was successful based on it's genius tech guys, but when there were share options the techs were given about 1/4 of the options offered to the sales team - who had 4 tied in clients between them who were all shareholders.

Oh my god yes. This. Every time. People loading up with veggie option and leaving the meat. I have mentioned with pizza to get 60% veggie but falls on deaf ears

I worked in a central government department in the 1980s. All of the office phones blocked international calls - BUT - nobody had thought to block the emergency phones in the lifts .... until they got bills for thousands and thousands of pounds.

That's horrendous.

Going back years there were lots of serious cheeky fuckers.

In the 70s it was common to be grabbed groped or comments made from male members of staff. It was like being in a Benny Hill sketch and there was no point complaining as the managers were as bad.

I ended up countering by a slap in the chops which worked but got me a reputation of being a bad sport. Retired recently and thank god that's history in MOST organisations!

A ward I worked on regularly had food stolen from the fridge. It was an open secret that it was one of the consultants who had been caught on several occasions, but nothing was ever said to her.

A number of colleagues would find their night shift food missing, there were no canteen facilities overnight. I still don’t understand why the senior staff didn’t pull her up on it.
If we were having a leaving lunch for anyone, we used to hide in the training room so she wouldn’t find the food. 😡

@JC03745

I thought that one of the ten commandments dealt with that!

I had a sort out of my vast make-up and toiletries collection, lots of gift with purchase items and things from cosmetic advent calendars etc. that I wouldn’t use, wrong colour lipsticks and blushers etc. About 100 or so, all unused and some expensive brands. Put them into a big basket and took them into work for the staff to take what they fancied. That afternoon I bumped into one of the staff going home for the day and she was carrying said full basket. Apparently she thought her layabout druggy brother could sell them all and make himself some money! She was quite shocked when I snatched it out of her hands and told her no fucking way.

years ago I used to run dance classes after school from a village primary school hall. When I took over the dance school from a retiring lady I also inherited what was known as the “ballet cupboard” a large metal cupboard that stood in an alcove in the corner of the hall, that the school said that I was welcome to make use of but that I wasn’t to padlock, for security reasons. 99% of the time it was filled with boring stuff such as spare ballet shoes and leotards, syllabus books and cds, but one saturday I planned a Christmas party for my students and there happened to be a school disco run by the PTA on the friday evening before hand. All my supplies of sweets, crisps, drinks, glitter tattoos, balloons, and party supplies that I had taken and left in the ballet cupboard on the thursday evening had been taken and used, as discovered when I arrived on the saturday morning. I knew it was the school disco as some of the children had seen school staff having a nosey in the cupboard (that they knew was dance school stuff) and helping themselves. I had 50 children shortly arriving and 2 tiny bags of Haribo between them- everything else was gone- one of the dance mums did an emergency trip into the nearest town for more stuff so the party cost me double in the long run and the school just shrugged it off like it was no big deal when I confronted them about the missing items. This is the same people who went absolutely nuts because a teacher saw me drinking out of a mug one day and thought I was using the staff room coffee and mugs- I then showed them the plastic box with tea, coffee, mugs and a kettle that I kept in my cupboard and the milk I brought from home. They also guilted me into giving up a whole afternoon of my time for free every week for the whole summer term to choreograph dances for their yr 6 leavers play, because they “allowed” me to use their school hall for my dance classes- the same hall that I was invoiced for termly by the local county council - yes I was paying hourly for the privilege of using it, and the school directly benefited from the revenue. Best thing I ever did was rent my own dance studio premises, and get out of school and community halls.

It is always the people that complain loudly about others you need to watch for.

My first job was in retail. The manager sacked someone for eating a few sweets from a bag a customer opened and which would have been thrown away. A few years later, he was sacked for stealing massive amounts of stock. He is a financial advisor now. Despicable and dishonest.

I worked in a contract centre years ago. During staff reviews one year, it was discovered that one member of staff was running a private business from her desk, using her desk phone, work pc and business email address! 😱

They are just as all.as bad as each other. They had a left wing comedian offering an opportunity that a working class child would never experience to the highest bidder.

Yes, veggie all round definitely sounds like a sensible plan!

Oh yes, the chocolate tubs…where I work, we get given a fair few boxes and tubs of stuff at Christmas to share amongst all of us. This has always worked well, they are left out on the unit and we all have one or two each, never a problem.

Since Covid, the boxes and tubs are locked away in the managers office “isolating” I presume… We have never seen any of them again.

The manager is on way more money than we are, yet for the last 3 Christmases we have not seen a single chocolate 😢

The comedian will have had nothing to do with getting auction items. That will be the schools fundraiser.