Shopping Spree on Company Credit Card ?

[Gremle]

Ok so I know I’m partly unreasonable, but I am being totally U ?!

Ive resigned and leave in a week. I have already had my final pay.
For years my horrendous line manager wouldn’t sign off legitimate expenses to the point I no longer submitted them as she loved the power play (a whole other thread !).

So for about 5 years I have been paying for all my own stationery, batteries, toners, things like that. I wfh so no stationery cupboard to raid on the last day - I’m thinking of replacing all the things I’ve used and brought myself with my company credit card now before I hand it over.

They won’t know about it for at least a month, possibly longer. And even then it will just be legitimate expenses, not like a holiday or anything 😂

Someone tell me to do it …

That would be theft.

Do people really 'raid the stationary cupboard'?

You should've dealt with the expenses issue at the time.

YABVU.

Of course, but the fine art of the stationery cupboard raid is done over a protracted period - not all in one sweep!!

Furniture is more of a raid and run operation however! I don't know any colleagues who don't have work furniture😄

Awwww... I wanted to say "yes, do it" but I'll back down since almost nobody else agrees .... 😂But, you really should lodge an exit email stating her bullying attitude in refusing legitimate expenses. What I did once when I left a job that had a hateful boss was password protect several very important files that I knew he would need. I immediately thereafter 'forgot' the passwords. And, yes, I raided the stationery cupboard. Shame you WFH so can't even do that. Oh and the day before I left I made him a coffee laced with laxative !!!! Yes, utterly childish, but very satisfying. You leave, and don't ever look back. Good luck....

As much as I love a good justified vengeance story, this will backfire.
Just slate them on Glassdoor instead.

Why didn't you use the company credit card to purchase the items in the first place and just submit the receipts?

I find the best revenge is an honest review on Glassdoor

I would be more tempted to use the card to purchase a grand gesture as a leaving present. Something completely tasteless and useless, but defendable by you. Like a cushion with your Boss's face on, a hideous live, laugh, love sign for reception or a years supply of really disappointing biscuits.

And then wait for the legal action to recoup as it’s theft … my business regularly did it to people who tried this sort of thing

This.

Don't use the card. It'll be treated as theft.

Ask and ye shall receive, or at least be able to make a small fuss about it.

Laughing so much at this 😂

Now you’re talking!

Thinking of all the things staff have asked me to order but Boss (budget holder) has said no - I could order it all before I left for them - now that’s definitely not theft 😁

And HR weren’t remotely bothered as they never replied to emails I cc’d them into.

You may well laugh, but a former colleague, quite senior, when clearing out to retire had the lot, me and a friend helped him load a desk, three filing cabinets, a PC and monitor, a bin, and most obscurely a phone which would only work with the in house PBX system into his trailer - off he drove into happy retirement, the office actually cleared out😂it still raises a chuckle over a lunch break, mainly the IT manager musing if he's still waiting for that phone to ring😁

The cheek 😂😂

This reminded me of a former Manager who brought his old, wonky wheelbarrow into work on his last day, and took him the company’s lovely new one !

He was on £100k plus 🙈