What's some juicy gossip that you can't share irl but can share with nosy strangers on mumsnet?

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

To improve an otherwise boring friday night in front of the TV, with my slightly poorly DD x

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A friend at work confided in me that another friend/colleague had opened up to feeling so depressed they were suicidal. A massive part of this was caused by work and ridiculous expectations.

Now I’d heard this I couldn’t sit on it - imagine if they did take their life and I’d known they felt like this?

I told a lovely line manager who passed this on. And then work, being their crap selves, sent a member of senior management to speak to the friend and offered some help but it was so badly done. (At least they didn’t say I was the person who had spoken up).

My friend ended up leaving our place of work and this was partly because of how management had dealt with her mental health.

I have never said it was me who spoke up as I think our employer needed to know what they were doing to my friend, but I do wish they had handled it better.

My friend later told me they had been feeling suicidal and the intervention did relieve some pressure from them but they were so angry.

I wish my friend who told me first of all had never spoken.

This has also just happened to me too. The horrendous thing is though, that my grandfather was in his 40's and the girl who he got pregnant was a 15 year old, who very likely had a learning disability (the child that was born also had a severe learning disability) I actually felt sick finding that out, and stepped back from the family tree investigations afterwards before I could uncover any other disgusting things about my relatives.

My grandfather was born in the 1890s and died in the 1970s just after I was born, but it's still too close for comfort to think about who / what he really was.

Omg this is the neighbour drama I live for 😭

So glad he left those kids though, what a shite husband!

22 they have all split up now but rumours around the daughter did it again with the mothers current partner too because his car was parked outside her house when it "shouldn't" have been if you see what i mean

It's all just nasty

Why don’t you do an Ancestry test ?
You don’t have to tell anyone.
My dh has found out so much about his background- he was adopted as a baby but always wanted to learn about his bio family.

Sounds like you did the best thing you could to help her - what a terrible company though, sometimes they want to protect themselves rather than the individual suffering because of them 🥺

My gdad had a great hand in British history, during the war, Windrush etc

But he was a nonce who abused his 13yo daughter and got her pregnant with my dm, so cannot be celebrated in any way. Evil man.

My dm and I are estranged now, but its hard for me to hate her, given how unwanted she felt growing up. Then again she made me feel the same so 😬😬

My ex has been having an affair with his married colleague for a couple of years. He cheated on me with her, and I've kept it secret to protect his reputation, because I have integrity/ I'm a mug. She's recently left her husband and they are now pretending their relationship is brand new. Deceitful swines 😂

At the pub me and DH used to work at two managers have been shagging on the clock in the spirit cupboard. Both married, one with a kid. They haven’t fired them they just sent one to the airport branch (basically the equivalent of jail) and one to the student bar branch. They must have something on the big boss to not get the sack, so we are currently doing a bit of an investigation.

The thing is, there’s cameras in the spirit cupboard obviously. Rookie error for a work place shagger. Has to be the back room of the basement with the Christmas decs.

They asked DH to come back for six months as a part time manager to help out and he didn’t want to do it but I’m forcing him. If I wasn’t pregnant I’d be in there myself.

I'm not bothered about the reason. I was asking how she manages to keep it secret from her OH

That was my immediate guess.

I feel the same way about my late dad.

My mum (who has been having a weird 'thing' with his former carer since a few weeks before he passed away 😡) has his ashes at her house at the moment and has talked about having them buried with her and her mum's ashes (44 years in the wardrobe and counting) when the time comes.

Ain't happening, that's for sure.

I have regular meetings with a man who reminds me of the gay men on the Benidorm show. He is older and has a wife and children. I have never and will never say anything

Thanks to this thread, we now know that crushed cat litter and fag ash looks the same so a swap out is sounding easier by the minute : )

@PulchritudinousLycanthrope

ngl I've already put some thought into it.

NC?

Name changed for this 🙈

I am having fantastic sex with a positively dreamy man for two years.

We are close mates with clear boundaries and there is no way I can tell anyone because it would cause an absolute shitstorm in our circle of friends (we are both single i will hasten to add!)
It wouldn't work for us being in a relationship but we have so much fun and not being able to tell anyone just makes it even funnier 😆😆😆

Oh. Well that was a name change fail 🤔

They're all at it.
I had a shop selling luxury items. I learnt not to ask if the wife liked her gift!

I thought that but another pop?

😭😭 I'm interested in the reason

7 years, he must know, i can't imagine he's never got suspicious during that time

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They honestly are all at it!

I have been on mounjaro for 15 months and nobody in my life knows . Not 1 person.

😄 the reverse happened to me on another long running thread

That's the way to do it tbh! Have you had much success?