To ask for stupid reasons you've been told off at work?

[chailatte123]

I once asked a member of the Senior Team if she had dyed her hair.
Apparently this was very rude.

I pruned a couple of inches off a Buddleja to stop it whipping the postman in the face ‘at the wrong time of the year’.

Being early!

I was a bus driver at the time, and running early is actually worse than running late.
This is why you’ll see buses hanging around stops for a few minutes each time, it’s as awkward for the driver as it is for the passengers tutting and sighing.

Got in trouble for a joke once when working in a bank.
Manager told us that regional had come up with a prize for recognising good work. It was a paid for visit to another branch! I could not help asking if second prize was a two day visit?
Got told off for lack of respect for this dross. Luckily the scheme was quickly ditched.Still makes me laugh years later

About a month ago,I walked in on shift (retail)

The bosses sister who thinks shes top dog told me to go speak to the customers (I admit thats a large part of my job)

When she was told and shown that we had no customers due to it being 7:01am on a Sunday morning,I was told to go speak to them anyway

The main boss stuck up for her sister (because they are sisters) and I got a telling off for not speaking to non existent customers!

I ended up going to check the loos and I stayed there for the first 15 minutes of that shift

And then got a bollocking for disappearing!

My colleague had to leave work early for the umpteenth time that week to pick up her sick child from school. I was asked to stay behind and finish typing up the proposal she was working on. I said no, I had tickets for the theatre. The proposal didn't get submitted in time and the company missed out on a lucrative contract (we were the front runners). Apparently it was all my fault because I was child free and should just have stayed on. I received bollocking and a verbal warning.

I got called in by the manager for saying "I don't like sausages".
There was a conversation about the latest diets & weekly weigh in happening in the office 🙄🙄 and a side conversation with a couple of us not taking part but still having to listen to it. I have no idea why this was going on at 10am (it wasn't break time) and someone had come in especially on their day off! The managers were not involved, only one was on site that day and was on a different floor to the open plan area.
One of the dieters complained about the person I was talking to (she didn't like her so didn't need an excuse) but brought me too so it wasn't just her (she told me this afterwards). I know nothing bad was said, we weren't talking about them, just what we'd had for dinner. I still don't understand why the manager spoke to us and asked us to apologise, I didn't! I never looked at the complainer the same way, I lost trust in her and we'd been quite friendly before that.

I sat in a meeting listening to managers saying they didn't like looking in the large mirrored doors because they could see the grey coming through the dye- in their hair- and I choose grey- never actually told me off but it was the unconsciousness of it !

Walking from the office to the toilet with a tampon in my hand ( in its wrapper naturally but not concealed in a bag SHOCK HORROR

"nothing to be ashamed of, but neither is farting"

Well, farting is embarrassing and I think some on here consider it shameful because they don't realise some people can't help it. Your reply does show you think there's something 'wrong' or embarrassing with dying your hair.

Loads of stuff in my horrendous job I've recently left. Stand out things were:

1. Not sending an "update email" out to the team on a project we were working on, when we'd had a meeting the day prior and there no updates for them. Apparently I should have still sent an email to the 50+ people telling them there was no update.

1. Not updating progress on a project management system, when I didn't even have access to the system, and had only been moved to that project a week previously, and hadn't met with the PM as they were "too busy".

1. Being asked to do a housing land supply calculation for a developer. I asked a senior colleague for some support with this as I didn't really know what I was doing and didn't feel confident I'd get it right, because I'd never done it before. They told me to "have a go anyway", and "ask the rest of the team if I go stuck". No one else knew how to do it. I gave it a go as requested. Unsurprisingly it wasn't correct and I got hauled into a side room and berated for getting it wrong. I pointed out I had never done it before and was told I am "defensive".

1. Not using the correct font when writing reports.

I resigned from this company shortly after.

Many decades ago I requested a day off, and received a written warning that I would 'get the sack' if I ever asked for a day off ! The good old days.....

I'm not sure why passengers would be tutting and sighing, as surely anyone with common sense would know that public transport can't leave a stop until the designated time.

On the rare occasions that a train has departed early, I've been extremely annoyed, so yes I would rather have a service run 5 - 15 mins late than for it to be too early.

Not surprised

Donated a gift from a supplier to charity. Got a written warning. I left not much longer after that!

Company owner asked me where I bought my jeans - we were both tall. I replied TK Maxx.
My boss was unhappy because this was apparently an inappropriate answer because she was on the Sunday Times Rich List 😳😁. He was lovely, but terrified of her.

Surely that’s just classic work banter 😂 I’d have expected a mock-stern, “I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that.” 😂😂😂

No, it’s not odd word choice. Perhaps one that you’re not familiar with in the context it’s used in within the area you live, but not odd.

Pappy where I am from can be used for someone that isn’t particularly ‘resilient’, cries easily, easily offended, makes out they’ve broke their leg if they’ve just kicked their toe up on a step, considers day to day chatter among people who have worked together for a minimum of 10 years to be ‘rude’.

And yes, I would ask those things in my place of work, and sometimes yes, weight gets mentioned, if someone has been going to the effort of losing weight and they have? Most of my colleagues would tell them ‘well done’. I once went for spectacularly bad spray tan, of course it was mentioned. But again, none of the people I work with are ‘pappy’. Oh, and I work in a construction company so the majority are men which is why responded to the person asking ‘if they’d comment on a man’s appearance.

Not me, but just remembered one involving a colleague: my branch hit a huge milestone and a congratulatory email was sent round to all of us.

One of the (lovely) account managers went out on his lunch break and bought us all nice food and treats to celebrate the milestone (with his own money). And then was told off by the boss for taking longer than his allocated lunch break that day. Our lunch breaks were 30 minutes, and I think he was out for maybe 35 mins max.

I got told off for ‘having alcohol’ in the office because I had a bottle of Prosecco with me that I was taking to a friend’s house after work. It was in my bag and tucked away under my desk, I’m amazed the manager that told me off even noticed 😂

Ex college teacher here. I was told I would face a disciplinary for not forcing one of students to take her hoodie off. Doing so would have reveal her self harm cuts and scars to her classmates. I said bring on the disciplinary if that’s the case because im
not forcing anyone to do anything.

Boss told me off for interviewing a candidate who had submitted an exemplary job application.

I wasn't told off but I found out after an SAR that they had contacted HO to ask if it was problem when i dyed my hair purple. They coud have asked me, did they think I wouldn't have checked personal appearance policy?

I got told off for giving pro-plus to another colleague. I was having trouble with fatigue at work and mentioned i had it, they asked for some. Difference was i
kept them in my locker whereas he had kept them in his pocket knowing full well they do regular pocket checks.

I once worked in a school as support staff. I got told off for interfering with a teacher's lesson which, as that was not my intention, mortified me. I apologised, swore I would never do that again (ask if a student was OK) and all was good. or so I thought. A short time after that, the same teacher who had told me off had another go at me for not saying something when a student was slacking off.

Got accused of fiddling my mileage by the intense angry man who signed off the mileage claims. I should have driven across the city to get to my meeting but instead I'd driven a longer way round and claimed more miles than I needed to. The fact that there were roadworks and very long delays made no difference to him because I should have set off earlier. I tried to explain that sitting in traffic for an hour was far more expensive than me taking a quicker route and claiming an extra £2 but he was having none of it and reported it to my manager. Manager agreed that he was a dick.

I told the client the truth about how their budget wasn’t enough. Got kicked off the project.

Funnily enough, the project was massively over budget and my boss got hauled over the coals for it.