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.

In my second year as a primary school teacher I had quite a difficult class in terms of discipline. I was volunteered for a research project that took me out of the classroom for an afternoon a week for several weeks. After three weeks I was told off because they couldn't get any more supply teachers who would agree to take the class. I was told I must be encouraging the students to misbehave when I wasn't there.

Had to work late one evening. I usually travelled with a colleague but he was off that particular week so was in my own car. The journey home was through a very rural area including mountains and not a lot of traffic so I phoned home on the office phone to let my mum know I was going to be late. This was mid eighties before mobiles. The manager when he found out gave me a bollocking and mentioned something about the cost which would have been pennies for a 2 minute call. Was so glad that he retired the next year.

I got told off by my old room leader for putting gloves on before cutting an apple. I'm allergic to raw apples. The juice brings my hands out in a rash🤦🏽‍♀️

At Uni I worked at an Insurance company in their call centre. They put a phone system in which monitored every movement made but it was self selected. You put yourself in “wrap” mode to prevent inbound calls coming. The Wrap mode had a justification as to why you couldn’t take inbound calls.

I put my machine in wrap mode with justification “lunch” - or so I thought.

At the end of the week my big boss asked me in for a meeting to tell me I had two hours of “comfort breaks” that week. Asked if I had an issue with my stomach as that’s a lot of time in the toilet.

I looked at the data and pointed out I hadn’t had lunch on either of those days so I accidently selected the wrong drop down on each day and they were lunch breaks.
Apparently pointing out the fact I didn’t have bowel issues with logic on his own system, was rude.

Told another student my wage. Same manager told me off as I was on significantly more per hour. I knew I shouldn’t have done it but I was a student and my colleague on the same course was on £2 less ph than me and I felt that was a bit unfair.

for being too helpful, when drivers rolled into the warehouse id help them unload and one of my collegues then moaned i was helping the drivers, yet when i was on dinner once, guess what they then helped the drivers , talk about hypocrite

I don't think so. Prove it.

Actually that’s often how you get your point across and I agree, it was rude.

Asking if I could close the window next to my manager’s desk (she said no) and then walking back to my own desk.

For being on Facebook during work hours, when my job involved setting up competitions and interacting with customers... on Facebook. 😂

That sounds psychopathic!

Challenging someone senior to me on why he was teaching graduates about a particular analytical test that had never been standard in this country, to the extent that there is no British Standard or Eurocode for it, and no labs even have the equipment to do it. I happen to have written my MSc dissertation on the characteristics this test identifies, comparing the accuracies of the different methods of testing. It’s something I know a lot about.

I had a colleague ask me last week "have you dyed your hair? It looks lovely".

I said "thank you, yes I did but I'm not too sure about the colour".

The world did not stop turning on its axis and I didn't try and get my lovely colleague fired for paying me a compliment because I'm quite normal 🙃

Ah yes. Full teaching day in 2 different buildings with a duty outside behind the furthest building. I arrived later than the class upstairs in the second building after duty and was being observed.

Criticised for IT not working. Apparently in the midst of this Full day I should have checked that the computer and board worked correctly prior to being observed (had worked last time i used it).

Sent a child out for eating sweets containing nuts as per behaviour policy (supposedly nut free school and I carry an epipen myself). Cunt of a head brought the child back.

Took VR and found a permanent job elsewhere. Absolute arse hole of a woman.

Because working from home means working not looking after your children

I taught in a Primary school back in the 90s, class of Year 3 kids. The topic for that half-term was "The Big Bang" (it was on the curriculum) and so away we went. The next morning, a very angry Mummy of one of the girls tore me off a strip in front of my class of kids, because apparently "we have only just been teaching our daughter how God made the world in six days, and you have now confused her with this Big Bang stuff."

I got hauled over the coals by the Head too. Jeez - it was on the curriculum! Anyway, I was then forced to change my delivery to "many people believe that there was a Big Bang." Etc.

Its not rude but a more professional version would be.
Your hair looks lovely have you just had it done?

One of my colleagues used to dye her hair dark red, It must have been a semi-permanent, as over a few weeks it would fade to light red, then pink. I wasn't sure if it was fade, or dying it different colours, so I asked her. She clarified, and wasn't offended.

I was told off for not emailing everyone to let them know that the email system was not working...

Most things to be honest because my manager was my brother in law and a complete asshole and couldn’t fathom anyone having an opinion or disagreeing with him in any shape or form

I was told off for telling a parent that their child who had concussion might be very quiet for a few days because that was my experience.
Apparently, that wasn't helpful. Shrug

I told 2 children off for talking and conferring in an end of year exam (twice, I warned them the first time but they did it again). I took their papers away and explained the exam was now over for them and they would receive no marks.
I got hauled in by the head the next day because one parent had complained that I’d humiliated her child. I asked the head what I should have done and she said “just let them carry on and mark it as normal, we have to keep parents on our side”
Modern parents, ladies and gentlemen.

Had an awfully heavy and painful period so took the lift up 1 floor to my office. Dickhead male director was also in the lift with some clients and made a snarky quip about me being lazy by using lift for 1 floor. Told him curtly that it wasn’t an appropriate comment to make and that I have a very heavy period.

He went quiet and I later got pulled into a meeting with my line manager. Arsehole had complained to her about my ‘attitude’.

Same man also complained that I should smile more. This is while I was sitting at my desk alone, not interacting with anyone and focusing on writing a report.

Talking about going to Slimming World. Apparently Kath had an eating disorder and I was triggering. Nobody knew she had an eating disorder. We weren't psychic.

I sympathise - but if we all had to consider whether every conversation we have, every statement we make, every thought we air could "trigger" someone over something, we'd never say anything these days. That's not to say that we should deliberately say things that we know will upset people (ever) but it's getting impossible to navigate the minefield of egg-shells and broken glass these days!

No I don’t think it’s rude and yes I would comment on a man’s appearance. Obviously in a complimentary way, I wouldn’t say more ‘your hair looks nice’ rather than ‘oh you’ve had your hair done it looks shit’
i honestly don’t see your problem.