Tell me about your colleagues’ cheeky fuckery

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A colleague volunteered me for something to my boss without discussing it with me first. I don’t want to be too outing but it’s somewhat akin to volunteering me for night shifts if I typically worked day shifts a and only day shifts were in my contact.

I spoke to my boss about it and they said that this colleague had said someone in another department had asked him to do this. I think this person doesn’t exist 🤣.

I see the funny side as my boss fully backs me up. The colleague is not a malicious person I just think they didn’t want to do this particular work themselves anymore (not unreasonable) but didn’t dare just say so so the solution was to pass it on to yours truly 🤔😂. Without me agreeing. 👀

Please share your stories of your colleague related cheeky fuckery 😊

My dh works for a company where flexible hours are not always necessarily allocated to people with children. Including, as it turned out, people with terminally ill children. Not quite the workplace ethos you’d expect from a multinational.

You’re deliberately trying to twist people asking for, and getting, reasonable adjustment and flexible working with entitled people who just expect their colleagues to carry the shifts/hours they don’t want.

Being a parent is not a protected characteristic and trying to twist it so that it seems like just expecting colleagues to do the unfavourable shifts because you have children absolutely does women no favours whatsoever.

@YetMoreNewBeginnings that's your interpretation but all I am doing is telling you how employment law works and that dependants are called dependents for a reason.

Now, trying to say your relationship with your husband or siblings carries the same weight and responsibility as a parent is disingenuous.

Shall we stop derailing this thread now?

What a patronizing post.

Slow handclap to you.

You’re determined to have the last word 😂

Now show us in the Equality Act/employment law the section that says “you don’t have to work any of the weekends/late shifts/least favourable shifts/Christmas Eve/school show days you are employed to work without applying for flexible working - just saying “I’m a parent” is enough” since you’re so adamantly “telling us” exists?

@2pence your wee story does no t indicate equity it indicates equality.
Equity would be taking the wall away.

I just came here to laugh at stories of people stealing food!

Bloody hell the fun has been sucked out of this thread 😒

Dh began working high up at a new organisation during their total restructuring. It was discovered that a full time employee worked from home when no one else did (pre pandemic) and had not produced any visible work for over a year. When asked he’d say “yes it’s all awaiting sign off…” but no one had seen it. Then it came out he had another full time job elsewhere and was receiving two 37.5 hours a week salaries. He was sacked and finances were recouped following a fraud investigation. The sheer arrogance is impressive.

Yes, but if someone needs one box and you take that away and give it to the person who needs two, is that fair? Every single time?

I worked at one place where staff with school-age children were always given first dibs with booking holidays. Several years running I had to take my two weeks' summer holiday in February or October. How is that fair? Especially since at the time I was suffering from fertility issues and was unable to conceive. I wanted kids and couldn't so imagine how that felt, every time I was told that people with children took priority over me and that was that.

Jesus, shut up about the boxes. Everyone gets it.

Absolutely! I want cheeky fuckers not boxes

Oh I don’t know. That poster sounds like a work CF all unto herself, she’s that convinced that having DCs means she can take a weekends-only job and never show up because her children NEED her to hold a box for them to stand on all day Saturday and Sunday so they can chat with her NDN’s kids over the garden fence. Maybe their mum has a similar job, given the law entitles her to protection because she’s a woman and most carers are women so they’re not allowed to discriminate against her either? So there you go: CF colleagues who never turn up to their weekends-only job because they’re too busy holding boxes for their kids to stand on, yet demand the same pay and benefits as those poor people working double shifts because they have nobody to hold boxes for 😔

One rainy day I walked into the staff cloakroom and caught CF colleague about to empty someones carrier bag out on to the floor . Oh she says I was looking for an empty carrier bag as it's raining , I will have to buy one on my way out . If I hadn't have come in she would have emptied that carrier bag. She knew it wasn't empty .

Haha exactly, no one cares about the feckn boxes we want the cheeky stories 😂

I work for a company that has offices across the UK and Ireland. There was a satellite office in a city some 2hrs away from the main office in our region with two fee earners, one male, one female. Whilst they were the same sort of age and had the same job title, the male had been in this professional role for decades but the female had lately worked her way to the top of our professional qualification literally from a typing position through sheer graft. Because he was more experienced however he was allowed to allocate cases in their region, skimming off the nice easy jobs or ones with good fee potential for himself and leaving her with the shitty stuff. He would also stop taking on new cases about two weeks before he was due to go on any period of annual leave, which is ridiculous. New hires were also warned by colleagues that they would at some stage receive a phone call from him, ostensibly with a technical query, but his end-game would be to dump the (shitty) file on you when you indicated you knew anything about the topic!

The particular instance I’m thinking of now though is when we were all travelling for a conference. We were all getting a very early flight and so these two colleagues came down the night before to stay close to the airport. Female colleague stayed with a sister/friend FOC. Male colleague, instead of staying in the Premier Inn a literal two minute car ride from the airport or indeed any of the reasonably priced hostelries in the nearby city centre, drove twenty minutes past the airport to a boutique hotel. In the departure lounge the following day he took great glee in telling us (including one of our directors) that his room was full of wooden panelling and he had breakfast brought to him that morning in his room’s mahogany four poster bed. The lack of awareness was absolutely staggering- our employers are really good with expenses and rarely quibble anything, but they do so on the basis that you don’t take the piss!

In the end female colleague got sick of having to pick up the slack and left, and she wasn’t replaced. Having no one to pass crap to and being forced to actually work at near-capacity, male colleague retired around a year later with zero fanfare from his co-workers and that office closed. Work definitely knew what he was like, and we all suspect that was why he’d previously been chosen to do a two year stint in a less-attractive part of the Middle East.

I used to work in a call centre where one member of staff used to turn up in fancy dress, usually St Trinian's. She'd also gob in your tea if you did something to annoy her.

I.dont remember her ever being called out on it.

We had a director return from mat leave and requested a 4 day week. It was a time sensitive job and wouldn't have worked over 4 days. So she glorified some of the admin's duties and said she would do them instead, but still be a director with a director's salary. Obviously that was refused.

She was offered an equivalent director role in another department but refused it, and booked off every Friday for weeks on end using accrued annual leave to effectively give herself a 4 day week. She boasted that this was being 'strategic'. Thank god she finally left.

That would be gross misconduct in any of the workplaces I have been in, and I read about someone who was jailed for putting Tipp-Ex in her boss's tea.

Someone I know.... not a friend but an ex-acquaintance worked on reception in a car dealership.

If a customer annoyed her, or was 'snooty' (her word) she would always spit in their tea or coffee.

Absolutely revolting and no one deserves that however snooty they are

That is a surely a criminal offence. I'd be calling the police if I were in charge.

Bus and rail staff, and the police, have 'spit kits' so a DNA swab can be taken. I guess the cup of tea would do for that too.

If I worked there and I knew I would've told the Manager, anyone who would listen.

I knew her as an acquaintance, not a work colleague or anything.

@2pence you come across as so unbearably smug

I haven't worked at that place for over 20 years. I didn't think of reporting her, I just poured away my tea after noticing something amiss.

It was a peculiar place.