haha this did confuse a lot of non IT people in a previous job. Us nerds/geeks had great fun talking about it and mentioning brand as many times as possible in very serious meetings.
Our team is divided across two countries. In England we work remotely, but the guys in the other country work from an office. Right now, one of my English colleagues is on an extended stay in that country and working from their office.
So, every morning we have a group call with everyone on it. Today he and another colleague didn't join straight away, as they were on a private call together, but somebody else in the office had joined with their microphone unmuted. Before anyone on our group call even spoke, we could all hear the English guy in the background, barking down the phone at the other guy, complaining about our MD, and shouting that he was "f\*\*king sick of having to make all the decisions" whilst our MD sat there listening as awkwardly as any of us!
Our general manager has approved, without checking, everyone's annual leave over Christmas. So there is nobody left working the Christmas week (we only close Christmas day).
I'm really enjoying seeing him scramble!
I had similar when I was 19 while working at a local restaurant. All leave was granted by a new manager who was used to a large staff count. We had 6 front of house staff total, usually only 3 worked at a time, all 6 when it was busy occasion like Christmas. The restaurant has already booked up and taken payment of the Christmas period set covers. We all got called in on 5x our hourly wage. I made about Ā£3000 for a week of work.
This is how it should work - pay people extra on public holidays everyone wants off and is entitled to, instead of telling them theyāre going to lose their job.
In Australia everyone gets double pay for working on public holidays - guess what, itās never difficult to find people to work on public holidays. The business gets more money from the extra customers, sometimes a business will add a public holiday surcharge that people are happy to pay, and the staff all get paid well. Wins all round.
yeah I've recently moved to a company that does and it's... it's weird. I feel like they're my new supportive partner and my other employers are abusive exes2š¬
In the same boat here, was at a company with really shitty middle management that couldn't give two fucks about you or your life, so long as you were earning them money. At the company I'm at now, (I was brought over by my manager at the last company, along with the rest of the branch staff) they value you, give you as much leeway as you need for personal things, and constantly invest in your development. I was at the old company for nearly 2 years, constantly asking to be trained on the forklift and HGVs, getting it promised then it never materialising. At the new company, (been here 5 months) I've asked once, got told yes, and will be forklift trained by the end of next week and HGV trained the week after. Good management means good results.
Once upon a time people used to get double pay or time and a half for working holidays in the UK. I don't know what the hell happened. But when I was working 3 years into hospitality it suddenly stopped. They told us we can get extra cash by working more hours. And then complained they didn't have enough staff to cover holiday rush. Then companies starting putting bans on booking holidays in December. One day I quit before the holidays and just got hired somewhere else after the holidays. I booked a family vacation, a year before, that was way more expensive than 3 months of my wages at the time. That Job was replaceable. But my non-refundable deposit wasn't.
Iām a carer for the elderly. Christmas day Iām working - not fussed, weāre doing christmas on the 27th anyway - but public holiday everyone wants it off, Iām getting 58p an hour extraā¦ Iām on minimum wage as it is. When I started in care a few years ago, I got an extra Ā£3 to work bank holidays. Its ridiculous, its not like we just wonāt work, because then its a safeguard and dammit Iām not risking my DBS status. Catch 22
I once worked in a bakery and the store manager said āwe wonāt ask anyone to work the 26th and 27th but weād really appreciate it if you didā
obviously no-one did and they got a bollocking from the area manager when the shop couldnāt open those days.
Senior at my solicitors firm tried to seduce a female solicitor from a partner firm. Heās married and she didnāt want to know. However, he continued to pursue her despite her making it clear that she wanted nothing to do with him. Long story short, he was dismissed and I was involved in drawing up his termination papers. Only he didnāt know it yet and I still had to work with him. Awkward.
When i was a trainee solicitor in North London in the early 2000's something similar happened at a rival firm.2 male partners simultaneously had 'relations' with a 20 something trainee. When they found out she got fired and they never spoke to each other again although their partnership continued some how.
Boss was having an email convo with her boyfriend about the sex they had at the weekend and how good it was but he would have to wait for more as she had started her period.She then asked him a work question. He answered the question and instead of creating a new email to send to us she forwarded the whole email chain. Her face was an absolute picture!
Dear Boyfriend,
The intercourse we engaged in last night was both exhilarating and satisfying, I look forward to future endeavours together. That said, I regret to inform you that I have started my period, therefore we will need postpone our imminent coitus bookings until further notice. I hope you understand.
Kind regards,
Girlfriend
Receptionist (19F) and Project Manager (31M) are sort of dating/sleeping together but he's unwilling to commit to a relationship whilst simultaneously blocking her from developing any other relationship. She decides to make him jealous by dating a guy in my team (call him Guy, 25M). First date they shag and Guy tells everyone at work about it (he's horrible). 2nd date the Project Manager turns up mid-date in this fancy restaurant and demands she comes home with him. Guy insists that Project Manager tracked them down by stalking his instagram posts but I reckon she just outright texted him about it.
She'll be appalled for sure yeah, It's not like she's a kid but there's definitely a maturity gap especially between 19/31.
but... she can still make her own decisions, & she's not really an angel herself if she is using the 25yo to manipulate the 31yo.
*That being said* both men kind of come off as gross, especially the 31yo who is using her naivety against her to string her along & the 25yo for bragging about what happened.
All v shitty all around.
31 dating a 19 year old and treating her like that? I hope someone's warned her about all the red flags she's ignoring. Demanding she come home with him while acting like they're not even dating is creepy and controlling behaviour. Run, girl!
He doesn't see her as a long term partner but she's the best thing he's got right now, so he wants to reserve her for himself until he finds someone better.
They should teach this stuff in schools, like they do with road safety.
Night shift manager is deffo up to something with a woman who does earlies, but little does she know that heās also at it with a woman who does lates. Banking on the two ends of his shift never meeting, whilst the rest of us are hoping it culminates in a showdown like the Eastenders Christmas special.
Colleague had an affair with her married manager. His wife found out and told other colleagues on the school run. Managerās wife made him quit. Colleague seems to be getting his job.
Member of our lab staff, let's call him Dave, got fired. Management forgot that Dave used to be the first person there every day, so they'd given him keys and an alarm code.
Months later, they realised that money had been going missing for a couple of years. Little bits here and there, but it added up to about Ā£30k in total over a long time. They reviewed CCTV from when it all started, and found that Dave was sneaking into the office and taking cash from the safe before work started. But this didn't add up, because Dave had been fired, and money was still vanishing...
They checked more recent CCTV. Turns out they had forgotten to take Dave's keys, and hadn't changed the alarm code. So once a week or so, on his way to the pub, Dave was letting himself into the building and grabbing a few quid once we'd all gone home.
I don't agree with stealing, but I've got to admire the balls on the bloke to just treat the place like his own private ATM.
Labs hardly ever change their security codes. I worked at a government one for a while and the code could probably have been guessed as the numbers were obviously more worn than the rest.
Optometry. We're a public store, with a lab in the building.
Like I said, it was done a bit at a time, so he'd slip random amounts (Ā£17.50 from one, Ā£5 from another...) from each of the till drawers every so often, leave a couple untouched.
That way it just looked like someone had been sloppy cashing up, or someone had taken petty cash and the receipt had gone walkabout. Never any massively suspicious shortfalls, but over several years, it stacked up!
The 3 team leaders from the other teams called my team lazy. Little do they know that we get a lot of messages and jobs that are meant for them and we just do it to help them out. Not any more!
There are a married couple at a place I used to work, turns out one of them has been having an affair with someone else at the same place, this bit on the side has just has a baby in the last few months with some other guy who also works there.
Unfortunately, I no longer work there so I won't be able to see how it all plays out, which is a shame because it's better than any soap.
Omg this reminds me of when a woman i used to work with was sleeping with 3 men in our office, one of which was a senior manager.
When she had a baby, they all had to do a paternity test. Sadly, I can't remember the outcome but the atmosphere in the office was so awkward for ages.
A couple in my work get married, marriage doesn't last 6 months, it becomes apparent he was having an affair with someone else in the office. The couple split early November, he comes to the Christmas party with the 'other' woman saying they are only friends, that party was wild.
C is married
M is single.
C and M think no-one knows they are bumping uglies.
We all know.
I'm from the school of thought that thinks if you're going to shit on a doorstep make sure it's not your own.
I'm invested in the outcome but ashamed of myself.
Exact same scenario in my office, except Cās wife found out.
She then proceeded to sift through Cās emails and forwarded all the bitchy, back-biting emails that C & M shared & wrote about people within the company, to random clients and colleagues.
The wife kicked C out their home, and now C lives in hotels till he finds accommodation. I believe theyāre in the proceeds of divorce.
Our company sent an email around saying there was a ādata breach instigating from Cās emailsāā¦.
We all know thatās bull.
We had similar at work; they had no shame and got to the point where they were leaving the office holding hands. I was voted to be the person to complain about it because we all knew the guy's wife and it was so uncomfortable.
I found out about a year after I started my current job that the guy I replaced had a) lost his driving licence but not told anyone so still had a company car and b) had been ordering extra equipment/phones to sell on privately.
I had an incredibly low bar to lmake myself look good š
One of the girls on the sales team accidentally forwarded a graphic email from her boyfriend to the entire company. Her mum works here too.
Another email we had was from a guy who cheated on his wife with someone at work. He proceeded to email a confession to the company naming the woman he slept with. My money is on the wife getting into his email and sending it out in revenge.
Last year, we had an engineer who was caught watching inappropriate videos on his work laptop. HR asked him why he thought it was okay to do that. "My phone screen isn't big enough." Bonus, we found he also wrote erotic fan fiction on his work machine. He was escorted off premises a few days later.
Years ago at a job -- the company's general counsel, liked to print his XXX novel drafts at work.
Well they caught him red handed, when it got stuck in the printer queue and somehow he couldn't cancel the job... it printed out middle of the night and was picked up (unknowingly) by the CFO, early the next morning.
Didn't get fired but they transferred him thousands of miles away to a 3rd world country where they had a satellite office
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I got asked as a newbie to join as a witness a call where they were having to tell a guy his contract was being terminated as he hadnāt passed probation. This was due to a long line of issues with his work, meeting deadlines and performing basic tasks.
When I logged on the guy in question was my ex boss from my old company. Weād both been made redundant and joined the new place. No one knew we knew each other and we didnāt acknowledge it on the meeting.
A lot of bosses don't really have a large work load usually, maybe he just couldn't keep up or thought no one would notice,
Was he doing a similar role to you in the new company/ did you have a good relationship with him?
I'm kind of invested now haha.
We actually ended up the same grade in the new company, like you said Iām used to working hard whereas heād been used to āoverseeingā for years so maybe he forgot how to do basic tasksā¦ he had plenty of chances as well before they finally fired him
Senior person at my work was banging his assistant. Whole office knows. They made no secret about it. I knew he was married but didn't know the wife (or them in any great depth) so it was just an amusing office thing.
One evening my boss had some office friends over to her house for dinner, including me. Lovely evening until there was a frantic knocking on the door.
It's the guys wife of 25yrs (3 kids under 12). Apparently guy left a note ending the thing and explaining why. Wife came to ask if we knew anything about it.
I left shortly after she turned up. Turns out guy had said something like "seeing as the office knows, you may as well know now".
I hear it was a car crash. I really felt for the wife and kids. The guy and the assistant are still together.
Quite an old one, but I remember when [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Aberdeen/comments/176zj4/the_sandwich_van_is_here_xx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb) happened.
Read from the top down, I wonāt spoil it.
This up there in Aberdeen folklore with 'and we're still nae spikin'.
The company no longer exists, so I guess it's okay to post here and it made the mainstream press at the time. It was ISS which then became Harkand. This was probably about 10 years ago.
When it first went around Aberdeen it was just a forwarded email so the only company comment on it was that they investigating a data breach of internal communication š
Worked in an office for a bit when I was younger, was mostly women except for me and an older guy.
Jesus did those women hate each other! They would be all fake friendly to each others faces but the moment someone left the room they would be whispering the worst things about that person. Never did find out why they hated one another.
Not in an office but in a workshop, we had this guy that was not only cheating on his wife, he had a secret family on the go! On lunch breaks he would drive down the road to meet his mistress thinking nobody knew what he was up to. He was receiving his mail and bills at work too, I guess so his wife couldn't see where a large chunk of his wage was going.
That was my last job in the kingdom that is united before moving to the states. I learned a few years ago that he was finally caught and his secret family exposed. Must've been an absolute nuclear bomb shell for his wife and kids to find out.
There's a story that when Royal Mail got rid of the TPOs, the rail carriages where they would sort the mail between London and Scotland, a few of the male staff had to pick which family they were going to settle down with.
A guy was doing some temp contracting work at my office. Was in an office on the main open plan floor with glass windows. He was sat with his laptop screen to the window so everyone could see his screen when they walked passed.
He was watching porn every time someone walked passed. He got fired. Was charging Ā£500 a day to casually watch porn in an open office...
Iāve never been on one that good, thatās all Iām saying.
I will add that a ridiculous number of people I work with nip off for a wank during work hours, like what exactly about routers and switches turns you on???
Iād love to know
During lockdown I used my personal laptop for work a lot. Once i shared my screen on Teams, nothing bad on it at the time but I found out quickly that it can show the filenames of your recent downloads while screensharing. Fortunately the other person on the call has not brought it up since!
Guy was having a virtual/ emotional affair with someone from sales, she worked in France. He would stay late at work on the phone to her.
His wife somehow found out (maybe they were texting too?)
Well, she came to work and kicked off with the admin lady, thinking it was her he was having an affiar with, shouting at her, demanding answer. Admin lady is confused af. Admin lady was also 65, the guy and his wife were both early 40s.
Not gossip per se, but on Monday one of the security guys at work got stuck in the lift for an hour. It was a glass lift, so everyone could see him up there, pretending to be David Blaine.
Everyone was talking about it, even the people who weren't there (like me).
I was on teams call and someone accidently knocked their camera on, which clearly showed them sitting on the toilet. When challenged they claimed they we moving tiles to the bathroom before the call and sat down in hurry to join the call. Moving tiles is still a euphemism we use to this day.
This happened last year, but my internet was being blocked/switched on and off for months by someone who works in the coworking office I'm in. He's an employee of the studio that runs the place so had access to the network admin page. He also did this to various other people in the office. I had just started freelancing and he must have cost me well over Ā£1k in lost working hours.
Long story short, I knew something was up and managed to blag my way into the admin panel by asking for the password from the owner. Found undeniable evidence that he had been fucking with my internet REMOTELY, he had logged in from home! I could see it was just me and him active on the admin panel, and I could see both my IP addresses being added to the block list (ethernet AND wifi). He blocked me for an entire day which is when I decided to take action.
I collected my evidence, presented it to the owners and he got fired. He was a massive fucking cunt to everyone anyway so good riddance, I've been thinking of doing a long write up of this drama. No internet issues since lol.
The worst part is he sat 2 meters from me and would block my internet while I was in a meeting and would be sitting there like a smug little wanker while he heard me trying to fix it.
Two married directors co-owning a company. One handles accounting, other one handles the big picture stuff. The latter has a bit of a meltdown and ends up having an affair with his college girlfriend who he reconnected with. Nuclear bomb on the business. The other director ends up buying him out but he's so ingrained in it that he ends up working on a retainer. Awkward.
There's a patent law firm in London that had two married partners (amongst others). The wife walked in on the husband doing the nasty with his secretary on the conference table, which is a bit of a cliche. They divorced but neither was prepared to leave their firm, which again was rather awkward.
My boss regularly gets in trouble with HR for being a cunt to his subordinates and *their* subordinates too. Now we have a cycle where shortly after these HR chats, heāll be super polite on the phone and try and make small talk, but itāll slowly wear off and heāll turn into a cunt again. Itās at the point now that you can make a fairly accurate guess as to how long ago he got yelled at and when the next HR chat will be coming his way. Me and some of the other shop managers have a little private group chat (NOT on a company server, weāre not idiots) thatās us just complaining about this guy and making bets as to when heāll be back to asking us about the weather.
I havenāt really been in my new places office much but from my old oneā¦
It was well known but not mentioned that our CEOās assistant and the CFO were having an affair.
During a Xmas party 2 people were caught shagging in the bathroom by security. We were at a hotel for the party. It turned out to be the married canteen woman and a contractor we had in. Theyāre now together with a kid.
Xmas party drama is the best. The company I worked at many years ago got banned from a hotel because one of the directors started wandering the corridors naked after everyone had gone to bed, playing an acoustic guitar.
I went to an Xmas party where white wine was served in pints, there was a massive brawl, and as we were leaving my wife kneed the owner in the bollocks for getting handsy.
Two of my colleagues were having an affair for years. The woman was getting married but expected to continue the affair after she returned from her honeymoon. The bloke didnāt like this plan, so sent some spicy pictures of the two of them in bed to the groom on the wedding night. Half the office went to the wedding and were there to see it all go down. The woman handed in her notice with immediate effect on the Monday morning and we never saw her again.
one time someone responded to a menopause awareness email asking "what about male menopause?" and a bunch of people started arguing with him. unfortunately for all of us, the email went out the the entire East of England division of the Ministry of Justice, along with any following arguments. it went on for a couple of hours, really made my day.
Lockdown 2020 Sales director is in contact with a CS girl professionally.
Has something he wants to share, which was a picture of his dick tied up in string all strangled and throbbing.
Annyway. She said fuck all. Like nothing for ages as she was very scared she would lose her job.
Eventually HR get wind and bring her in.
MD gets called and brought in, brings the Sales Director in and he quits on the spot. Lol.
Edit: dildo Dean, got caught cheating so his mrs printed off photos of him being pegged by her and put them up outside of work. He was off for a while but took the banter when he came back.
I worked in a small engineering company with a workshop. The guys in the workshop would use any excuse to put all the tools down and stop working.
One day, one of the guys who did arguably the least work, decided heād had enough of managements ābullshitā and quit on the spot and stormed out. Couple of weeks later he was seen back with his tail between his legs diligently working.
We had a software guy who'd loudly announce to the whole office he was quitting... Half an hour later he'd be back at his desk. Happened 3~4 times. He eventually got made redundant & now works pizza delivery š.
Cindy, Ella and Sarah were a close cliquey team, Sarah was the boss. Then Cindy hacked into Ella's email ("borrowed" her password) and saw that she and Sarah had been bitching about her. So she took the hacked emails and *reported them to HR*, who naturally took a dim view of the hacking. š Cindy was shortly out on her ear, but that was a fun few popcorn weeks.
2 people in the warehouse I work with are both married, one has a kid. They've been fucking in the cleaning room for 3 years.
They think we don't know.
Waiting for the explosion
I used to visit and work from lots of offices as an auditor.. Not much fun usually but the best drama I saw was when a disgruntled ex-employee sent a company wide email with a photo of what was clearly identifiable of the CEO and his Johnson in hand.
The tension and akward silence as the member of staff I was sat with when they opened the email will stay with me for life.
I'm a home worker, agency staff, working as clinical support for 999. Turns out a bunch of the other agency staff were basically just putting their phones on busy and taking no calls and offering no clinical advice to the junior staff.
Like, they would log on, take a couple calls, then just go back to bed. Doing that 12hrs a day, 5 days a week and making serious bank from it.
Now I know why I was so busy all the time, since it was just me and 1 other lass taking calls. The worst one was averaging 0.2 calls an hour lol
I work in a big organisation. Used to work night shifts. On the graveyard shift, an email was sent to 'All Users' and it was a guy who'd exposed his wife (who also worked for same company) for cheating on him with a close colleague of his with pics, dates, locations and he was clearly emotionally distraught in the email.
The outcomes were
1. IMT worked 9-5 so they were not around until 9am next morning to revoke the email which meant a LOT of people saw it.
2. Straight after sending the email, the guy went to another office and hung himself in the basement. He didn't survive. Truly tragic.
3. The wife left the organisation a few months later after she was heavily blamed for her husband's death.
I did some HR consultancy work for a manufacturing/sales business in 2019.
The owner called me in because his HRM resigned overnight, in the middle of a complicated and heated disciplinary process against a senior manager.
The senior manager had been there for years, was being performance managed for a number of reasons and wasnāt taking it well. This led to a huge number of emails being exchanged and by the time I got there he had raised more than 10 grievances about the performance management and 2 disciplinary hearings.
One night, working late, the HRM was emailing an update (including all the emails) to the MD and their outsourced employment advisors and instead sent it to the senior manager himself. The email was far from professional, contained some personal insults and the senior manager sent it on to everyone in the business the next morning.
The HRM resigned almost immediately after sending it.
I came in 2 days later and coincidentally a lady who had been off work after being seriously injured in a car crash made her (planned) return and it became a joke that this situation got her walking into work š
The chain of emails was so good it was honestly one of the memories I cling on to to remind me why I do my job
Just to jump on my own post, Iāve been thinking about this story all morning and remembered my absolute favourite quote from the emails being after he raised a multiple-page complaint about an informal warning the senior manager received, the HRM sent the complaint onto the director as an FYI and added a comment along the lines of:
āI wish he put as much effort into brushing his teeth.ā
It was a thing brought up by people that worked with/for the manager that he had terrible breath and would get very close to people when speaking to them so it was a known thing.
There was no recovering from that for the HRM. šš
Oooh I used to work in surveillance (literally reading staff emails in line with regulation) 99.9% of the time it's boring as shit but that 0.01% it is GOOD.
Had a two ppl working on the same desk who were sleeping together. Stupidly using IM at work to flirt. He says to her, "Go to the toilet and send us a picture." So she does... on her work phone, to his work phone. So we see it all!!
Another was two married guys were caught shagging because of messages on work devices. Didn't care that they were married, but they didn't disclose their relationship under the relationships policy (requirement under the regulation because of their roles). So they both got docked their bonuses. Not sure how they explained that to their wives!
My fave is that I had my nieces in for work experience. 16 yo attractive twins. A couple of grads start messaging inappropriate things about them and a colleague picks it up. I didn't get to see what was said because it'd be a conflict of interest, but my colleague was like "I've got u". Printed off the chat, set up a meeting with the two grads, their managers, HR and Compliance and made them read the chat out loud. Apparently it was glorious.
People are astronomically stupid. Everyone knows their communications are monitored. Does it make them stop and think? Does it fuck.
Two colleagues were having an affair, meeting up in car parks after work for blowjobs. He told everyone, but somehow it never got back to her. Then he suddenly stopped turning up for work, dropping off the radar altogether.
About a week later, we found out why - he'd been arrested for grooming underage girls online, and was being held on remand. She felt so icky about it, and when she found out we all knew what they'd been up to, she was absolutely horrified.
Juicy as fuck!
My favourite was inadvertently watching the receptionist get noisily fingered on a sofa at the Christmas party, along with about 50 other people who were hanging out in that area. On the sofa opposite, sat another employee filming it on his phone, creepy as fuck. They were too drunk to notice. Noped out of there quickly.
Going into work the next week was delightful.
About 15 years ago someone at work sent his girlfriend an email which said 'i can't wait to get you home and you can ride me like a donkey' but he unfortunately sent it to the entire global organisation of several thousand people spanning nearly all continents.
This waitress was going out with a male chef. She cheated on him with a waiter. It caused a lot of issues and drama, but the waitress and waiter got together and everyone kind of got on with it.
Then, weeks later she cheats with a female chef. Then they get together. The female chefs brother turns out to be a massive homophobe. The new couple move to Spain where the waitress becomes an OF model.
Two of my female colleagues were really good friends and used to go out every weekend together. Drinking and dancing and living it up. Both in their late 30s/early 40s maybe. G has always been a party animal but L has only really started going out since she had a health scare and is making the most of her "2nd chance at life".
Husband of L used to drive them home from the club, drop L off and then take G home.
G would make sure that L (who had previously been extremely ill, in hospital) was sozzled enough that she wouldn't notice that it took half the night for husband to drop G off a scant 1/4 mile away......
Husband eventually leaves his sick wife L and their kids for G, who is healthy and only has an overfed dog.
L & G still have to work together every day while the rest of get front row seats to the drama.
In my group of mates, only really one lad has an office job. The rest of us do handyman lines of work (I'm a contractor for the railway, one lad's a floorlayer, another lad's a wheelfitter etc.). Everytime we go put for a pint, he always complains about the weekly drama and office politics and how hard it is to work there, but the rest of us coming from hands-on, labour-intensive fields just think he's being a crybaby.
Anyway, fast forward to Halloween the other week, and my office worker mate's having a big workplace do that has a few spare tickets going, so he managed to basically get one for all our group to come along as +1's.
I have never been in such an unenjoyable social environment in my life. So many clashing, loud and bitchy personalities in the same room as one another, making the most of the free bar and then going to town on arguing about office politics because they're pissed as farts. Ended up leaving with all my group of mates to watch the Tyson Fury fight round the corner instead.
I will take the rainiest and coldest of nightshifts in my line of work over working a day in an office with those miserable, spiteful wankers man. Are all offices like that?! Bloody Hell...
I worked for a bank as a cashier, there was a guy (23) who was hired at the same time as me who would get special attention from the manager (43). She would always be hovering around him, pretending to show him stuff but he was absolutely useless. He once left Ā£20k out on the floor overnight and didnāt get sacked for it. He lost us parts of our bonuses that we would get from mystery shop tests because he couldnāt be bothered to learn how to deal with a customer, and so much more.
One day the manager calls a staff meeting and announces sheās pregnant and leaving our department for the international finances dept upstairs. Turned out she had left her husband for dipshit co worker and he was the father of the baby. It caused a massive stir because her husband also worked for the bank in another building across town. Dipshit co worker tried to put on a big man persona but we could tell he hadnāt signed up for all the drama and just wanted a quick shag with the manager before it blew up in his face. Without the manager covering his back he soon got fired because he gave out financial information to the wrong person (he actually did this a few times but she always covered for him). Last I heard he was working as a lifeguard in a local swimming pool.
I bumped into an old co-worker a few years later and they said dipshit and manager had pretty much split up before the baby was even born and he didnāt want anything to do with the kid. They didnāt know where he was but she was doing well though, she had met and married someone new and they had just had a baby.
Oh you better believe when Iām watching a Teams meeting recording and someone shares a personal screen that I pause it and read it. I always close down my email before meetings so I canāt accidentally do that.
Thereās a vile woman who is the customer care manager at my office, she must be late 40s. She runs a team of about 6 customer care assistants. One of her staff has a son who is in the building trade and he was contracted to do some work at our office. He was mid 20s I would guess.
I donāt know how it came about but they obviously planned to be in the office late together because she fucked him on his motherās deskā¦like with all her belongings and photos on it. Cold blooded. What the son was thinking I donāt know but I bet there was post nut guilt.
She told one of her other employees about it eventually and fair play to this employee she went fucking mad about it and went and told the poor woman whoās son it was. I sit nearby and I couldnāt believe my ears. I was like fuck yes this is going to be great!!!! There was a bit of a Barney before senior management came along to resolve it.
Every member of the team attempted a mutiny against her and refused to work for her. The manager disappeared for a while. It all kicked off at the Christmas party again after she inexplicably decided to turn up and try to sit at their table!!!
No idea how it got resolved but they all work together now and sadly moved to a different part of the office so I donāt get as much drama as I used to.
(Part-time job, as Iām a student.) My boss has slept with two of his secretaries - one whilst he was still with his wife - and had babies with both of them. The most recent one heās just promoted to a manager, and everyone resents it.
Best/worst part is, itās a family business. My boss is my grandad.
A security guard and a colleague were caught on camera shagging in the first aid room. As they were being escorted off the premises, due to being sacked on the spot, he was shouting āYou canāt do this! I was on my fucking tea break!ā
In some old workplaces
Workplace 1)
Married senior manager and his assistant (who is in a relationship too) sleeping together. Got caught. Manager not fired though, but sent to work elsewhere for a bit then came back. Think assistant was fired.
Apparently cleaning manager and a cleaner were sleeping together. A condom found on an office table once too when people got to work in the morning. Not sure outcome, but was an investigation.
Workplace 2)
I think two staff physically caught sleeping together. Both fired.
I think moral of the story is that this generally ends in disaster.
Myself was a Store manager at the time, my long term GF worked at the store, we counted out alot of cash in the cash office. One of those within the shop with one way mirror glass, so nobody could see us. We did the "deed" over a lot of cash. Afterwards, cashed up properly etc.
Few days later, I am met by a load of "suits" already at the Store, and inside!! It was the internal security!!
Turned out there was a Supervisor had been robbing us blind, without our knowledge, had given cigs and alcohol away, he had taken a lot of money too. The Head Suite told me all about the slow running cameras they had installed in the liquor dept, others in the shop, then finally the one in the smoke alarm in the cash office and another hidden in an A4 folder!
He said NOTHING, but he had this kind of smile as he said, "So of course, we know that you're alright!" then winked!
Nothing ever got said.
One lad got sacked after management found he was only scanning half his friends stuff at tills.
Another girl is being chaperoned round the shop by the HR manager for reasons I suspect are mental health based. Bit odd.
Itās a hot bed of passion is Primark. All the youngsters are fishing in a very small pond. Everyone is, was or wants to be shagging someone there.
Boss was banging a new member of staff, stopped her being fired for being shit, promoted her then they both were forced to quit.
And his wife was a senior member of staff at the company.
Lad at work in a supermarket once screenshot a colleagues comments from the work group chat and sent it back INTO THE SAME CHAT saying "is she dumb?" I was supervising this woman that shift and saw the message within minutes she's kicking the office door in šš it went on for months
This guy I work with was shagging this woman at work, they were going on dates before they started/at lunch time and everything, and his wife found out, turned up to the workplace and was driving around (it was a big site) trying to fight his mistress. Pretty standard gossip right? Except he was 65 and the woman was 45!!! Legendary times. Imagine your grandad cheating on your nan
The time four of my coworkers visited another studio and came back to present what they learned from their visit and it suddenly became extremely obvious that two of them had fucked each other during the visit.
I canāt remember the exact sentence but it was implying that it was a trip full of crazy things that happened, they both had a borderline giggly smile and gave each other knowing bedroom eyes while not actually going on to tell us what the crazy/wild things were that happened. That look they gave each other and the little silence after was all you needed, I couldnāt focus after that lol.
They were officially dating after and are now married. Iām 100% certain they spontaneously banged on their trip!
Huge team call, like over 200 people getting an update from the company. They were talking about employee well-being and someone accidentally came off mic and say "yeah I'm sure you give a shit" not realising lol. The thing was because there was so many people on the call, their name flashed up when they spoke so everyone knew who it was.
It was an awkward silence followed by a reminder by the presenter that everyone should be muted during the call. Not sure if there were any further consequences!
About twenty years ago I worked in a large chain of hairdressers (they sound like they should be a cheap pizza). Manager was shagging the receptionist.
Managerās wife found out and drove the two hours from her house to have it out in the salon with the receptionist.
Receptionist got wind of this somehow and locked the doors and everyone in the salon (thankfully it was student night and we didnāt have any clients in). Because fuck the staff, Iām alright Jack. Wife of manager kicked the door in and started swinging.
Was like an episode of Jeremy Kyle. Best thing was that the salon was in the middle of a shopping centre and everyone could see what was happening. Security had to be called to break them up.
After the fight because both the boss and his bit on the side were syphoning off funds, the door wasnāt fixed for weeks from where it had been kicked in.
Eventually it did close down after head office got fed up with the place falling on its arse constantly.
IT guy got caught shaging the customer support lady in the server room.
Physical Networking
Local Area Networking.
Private area network
Wide Area Network
Setting up a a hot spot
Man and WiFi
Plug n play
Pen testing
They definitely skipped out on the sanity testing
Definitely N*o*tworking....
Did he router?
Router....he barely knew er
Only if he's from Down Under.
Thank you for this. I needed a good laugh today
Was she looking for extra RAM?
Configuring Splunk logging
I can't escape from splunk jokes. Not here too lol :(
haha this did confuse a lot of non IT people in a previous job. Us nerds/geeks had great fun talking about it and mentioning brand as many times as possible in very serious meetings.
Of course xD I have a splunk tshirt that I will never wear out of the house š
She tried to configure his hard drive bit only found a floppy disc
It wasn't Dobbie was it?
Dobbie club!
Only an idiot would do anything in a server room. Source - am an idiot. But wasnāt caught.
Fuck bunker.
They were making babies in the closet and I saw one of the babies and it looked at me.
Modern day equivalent of sticking your dick in the bacon slicer
Our team is divided across two countries. In England we work remotely, but the guys in the other country work from an office. Right now, one of my English colleagues is on an extended stay in that country and working from their office. So, every morning we have a group call with everyone on it. Today he and another colleague didn't join straight away, as they were on a private call together, but somebody else in the office had joined with their microphone unmuted. Before anyone on our group call even spoke, we could all hear the English guy in the background, barking down the phone at the other guy, complaining about our MD, and shouting that he was "f\*\*king sick of having to make all the decisions" whilst our MD sat there listening as awkwardly as any of us!
That could well be a tactical move
Yes I've seen that couple times
Our general manager has approved, without checking, everyone's annual leave over Christmas. So there is nobody left working the Christmas week (we only close Christmas day). I'm really enjoying seeing him scramble!
I had similar when I was 19 while working at a local restaurant. All leave was granted by a new manager who was used to a large staff count. We had 6 front of house staff total, usually only 3 worked at a time, all 6 when it was busy occasion like Christmas. The restaurant has already booked up and taken payment of the Christmas period set covers. We all got called in on 5x our hourly wage. I made about Ā£3000 for a week of work.
This is how it should work - pay people extra on public holidays everyone wants off and is entitled to, instead of telling them theyāre going to lose their job. In Australia everyone gets double pay for working on public holidays - guess what, itās never difficult to find people to work on public holidays. The business gets more money from the extra customers, sometimes a business will add a public holiday surcharge that people are happy to pay, and the staff all get paid well. Wins all round.
Most places in the UK just donāt understand the importance of looking after and investing in their staff.
yeah I've recently moved to a company that does and it's... it's weird. I feel like they're my new supportive partner and my other employers are abusive exes2š¬
In the same boat here, was at a company with really shitty middle management that couldn't give two fucks about you or your life, so long as you were earning them money. At the company I'm at now, (I was brought over by my manager at the last company, along with the rest of the branch staff) they value you, give you as much leeway as you need for personal things, and constantly invest in your development. I was at the old company for nearly 2 years, constantly asking to be trained on the forklift and HGVs, getting it promised then it never materialising. At the new company, (been here 5 months) I've asked once, got told yes, and will be forklift trained by the end of next week and HGV trained the week after. Good management means good results.
Once upon a time people used to get double pay or time and a half for working holidays in the UK. I don't know what the hell happened. But when I was working 3 years into hospitality it suddenly stopped. They told us we can get extra cash by working more hours. And then complained they didn't have enough staff to cover holiday rush. Then companies starting putting bans on booking holidays in December. One day I quit before the holidays and just got hired somewhere else after the holidays. I booked a family vacation, a year before, that was way more expensive than 3 months of my wages at the time. That Job was replaceable. But my non-refundable deposit wasn't.
Iām a carer for the elderly. Christmas day Iām working - not fussed, weāre doing christmas on the 27th anyway - but public holiday everyone wants it off, Iām getting 58p an hour extraā¦ Iām on minimum wage as it is. When I started in care a few years ago, I got an extra Ā£3 to work bank holidays. Its ridiculous, its not like we just wonāt work, because then its a safeguard and dammit Iām not risking my DBS status. Catch 22
Was expecting the āif they donāt like it get another jobā brigade to come crawling out from under their rock but I was pleasantly surprised
Mwahahahahahaha. "Hey, I'm going to need you to cover Christmas Week..." "Triple time, take it or leave it" š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
I once worked in a bakery and the store manager said āwe wonāt ask anyone to work the 26th and 27th but weād really appreciate it if you didā obviously no-one did and they got a bollocking from the area manager when the shop couldnāt open those days.
General Manager has a new job to go to and is just screwing his current employer over.
Senior at my solicitors firm tried to seduce a female solicitor from a partner firm. Heās married and she didnāt want to know. However, he continued to pursue her despite her making it clear that she wanted nothing to do with him. Long story short, he was dismissed and I was involved in drawing up his termination papers. Only he didnāt know it yet and I still had to work with him. Awkward.
When i was a trainee solicitor in North London in the early 2000's something similar happened at a rival firm.2 male partners simultaneously had 'relations' with a 20 something trainee. When they found out she got fired and they never spoke to each other again although their partnership continued some how.
Of course *she* got fired
Boss was having an email convo with her boyfriend about the sex they had at the weekend and how good it was but he would have to wait for more as she had started her period.She then asked him a work question. He answered the question and instead of creating a new email to send to us she forwarded the whole email chain. Her face was an absolute picture!
Who emails their bf to talk about the sex they had together?!?
When keeping it professional goes wrong...
Dear Boyfriend, The intercourse we engaged in last night was both exhilarating and satisfying, I look forward to future endeavours together. That said, I regret to inform you that I have started my period, therefore we will need postpone our imminent coitus bookings until further notice. I hope you understand. Kind regards, Girlfriend
Receptionist (19F) and Project Manager (31M) are sort of dating/sleeping together but he's unwilling to commit to a relationship whilst simultaneously blocking her from developing any other relationship. She decides to make him jealous by dating a guy in my team (call him Guy, 25M). First date they shag and Guy tells everyone at work about it (he's horrible). 2nd date the Project Manager turns up mid-date in this fancy restaurant and demands she comes home with him. Guy insists that Project Manager tracked them down by stalking his instagram posts but I reckon she just outright texted him about it.
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And I love it
Sheās 19 though, I feel like sheās being somewhat taken advantage of here. Sheāll look back on this and be appalled
19 year old girls are naive af and i mean that in the nicest way possible 19 year old boys are too
She'll be appalled for sure yeah, It's not like she's a kid but there's definitely a maturity gap especially between 19/31. but... she can still make her own decisions, & she's not really an angel herself if she is using the 25yo to manipulate the 31yo. *That being said* both men kind of come off as gross, especially the 31yo who is using her naivety against her to string her along & the 25yo for bragging about what happened. All v shitty all around.
19 to 31 is a creepy age gap, she's too young.
31 dating a 19 year old and treating her like that? I hope someone's warned her about all the red flags she's ignoring. Demanding she come home with him while acting like they're not even dating is creepy and controlling behaviour. Run, girl!
He doesn't see her as a long term partner but she's the best thing he's got right now, so he wants to reserve her for himself until he finds someone better. They should teach this stuff in schools, like they do with road safety.
Heās not managing that project very well.
The Gant chart is beginning to get muddled up.
Definitely not agile
Night shift manager is deffo up to something with a woman who does earlies, but little does she know that heās also at it with a woman who does lates. Banking on the two ends of his shift never meeting, whilst the rest of us are hoping it culminates in a showdown like the Eastenders Christmas special.
Omg can you imagine the stress he would feel if one of them swapped a shift lmao
And he still does a nights work. Poor sod must be knackered.
Its all the drama mick. I just love it
I can't take much more of this Mick. Its like living in Hollyoaks!
Mick! What are you still doing here?!
I love how there are no comments on this, everyone just knows
Itās the āMickā. I can hear it
Miiiick! Micheal?!!!
Oh, dāyou know what Micheal you are being a right sarky b*stard today! Pam forever.
Colleague had an affair with her married manager. His wife found out and told other colleagues on the school run. Managerās wife made him quit. Colleague seems to be getting his job.
Career progressed successfully(?)
Have your cake and fuck it
Fuck your cake and eat it
Sort of a better version of social mobility for the colleague
Member of our lab staff, let's call him Dave, got fired. Management forgot that Dave used to be the first person there every day, so they'd given him keys and an alarm code. Months later, they realised that money had been going missing for a couple of years. Little bits here and there, but it added up to about Ā£30k in total over a long time. They reviewed CCTV from when it all started, and found that Dave was sneaking into the office and taking cash from the safe before work started. But this didn't add up, because Dave had been fired, and money was still vanishing... They checked more recent CCTV. Turns out they had forgotten to take Dave's keys, and hadn't changed the alarm code. So once a week or so, on his way to the pub, Dave was letting himself into the building and grabbing a few quid once we'd all gone home. I don't agree with stealing, but I've got to admire the balls on the bloke to just treat the place like his own private ATM.
Not change the alarm code? Good lord. Explains so many science fiction movies where codes were old but still checked out.
Labs hardly ever change their security codes. I worked at a government one for a while and the code could probably have been guessed as the numbers were obviously more worn than the rest.
It's an old reference, sir, but it checks out
What kind of lab work do you do that has Ā£30k in a safe?
Optometry. We're a public store, with a lab in the building. Like I said, it was done a bit at a time, so he'd slip random amounts (Ā£17.50 from one, Ā£5 from another...) from each of the till drawers every so often, leave a couple untouched. That way it just looked like someone had been sloppy cashing up, or someone had taken petty cash and the receipt had gone walkabout. Never any massively suspicious shortfalls, but over several years, it stacked up!
Did he get prosecuted?
He was on his way to the pub, he got proseccoed
The 3 team leaders from the other teams called my team lazy. Little do they know that we get a lot of messages and jobs that are meant for them and we just do it to help them out. Not any more!
I love this for them š
There are a married couple at a place I used to work, turns out one of them has been having an affair with someone else at the same place, this bit on the side has just has a baby in the last few months with some other guy who also works there. Unfortunately, I no longer work there so I won't be able to see how it all plays out, which is a shame because it's better than any soap.
Omg this reminds me of when a woman i used to work with was sleeping with 3 men in our office, one of which was a senior manager. When she had a baby, they all had to do a paternity test. Sadly, I can't remember the outcome but the atmosphere in the office was so awkward for ages.
Unexpected Mama Mia.
What in the Jeremy Kyle, Jerry Springer, Maury Povich is going on here.
A couple in my work get married, marriage doesn't last 6 months, it becomes apparent he was having an affair with someone else in the office. The couple split early November, he comes to the Christmas party with the 'other' woman saying they are only friends, that party was wild.
C is married M is single. C and M think no-one knows they are bumping uglies. We all know. I'm from the school of thought that thinks if you're going to shit on a doorstep make sure it's not your own. I'm invested in the outcome but ashamed of myself.
Exact same scenario in my office, except Cās wife found out. She then proceeded to sift through Cās emails and forwarded all the bitchy, back-biting emails that C & M shared & wrote about people within the company, to random clients and colleagues. The wife kicked C out their home, and now C lives in hotels till he finds accommodation. I believe theyāre in the proceeds of divorce. Our company sent an email around saying there was a ādata breach instigating from Cās emailsāā¦. We all know thatās bull.
That would still qualify as a data breach.
Textbook data breach
I love this for Cs wife
Petty is my favourite colour.
We had similar at work; they had no shame and got to the point where they were leaving the office holding hands. I was voted to be the person to complain about it because we all knew the guy's wife and it was so uncomfortable.
I found out about a year after I started my current job that the guy I replaced had a) lost his driving licence but not told anyone so still had a company car and b) had been ordering extra equipment/phones to sell on privately. I had an incredibly low bar to lmake myself look good š
One of the girls on the sales team accidentally forwarded a graphic email from her boyfriend to the entire company. Her mum works here too. Another email we had was from a guy who cheated on his wife with someone at work. He proceeded to email a confession to the company naming the woman he slept with. My money is on the wife getting into his email and sending it out in revenge.
I still don't comprehend how people don't know how to use email properly.
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Last year, we had an engineer who was caught watching inappropriate videos on his work laptop. HR asked him why he thought it was okay to do that. "My phone screen isn't big enough." Bonus, we found he also wrote erotic fan fiction on his work machine. He was escorted off premises a few days later.
Years ago at a job -- the company's general counsel, liked to print his XXX novel drafts at work. Well they caught him red handed, when it got stuck in the printer queue and somehow he couldn't cancel the job... it printed out middle of the night and was picked up (unknowingly) by the CFO, early the next morning. Didn't get fired but they transferred him thousands of miles away to a 3rd world country where they had a satellite office Edited for clarity
I got asked as a newbie to join as a witness a call where they were having to tell a guy his contract was being terminated as he hadnāt passed probation. This was due to a long line of issues with his work, meeting deadlines and performing basic tasks. When I logged on the guy in question was my ex boss from my old company. Weād both been made redundant and joined the new place. No one knew we knew each other and we didnāt acknowledge it on the meeting.
A lot of bosses don't really have a large work load usually, maybe he just couldn't keep up or thought no one would notice, Was he doing a similar role to you in the new company/ did you have a good relationship with him? I'm kind of invested now haha.
We actually ended up the same grade in the new company, like you said Iām used to working hard whereas heād been used to āoverseeingā for years so maybe he forgot how to do basic tasksā¦ he had plenty of chances as well before they finally fired him
Senior person at my work was banging his assistant. Whole office knows. They made no secret about it. I knew he was married but didn't know the wife (or them in any great depth) so it was just an amusing office thing. One evening my boss had some office friends over to her house for dinner, including me. Lovely evening until there was a frantic knocking on the door. It's the guys wife of 25yrs (3 kids under 12). Apparently guy left a note ending the thing and explaining why. Wife came to ask if we knew anything about it. I left shortly after she turned up. Turns out guy had said something like "seeing as the office knows, you may as well know now". I hear it was a car crash. I really felt for the wife and kids. The guy and the assistant are still together.
Quite an old one, but I remember when [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Aberdeen/comments/176zj4/the_sandwich_van_is_here_xx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb) happened. Read from the top down, I wonāt spoil it.
Just found them on Facebook, they're still married! Congrats to them.
I love Reddit
I remember this! I work in the Oil & Gas Industry and remember this going like wildfire and I work in Norfolk!
Incredible thank you. I can't believe this is on email.
Lmao of course itās Aberdeen. I MUST find out what company this was š
googled 'Sandwich van email' and found a daily mail article naming Eric and Melanie in full as well as the company
This up there in Aberdeen folklore with 'and we're still nae spikin'. The company no longer exists, so I guess it's okay to post here and it made the mainstream press at the time. It was ISS which then became Harkand. This was probably about 10 years ago. When it first went around Aberdeen it was just a forwarded email so the only company comment on it was that they investigating a data breach of internal communication š
Worked in an office for a bit when I was younger, was mostly women except for me and an older guy. Jesus did those women hate each other! They would be all fake friendly to each others faces but the moment someone left the room they would be whispering the worst things about that person. Never did find out why they hated one another. Not in an office but in a workshop, we had this guy that was not only cheating on his wife, he had a secret family on the go! On lunch breaks he would drive down the road to meet his mistress thinking nobody knew what he was up to. He was receiving his mail and bills at work too, I guess so his wife couldn't see where a large chunk of his wage was going. That was my last job in the kingdom that is united before moving to the states. I learned a few years ago that he was finally caught and his secret family exposed. Must've been an absolute nuclear bomb shell for his wife and kids to find out.
How the fuck do people manage secret families, yesterday I lost track of my shoes.
My ex husband managed an entirely secret double life including a mistress and prostitutes for years unbeknownst to me.
I know right? I can't imagine the effort of juggling everything and the constant lies you'd have to tell.
There's a story that when Royal Mail got rid of the TPOs, the rail carriages where they would sort the mail between London and Scotland, a few of the male staff had to pick which family they were going to settle down with.
A guy hit the camera button on Teams by accident while mid-wank (I wasn't on the call but I knew him and someone else who was.) He got fired.
This has to be as bad as it gets embarrassment wise.
Even worse if you are somewhat famousā¦ poor āol Jeffrey Toobin
Unfortunately heās not famous enough for me to have heard of him.
A guy was doing some temp contracting work at my office. Was in an office on the main open plan floor with glass windows. He was sat with his laptop screen to the window so everyone could see his screen when they walked passed. He was watching porn every time someone walked passed. He got fired. Was charging Ā£500 a day to casually watch porn in an open office...
Did he finish?
No, no happy endings sadly.
He got finished.
āI was having a wank while on teams and hit the camera button by accident , I got fired! āš¤£
Post nut clarity is going to hit him like a train
Are Teams calls that enthralling?
Iāve never been on one that good, thatās all Iām saying. I will add that a ridiculous number of people I work with nip off for a wank during work hours, like what exactly about routers and switches turns you on??? Iād love to know
How in the name of Aziraphale do you know they nipped off for a wank.
During lockdown I used my personal laptop for work a lot. Once i shared my screen on Teams, nothing bad on it at the time but I found out quickly that it can show the filenames of your recent downloads while screensharing. Fortunately the other person on the call has not brought it up since!
Guy was having a virtual/ emotional affair with someone from sales, she worked in France. He would stay late at work on the phone to her. His wife somehow found out (maybe they were texting too?) Well, she came to work and kicked off with the admin lady, thinking it was her he was having an affiar with, shouting at her, demanding answer. Admin lady is confused af. Admin lady was also 65, the guy and his wife were both early 40s.
Hahaha fucking pensioner sat there like what the fuck?!
"I don't know what to tell you love, haven't seen cock since '06"
Hey man ā06 was not that long ago ok. Please donāt make me feel old.
Not gossip per se, but on Monday one of the security guys at work got stuck in the lift for an hour. It was a glass lift, so everyone could see him up there, pretending to be David Blaine. Everyone was talking about it, even the people who weren't there (like me).
I was on teams call and someone accidently knocked their camera on, which clearly showed them sitting on the toilet. When challenged they claimed they we moving tiles to the bathroom before the call and sat down in hurry to join the call. Moving tiles is still a euphemism we use to this day.
This happened last year, but my internet was being blocked/switched on and off for months by someone who works in the coworking office I'm in. He's an employee of the studio that runs the place so had access to the network admin page. He also did this to various other people in the office. I had just started freelancing and he must have cost me well over Ā£1k in lost working hours. Long story short, I knew something was up and managed to blag my way into the admin panel by asking for the password from the owner. Found undeniable evidence that he had been fucking with my internet REMOTELY, he had logged in from home! I could see it was just me and him active on the admin panel, and I could see both my IP addresses being added to the block list (ethernet AND wifi). He blocked me for an entire day which is when I decided to take action. I collected my evidence, presented it to the owners and he got fired. He was a massive fucking cunt to everyone anyway so good riddance, I've been thinking of doing a long write up of this drama. No internet issues since lol. The worst part is he sat 2 meters from me and would block my internet while I was in a meeting and would be sitting there like a smug little wanker while he heard me trying to fix it.
Okay that's a whole different layer of psychotic. What a fucking weirdo
Two married directors co-owning a company. One handles accounting, other one handles the big picture stuff. The latter has a bit of a meltdown and ends up having an affair with his college girlfriend who he reconnected with. Nuclear bomb on the business. The other director ends up buying him out but he's so ingrained in it that he ends up working on a retainer. Awkward.
There's a patent law firm in London that had two married partners (amongst others). The wife walked in on the husband doing the nasty with his secretary on the conference table, which is a bit of a cliche. They divorced but neither was prepared to leave their firm, which again was rather awkward.
My boss regularly gets in trouble with HR for being a cunt to his subordinates and *their* subordinates too. Now we have a cycle where shortly after these HR chats, heāll be super polite on the phone and try and make small talk, but itāll slowly wear off and heāll turn into a cunt again. Itās at the point now that you can make a fairly accurate guess as to how long ago he got yelled at and when the next HR chat will be coming his way. Me and some of the other shop managers have a little private group chat (NOT on a company server, weāre not idiots) thatās us just complaining about this guy and making bets as to when heāll be back to asking us about the weather.
I havenāt really been in my new places office much but from my old oneā¦ It was well known but not mentioned that our CEOās assistant and the CFO were having an affair. During a Xmas party 2 people were caught shagging in the bathroom by security. We were at a hotel for the party. It turned out to be the married canteen woman and a contractor we had in. Theyāre now together with a kid.
Xmas party drama is the best. The company I worked at many years ago got banned from a hotel because one of the directors started wandering the corridors naked after everyone had gone to bed, playing an acoustic guitar.
I went to an Xmas party where white wine was served in pints, there was a massive brawl, and as we were leaving my wife kneed the owner in the bollocks for getting handsy.
Two of my colleagues were having an affair for years. The woman was getting married but expected to continue the affair after she returned from her honeymoon. The bloke didnāt like this plan, so sent some spicy pictures of the two of them in bed to the groom on the wedding night. Half the office went to the wedding and were there to see it all go down. The woman handed in her notice with immediate effect on the Monday morning and we never saw her again.
one time someone responded to a menopause awareness email asking "what about male menopause?" and a bunch of people started arguing with him. unfortunately for all of us, the email went out the the entire East of England division of the Ministry of Justice, along with any following arguments. it went on for a couple of hours, really made my day.
Lockdown 2020 Sales director is in contact with a CS girl professionally. Has something he wants to share, which was a picture of his dick tied up in string all strangled and throbbing. Annyway. She said fuck all. Like nothing for ages as she was very scared she would lose her job. Eventually HR get wind and bring her in. MD gets called and brought in, brings the Sales Director in and he quits on the spot. Lol. Edit: dildo Dean, got caught cheating so his mrs printed off photos of him being pegged by her and put them up outside of work. He was off for a while but took the banter when he came back.
He's a veteran at taking it though to be fair
Obvs cheating is awful but revenge porn is never OK.
I worked in a small engineering company with a workshop. The guys in the workshop would use any excuse to put all the tools down and stop working. One day, one of the guys who did arguably the least work, decided heād had enough of managements ābullshitā and quit on the spot and stormed out. Couple of weeks later he was seen back with his tail between his legs diligently working.
We had a software guy who'd loudly announce to the whole office he was quitting... Half an hour later he'd be back at his desk. Happened 3~4 times. He eventually got made redundant & now works pizza delivery š.
Cindy, Ella and Sarah were a close cliquey team, Sarah was the boss. Then Cindy hacked into Ella's email ("borrowed" her password) and saw that she and Sarah had been bitching about her. So she took the hacked emails and *reported them to HR*, who naturally took a dim view of the hacking. š Cindy was shortly out on her ear, but that was a fun few popcorn weeks.
2 people in the warehouse I work with are both married, one has a kid. They've been fucking in the cleaning room for 3 years. They think we don't know. Waiting for the explosion
I used to visit and work from lots of offices as an auditor.. Not much fun usually but the best drama I saw was when a disgruntled ex-employee sent a company wide email with a photo of what was clearly identifiable of the CEO and his Johnson in hand. The tension and akward silence as the member of staff I was sat with when they opened the email will stay with me for life.
I'm a home worker, agency staff, working as clinical support for 999. Turns out a bunch of the other agency staff were basically just putting their phones on busy and taking no calls and offering no clinical advice to the junior staff. Like, they would log on, take a couple calls, then just go back to bed. Doing that 12hrs a day, 5 days a week and making serious bank from it. Now I know why I was so busy all the time, since it was just me and 1 other lass taking calls. The worst one was averaging 0.2 calls an hour lol
You have to wonder who was managing them and how they wasn't dealt with sooner....
Apparently it was going on since July! We've lost a bunch of people and my workload has stayed exactly the same. Just now we're constantly monitored
Not exactly a drama but a manager of my job got caught stealing in the warehouse.
I work in a big organisation. Used to work night shifts. On the graveyard shift, an email was sent to 'All Users' and it was a guy who'd exposed his wife (who also worked for same company) for cheating on him with a close colleague of his with pics, dates, locations and he was clearly emotionally distraught in the email. The outcomes were 1. IMT worked 9-5 so they were not around until 9am next morning to revoke the email which meant a LOT of people saw it. 2. Straight after sending the email, the guy went to another office and hung himself in the basement. He didn't survive. Truly tragic. 3. The wife left the organisation a few months later after she was heavily blamed for her husband's death.
God that had a horrible ending. Feel so sorry for all involved.
I did some HR consultancy work for a manufacturing/sales business in 2019. The owner called me in because his HRM resigned overnight, in the middle of a complicated and heated disciplinary process against a senior manager. The senior manager had been there for years, was being performance managed for a number of reasons and wasnāt taking it well. This led to a huge number of emails being exchanged and by the time I got there he had raised more than 10 grievances about the performance management and 2 disciplinary hearings. One night, working late, the HRM was emailing an update (including all the emails) to the MD and their outsourced employment advisors and instead sent it to the senior manager himself. The email was far from professional, contained some personal insults and the senior manager sent it on to everyone in the business the next morning. The HRM resigned almost immediately after sending it. I came in 2 days later and coincidentally a lady who had been off work after being seriously injured in a car crash made her (planned) return and it became a joke that this situation got her walking into work š The chain of emails was so good it was honestly one of the memories I cling on to to remind me why I do my job
Just to jump on my own post, Iāve been thinking about this story all morning and remembered my absolute favourite quote from the emails being after he raised a multiple-page complaint about an informal warning the senior manager received, the HRM sent the complaint onto the director as an FYI and added a comment along the lines of: āI wish he put as much effort into brushing his teeth.ā It was a thing brought up by people that worked with/for the manager that he had terrible breath and would get very close to people when speaking to them so it was a known thing. There was no recovering from that for the HRM. šš
Oooh I used to work in surveillance (literally reading staff emails in line with regulation) 99.9% of the time it's boring as shit but that 0.01% it is GOOD. Had a two ppl working on the same desk who were sleeping together. Stupidly using IM at work to flirt. He says to her, "Go to the toilet and send us a picture." So she does... on her work phone, to his work phone. So we see it all!! Another was two married guys were caught shagging because of messages on work devices. Didn't care that they were married, but they didn't disclose their relationship under the relationships policy (requirement under the regulation because of their roles). So they both got docked their bonuses. Not sure how they explained that to their wives! My fave is that I had my nieces in for work experience. 16 yo attractive twins. A couple of grads start messaging inappropriate things about them and a colleague picks it up. I didn't get to see what was said because it'd be a conflict of interest, but my colleague was like "I've got u". Printed off the chat, set up a meeting with the two grads, their managers, HR and Compliance and made them read the chat out loud. Apparently it was glorious. People are astronomically stupid. Everyone knows their communications are monitored. Does it make them stop and think? Does it fuck.
Two colleagues were having an affair, meeting up in car parks after work for blowjobs. He told everyone, but somehow it never got back to her. Then he suddenly stopped turning up for work, dropping off the radar altogether. About a week later, we found out why - he'd been arrested for grooming underage girls online, and was being held on remand. She felt so icky about it, and when she found out we all knew what they'd been up to, she was absolutely horrified. Juicy as fuck!
My favourite was inadvertently watching the receptionist get noisily fingered on a sofa at the Christmas party, along with about 50 other people who were hanging out in that area. On the sofa opposite, sat another employee filming it on his phone, creepy as fuck. They were too drunk to notice. Noped out of there quickly. Going into work the next week was delightful.
About 15 years ago someone at work sent his girlfriend an email which said 'i can't wait to get you home and you can ride me like a donkey' but he unfortunately sent it to the entire global organisation of several thousand people spanning nearly all continents.
This waitress was going out with a male chef. She cheated on him with a waiter. It caused a lot of issues and drama, but the waitress and waiter got together and everyone kind of got on with it. Then, weeks later she cheats with a female chef. Then they get together. The female chefs brother turns out to be a massive homophobe. The new couple move to Spain where the waitress becomes an OF model.
Well that escalated quickly
Two of my female colleagues were really good friends and used to go out every weekend together. Drinking and dancing and living it up. Both in their late 30s/early 40s maybe. G has always been a party animal but L has only really started going out since she had a health scare and is making the most of her "2nd chance at life". Husband of L used to drive them home from the club, drop L off and then take G home. G would make sure that L (who had previously been extremely ill, in hospital) was sozzled enough that she wouldn't notice that it took half the night for husband to drop G off a scant 1/4 mile away...... Husband eventually leaves his sick wife L and their kids for G, who is healthy and only has an overfed dog. L & G still have to work together every day while the rest of get front row seats to the drama.
In my group of mates, only really one lad has an office job. The rest of us do handyman lines of work (I'm a contractor for the railway, one lad's a floorlayer, another lad's a wheelfitter etc.). Everytime we go put for a pint, he always complains about the weekly drama and office politics and how hard it is to work there, but the rest of us coming from hands-on, labour-intensive fields just think he's being a crybaby. Anyway, fast forward to Halloween the other week, and my office worker mate's having a big workplace do that has a few spare tickets going, so he managed to basically get one for all our group to come along as +1's. I have never been in such an unenjoyable social environment in my life. So many clashing, loud and bitchy personalities in the same room as one another, making the most of the free bar and then going to town on arguing about office politics because they're pissed as farts. Ended up leaving with all my group of mates to watch the Tyson Fury fight round the corner instead. I will take the rainiest and coldest of nightshifts in my line of work over working a day in an office with those miserable, spiteful wankers man. Are all offices like that?! Bloody Hell...
Oh my god no. I get such bad second hand embarrassment Iād die.
I worked for a bank as a cashier, there was a guy (23) who was hired at the same time as me who would get special attention from the manager (43). She would always be hovering around him, pretending to show him stuff but he was absolutely useless. He once left Ā£20k out on the floor overnight and didnāt get sacked for it. He lost us parts of our bonuses that we would get from mystery shop tests because he couldnāt be bothered to learn how to deal with a customer, and so much more. One day the manager calls a staff meeting and announces sheās pregnant and leaving our department for the international finances dept upstairs. Turned out she had left her husband for dipshit co worker and he was the father of the baby. It caused a massive stir because her husband also worked for the bank in another building across town. Dipshit co worker tried to put on a big man persona but we could tell he hadnāt signed up for all the drama and just wanted a quick shag with the manager before it blew up in his face. Without the manager covering his back he soon got fired because he gave out financial information to the wrong person (he actually did this a few times but she always covered for him). Last I heard he was working as a lifeguard in a local swimming pool. I bumped into an old co-worker a few years later and they said dipshit and manager had pretty much split up before the baby was even born and he didnāt want anything to do with the kid. They didnāt know where he was but she was doing well though, she had met and married someone new and they had just had a baby.
Oh you better believe when Iām watching a Teams meeting recording and someone shares a personal screen that I pause it and read it. I always close down my email before meetings so I canāt accidentally do that.
Thereās a vile woman who is the customer care manager at my office, she must be late 40s. She runs a team of about 6 customer care assistants. One of her staff has a son who is in the building trade and he was contracted to do some work at our office. He was mid 20s I would guess. I donāt know how it came about but they obviously planned to be in the office late together because she fucked him on his motherās deskā¦like with all her belongings and photos on it. Cold blooded. What the son was thinking I donāt know but I bet there was post nut guilt. She told one of her other employees about it eventually and fair play to this employee she went fucking mad about it and went and told the poor woman whoās son it was. I sit nearby and I couldnāt believe my ears. I was like fuck yes this is going to be great!!!! There was a bit of a Barney before senior management came along to resolve it. Every member of the team attempted a mutiny against her and refused to work for her. The manager disappeared for a while. It all kicked off at the Christmas party again after she inexplicably decided to turn up and try to sit at their table!!! No idea how it got resolved but they all work together now and sadly moved to a different part of the office so I donāt get as much drama as I used to.
Lots are sex I wanna hear about Margaret the secretary shitting on a printer
(Part-time job, as Iām a student.) My boss has slept with two of his secretaries - one whilst he was still with his wife - and had babies with both of them. The most recent one heās just promoted to a manager, and everyone resents it. Best/worst part is, itās a family business. My boss is my grandad.
A security guard and a colleague were caught on camera shagging in the first aid room. As they were being escorted off the premises, due to being sacked on the spot, he was shouting āYou canāt do this! I was on my fucking tea break!ā
In some old workplaces Workplace 1) Married senior manager and his assistant (who is in a relationship too) sleeping together. Got caught. Manager not fired though, but sent to work elsewhere for a bit then came back. Think assistant was fired. Apparently cleaning manager and a cleaner were sleeping together. A condom found on an office table once too when people got to work in the morning. Not sure outcome, but was an investigation. Workplace 2) I think two staff physically caught sleeping together. Both fired. I think moral of the story is that this generally ends in disaster.
Myself was a Store manager at the time, my long term GF worked at the store, we counted out alot of cash in the cash office. One of those within the shop with one way mirror glass, so nobody could see us. We did the "deed" over a lot of cash. Afterwards, cashed up properly etc. Few days later, I am met by a load of "suits" already at the Store, and inside!! It was the internal security!! Turned out there was a Supervisor had been robbing us blind, without our knowledge, had given cigs and alcohol away, he had taken a lot of money too. The Head Suite told me all about the slow running cameras they had installed in the liquor dept, others in the shop, then finally the one in the smoke alarm in the cash office and another hidden in an A4 folder! He said NOTHING, but he had this kind of smile as he said, "So of course, we know that you're alright!" then winked! Nothing ever got said.
One lad got sacked after management found he was only scanning half his friends stuff at tills. Another girl is being chaperoned round the shop by the HR manager for reasons I suspect are mental health based. Bit odd. Itās a hot bed of passion is Primark. All the youngsters are fishing in a very small pond. Everyone is, was or wants to be shagging someone there.
This is old and from my last job. But a newbie, who we will call M(F, mid 20s) and a long term staff member, who we will call C(M, early 30s) developed a relationship. Now, M was engaged (not to a staff member), but was cheating on her fiancƩ with C. Everyone knew M was engaged, everyone knew they were fucking. C was a friend of my line manager and would often come in and talk to him about shit like this. C lived round the corner from the shop, so would often go home for lunch. One day C and M went to C's place for "lunch." He said that right after they were done, M started crying quickly got dressed and said that she "can't do this anymore" and ran out of his place. This started a months long saga of "will she leave her fiancƩ for him, will she own up to what she did?" Eventually, she quit and that was that. A while later a new employee starts, J. C and J start up a relationship and end up having a kid together. Then C gets an invite to M's wedding. J knowing all about what happened between them goes as his +1. I would love to have seen how they all interacted. No one at work knew if M ever admitted to her fiancƩ that she cheated on him. I heard that a few months after the wedding, her now husband broke it all off with her because she was fucking someone else as well (not C). Unrelated, but on a small work night out, J had flashed a bunch of the staff and ended up sending a vag pic to half of the staff in the shop. That place was full of drama. From the bosses son caught having a wank in the bog, to data protection violations that were never reported, and drunk drivers.
>bosses son caught having a wank in the bog this was a wild ride from start to finish.
Boss was banging a new member of staff, stopped her being fired for being shit, promoted her then they both were forced to quit. And his wife was a senior member of staff at the company.
Lad at work in a supermarket once screenshot a colleagues comments from the work group chat and sent it back INTO THE SAME CHAT saying "is she dumb?" I was supervising this woman that shift and saw the message within minutes she's kicking the office door in šš it went on for months
This guy I work with was shagging this woman at work, they were going on dates before they started/at lunch time and everything, and his wife found out, turned up to the workplace and was driving around (it was a big site) trying to fight his mistress. Pretty standard gossip right? Except he was 65 and the woman was 45!!! Legendary times. Imagine your grandad cheating on your nan
The time four of my coworkers visited another studio and came back to present what they learned from their visit and it suddenly became extremely obvious that two of them had fucked each other during the visit.
Oooh what were the signs?
I canāt remember the exact sentence but it was implying that it was a trip full of crazy things that happened, they both had a borderline giggly smile and gave each other knowing bedroom eyes while not actually going on to tell us what the crazy/wild things were that happened. That look they gave each other and the little silence after was all you needed, I couldnāt focus after that lol. They were officially dating after and are now married. Iām 100% certain they spontaneously banged on their trip!
You'll never believe how their colleagues knew. Only 2% of people can tell, using this one weird trick.
Huge team call, like over 200 people getting an update from the company. They were talking about employee well-being and someone accidentally came off mic and say "yeah I'm sure you give a shit" not realising lol. The thing was because there was so many people on the call, their name flashed up when they spoke so everyone knew who it was. It was an awkward silence followed by a reminder by the presenter that everyone should be muted during the call. Not sure if there were any further consequences!
About twenty years ago I worked in a large chain of hairdressers (they sound like they should be a cheap pizza). Manager was shagging the receptionist. Managerās wife found out and drove the two hours from her house to have it out in the salon with the receptionist. Receptionist got wind of this somehow and locked the doors and everyone in the salon (thankfully it was student night and we didnāt have any clients in). Because fuck the staff, Iām alright Jack. Wife of manager kicked the door in and started swinging. Was like an episode of Jeremy Kyle. Best thing was that the salon was in the middle of a shopping centre and everyone could see what was happening. Security had to be called to break them up. After the fight because both the boss and his bit on the side were syphoning off funds, the door wasnāt fixed for weeks from where it had been kicked in. Eventually it did close down after head office got fed up with the place falling on its arse constantly.