Legendary tales from the office.

[Piggymon]

When I used to work at nthell people would visit the conference rooms upstairs and the disabled loos and do rudies !!!

Office parties were great - the gossip afterwards was jaw dropping

[lostkat]

Not particularly interesting, but when I worked for Boots, the guy I worked with in the Minilab got caught stealing money out of the tils/counter caches. He had about £300 in his socks when they marched him off the shop floor, and it turned out that he had nicked in the region of £6000-£7000 altogether over a number of months. Got got community service. The whole department was in complete shock over it, because he was a really nice guy and we were all quite close. It was awful.

A couple of years later just after I left, two more guys I used to work with got sacked for refunding cameras back onto their own credit cards. Again, two really nice guys and a complete shock.

I guess some people just see the money as a temptation or "there for the taking" or something. I never saw it like that. It was just paper notes going into the till.

[Jonny69]

Funny you should say that because there was a girl who worked with me at Accessorize on the mobile team and we couldn't ever work out how she could afford to live in Sloane Square in Chelsea. Then one day she got sacked for stealing money out the till and refunding. Turned out she'd got away with a couple of hundred thousand over the 7 or so years she had worked there and no-one had noticed!!!

[loki]

Im on the Health & Safety comittee at our place and we get all sorts of weird and wonderful stories. We have a guy at our place who is a right dirty old swine.

Rumour has it he stopped behind and typed a letter to one of his lady friends about how he fantasised about her. One of which included sniffing a tissue she had wiper herself down with after she had been to the gym and would love for her to send him one. The printer broke down just before he left and he thought his document had been lost. However the letter did print off but it was picked up by one of the team leaders. I think he got put on a final warning for that one

[Zirax]

Well I did one yesterday that will circulate in the office for a while. The manager needed a folder for a formal ISO audit today. He wasn't bothered what it looked like, stripes, flowers, whatever, just get one.

So off I went and toddled around Farringdon, not a single sodding stationary shop in the area. The only folder in the area....
"The art of knitting" complete with a big ball of wool and knitting needles on the front (i'll try and get a pic later). They are waiting for him to come back in the office.

So he has now gone to an official external audit with this thing

[Belmit]

Legendary!

[Admiral Huddy]

Originally Posted by Piggymon

When I used to work at nthell people would visit the conference rooms upstairs and the disabled loos and do rudies !!!

Office parties were great - the gossip afterwards was jaw dropping

Expand - I don't understand???

[Wossi]

Where I work we used to lease a spare building to a furniture company and when we finally kicked them out and changed it offices we held a little party for our customer. There was a marquee set up (at work) with free food and drink, so feeling rather drunk I was chatting to the chairman, diamond of a bloke, and told him that a new range of pneumatic fittings he was bringing out looked like a crack pipe and told him he might be able to make some money out of crack heads by selling these fittings to them. He laughed and said he would think about it.
The best bit was that me and 2 others stayed the night in the marquee to make sure it wasn't stolen (I work in Nuneaton) 1 of the people there had brought some weed with him so we sat down, polished off the alcohol, got a bit stoned and found the unused helium tank. After inhaling half a tank of helium I couldn't speak properly for a day

Good Times.

[Roberta]

There were quite a few from working in nightclubs, pubs and the local rugby club.

My favourite was when I worked in a club and it was reported to us that a couple were having a romp in a cubicle in the ladies loo. My manager was a man with a very dry sense of humour so he marched in with several bouncers, pounded on the door and demanded the lady in question came out. A very red faced lady emerged and my boss proceeded to embarrass her by fibbing and telling the crowd of women who had gathered to watch that he had to throw her out for this every week. The poor woman was betroot red.
Just as we thought it was all over the loo door flew open and out strolled a very drunk and totally naked man with a loud 'HELLO LADIES!'
I laughed til I cried.

[Del Lardo]

I was wrapping a couple of boxes together with cellophane that were too big for my desk so I was doing it kneeling down on the floor. The CEO wonders past, looks across and says "I do love to see a man on his knees". There was a 2 second silence as his brain caught up with his mouth and he went bright red and walked off raher quickly as we all pished ourselfs laughing.


There was a lady who worked in the canteen at work who been flirting outragously with me for a year but she was married so I never thought anything of it. At my leaving do she got steaming drunk and told me that she'd been fantasising about being spit roasted by me and her husband for a year and asked me back to their place. While flattered I refused.