Buttergate.....An internal email.

Stephb1986_2

Why the hell would you smear poo?!?!?!? Urgh that just makes me wretch thinking about it!!! I didn't think people could be that dirty!!

My OH worked nights at a company for a very long time he use to leave stuff in the fridge for the following night so he didn't have to keep remembering it i.e butter, he got sick of it being used and sometimes was left with no butter but the tub empty in the fridge. He got to the stage one night where he was so fed up and was near the end of the butter so he mixed in garlic paste and salt and put it in the fridge. Needless to say no one touched his butter after that ha ha

krlyr

shjo558 wrote: »

Just thinking back to the OP and the butter reminds me of when I used keep a tup of lurpak in the fridge at work.

Folk were forever pinching it so I left a post it note stuck inside the lid with an advisory note that I lick my knife before dipping it in the butter.........

Our teams milk is forever disappearing too but unfortunately we can't come up with any safe way of sabotaging it so as not to end up getting 10 years as folks can have alergies to the strangest of things........(any ideas welcome :shhh:)

Keep the milk in a less obvious container and leave a bottle of 'off' milk in the regular bottle? People might get fed up of pinching rotten milk!

(otherwise, what about decanting the milk into breast milk storage bags and leaving a breast pump nearby - might put people off!)

The poo smearing, and using bins as toilets...why?! I am truly puzzled (and disgusted!)


My brother had an issue with his lunch getting pinched from the fridge at his old job. He tried notes with no luck, but it soon stopped happening after he planted a tea leaf (literally, I don't meant the cockney slang although it is apt!) sandwich one day!

LouLou

All this "jobby" talk (may as well join in as I'm Glaswegian, in true Billy Connolly-style) reminds me of a recent confession I heard on the radio.

Some woman said she hated her job and was frustrated at the lack of loo roll facilities whilst working at a place years ago (toilet paper running out too quickly, apparently).

So, one day she took it upon herself to smear "NEED MORE LOO ROLL" in peanut butter (?!), using her index finger, on the tiles in protest. She never owned up and left a while later for another job.

It was the talk of the workplace for months, and probably still office folklore.

So, maybe it's actually peanut butter! Absolutely bizarre thing to do, no matter which "medium" used!

shjo558

LouLou wrote: »

All this "jobby" talk (may as well join in as I'm Glaswegian, in true Billy Connolly-style) reminds me of a recent confession I heard on the radio.

Some woman said she hated her job and was frustrated at the lack of loo roll facilities whilst working at a place years ago (toilet paper running out too quickly, apparently).

So, one day she took it upon herself to smear "NEED MORE LOO ROLL" in peanut butter (?!), using her index finger, on the tiles in protest. She never owned up and left a while later for another job.

It was the talk of the workplace for months, and probably still office folklore.

So, maybe it's actually peanut butter! Absolutely bizarre thing to do, no matter which "medium" used!

I can't help but think she maybe needs more iron in her diet - too far? I'll get my coat.......

Elsewhere

Several people have said the poo-smearing only happens in the ladies' loos - are they sure it's a woman who is doing this? It might be some guy getting a thrill - like burglars who defecate on their victims' beds, etc.

Davesnave

I've just remembered some thieving we did as a school staff back in the 1970s, when it was customary to keep 'a few drams' in the staff room cupboard for indulgences on Friday afternoons at 3.30pm.

Perhaps one of these impromptu socials went better than usual, but anyway, those who drank it, soon ran out of sherry. A senior staff member then remembered the Head kept a bottle in his cupboard for entertaining, so he nipped down there and 'borrowed' it.

Clearing up afterwards, it was found that the Head's sherry was almost all gone. Initial worry soon turned to mirth, when cold tea from our huge teapot was added to the original contents. I'm sure the real intention was to do a proper replacement later.

You can guess the rest. Some time early in the next week, the county's Advisor and his guest dropped in for an unannounced visit, intended to catch the school operating normally. In reality, these rarely, if ever, got far beyond the Head's office.

To his credit, the Advisor said nothing when he tasted the 'sherry.' It wasn't until the head drank some of his that the embarrassing truth was revealed. I don't know what the guest's reaction was!

What I find amusing about this recollection, is the fact that sherry was the drink used for this kind of socialising and that drinking was acceptable in school hours. There again, those who remember the period, will also recall the permanent haze of tobacco smoke in every staff room.

Of course, despite this, standards were much higher then! :rotfl:

lady1964

In my place of work, I'm the one who has to compose the emails when there are complaints about missing cutlery, milk stealing & the like.

So far, I've not had to do a 'poo smearing' one but I have had to do a couple about the vile smells people leave behind in the toilets, so bad the person really should be off sick at home. I've also had to do emails about men not aiming properly and also blockages in the gents - although I did recently have to send one about a large blockage in a ladies toilet - we actually had to close that cubicle off.

People are very strange aren't they? You have to wonder if they do this sort of thing at home or just at work? :rotfl:

lushlifesaver

Kildare wrote: »

Gosh - ours in mild by comparison to most of these! A sign went up in the newly refurbed ladies loo "please do not stand on the toilet seats!". Was totally confused until I found out several ladies had been caught standing on the seats (causing them to break) so they could look in the mirror on the wall above the sinks

A few people seem to be suggesting that this is odd behaviour/the mirrors must be placed to high but surely the culprits are just trying to see more of themselves/their outfits in the mirror before leaving the facilities?!

One I am waiting for in our office is about the sugar jar - it's foul how many people don't use a separate, clean teaspoon for sugar when the other has already been in the coffee/their cup and gets coffee/tea in the sugar causing a horrible clumpy foul looking result! I'm tempted to buy sugar cubs and tongs and leave a note! haha

PenguinOfDeath

Ick, I really shouldn't be eating breakfast whilst reading this

My cousin had a phantom poo smearer at their work, this on operates in the gents loos too!

We got an email round once saying the disabled loo was no longer being made available to anyone who didn't truly need it, as the cleaners had gone in to find the scent of weed on more than one occasion :l

In another place they had the common problem of people not cleaning up after themselves in the kitchen, so a manager left a sign next in there asking people not to leave dirty cups in the sink. So of course dirty cups were left next to the sink instead...

Hezzawithkids

After reading post #1 on this thread this immediately sprang to mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2xi7B3mkr0

.. but then the rest of the thread brought back memories of the years when OH & I ran a hygiene business - and yes, we would have been among the "specialist cleaners" brought in to deal with some of the, ahem, issues....:whistle:

Part of our services was the removal & disposal of feminine hygiene waste and boy did I have to go to my "happy place" on the days when it was my turn to do the weekly round. While not examining the contents too closely, it was obvious that many, many people chose to ignore the signs about the sole purpose of the hygiene bins.... but the worst culprits were the customers of a certain fast food chain around the west end of London. Among the 'usual' mis-filed detritus we would frequently note empty alcohol bottles, wallets and purses with cards intact but no cash (for some reason the restaurant staff were reluctant to touch them when we tried to hand them in, we had to "bag" them first), security tags and hangars from new clothing and - most frequently - pregnancy test kits. "Darling, I think I'm pregnant, lets go get a burger and find out". I got through more than my fair allocation of latex gloves on those days.... glad I don't do that for a living any more.