Buttergate.....An internal email.

Raksha

Notice above the sinks in the ladies - could who ever cleans their teeth in here, PLEASE clean the sink afterwards...

kittendothroar

mwa wrote: »

I once worked in a place that had notes in the ladies' loos asking people to make sure they flushed the contents, it was in the form of a rather gross poem which went along the lines of 'if you leave a log, please flush the bog' LOL classy!!

Lol we used to have one in our staff toilet
'if you sprinkle when you tinkle, please be sweet and wipe the seat' :rotfl:

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I did have to leave a sign though a long time back in the staff room, someone kept stealing my bananas from my pigeon hole, it got really annoying especially on a day I had left my locker key at home and couldn't access my lunch - had to go hours without food! Some cheeky colleague wrote under it that bananaman had stolen them but I eventually found out the culprit was just hungry, I wouldn't have minded as much if she had asked but stealing was just irritating!

unholyangel

One of my colleagues leaves notes around the office which I reply to - however we're friends and I'm one of the few who do actually clean the office - even when its not my mess - so she takes my responses in good humour.

Her latest two (and the replies) were:

"Please wash plates/cutlery in sink after use" which was fine, until she added "& microwave" after plates/cutlery....to which I stuck a notice next to it saying "I tried, but the microwave didnt fit in the sink "

Next was a notice on the board saying "this office is not self cleaning". My response was "what? next you'll be telling me theres no santa claus!!! *cry*"

Stuff goes missing from the cupboards/fridge all the time. Worst was months ago I bought a tub of butter, buttered 2 rolls with it and when I returned to work 2 days later, the entire tub was gone. You could leave £200 sitting and no one would touch it. But leave coffee, butter etc and they don't seem to view it as stealing. What a skewed sense of morality.

Saturnalia

No internal memo involved but otherwise this story fits with the theme:

A couple of years ago I worked often in an office of about 25 people. It had two toilet & sink cubicles, one men's and one women's, at opposite ends of the office.

One afternoon the office gossip was that the women's sink was full of bristles as though a man had had a shave in there. There had been no visitors, no-one had seen a man go in the women's loo, there were no hairy ladies in the office and none of the men had less face fuzz than they had arrived with.

There was a stubbly sink about once a week for 3 months then it stopped happening as suddenly as it had started! Just to add an extra level of oddness.

zaxdog

I used to work in local government and we had a colleague who:

1. used the fridge/freezer/cupboards for her food so that she saved electricity at home

2. saved her empty cans/packets for recycling in the staff kitchen in an old cardboard box

3. waxed her "lady area" in the GENTS toilets :eek:

4. sat with her bare feet on the desk redressing an injured foot

We tried e-mails, personal chats etc and nothing worked, in fact she complained about being bullied!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some folk just don't understand acceptable boundrfies :rotfl:

yvonne13_2

Davesnave wrote: »

Perhaps it wasn't, er, in the bag at that time? :eek:

Oh crumbs I've only just click on to where it could have been, tee hee

yvonne13_2

unholyangel wrote: »

Stuff goes missing from the cupboards/fridge all the time. Worst was months ago I bought a tub of butter, buttered 2 rolls with it and when I returned to work 2 days later, the entire tub was gone. You could leave £200 sitting and no one would touch it. But leave coffee, butter etc and they don't seem to view it as stealing. What a skewed sense of morality.

That's true I've forgotten my purse and phone a few times on my desk at work and no-one touches them, but if I blink my pen goes missing and no-one owns up. tee hee :rotfl:

trinity_enigma

No e-mail but it sort of fits the theme- when I was in halls at uni I got so sick of people stealing my tomato ketchup out of my cupboard (almost an entire bottle went over one weekend) that I decided to add a few additions to the bottle to teach whoever it was a lesson- plenty of salt and washing-up liquid. I heard on the grapevine that whoever was stealing it threw up the next time they used it which served them right!

We also had someone in our halls who bought an octopus/squid from a fishmonger for a photo shoot of some kind and then left it outside the fire exit on somebody else's baking tray for weeks- it absolutely stank and she refused to own up to it even though everybody knew it was her.

unholyangel

yvonne13 wrote: »

That's true I've forgotten my purse and phone a few times on my desk at work and no-one touches them, but if I blink my pen goes missing and no-one owns up. tee hee :rotfl:

And I bet it wouldn't ever cross the culprits minds that they're a thief! Probably think they're a nice, honest, trustworthy person.

On one hand its just butter/milk/bread/whatever but on the other.....its still theft and also incredibly annoying paying £3 for a wee bit of butter or having to go without any food as some greedy !!!!!!! has eaten yours.

If I was a meaner person I'd have gotten the liquid laxatives out by now

Slinky

I've just remembered the colleague who used to sit in the office flossing her teeth at lunchtime...