Buttergate.....An internal email.

Pthree

I used to work in hotel and was live-in as were quite a few others. We had a communal laundry room and washing powder etc was supplied free of charge.

Being a rather sensitive soul allergic to everything I used to buy my own.

Got really sick of someone using my fabric softener, asked about everyone , as much as I tried to remember to take it back to my room afterwards, it was a bit of a pain, I asked waiters, cleaners, chefs etc all denied it but after months and months of it being full one day empty the next I got sick and added red food dye to an already pink softener.

2 days later our General manager (on 50K a year) was moaning all his shirts were pink and didn't know why!!

tigershoes99

Ah this thread has given me a good laugh tonight!! :-D

coolcait

Saturnalia wrote: »

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.

Part of the oddness being the apparent certainty that the bristles came from facial hair.
:eek:

Saturnalia

Coolcait! It did cross everyone's mind that they weren't from facial hair, (clearly they weren't as no-one lost any designer stubble during the workday) but we didn't want to dwell on that!

consultant31

pingufan wrote: »

Reminds me of the story I once heard about a student house where someone kept using the butter. They decided it would be a good idea to remove all the butter from the tub, carefully melt it down, poo in the tub, cover with the melted butter and leave to re-set in the fridge.....

You can imagine the feeling as you scraped down so far...:eek:

Ok, I've been sitting here with my upper lip curling in disgust at some of these posts, but this one goes too far _pale__pale_

One good thing, it'll be easy sticking to the diet today :rotfl:

Icey77

Pthree wrote: »

2 days later our General manager (on 50K a year) was moaning all his shirts were pink and didn't know why!!

So did you tell him?

DKLS

We had a global email go round advising that Charging your mobile was acceptable but charging up garden and power tools was not appropriate use of works electricity.

Faith177

I just remembered another one from a previous office I worked at.

Someone sent round an e-mail advising the person who ate the ham sandwich they had left in the fridge to seek urgent medical attention as the sandwich was laced with the owners medication.

For the rest of the day every time someone got up everyone was looking to see where they went

kittendothroar

Slinky wrote: »

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

Eurgh you have unpleasantly reminded my of my ex boss who used to cut his nails at his desk. He was a disgusting pig IMHO anyway.:mad:

gunsandbanjos

kittendothroar wrote: »

Eurgh you have unpleasantly reminded my of my ex boss who used to cut his nails at his desk. He was a disgusting pig IMHO anyway.:mad:

I used to work in a restaurant and every now and then some total grot would cut their nails at a table. Who the hell thinks that's appropriate?! Another bug bear is brushing hair in a restaurant, please don't, it's gross.