Buttergate.....An internal email.

unlucky67

I empathise with the butter - I had a slob of a flatmate who used to nick my butter and leave the crumbs in it ...I think it gross! Think Jacket potato with crumbs -eugghhhhh
I didn't use it often and more than once I went to get some and found the empty tub in the fridge...:mad:
But the thing he did that really really made see red - enough to send that email out - was use my toothbrush :eek:
Went to brush my teeth just after he'd been in the bathroom and my brush and none of the others was wet (is there a vomit icon?) - and the air smelt toothpastey -so he had definitely not used it to clean the toilet etc ..which when I confronted him I explained is exactly what I was going to do with it and leave it in the bathroom just before replacing it ...;)

tea_lover

unlucky67 wrote: »

But the thing he did that really really made see red - enough to send that email out - was use my toothbrush :eek:

Ewww!!!!

Reminds me of the time my OH rang me at work as he couldn't remember which toothbrush was his :rotfl:.
This made me laugh a lot... a) how on earth do you forget what your own toothbrush looks like, b) it would hardly have been the end of the world if he'd used his GFs .

blackberry-rum

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:)

Here's an idea we discovered by accident when suffering the same trauma (it costs about 50p for a carton of milk to last the team the day, yet SOME PEOPLE are too tight to pay out, right!??!?) Anyway, we got so sick of it I created an outer wrapper to cover the small milk carton, needed to use some staples somewhere in the creation, all designed to make it easier to steal someone else's, or buy your own. We discovered one culprit when he came to our office to complain that our staple had torn his finger. ha ha poor sod.

Later, just as Woolworths was shutting down, we bought a tiny fridge that was big enough for a carton of milk and a couple of crunchies , kept it behind the office door, and never suffered milk loss again.

Denando

happy2B wrote: »

I used to work for a company that was taken over by a large American firm. Wanting to impose their own dress code, they sent round a memo (pre-email days) stating "Ladies should not wear pants to work."

Heehee. That reminds me of a German colleague who was inducting new starters with me. He told them that, as there was no air conditioning in the office we were moving into, we should all wear knickers.

claire16c

We once had a photo on a piece of paper (luckily in black & white) stuck on the outside loo door, of a very messy toilet instructing whoever had done it, to next time clean up after themselves and a cartoon pic of a toilet brush.

It caused much hilarity but it really was disgusting.

Rosemary7391

tea_lover wrote: »

Ewww!!!!

Reminds me of the time my OH rang me at work as he couldn't remember which toothbrush was his :rotfl:.
This made me laugh a lot... a) how on earth do you forget what your own toothbrush looks like, b) it would hardly have been the end of the world if he'd used his GFs .

My housemate ended up using my toothbrush for about half a term because he thought it was his. I don't know what was worse - that he was using mine at all (I usually left before him, which is why I didn't notice!) or the fact that when I went away for the weekend, he didn't realize 'his' toothbrush was gone until Sunday....

cupboardie

I work in a call centre, there are 5 ladies cubicles and about 40 women use them.

i dread going in there as the ventilation is non-existent and whenever you go it's almost guaranteed to stink. i am so sick of seeing wee stains, poo stains, blood stains, sometimes on the toilet seat itself.

each cubicle has it's own toilet brush for petes sake! there's no excuse for leaving it in that condition and making other people have to see it

newmommyjen

At my old work the managers would but some treats for the staff and pop them on the table. I had brought a pack of 6 bread rolls for my lunch. Had put them away in a canvas bag in a cupboard. Only for some one to help themselves to 2 rolls. I was so not pleased, and went round asking if any one had helped themselves. When i finally found out who it was her reply was "Oh i thought they were for everyone", i wanted to ring her neck. I told her no they were mine, and that she could owe me a chocolate bar to make up for it. She never did. :mad:

I had a thing about having my own mug, as i hate the idea of someone using it. Either not wash it or not wash it well. Ended up locking it up in my locker.

starsandmoon

In my office we got round the milk/butter stealing by acquiring a spare fridge from an office move and putting it in our office. No more stolen milk although our biscuits, when we have some, often go awol.

I bought a mug, crockery and cutlery set from Poundland and keep them in my drawer. Also got a couple of cheap t towels for drying said crockery and keep that on my desk. So petty but people dont respect anything. I found a colleague one day cleaning the wipe board with my t towel which ruinied it and people will "borrow" your bowl and then leave it crusted with old soup for weeks!

We also throw unwashed crockery in the bin and there is regualr fights over cleaning the microwave. I wonder how some people live at home sometimes.

Havnt had poo smearing thank god. Toilets are fairly safe.

John_Pierpoint

Davesnave wrote: »

When I worked in an office it was long before email. Indeed, the Cold War was still very much alive.

One afternoon, an autotyped message came through to the rather dense junior, telling her to deliver the following message to her manager, and no one else.

It read: " The Russians have reached Tooting. Prepare staff for immediate evacuation."

Needless to say, she flipped and shouted the message to the whole office. Some members of staff, who'd probably been tipped off, took the cue immediately and improvised with it, so for a few minutes there was total bedlam.

I was pretty young myself, so although I thought it was all a spoof, I was far too embarrassed to join in.

Here is the map they were using:

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html

Just put Tooting into the search and then scroll down the versions until you get to 1985 and click on the predominately brown coloured thumbnail map.

Perhaps they were hoping Maggie could offer some tips on how to win a war in Afghanistan ?