Biggest scandal in your workplace (Mod Note in OP)

Hotblack Desiato

James Bond Junior wrote: »

They have to be nominated and elected by parents.

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Never been an election in my kids' school, either.

Hotblack Desiato

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

If the Board of Management wasn't constituted in line with the legal requirements, the Dept Education would certainly act.

hahahahahaah!!!!! :pac:

The Dept of Education taking action against a religious patronage school for running it as a fiefdom of the local cleric!

Wait a minute. You're actually being serious???

Donnielighto wrote: »

Anonymous caller to local radio would have it looked at sharpish.

Yes despite rapidly shrinking advertising revenues, they have teams of Pulitzer prize winning investigative journos on standby.

Just waiting for that vital anonymous tip-off.

I thought this thread was supposed to have some basis in reality?

James Bond Junior

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

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Never been an election in my kids' school, either.

In practice and in my experience, only one male parent and one female parent put themselves forward for election. No other parent wanted to do it so they were automatically placed on the BOM ergo no election. If I had a euro for every time a parent said they weren't notified about something or they didn't get the letter because they didn't read a text/didn't look in their child's bag/diary or their darling never gave them the letter I'd be sitting on a small fortune. Not saying your case is the same. When it comes to BOM issues, there is very little wiggle room, the diocesan offices are watching closely.

Donnielighto

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

hahahahahaah!!!!! :pac:

The Dept of Education taking action against a religious patronage school for running it as a fiefdom of the local cleric!

Wait a minute. You're actually being serious???


Yes despite rapidly shrinking advertising revenues, they have teams of Pulitzer prize winning investigative journos on standby.

Just waiting for that vital anonymous tip-off.

I thought this thread was supposed to have some basis in reality?

I'm being more serious than you are genuine. Once talk like this gets out the dept want it quashed. That puts them on the go, it's bad that youd have to call someone out like that but it doesn't need a whole pile to light a fire for a small issue.

Your tone is disgraceful btw

Professor Genius

Christ could you give us a break from the school/teaching posts???

Hotblack Desiato

And can the tone police return to barracks?

Ted_YNWA

Mod

Can we get back on topic. Start a thread on school Board of Management if you want to continue on it.

Dr. Bre

I preferred the riding in workplaces

mike_cork

Couple of stories from jobs over the years:
(1) Worked with an Argentinean lad in a previous job-He was working late one day on a customer client site in Dublin. Got talking to the cleaner and ended up in the broom closet with her. They dated for a while afterwards
(2) Again, on a customer site- A colleague was staying late. He went to the office of a customer manager to ask a question......and found him and his secretary going at it on his desk
(3) 2 people got caught on cctv on the night shift going into a side room for some action. Both married.....to different people. Both were spoken too but don’t know if they were reprimanded
(4) An ex female colleague in the space of about 18 months was intimate with approx. 6 male colleagues,2 of whom were a lot older and married. It got to the point she got moved into a different job within the company as her direct team just wanted rid. She was a total liability at work events, and would inevitability try to hook up with someone.


Darker stories from work:
(1) Female colleague told people she'd be back in 5 and headed to the bathroom.....Where she attempted suicide. Was thankfully found in time and cut down.
(2) Regular Security guard stopped showing up to work.... Turned out he had been arrested. He had been molesting young kids in his capacity as an underage GAA coach. He was prosecuted, story in the national press etc.

Mango Joe

HorrorScope wrote: »

Another place I worked (call centre), a female scobie wan kenobi got fired for threatening some old fella on a call. She stormed out of building and took a massive **** on the Director of ops car bonnet. When she saw she had an audience, she grabbed some of it and jammed it under his door handles as well

Ah yes....Years of bitter customer experience just shouts out to me that this was Eirs Call Centre......

DrPhilG

mike_cork wrote: »

(4)An ex female colleague in the space of about 18 months was intimate with approx. 6 male colleagues

As in a female who is now an ex colleague, or a colleague who is now an ex female?

mike_cork

DrPhilG wrote: »

As in a female who is now an ex colleague, or a colleague who is now an ex female?

Ex colleague who is a feamle ha ha ha
She was a total disaster after drink

Stevieluvsye

mike_cork wrote: »

Ex colleague who is a feamle ha ha ha
She was a total disaster after drink

I worked with a girl like that many years ago. Cracking little thing riding everything in the office.

Unfortunately my girlfriend at the time happened to work in the same company

MrAbyss

When I was in my early 20s I worked in a huge electronics warehouse and some nifty Sony mini TVs kept going missing. I was called into the office and the boss said 'we know it is you, look, you are a good worker and nice guy. just bring back the TVs or pay for them and it's OK with me." I protested that I had stolen nothing. While I was being interviewed in the bosses office about this, one of the female office staff was in the warehouse and saw the boss's son putting one of the mini TVs into his bag.

Next day the boss apologized profusely and gave me a raise. So a scandal with a happy ending.

14dMoney

A buddy of mine worked in a large retailer during college. 2 floor members were transferred to different stores after a manager caught them riding in the warehouse.

Stevieluvsye

MrAbyss wrote: »

When I was in my early 20s I worked in a huge electronics warehouse and some nifty Sony mini TVs kept going missing. I was called into the office and the boss said 'we know it is you, look, you are a good worker and nice guy. just bring back the TVs or pay for them and it's OK with me." I protested that I had stolen nothing. While I was being interviewed in the bosses office about this, one of the female office staff was in the warehouse and saw the boss's son putting one of the mini TVs into his bag.

Next day the boss apologized profusely and gave me a raise. So a scandal with a happy ending.

Hope it was a large raise as you'd have bee fcuking minted if you'd have sued

MrAbyss

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

Hope it was a large raise as you'd have bee fcuking minted if you'd have sued

I was a young emigrant in the USA at the time and pretty sure workers have no rights there. Well not like here or spending a fortune on a lawyer.

Mango Joe

Portsalon wrote: »

Colleague in work came into tea break late and distressed after a heated phone call with a customer. Without telling anyone, one of her colleagues slipped out of the canteen went to her desk, called the customer back (anonymously as he thought, being a complete technical ignoramus and this having taken place about 20 years ago) and abused and threatened her.

She immediately traced the call and contacted both our Head Office and the gardaí. As the call had been made from the female colleague's phone, she was under suspicion briefly, until the complainant clarified that the abusive caller had been male. Didn't take long to identify the guilty party who was immediately suspended (on full pay, sadly) to universal delight, as he was widely despised. He was later 'persuaded' into taking early retirement - and, thanks be to goodness, his local Union rep. refused to intervene on his behalf. Today, he'd probably have gone on extended sick leave and received counselling.

Well odds are that the Customer created all of the issue regarding this heated conversation & if this was the case and having heard a lot over the years about how so many ignorant and entitled people think its perfectly ok to verbally abuse and upset call centre workers I think this guy should have been given a medal and a €50 voucher.

I used to work in a Call Centre where if the worker was verbally abused 3 times in one customer call then they could hang up..... Jesus like, allow people have a little bit of dignity and self-respect will you?

DrPhilG

MrAbyss wrote: »

So a scandal with a happy ending.

There have been a few "happy endings" in the scandals here in fairness.

Mango Joe

DrPhilG wrote: »

There have been a few "happy endings" in the scandals here in fairness.

Actually I'm too lazy to go look for it...But theres a post somewhere on boards.ie where some fella was going to a load of those asian massage places for over 10 years and just getting a standard back and shoulder massage.

He said in retrospect he'd been innocently and politely declining when hints were thrown at him over the years and for a finish he was just mildly disappointed that he'd unknowingly paid for 500+ handjobs he'd never cashed in

MrAbyss

punisher5112 wrote: »

Phantom sh1tter was a real thing on the buses back in the day....

Male would get on, lift rear seat upstairs open cover under seat area and relieve himself and replace all parts....

It took maintenance a while to dig it out, the smell that is.

Inspectors in the company were fudging working hours done and when they were meant to be in work many of them were off on the golf course.....

Amazing to see they kept their jobs and some have even moved up to management level.

Conductors and their rent money.... They had 2 ticket machines and both weren't company provided....

Others would stick condoms or tights into the money drops and take the cash back out.....

The Phantom ****ter is a universal constant and can happen anywhere. HOWEVER, the most unusual place to date I heard about was someone took a dump on the luggage conveyor at Gatwick in the 90s and while people were anticipating their baggage to arrive when the conveyor started moving, the first thing that came out was a huge turd that came out and navigated the entire course of the conveyor until it came back around again.

blackwhite

A phantom shitter apparantly doing the rounds in the office here.

A few months back, someone left a serious mess in one of the cubicles, with the flush handle broken off the wall. Assumed somebody got caught out by the handle breaking, and was too embarrassed to call the office manager because of what they had left stewing in the bowl. A few buckets of water from the office manager cleared the mess and maintenance company called in to fix the handle.

Office manager just arrived in to me to sign-off a PO for an unscheduled maintenance call-out.
Yesterday evening - same stall, and exact same situation again. Seems like someone's doing it deliberately. :eek:

ldy4mxonucwsq6

blackwhite wrote: »

A phantom shitter apparantly doing the rounds in the office here.

A few months back, someone left a serious mess in one of the cubicles, with the flush handle broken off the wall. Assumed somebody got caught out by the handle breaking, and was too embarrassed to call the office manager because of what they had left stewing in the bowl. A few buckets of water from the office manager cleared the mess and maintenance company called in to fix the handle.

Office manager just arrived in to me to sign-off a PO for an unscheduled maintenance call-out.
Yesterday evening - same stall, and exact same situation again. Seems like someone's doing it deliberately. :eek:

Ah sure that's amateur, our phantom sh*tter used to just take a dump in the middle of the floor, no cubicle required for her.

The mind boggles, but looking at this thread it seems to be a regular thing (or maybe the same person job hopping).

Aglomerado

MrAbyss wrote: »

The Phantom ****ter is a universal constant and can happen anywhere. HOWEVER, the most unusual place to date I heard about was someone took a dump on the luggage conveyor at Gatwick in the 90s and while people were anticipating their baggage to arrive when the conveyor started moving, the first thing that came out was a huge turd that came out and navigated the entire course of the conveyor until it came back around again.

That was Louis Poo-ton luggage, I'll have you know!

Hotblack Desiato

MrAbyss wrote: »

The Phantom ****ter is a universal constant and can happen anywhere. HOWEVER, the most unusual place to date I heard about was someone took a dump on the luggage conveyor at Gatwick in the 90s and while people were anticipating their baggage to arrive when the conveyor started moving, the first thing that came out was a huge turd that came out and navigated the entire course of the conveyor until it came back around again.

Hey, at least nobody claimed it.

AndrewJRenko

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

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Never been an election in my kids' school, either.

What school is this? Have parents been invited to start for election?

pinkyeye

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

What school is this? Have parents been invited to start for election?

Please don't start this one off again. :rolleyes:

Ted_YNWA

Final Reminder:

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Mod

Can we get back on topic. Start a thread on school Board of Management if you want to continue on it.

AndrewJRenko

Portsalon wrote: »

It could also enable the individual concerned to accumulate Class A PRSI credits towards the State Contributory pension.

I thought you had to be working more than 18 hours a week for the PRSI credit to count towards the pension?

pinkyeye

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

I thought you had to be working more than 18 hours a week for the PRSI credit to count towards the pension?

This thread is called biggest scandal in your workplace???

Gael23

A guy got caught using a false name having been convicted of defrauding a former employer.

Hal3000

The biggest scandal in our place was the drama we had with HR to get new carpet in. I work in an extremely boring office.

MrAbyss

The thing is with the Phantom ****ter is that it is almost a paranormal phenomenon at this point. In all the decades it has be going on, as well as so widely reported, that no one has actually caught the Phantom ****ter in the act. It is as if the turds have arrived via some wormhole into another dimension.

ohnonotgmail

MrAbyss wrote: »

The thing is with the Phantom ****ter is that it is almost a paranormal phenomenon at this point. In all the decades it has be going on, as well as so widely reported, that no one has actually caught the Phantom ****ter in the act. It is as if the turds have arrived via some wormhole into another dimension.

clearly The Phantom ****ter refers to a position rather than a particular much like the Dread Pirate Roberts

sabat

Some interesting theories about 'spectral defecators' in this article although, as you'd expect given that it's a relatively new field of study, no definitive conclusion has been established yet:
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19541248/psychology-of-the-serial-pooper/

tritium

Not too much in my career. Most interesting one was a lad (lazy as ****) who it turns out was shagging three different colleagues behind his pregnant girlfriends back at various points, all unbeknownst to each other (suppose he had to do something since he wasn’t doing any work). He was too thick to keep his head down and when it all blew up one of the girls apparently contacted his girlfriend. Very tense office for a while

ldy4mxonucwsq6

tritium wrote: »

Not too much in my career. Most interesting one was a lad (lazy as ****) who it turns out was shagging three different colleagues behind his pregnant girlfriends back at various points, all unbeknownst to each other (suppose he had to do something since he wasn’t doing any work). He was too thick to keep his head down and when it all blew up one of the girls apparently contacted his girlfriend. Very tense office for a while

Ah he might have been just tired from all the action, keeping four women on the go sure there would be no energy left for working!

oleard1987

In my old job we had a manager start with us a few years back ,Came in and wanted big changes the usual
6 months down the line and he suddenly disappeared ,Stories then started to emerge that he had been escorted off the site by senior management but was all kept hush hush

We asked plenty of questions but no one was spilling the beans ,eventually we discovered that he had been running an overtime scam in another company in Limerick and was looking at court and prison time

Sardonicat

MrAbyss wrote: »

It is as if the turds have arrived via some wormhole into another dimension.

Some arsehole in another dimension?

tylercheribini

Miguel Happy Groin wrote: »

Ah he might have been just tired from all the action, keeping four women on the go sure there would be no energy left for working!

Jaysus that is one serious libido, I wouldnt even have four **** a week.

Wayne Jarvis

tritium wrote: »

Not too much in my career. Most interesting one was a lad (lazy as ****) who it turns out was shagging three different colleagues behind his pregnant girlfriends back at various points, all unbeknownst to each other (suppose he had to do something since he wasn’t doing any work). He was too thick to keep his head down and when it all blew up one of the girls apparently contacted his girlfriend. Very tense office for a while

Sounds to me like his head went down plenty as it was.

Ash.J.Williams

Once had contact from the "family police" in India tracking down a missing husband!! The wife was sending photos and baby pics to the "info" and "careers" email addresses too! He told us she was mad but it looked genuine to me!

Feisar

tylercheribini wrote: »

Jaysus that is one serious libido, I wouldnt even have four **** a week.

It's amazing what several bits of strange will do for the libido.

tylercheribini

Feisar wrote: »

It's amazing what several bits of strange will do for the libido.

That's what porn was invented for:D, I think I must have gone too far with it....:rolleyes:

TheW1zard

Guy shat himself

Kimbot

MrAbyss wrote: »

The thing is with the Phantom ****ter is that it is almost a paranormal phenomenon at this point. In all the decades it has be going on, as well as so widely reported, that no one has actually caught the Phantom ****ter in the act. It is as if the turds have arrived via some wormhole into another dimension.

Nope, I caught a phantom ****ter a few years ago

On a tuesday morning every week we used to come into work to find one cubicle door open wide, you go in and the entire bowl was covered all the way up to the edge is the most foul smelling and blackest crap I have ever seen in my life. This went on for a few months and occassionly a few splatters would end up on the wall/floor.
One Monday evening my boss asked me to stay late to deal with a few bits so I did. Just before I left work I went into the toilet and as I walked in the cleaner had just walked out of cubicle 1 with crap on his hands and all. He was a chinese lad who used to go for a few pints of guiness before work everyday...... he left the very next day.

Stevieluvsye

Kimbot wrote: »

Nope, I caught a phantom ****ter a few years ago

On a tuesday morning every week we used to come into work to find one cubicle door open wide, you go in and the entire bowl was covered all the way up to the edge is the most foul smelling and blackest crap I have ever seen in my life. This went on for a few months and occassionly a few splatters would end up on the wall/floor.
One Monday evening my boss asked me to stay late to deal with a few bits so I did. Just before I left work I went into the toilet and as I walked in the cleaner had just walked out of cubicle 1 with crap on his hands and all. He was a chinese lad who used to go for a few pints of guiness before work everyday...... he left the very next day.

Funny that as the phantom shi""er who was caught in our place was a Nigerian lad. I wonder are we just too polite with our toilet habits

Davy05

tylercheribini wrote: »

Jaysus that is one serious libido, I wouldnt even have four **** a week.

tylercheribini

Davy05 wrote: »

Tell me about it, I blame hitting my mid 30's:)

Seth Brundle

tylercheribini wrote: »

Tell me about it, I blame hitting my mid 30's:)

By your mid-30s you should be hitting the mid-thirty mark each week!
You're just not committing yourself to the task at hand - try harder!