Times you've fumed in work

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Don't really like to talk about it, but I recall being particularly upset about a significant disagreement at work with my colleague below:

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Lots before being self employed, had a foreman that used to lose the plot before knowing all the facts but he was of the kind that you could lose the plot in return to put him right and he'd not mind or hold any kind of grudge afterwards, it was the managers above him that were usually the problem and after 1 such 'altercation' he then lost the plot in his office with the manager who had instigated it. Suppose the biggest of these was when a manager came to me and 'had a go' completely in the wrong and under a false assumption and I shouted down the workshop to put my name down for voluntary redundancy which he just replied "Done ... and accepted," foreman went Ape about it and told him he had to withdraw it as he shouldn't have had a go at me & should have gone via him who would've informed him exactly what I was doing. He told me that he didn't want me to go as he had others that were likely to be picked but I told him I was wanting to go but had just been hanging on until the time was right and would've volunteered after any were announced anyway.
Took great pleasure in going home that day & then when going in at the end of the week to get my cards telling the manager exactly what he was when he had a go about me ducking the rest of that week, foreman was peeing himself & tbh the manager (who I'd been at college with) who'd be assigned this task laughed as well & wished me the best.
 
I once worked for an MD who was absolutely clueless, he had zero people skills and was a bean counter by trade. Operationally he didn't have a clue, he was just fixated with managing cost.

As a result he pissed people off, and staff started leaving in their droves. One Monday morning I arrived to find yet another notice letter slid under my door, and I just thought enough. So I went straight to his office told him exactly what I thought of him and his strategy and said he needed to get his head out of his arse and realise he was killing the business. I then got in my car and drove off. I never went back and I'd worked for that company for 15 years in various different roles.

The HR Director came to my house a few days later and I told him the fella was a clueless blert and there was 2 ways this was going end. Either he wrote me a large cheque and I'd sign a compromise agreement or I'd go back whilst I was looking for another job and become a terrorist in the interim. I got my cheque the following week. :)
 

Oh and when I took 5 days off to watch my Mothers life slowly ebb away then the subsequent funeral I came back in to a note saying Sorry for your loss. We've booked your 2 holiday days off as we only offer 3 days for bereavement.

Cheers Blerts. That makes me feel so much better!
 
I worked both part-time and full-time for a leading UK catalogue retailer for five years, first while I was finishing my A-Levels, then in my gap year and then whilst I was at uni.

My major fume was the poor treatment of myself and my colleagues in general - calling us in for eight hour shifts (I used to commute 25 miles) and then sending us home after one hour because of some cock-up or poor sales figures bringing down the hours they could 'spend'. It was shocking. They also used to make us stay for ten to fifteen minutes after shift if we were closing up and didn't pay us for the time - even though we were on minimum wage. This is actually illegal but no matter who I told (including the union), nothing was done.
 

I've never lost it at work, but I've seen a few who have. Although this wasn't over work issue's, a couple of years back we had a fella and his daughter working here. Someone insulted the daughter in front of her dad and he went mental (understandably). and chased this lad around the building, swinging punches and kicking out. The lad was terrified and had to lock himself in a separate office, with the fella trying to break the door down. He eventually got talked down and sent home. It was great entertainment for the rest of us, but both lost their jobs over it.
 
Lune1878 said:
I've never lost it at work, but I've seen a few who have. Although this wasn't over work issue's, a couple of years back we had a fella and his daughter working here. Someone insulted the daughter in front of her dad and he went mental (understandably). and chased this lad around the building, swinging punches and kicking out. The lad was terrified and had to lock himself in a separate office, with the fella trying to break the door down. He eventually got talked down and sent home. It was great entertainment for the rest of us, but both lost their jobs over it.
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I've seen some boss meltdowns in the workplace over the years.

One of the best was 2 lads who went nose to nose after 'banter' crossed the line. One of them just backed off after about a minute and calmly walked off. The other lad thought he'd won the testosterone battle....only the other lad calmly walked back in a minute later, and smashed him round the grid with a piece of 4x2 lol. He was a loon, the same lad once had toothache and pulled out one of his molars with a pair of long nosed pliers.....
 
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I worked both part-time and full-time for a leading UK catalogue retailer for five years, first while I was finishing my A-Levels, then in my gap year and then whilst I was at uni.

My major fume was the poor treatment of myself and my colleagues in general - calling us in for eight hour shifts (I used to commute 25 miles) and then sending us home after one hour because of some cock-up or poor sales figures bringing down the hours they could 'spend'. It was shocking. They also used to make us stay for ten to fifteen minutes after shift if we were closing up and didn't pay us for the time - even though we were on minimum wage. This is actually illegal but no matter who I told (including the union), nothing was done.
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Yep I had the exact same during my supermarket job during uni. Our shift officially ended at 11pm but earliest we ever got away was around 11 20. And didn't get a single extra penny for it. It was great motivation to get my degree and get out of the place tho lol
 

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