Ages ago I worked for the local council. I’d often find out about people struggling for money through my work and from time to time I’d pop a £20 Asda voucher through their door or an envelope with some cash.
If the management had found out I think they’d have gone mental because it’s a data protection breach getting their address off the systems for a non work purpose.
Long before I had the council job I worked for a bank, they gave me access I wasn’t supposed to have which let me waive overdraft fees, I’d waive them every single time. Wasn’t ever questioned about it but I think management would have been raging.
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Iv reported several of my acquaintances to social services after I witnessed them abuse their own children.
It was the right thing to do, if they ever found out they would set my house on fire
My work do lots of sampling for big brands and if they chose to dispose of the left overs we dispose of them by donating it to food banks anonymously snd if its not donateable we dispose of it using our tummies.
You sound like a lovely person, those were such kind things to do.
One time I had to work in a supermarket call center on Christmas Eve and was so sick of women phoning up to lose their shit their Turkey they ordered for CHRISTMAS EVE wasn’t the perfect big turkey that sold out by December 5th that when some guy phoned up because his Jack Daniels had the security tag still on it I just sent him out a replacement and told him to crack it off with a screwdriver. I was watching its a Wonderful Life on mute with subs how could I not. He was very pleased.
I went to testify in court against the younger brother of a big time local gangster despite everyone telling me I was mad on account of the probable beating I would get from big bro. Luckily he ended up pleading guilty so I didn’t have to testify but I could have been in serious trouble if I had!
Reported my previous job to the HMRC for paying severely below minimum wage.
HMRC told me it was anonymous but then later asked if they could say it was – considering I was still employed there, that was a firm no as Id have been fired on the spot as anyone who stepped a tiny bit out of line was.
There was a zoom call and people who MADE less tha. minimum wage bitched about the whole thing. The company basiclly implemented timesheets and mandatory 48hr max a week. Which we all ended up going over anyway just werent allowed to claim it.
I started working at a call center, I overheard one of the older colleagues talking behind one of the younger girls back, basically calling her retarded among other things. So when we were asked to complete a survey about the company, there was a question along the lines of ‘what advice to you have for management’, I mentioned they should not stand for abuse and disability discrimination. I was called into a meeting the following day, pressured into telling the team leader about it, after telling her I didn’t want to name drop – just that they should keep an eye out for it. She refused and kept badgering me until I gave in and told her who said it, reassuring me they wouldn’t find out who said it.
Long story short, she told the person and I was fired a week later for ‘taking leave during probation’.
This was ONE afternoon I took off because I just found out that morning the house I was meant to move into in 2 days would no longer be possible, so I had no where to live with my cat. I had also just split up with my ex and it was the anniversary of my brothers passing, so I had a terrible day and broke down crying, the same manager said I could go home that day to try and find a place to live. All I have to say is; OneFamily, you’re a terrible company and Courtney is a vindictive little shit! lol. So much happier now at my current role.
I worked for a few months at a place refurbishing mobiles. It was more of a repair facility, where the goal wasn’t to make the phones pristine but to fix the fault. Sometimes I’d see mobiles in really poor condition and grab almost-new cosmetic parts from the spares bin, taken from phones being refurbished to as-new condition to make them look much better.
Back in the heady days of the early 2000’s when people were finding expensive phones desirable and affordable I worked in a phone shop.
For credit checks most customers used to bring their two forms of ID, usually more. So there’d be a bank statement and a utility bill. In a shop in a poor area, you’d get late payment reminders in the sheaf of paperwork. I could tell people couldn’t afford what they’d applied for, even when their credit checks passed you could see from their finances they’d late then default then it’d go to debt collectors… and they’d just have more unpayable debt.
I used to manually fail the credit checks. I didn’t want to feed into the cycle of debt people were in.
Then chip and pin proofs of ID came in, so I quit. I wasn’t going to sell people into debt.
You’re a legend. If everyone was like you the world would be fine
When I worked at a solicitors we used to have people come to collect wills when they planned to manage probate themselves. After checking IDs against executors I was supposed to bill them £40. I used to waive it everytime. They were usually doing it themselves because there wasn’t enough left in the estate to justify probate fees. I doubt the firm ever noticed.
Doesn’t 100% match the OP title, but still something I think about. Elderly man walking down the road as I stepped out of a shop, counting his cash in plain sight of everyone. He had a big wad of it. Must have had terrible eyesight cause he dropped a bunch of it and didn’t even notice. Was about £200 he dropped.
There were a bunch of dodgy looking lads sat on a wall nearby, 6 of them, all looking on in silence and glancing sideways at each other. I jogged across the road and called after the man and helped gather up his money. I was about to walk away but I noticed the hoodlums watching intently and all whispering to one another. Felt like their intentions were to follow the man and mug him, so I told him I’m going up the road as well (white lie, my house was downward) and I walked with him till the lads were well out of sight.
I realised later that was kinda stupid. 6 of them vs. me and some old fella, if they were that intent on mugging him I doubt they’d have let me stop them, but my thought at the time was, I’d feel absolutely terrible if I found out he in fact did get mugged after I’d let him go on his own.
I’ve had someone break the rules for me: Years ago my car broke down and I got it fixed and then called the insurance and was told I need to call them before and they would tell me which garage to go to. I was thinking he was going to reject it but at the last second he said since it’s Christmas he’ll accept the claim.
I used to work in missing/untraced/delayed/anomalous payments for a big utility company. Sometimes we’d get customers sending in post-dated cheques to pay a bill – we were supposed to send them back to the customer with a slightly shitty letter to say we didn’t accept post-dated cheques and to pay up or else. But I used to hide them (sorted in date order) in the top drawer of my desk, put a little blocker on their overdue account so they didn’t get dunning letters, and process the cheques as soon as they came in date.
I work in a kitchen and staff aren’t allowed to take any leftovers home after a shift. I’m not 100% sure on the reason why but I think it’s health and safety related.
I allow my staff and myself to take any leftovers home if they want because it will just end up in the bin otherwise and it seems incredibly wasteful. We all know to be discrete about it and no one’s ever become unwell due to it.
My employer is heavily regulated by ofcom. I used ofcoms whistleblowing service because my employer puts all their manpower into installing service to new customers, and leaves customers who have faults/no service, as a low priority.
I couldn’t care less if someone can’t access social media, Netflix, Spotify, or whatever else. What I care greatly about, is the elderly folk who’s one and only telephone is a good old fashioned landline, and they may not be able to use it to call for help if they need it. The disabled folk that have life saving/improving equipment at home, but it’s dependent on an internet connection to work correctly and their life is possibly at risk.
If my employer found out, I wouldn’t be in trouble per se, but I definitely would have reputational damage and a target on my back.
Another one: In my previous job (large food retailer) we had a heavy storm, the roof leaked, quite badly, right above the area where the fire alarm panel was installed. We had no working fire alarm for around 10 weeks because they were waiting on the facilities manager approving the cost as the whole unit needed replaced, which was very expensive. I borderline harassed facilities regularly after the estimated completion date of 5 days had passed. On the facilities system I chased the job again and added notes (passive aggressivly) that I will be speaking to the local fire service for safety advice on fire prevention in a commercial premises with no fire alarm so that we can be safe until the job was completed… the job was completed two days later. I didn’t have the balls to really do this, but the threat helped.
Not me, but when my sister worked at McDonald’s she’d put in extra nuggets or whatever to people that were really polite
I was a carer, walked in on an old man crying his eyes out. He admitted he had a porn addiction but he had “deleted his porn” eventually worked out it was a pop up he’d left on the screen for over a year. I sorted out his laptop and showed him how to use porn hub an set a shortcut to the honepage on the laptop. It was the only joy he had in life, might as well do it right. Didn’t write it in the notes for obvious reasons.
Worked the Knowhow desk many, many years ago and they wanted you to charge £50 per 30 mins for any sort of tech question.
I couldn’t do it. It was not an affluent area and we’re talking questions like “how do I change the screen size?”, “how do I access the info on the SD card for my dash cam?”. Things that literally took 30 seconds.
Anything that needed diagnostics ran or time spent, sure, but I wasn’t charging people on a limited income for a quick question.
I did get pulled up a couple of times but feigned ignorance.
Except you, Mr “I want a tech *guy*” who refused to talk to me until he asked the dude on customer service and was redirected back to me as “the expert”(I wasn’t but could help with most things). You, I’d charge for everything.
Out on a night out and just got off the train and some poor guy was having a fit on the platform with a few people stood around. During the fit his arm bangs against this guys leg who had been on the train with his girlfriend and got off same as us. This guy kicks the guy having a fit in the head and calls him a “fu*king c*nt” and just walks by with his girlfriend laughing.
A few hours later I spy the pair of them in one of the bars and manage to hook the strap of her handbag around a big display thing on a shelf. As she moves away the whole display tips over and ends up knocking a big tv screen off the wall onto the table of four guys. A huge argument ensues and the two bouncers come over to intervene and head kicker gives it the big man and ends up getting flattened by them all and in a stroke of perfect irony ends up popping his own girlfriend in the eye.
Secretly blew this Whistle at a mental health hospital where they were abusing the patients. Staff were evil and if I got found out…wow…
Considering reporting an ex-friend for benefit fraud? With benefits of around 3K included, she’s raking in about 5K a month nannying cash in hand…
When I left school I worked in a toy shop for a couple of years. I would often see adults stuffing toys into their trousers/jackets around Xmas and I would just ignore it. I watched a man shove a full size Baby Born Doll into his pants. And tbh it’s such a big thing, I admired the audacity so much I just looked the other way.
I work in a food bank, and shadowed staff while I was learning. Without fail, everyone I shadowed told me about the existence of a specific rule, warned me I’d get in trouble for breaking it, and then disregarded it to do the right thing in front of me a second later.
Extra fruit in food parcels for kids, chocolate for a rough sleeper because he needs the sugar, walking out the bags with a single mother even though it’s a safeguarding breach, waiting around half an hour after the food bank officially closed for the guy who was just running home for a bag he could carry his things in, admitting the guy who came five minutes after closing, giving the person at reception a hot drink and a snack because even though they don’t have a voucher for an actual food parcel, they are tired and alone and it’s cold outside.
Every one of those things are some kind of safeguarding or official rule lol. Our boss has to chew out whoever gets caught doing these things but it’s strange because she never misses a trick but somehow always fails to notice these things as long as you’re subtle
Just today reported some coworkers I consider friends to my manager because they said very racist things last week. Including the nword.
I worked at the community value arm of a big company (keeping it broad). They made the smallest organisations jump through such hoops just for the privilege of £250. During COVID I definitely faked a few forms. They were full of real detail but issues were things like our finance team wouldn’t accept things that were handwritten from a group of elderly folk or forms were signed (and had to be signed by pen not digitally) but weren’t on a letterhead, so suddenly a community group had a letterhead I made on canva. I think it’s technically fraud, but it needed to be done.
I used to work in a call centre for a bank and would regularly refund bank charges as “a gesture of goodwill”. I got pulled up on it by one particular manager a few times and would just apologise and then carry on. Some of the customers were charged £25 for going £1 over their overdraft the day before getting paid…one customer went £5 over for a vets bill. It didn’t sit right to stick with the company policy.
I work in children’s mental health services, a majority of referrals we get are not mental health difficulties, but rather neurodivergent children who are undiagnosed/misunderstood/needs not met, for which our CBT interventions just have no/little impact on. We’re not a neurodivergence service, not commissioned to give psycho education about it and some practitioners are even kind of afraid of even talking about it… but I personally will also give as much guidance and support as I can about neurodivergence if I feel it would help.