Being Reprimanded!!

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When was the last time you were 'given into trouble' and who told you off?

I was chastised for rubbing after-sun on my arms at work last June, one of the managers, a right busy-body type came running up the office in a panic. "What are you doing?" she gasped, "You can't MOISTURISE in the office!! - Put it away! Now! In your bag!"

"Can I rub this in?" I said, indicating the blob on my arm, and she stormed off raging. I now know I should have asked HER to rub it in for me.

I'm still confused by the tube of hand cream on her desk but I think it would be petty to retaliate, especially now, so long after the incident.

Should adults be 'ticked off?'

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Wait--you can't moisturize in the office? What a weird rule.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

This is one of the most inexplicable encounters I have ever read.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Last week. My boss. I deserved it, though.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Did you take your top off or something??? What an odd reaction!

(er, xpost?)

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

I echo ally and dan. WTF? I would've looked her right in the eye and squirted big blobs on my face. (had you taken your top off or something?) xpost

I honestly can't think of when I've been reprimanded? Probably in my last, short-lived job, when I fucked up the paging in some program I'd been scrambling to write.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I was once publicly upbraided by my executive director (this in a company about maybe 35 people) for sending internal e-mails that didn't begin "Dear ---" and end "Sincerely," (or "Regards" or whatever).

This was years ago, but I still love telling the story.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

My boss told me off (quite mildly) for always turning up fifteen minutes late. I do always turn up fifteen minutes late, though.

― chap (chap), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

I was stunned, yeah, that's probably why I didn't give a better retort. I certainly didn't have my top off, it was sleeveless so my arms were perfectly accessible.

Perhaps I was rubbing it on in a suggestive manner? I don't know.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

I had a crazy boss at a bookstore that I worked at who used to get angry about strange stuff, but I think she probably would have been okay with people applying lotion.

I think the last time she got mad at me was when she overheard me tell a new co-worker not to worry too much about keeping the craft section in perfect order because it's always a mess. (Of course I meant because of the customers, who pulled out the knitting and crafting books and spread them all over the place and then put the back willy-nilly... but she was still quite ticked at me).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to start moisturizing every 15 minutes just to see how long it taks for me to get reprimanded.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I got told off by my boss for not coming to him to explain/apologise for missing a sales meeting. I'm not even *in* sales, but I have to go to the damn things anyway.

Of course, when I had a v important meeting arranged with him I needed, be brushed it off (after accepting the meeting time) with "too busy". Pft.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

be=he. Its very late here and I'm so tired.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

We need a poll, everyone moisturise tommorow and report back here as regards office chastisement.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

I once got reprimanded in junior high school for putting on lipstick during Channel 1 once (!!!) because it was "too suggestive and distracting" (!!!!!!!!!) to the perverted weirdo teacher (presumably, no one else seemed to care or mind until he pulled a big deal about it). But nothing like that in my workplace, I'd probably blow up laughing being reprimanded for lotion. What are you supposed to do, just itch to death?

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

x-post -- Tomorrow is Saturday.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'd imagine office chastisement will be minimal seeing as tomorrow's saturday.

xpost

― chap (chap), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh come on people, everyone knows this! Read the small print in your contract: Thou shall not moisterize and lick your computer screen.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Start moisturizing every 15 minutes and see how long it takes for you to get blackheads, Dan!!

Oh.

― C J (C J), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

"This is an essential part of the war against booty flakes!"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Will Dan moisturize himself or others in this great battle?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

If I hadn't creamed myself I'd have shed skin all over the desk.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

If I hadn't creamed myself

ok i can see how that might get a reprimand in an office

― say it with blood diamonds (a_p), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

the train actually DID make me late today, i even gave myself 15 extra minutes, but that excuse apparently sounds very hollow. i'm sorry boss lady.

― bell labs (bell_labs), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'd be like, "Oh like you haven't done it too" and then was like "Oh he doesn't even have to go to an office" and then was like "Goddamnit why am I in an office" and then I was like "I'm going to post all of this."

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Who else here has had an official warning, verbal or (gasp) written? I managed the latter.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Okay Monday is national moisturise untill you get sacked day.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Who else here has had an official warning, verbal or (gasp) written? I managed the latter.

HI DERE.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

"It's a real jungle out there when it comes to choosing a good moisturizer for your face."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I could write a long post on ILX about getting a reprimand, but it turns out the ironing is not all that delicious.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

I've never had a written warning. I have however been sacked without warning.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

My boss told me off (quite mildly) for always turning up fifteen minutes late. I do always turn up fifteen minutes late, though.

cosign. I make it up at the end of the day though!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

i was once called into the manager's office for being consistently late to work - it was a work-term (during university) and i did do a lot of work, so didn't really feel bad about it. arrived on time for a week and then gradually came later and later - the manager never said anything else about it. i have learned no lessons.

haha, xpost

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Our whole department once got written up at my last job but I had minimal to do with it so it wasn't very fair.

xpost oh I'm always late, people give up mentioning it after a while.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

i once got reprimanded for riding my husbands grocery groin while on the clock

― and what (ooo), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Er, okay.

Funny enough, I was just thinking about reprimands recently, because about ten years ago I was shouted at in front of my entire office by the company's first aid dude because I gave a colleague pain killers when he complained of a pain. He had to go to casualty, and they couldn't treat him properly because he had already taken a couple of Nurofen.

This incident has always rankled with me because it was inappropriate of him, and really embarrassing for me. Besides, I just gave the guy painkillers, I didn't actually put them in his mouth and hold his nose. And neither of us had had any training that told us this was the wrong thing to do.

I think that's the last time I ever got in trouble at work. I am such an asset to any organization that my persistent lateness and absenteeism (6 uncertified days in 6 months, bitches!) is mentioned in a half-assed way at my reviews, then put aside again till next time.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Put the fucking lotion in the basket!

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

About a month ago. A co-worker of mine was sick on a big day at work when a huge project was going to the printer. We were nearing getting final approval at like 5pm when all the senior management decided to change the whole thing. I ended up working until like 10pm and getting an extension with the printer until the next morning. They claimed to express the caveat that we must send the approved pages to have plated right then and there, but whatever urgency was expressed was not apparent to me, because we did not send them everything until the next morning when the entire project was approved. They ended up having a big fit and my boss chewed me out about it, even though I had worked my ass off covering for someone else! I totally cried and considered walking out right then and there and never coming back. Yup.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I got in trouble

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

I got reprimanded for moisturizing once! Well, it was because I just started working in an archives, it was incredibly dry, I bust out the moisturizer, and then was given a long story about how the oil can rub off and then ruin the documents of the collection I was processing. I had nasty cracked hands for a year.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

one of my favorite (as in shitty) reprimands was a while back:

Teaching English, reading "Where the Red Fern Grows" with class, principal walks into room and yells, "What are you doing?". I'm thinking, we all have books in front of our faces, what in the hell do you think we're doing? He then proceeded to rip me, in front of my students, for having the nerve to read a novel when we should be doing test prep drills.

so yes I was reprimanded for daring to read in an English class.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Ha - I got wanged for the late thing (& the sick day thing - how DARE I take a SICK day when I can actually WALK UPRIGHT long enough to make it to the bathroom!) (& the browsing internet thing) & did the very same thing rrrrobyn did - kept my nose clean for a few weeks, put it to the grindstone, then started easing off the gas.

However, I just got wanged last week (during my year-end gimme-a-raise appraisal) for what amounts to me respecting my peers too much to not hound them like 7-yr-olds neglecting their Phonics homework. Seems like I'm actually an IT manager w/out any managerial perks OR the ability to do 99% of the IT work that needs to be done - AWESUM. I shd start working on my exit strategy / workman's comp accident now.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, file this under "deserved it."
When I was waitressing at a bar in DC I devised an elaborate method of circumventing their method of employee-theft-proofing, which had to do with carbon duplicates of orders. The only $$ I could pocket was the charge for coffee refills, so I always did that. I got caught when a whole pile of crumpled incriminating paper-trail came out of my apron pocket when I was fishing for change, right in front of the bar owner, a grumpy Lebanese guy. His reaction was scary. Didn't fire me, though. I continued thieving at jobs until I had babies. Then I became a better person.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

That's a strange time to start.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

i once got reprimanded for riding my husbands grocery groin while on the clock

"Grocery groin"? Is that like "carrot crotch" or "broccoli balls"?

― A knife to his wife Eve and his credibility. (goodbra), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Aargh, am I a meme?

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nwkansas.com/home/evan/thumbs/mime.jpg

― A knife to his wife Eve and his credibility. (goodbra), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

A moist meme.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

I was called into a meeting without warning and reprimanded last summer for a variety of things that my insane boss had decided I was crap at. He started reading off his list with, "You don't take criticism well" at which point I burst into tear and pretty much cried throughout the meeting. It was horrible and I think that by doing so, I probably proved him right.

― ENBB (expatrica), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

i was fired once for skipping too much work. i hated the job so much i thanked the guy who did it.

― roger goodell (gear), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

"What are you doing?" she gasped, "You can't MOISTURISE in the office!! - Put it away! Now! In your bag!"

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/photo_02.jpg

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

megalolz

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

I was reprimanded during a summer journalism internship by the newspaper's publisher, for not producing enough local copy. He was completely correct; I was terrified of the job, of having to cold-call people, and it made me realize I wasn't ever going to become a reporter. (I finished my journalism degree over the next two semesters anyway.) It was still upsetting, and made weirder for the fact that my direct supervisor was my new girlfriend, and she rightfully pointed out that the publisher was correct. (EVEN WEIRDER was the fact that she, the managing editor, got the publisher fired for incompetence a couple of months after my internship ended.)

When I left the printing company I worked for in Redding, I encouraged the client I was essentially poaching to go ahead and let them know, before I was gone, that she was keeping her design custom with me instead of them. It seemed like the honorable thing to do. So I had a very uncomfortable final week there, including a "you're not the kind of person that I thought you were, that I'd hoped you were" speech from the general manager. But he didn't really have his heart in it, because he'd known the company was circling the drain anyway. (He had covered payroll a couple of weeks out of his own pocket.)

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

He then proceeded to rip me, in front of my students, for having the nerve to read a novel when we should be doing test prep drills.

We should fix this with more testing. Ms Misery, you do not encourage me to want to be a teacher.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

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