Topic: Mingebags

[God's Left Peg]

must be a pub somewhere called the Pickford Arms

There should be one called The Horn of Plenty.

[Jake]

Soz I agree with the no-work-birthday club.

Some of my colleagues are c*nts. Well one of them is anyway, I'd rather burn a fiver than put in for her. 

[Lush is the best medicine...]

thats all they are. just dont want to spend their communion money

was just thinking of one there this morning. i used to work in a government ministers office. they all had police driving them around all the time. anyway there was a cabinet reshuffle so the minister was going but one of the drivers knew there was a drink cabinet in the room. once a year we were invited to sample them

so the driver turned up looking to get a few bottles for himself after the minister had been moved to another department (so basically he had no business being there). he had no shame in admitting he just wanted to get a few bottles but he wasnt allowed. i think he turned up twice

the Ministers private sec was getting sick of him so the last day he turned up he was told he couldnt go into the office to raid the booze cabinet because there was a meeting going on and he wasnt allowed in. he hung around for THREE hours waiting for the meeting to end and finally gave up and left. the Private sec told him the meeting was still going on

after he left it turned out there was no meeting going on at all and the Minister wasnt there. Private secretary fooled him just so as he didnt have to give him free booze and he was dead right. was brilliant how he fooled him. he sits there 3 hours waiting for a meeting to end in an office thats actually empty

was it Boris?

[Barneylfc∗]

in keeping with the thread Jordan didnt put his hand in his pocket all night

Because he couldn't reach it?

[Red Viper]

When it comes to work birthdays I'm probably the one everyone else has a bitch about just cos I always forget to put in. When they do collections they tend to just have an envelope on reception or something but because of the set up of our offices I never really need to go past reception. Combine that with the fact I never carry cash and work from home alot and I usually end up forgetting or missing the deadline. Not a mimgebag I swear cos when I do remember I always put in a fiver minimum rather than the £2/3 that's asked for. 

[paulrazor]

only collections we do is for people leaving

or if its for charity

not every birthday though. only stuff like a 40th maybe

[Red Viper]

only collections we do is for people leaving

or if its for charity

not every birthday though. only stuff like a 40th maybe

Yeah we do milestone birthdays, weddings and babies I think.

I've had a wedding, a 30th and a baby since I've been here and got amazing gifts for all of them so I feel extra guilty when I forget to put in. 

[paulrazor]

weddings and babies yeah

i got one helluva collection for my wedding. when the kid was born last year there wasnt one but one or two others didnt get one either. a few people got presents purely out of the goodness of their heart. meant a lot

[WhoHe]

When it comes to work birthdays I'm probably the one everyone else has a bitch about just cos I always forget to put in. When they do collections they tend to just have an envelope on reception or something but because of the set up of our offices I never really need to go past reception. Combine that with the fact I never carry cash and work from home alot and I usually end up forgetting or missing the deadline. Not a mimgebag I swear cos when I do remember I always put in a fiver minimum rather than the £2/3 that's asked for. 

The signals here are not good - classic mingebaggery, deflection then denial.

[Red Viper]

The signals here are not good - classic mingebaggery, deflection then denial.

Ah come on, who carries cash in 2018?

[AlphaDelta]

I made the mistake last year of volunteering to take on the birthday club in work for around 15 people. Fookin norah, trying to get £2 per birthday off people was literally like asking could I pluck their pubes or give up an organ!

It come to a head when I had send a begging email for an extra £2.00 off everyone, one woman who has form for being 'frugal' came over to my desk, insisted on creating an Excel spreadsheet with formula's on why she shouldn't have to pay an extra £2 quid, then when that didn't work, she sent a shitty message and copied in my HEO (senior manager).

The same woman created an issue when our team won a voucher and everyone agreed to use it for pizza, she didn't want pizza and moaned that much that we ended up with a basked of fruit!

Just to be clear on our birthday club, the participants actually agreed to join up, its not begging everyone across the floor, its what they agreed to. Plus, some of the cheeky fookers snake out of it once they've had their own birthdays.

[Mumm-Ra]

Ah come on, who carries cash in 2018?

Not mingebags that's for sure

[Roady]

I’m currently staying (11 of us) in a farmhouse for new year. Anyways we all went the supermarket for a massive shop bbq food and shit load of beer spirits etc. Bill came to 420 Euro. Then someone throws in some cat food. Obviously for their cat as we’re away a few days. No word of a lie they were asked to pay for it separately 😂 it would have been about 30 cent each extra. Then when it came to paying they were arguing over certain foods “I don’t eat this or that so I’m not paying for it” I just lost my fucking rag. I stuck it on my card and told them all to pay me back. Fucking pathetic wankers they all are. I couldn’t believe it. We went to the local bar yesterday. 10 gin and tonics at 3:50 each and someone ordered a whisky and coke which was an extra 50 cents and was told to pay separately to avoid confusion. I bewildered by them I really am. Something I’ll have to get used too though!

[ChaChaMooMoo]

A colleague just dumped into his car, a plastic cover which contains some 8-10 toilet paper rolls.

This isnt mingebaggery. This is somthing else.

[jackh]

A colleague just dumped into his car, a plastic cover which contains some 8-10 toilet paper rolls.

This isnt mingebaggery. This is somthing else.

I don't think I understand this...unless you mean that the colleague has pinched 8-10 toilet rolls from work, to take home...?

[ChaChaMooMoo]

I don't think I understand this...unless you mean that the colleague has pinched 8-10 toilet rolls from work, to take home...?

Thats exactly what he did.

[paulrazor]

Thats exactly what he did.

thats not taking the piss, its shit of him

[ChaChaMooMoo]

Apparently the same guy took home some coffee mugs from the office christmas party two years ago.

How pathetic would it appear to colleagues if he is known amongst the circles as someone who steals coffee mugs and toilet papers?!

How would he command respect amongst his peer group? Where is his level of self respect?!

I dont think it is mingebaggery. Its much much beyond.

[Red Viper]

That's not mingebaggery, it's theft.

[El Lobo]

I dunno if I put it in here, but a lad from work nicked a can of Irn-Bru from the canteen when it was closed on a weekend and got sacked and lost about £12k redundancy

Crazy as fuck to risk your job over a load of bog rolls which would cost like a fiver from your local shop. Definite mingebaggery.

[only6times]

Apparently the same guy took home some coffee mugs from the office christmas party two years ago.

How pathetic would it appear to colleagues if he is known amongst the circles as someone who steals coffee mugs and toilet papers?!

How would he command respect amongst his peer group? Where is his level of self respect?!

I dont think it is mingebaggery. Its much much beyond.

Probably get promoted to Superintendent.

[paulrazor]

I dunno if I put it in here, but a lad from work nicked a can of Irn-Bru from the canteen when it was closed on a weekend and got sacked and lost about £12k redundancy

Crazy as fuck to risk your job over a load of bog rolls which would cost like a fiver from your local shop. Definite mingebaggery.

mingebag yes but thats a severe punishment for stealing a can

bog roll, fucking hell. desperate state of affairs

[Brian Blessed]

Especially if it's your typical shit work toilet paper.

[ChaChaMooMoo]

If people are already pinching your typical shitty 3 ply roll, I doubt a 5 ply strawberry smelling bog roll stands any chance of survival.

There will be 1 roll away from a walking dead scenario for those rolls.

[jackh]

Especially if it's your typical shit work toilet paper.

Ours must have run out of the usual stuff, because what's in there today is more akin to the roller towels you often get instead of paper towels (don't worry, it's not a re-usable )

In fact, whilst I'm at it...

Quilted toilet-tissue.

[CheshireDave]

A colleague just dumped into his car

At least he had plenty of toilet roll to clean up the mess.

[paulrazor]

Especially if it's your typical shit work toilet paper.

yep. some of it is like sand paper

[Broad Spectrum]

At least he had plenty of toilet roll to clean up the mess.

That's how I read it at first 

[Barneylfc∗]

Just been told a story about a woman from work. She's married to a guy with plenty of money, and her salary isn't that low that she needs to do this.

So one of my mates from work sees her at the bus stop rummaging through her bag as the bus pulls up. He assumed she was looking for her ticket. She steps onto the bus still rummaging and says to the driver that she can't find her ticket. The driver tells her she'll have to buy another ticket or to get off. She's fully aware her next bus is in an hour and tells the driver she doesn't bring money to work, so off she gets.
My mate says to her he'll give her a couple of quid for the bus if she's lost her ticket. Her response, "No it's ok, I've £5 in my purse. I do that all the time and the driver normally tells me to go on ahead and get on the bus."

What the fuck.

[Red Viper]

Just been told a story about a woman from work. She's married to a guy with plenty of money, and her salary isn't that low that she needs to do this.

So one of my mates from work sees her at the bus stop rummaging through her bag as the bus pulls up. He assumed she was looking for her ticket. She steps onto the bus still rummaging and says to the driver that she can't find her ticket. The driver tells her she'll have to buy another ticket or to get off. She's fully aware her next bus is in an hour and tells the driver she doesn't bring money to work, so off she gets.
My mate says to her he'll give her a couple of quid for the bus if she's lost her ticket. Her response, "No it's ok, I've £5 in my purse. I do that all the time and the driver normally tells me to go on ahead and get on the bus."

What the fuck.

To be fair she could have took the money off your mate as well. She's clearly an amateur at this mingebag stuff.

[mattybeard]

When I was a teenager working in retail, our shop was over the road from a pub.

My old boss would occasionally go over the road to use the toilet there instead and in the process would put the huge industrial toilet roll in her bag in order to take it home.

I always enjoyed the two-fold mingebag-ness of this in that
a) she won't buy her own toilet roll for home
b) doesn't even bother to take it from her own (national chain) shop as she's dead set on "keeping spends down" for her boss

[ChaChaMooMoo]

When I was a teenager working in retail, our shop was over the road from a pub.

My old boss would occasionally go over the road to use the toilet there instead and in the process would put the huge industrial toilet roll in her bag in order to take it home.

I always enjoyed the two-fold mingebag-ness of this in that
a) she won't buy her own toilet roll for home
b) doesn't even bother to take it from her own (national chain) shop as she's dead set on "keeping spends down" for her boss

To be fair your boss has some business acumen.

Stealing toilet paper from the pub makes them buy more paper from your retail.

Thats exploiting a business opportunity if there ever was one.

[mattybeard]

To be fair your boss has some business acumen.

Stealing toilet paper from the pub makes them buy more paper from your retail.

Thats exploiting a business opportunity if there ever was one.

Oh no, we were a clothes shop! (It was Scotts - are they still around?!)

[Lush is the best medicine...]

Just been told a story about a woman from work. She's married to a guy with plenty of money, and her salary isn't that low that she needs to do this.

So one of my mates from work sees her at the bus stop rummaging through her bag as the bus pulls up. He assumed she was looking for her ticket. She steps onto the bus still rummaging and says to the driver that she can't find her ticket. The driver tells her she'll have to buy another ticket or to get off. She's fully aware her next bus is in an hour and tells the driver she doesn't bring money to work, so off she gets.
My mate says to her he'll give her a couple of quid for the bus if she's lost her ticket. Her response, "No it's ok, I've £5 in my purse. I do that all the time and the driver normally tells me to go on ahead and get on the bus."

What the fuck.

this story explains why they have plenty of money

[killer-heels]

There is a person I know of who told a close family member that he didnt have the money to pay for his father’s funeral. So he got an interest free loan off that close family member which I presume (but am not sure about) that he will pay back.

In actual fact, he did have the money for the funeral but didnt want to take out that much money at once from his savings and lose interest and did not want to get charged interest from a loan from a bank.

[RedSince86]

I love when this thread gets bumped and reading the new accounts of these tight fisted fools.

[Joff]

By far the best thread on RAWK.

I'm not a mingebag by any stretch of the imagination, in fact I would consider myself generous to a fault.
But I have 1 fault. Whenever I stay in a hotel, I always take a roll of toilet paper and any unused coffee/tea from the room.

[I've been a good boy]

Toilet paper I wouldn't take but unused coffee and tea is normal for most people, it's technically ours anyway.

My uncle is a massive mingebag and a gigantic bellend to suit. Whenever we go on a family day out somewhere, the guy NEVER takes his own car and will literally ask everyone for a lift. If there's no spaces available, he simply won't come. Even when we go for a meal out, he doesn't come unless someone is treating. And even then, he orders the most expensive steaks and his sons have two starters. Guarantee if they went out by themselves, they'd just get one dish to share between them all.

[Lush is the best medicine...]

By far the best thread on RAWK.

I'm not a mingebag by any stretch of the imagination, in fact I would consider myself generous to a fault.
But I have 1 fault. Whenever I stay in a hotel, I always take a roll of toilet paper and any unused coffee/tea from the room.

always take the coffee, tea and any toiletries that aren’t nailed down, towels are a no-no though

[paulrazor]

tea and coffee is fair game alright