What’s your “WhatsApp group drama” story?

Posted by steelicarus@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 202 comments

We’ve had a daily gym check-in WhatsApp group running since lockdown, this week one of the lads posted a post gym pic in his boxers and used a carefully placed emoji to hide his junk, for some reason this caused three lads to go off and leave the group despite having posted the same or worse in the past. I’ve heard of the lady who posted her own private parts in the kids parents football WhatsApp and wasn’t able to delete it…what’s yours?

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RichRaspberry4527@reddit

friends family group chat for a christmas party, after everyone left we was cleaning up and an uncle made a christmas cake and left it there assuming someone would eat it but all of us left didnt want it so we just threw it away instead of taking it home where it would probably end up in the bin anyway, couple days later he asks in the groupchat about his cake, so someone replied honestly and said oh we had to throw it as no one ate it but we kept the decorations and plate😅he went absolutely mental saying well if none of you ungrateful fuckers wanted it, i wouldve taken it home but he left without even saying goodbye 😂was so awkward to just watch it happen in a group chat, my friend said he 'd make comments at birthdays after, nice cake and oh bet this wouldnt go in the bin anyway

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miklovesrum@reddit

To be fair I understand the guy, why would you throw away a perfectly good cake 😭

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RichRaspberry4527@reddit

everyone's family is different 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Sufficient_Suit_4788@reddit

Lol. Very true. Sometimes you just can't escape the drama

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buttonrocketwendy@reddit

Yeah to be fair I'd be a bit hurt if I spent time and effort making something for it to be thrown in the bin, no one even sending me a text asking if I want it back

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Unlikely-Shock297@reddit

Why not just lie and say it was nice? Bit thick.

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RichRaspberry4527@reddit

dont ask me 😂 i wasnt the one that said it was thrown away, and by saying it was nice, what if he then made one on another occasion that then didn't get eaten? would just be a waste, no point giving him false hope

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IPoisonedThePizza@reddit

Not a WA group but during a Teams call with Senior Management, an unlucky sod with the microphone unmuted decided to say "Oh fuckoff" to the CEO as he finished to say some idiotic crap. This caused an awkward minute of silence. I was with no camera and no mic (like any sane person should) and was crying with laughter. No one addressed this during the meeting, which made it even funnier. Different Teams call, different CEO hyped hard some new benefits (was hyping them for a good couple of months with sharing no actual details) to then cut the call instead of actually telling the benefits. Call finishes. Overall reactions and comments in the chat "These are your new benefits: Back to you Tom Tucker"

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HoraceorDoris@reddit

I had a teams call where the call instigators husband ran naked behind her to go to the en-suite she was in front of. She was mortified and shouted l’m in a call, so he stopped behind her to apologise- with his knob at face height! Also, had a call where someone was presenting his screen and lying to us. We knew because he had a Skype chat that kept popping up! Very awkward…

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citrineskye@reddit

I work in a big company that is across several countries. About 2 weeks ago, there was a big conference that invited all of the staff. When the big boss got to the end, he asked if there was any questions and one woman piped up asking 'When are you going to start paying me a fair wage?', the guy said 'As I've told you before, Sue, we are paying you a competitive wage...' Sue (whoever she is) was not having it, she went on a massive rant about how the whole system would collapse without her work (she books meetings, I found out later). She was livid! People kept trying to interrupt her and she just shouted louder and louder. It was awkward as fuck, but also entertaining.

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michellefiver@reddit

Props to Sue, it's hard out here

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citrineskye@reddit

Totally! I admire her (metaphorical, as far as I'm aware) balls! She does a low paid job that IS essential to the rest of the company working efficiently. I hope she gets a raise purely for her tenacity to speak out. Maybe we should all be a little more Sue.

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Downtown-Monk-2082@reddit

I was on a Teams call a few months back when my grocery delivery turned up early. I apologised profusely to those in the meeting, explaining I’d scheduled it for the end of the day but it was early and we were on an overrunning, late afternoon call. I said I would drop off but be back in 2 minutes as soon as I’d taken the delivery. I had no headphones at the time so was using the microphone and speakers in the laptop. I thought I’d muted myself but turns out I hadn’t. Everyone on the call heard me telling one of my dogs - he’s 60kg and was stood on the couch with his front paws leaning on the back of the couch trying to have a nosey out the front door at the delivery driver. All they heard was “Get down right now and go and lie down. No! Stop fuck arsing around or I’ll smack your bottom, naughty boy! Right now!” When I rejoined the call, they were laughing their heads off and one of the VPs even asked if it had been one of my dogs I had been telling off or the Sainsbury’s driver!! Needless to say I now triple check I’m definitely on mute when I need to be!!

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IPoisonedThePizza@reddit

Spay my coffee

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SongsAboutGhosts@reddit

If we're talking teams calls, my old boss had a full on argument unmuted with her husband during a departmental call. It's was beautiful.

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locking_out@reddit

My wife came into a teams call while I was on mic and on camera to show me our son had done a wee on the potty. Thankfully everyone else found it hilarious

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IPoisonedThePizza@reddit

I did the same but with a washing machine repair company. My team loved it too

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HerbTP@reddit

My sister ran behind me, flipped off the people on the camera, and ran away when I was in a team meeting. She was 32 at the time.

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IPoisonedThePizza@reddit

Queen lol

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Western-Edge-965@reddit

The amount of teams gaffs ive seen are insane. I was in a 100 + call for a monthly briefing and someone took their laptop into the loo with their camera on!

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Blackmore_Vale@reddit

Didn’t have any teams drama. Although my dog decided to jump up to try and play fight me during our weekly management teams call. Which everyone thought was hilarious

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pm_me_your_amphibian@reddit

Early on in lockdown (apparently before some people had got to grips with how computers work) someone went for a piss on an All Hands with ~150 people and forgot to mute their mic. The facilitator elegantly handled it with “I think someone has some water running, could they go on mute”

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some_learner@reddit

Oh god, I was present for something like this, the person had just left their bathroom door open. They must have just had a sensitive mic. It just seemed to go on and on like the neverending pee.

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some_learner@reddit

Once someone forgot he was sharing his screen with me and started playing logic puzzles during my presentation 😬

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RummazKnowsBest@reddit

Someone dropped an almighty burp on a large work call. Nobody addressed it. It was being recorded so after the call a couple of us went back to double check. The PA for the big boss had his camera on at the time and his facial reaction was great.

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Bug_Parking@reddit

My OH works for one of the big retailers in their tech function. On one of the bigger calls, mid presentation some attendee let loose a rough burp. Then about 10 seconds later then ventured further into letting rip with a violent Barney Gumble belch. Call was recorded, so got to have a watch back, with the horrified reactions of other people captured.

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Makkel@reddit

I had exactly the same situation as your first one. I was sitting in a room with my UK colleagues, and the US C-suite were speaking about the company or whatever with several people on zoom. At some point someone said something to the same effect (I think it was along the line "oh will you shut the fuck up") folowed by a heavy silence and exchanged side glances in the room. In a different company, I also remember a company-wide all-hands call type thing, directors speaking about results and figures and whatnot, and sudenly we could all hear a big noisy yawn. But I think in this case the speaker acknowledged it, saying something like "sorry I won't be much longer" with a smile.

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kirkmerrington@reddit

We had a spate of robberies around our estate. Some guys going around and trying car door handles, and taking whatever was inside. People leaving laptops and expensive bags in their cars overnight, that sort of thing. A few blokes quickly decided that this wasn't on, and decided to form a vigilante group, where they'd sign up for shifts to patrol the estate during the night with baseball bats. I pointed out that while I wasn't happy about the robberies, I also wasn't happy with the idea that I might be mistaken for a criminal when leaving for nightshift and get bonked on the head by Mr Numpty and his mates. I was able to screenshot a couple of earlier comments from these guys about how much they'd "love to get their hands" on a thief, and showing off the various weapons they'd carry that sort of made my point for me that they were more about violence than any help. Started a long argument about how they were only looking out for everyone, and I was being ridiculous, and, my favourite bit, when I was accused of being a "posh twat" because all my words were spelled correctly. The rest of the group turned against them when they started asking for a small weekly charge from people who wanted their property protecting. Went very quiet after that.

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Samwrc93@reddit

Carrying something in public with the intention of using it as a weapon is illegal and could land you in prison. So if they did catch the robbers and beat them up it’s more likely the vigilantes will end up in prison!

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anotherMrLizard@reddit

I suspect that the venn diagram of people doing robberies and the self-appointed vigilantes might not be two completely separate circles.

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pajamakitten@reddit

It is a great excuse for being out at 2am and inspecting cars.

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lipsthefish@reddit

Do we live in the same place? Exact same thing happened in my village.

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ProfCupcake@reddit

Conspiracy theory: the thief/thieves were the same people. They were trying to make a market for their protection racket.

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kirkmerrington@reddit

Distinctly possible!

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FairlyDeterminedFM@reddit

That last bit about paying for protection sounds very much like an extortion racket.

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kirkmerrington@reddit

Oh yes. The requests for a payment came very swiftly on the heels of the "patrols" starting. Almost as if it was the point from the start.

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Majestic_Matt_459@reddit

Im not sure it counts but it was drama for me I had a Plasterer quote me £350 for some work - then he came and it was £500 - that's cutting a long story short Im in a whatsapp group with some mates - Im a bloke and we are all gay - so after the Plasterer left I posted in the group "Just got rinsed by the Plasterer - but he was just out of prison - as fit as f\*&% - so I chatted to him for 5 minutes and got a good eyeful/moneys worth for the w@\~& bank" Except - I didn't send it to my mates - I sent it to the Plasterer A few minutes go by and none of them respond which is unusual so I look to check and realise what I've done Luckily, the tick is not blue so he's not read it so I deleted it 5 minutes later he WhatsApps me "Did you message me mate?" "Yeah - wrong number mate - sorry" Phew

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phatboi23@reddit

you lucky bastard haha

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Majestic_Matt_459@reddit

I know lol :)

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ClarifyingMe@reddit

I turned off reading receipts so you won't get a blue tick when I read messages.

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InevitableFox81194@reddit

Holy crap 🤣🤣🤣 that's a quick save..

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Majestic_Matt_459@reddit

lol I was very lucky

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InevitableFox81194@reddit

Very.. was he worth the uh, what did you call it? "Wank bank" material?

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Majestic_Matt_459@reddit

Yes tbh - He was pretty good looking but that might be an exaggeration as he was in the typical workman/tradie outfit and that's I big plus for me

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InevitableFox81194@reddit

Ooh so its like beer goggles.. put a man in a certain get up and instantly weak at the knees.. i totally get you..

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Majestic_Matt_459@reddit

Yes definitely :)

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InevitableFox81194@reddit

See us women and gay men have a lot more in common than we think..

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Majestic_Matt_459@reddit

lol and those straight men don’t have a clue :) Well apart from a few who bloody play on it :)

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InevitableFox81194@reddit

And they can be the worst.. wanting their cake and to eat.. cheeky bloody things..😆

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Majestic_Matt_459@reddit

😆

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Majestic_Matt_459@reddit

Not £500 worth though lol

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steelicarus@reddit (OP)

Holy shit!

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takeawayforteaagain@reddit

During the COVID lockdowns, the lady who ran the corner shop at the end of the road would post stock updates for useful items. First it was 4 packs of toilet roll for £5.99 and then it was the small pocket sized hand sanitisers that she was selling for £7.59 each. Followed by more random and useful items for inflated prices. Someone called her out for price gouging, she replied about it being a free market and it's all about supply and demand, if we didn't like it, then we didn't have to buy it. So people stopped using the shop for anything, even papers and sweets etc. After a few weeks she went on a long rant about how people didn't appreciate her, how important she was 'as a keyworker' and they'd all regret it and come crawling back to the shop eventually. The shop then got burgled one day and all of the stock stolen and the place smashed up, she blamed the local residents for it, saying there was a victimisation and hate campaign against her. The problem was, she was caught on a neighbour's ring doorbell loading the stock into the back of her van and then walking back into the shop with a cricket bat at about 3am one day. Funnily enough we didn't hear much from her after that and the shop is owned by someone else now.

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phatboi23@reddit

> > > > > First it was 4 packs of toilet roll for £5.99 and then it was the small pocket sized hand sanitisers that she was selling for £7.59 each. local shop round here tried that. they were gone by the end of 2020.

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InevitableFox81194@reddit

Holy shit price gouging and insurance fraud.

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Laescha@reddit

A labour councillor accidentally forwarded porn to the group chat of the local mums against knife crime group, then claimed that someone else sent it to him and he accidentally forwarded it whilst trying to find a way to delete it.

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cragglerock93@reddit

The picture was just resting in my files.

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farmpatrol@reddit

r/unexpectedfrted

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Scooberto45@reddit

Careful now

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Eoin_McLove@reddit

I’ve no willy.

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ThrowRAblank92@reddit

You're Eoin\_McLove, you can do what you like!

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Eoin_McLove@reddit

I can have you killed!

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Officer_Cat_Fancy_@reddit

WHATSAPP IRREGULARITIES

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willington123@reddit

On my neighbourhood watch group, a chap would post a photo whenever he saw a ‘suspicious person’ on our road. Someone else in the group posted that all his photos of these ‘suspicious’ people were almost always non-white. Cue a major falling out, the guy that posted the photos then tried to sue this neighbour for defamation, all of which played out nicely in front of our group and neighbours.

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Keios80@reddit

I had a neighbour tell me about reports of a suspicious looking Asian man in a hoodie looking into gardens, probably looking for items to steal, that had been reported on a neighbourhood watch WhatsApp group. I asked when these reports had been made. I then told her not to worry, as it was just me looking in gardens to see if I could spot the hedgehog I could hear.

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Paamparaam@reddit

Hedgehogs are surprisingly noisy, aren’t they? Like little steam trains. Sorry you have a shitty neighbour.

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AhoyWilliam@reddit

During lockdown we put a tent up in the back garden for what turned out to be *months*. When we took the tent down at the end of summer, we found a hedgehog curled up between the inner and outer layers, and that explained the nocturnal snuffling that we hadn't figured out beforehand. It was fine though the cats were perplexed.

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simmyawardwinner@reddit

one night my cat wouldnt come in from the garden last summer, and i realised he was sitting in the bushes, next to a little hedgehog. i like to think they made friends

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Captainsandvirgins@reddit

You are responsible for the fact that I've just spent 15 mins listening to hedgehog noises on youtube.

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some_learner@reddit

During lockdown I could hear this curious grunting coming from under my open bedroom window, I thought it was my degenerate neighbour but it turned out to be a hedgehog.

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Plastic-Count7642@reddit

We have one of those in our neighbourhood GC. Only, she thinks all the black men she sees around are the same person. No proof whatsoever, just spouts that "she saw the same guy at *insert random time or random date*".

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DoKtor2quid@reddit

This would be laughable were it not for the fact that there is indeed only *one black man* in the whole of the UK, and she is to be commended for her enthusiasm in following and applauding his exploits. Bravo, Marjorie.

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Plastic-Count7642@reddit

🤣 she's not even Marjorie old, she's Gen Z

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pajamakitten@reddit

Old names have been making a come back though.

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fishercrow@reddit

he’s a *very* fast walker.

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pinkthreadedwrist@reddit

He must have a busy schedule.

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EustaceBicycleKick@reddit

I would have loved to watch this unfold in real time.

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SerendipitousCrow@reddit

I used to work at the main reception of a small hospital. We had a pretty ignorant ward clerk who once rang me to report she saw some Asian men in the carpark. She didn't like that I wouldn't patch her through to security because she couldn't actually describe anything they were doing wrong

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riotlady@reddit

Someone sent a nude to our book club chat, she deleted it fairly quickly but hasn’t been to book club since 😂

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AdditionalDonut8706@reddit

Presumably intended for boob club.

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mr_michael_h@reddit

So, uh, how do I join the boob club?

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citrineskye@reddit

Get tits?

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InternetProviderings@reddit

I can join this! M44.

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mr_michael_h@reddit

Maybe we should set up a moob club

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upadownpipe@reddit

You don't talk bout boob club.

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yawning__pelican@reddit

Our village WhatsApp group popped off a couple of years ago. One of the more, uh, ‘interesting characters’ went on a rant about a severely disabled man who was kicking cars at the time of the school run. Fair enough. HOWEVER, said neighbour went on to say that “We shouldn’t have to live in the same society as them and they should all be euthanised.” Someone in the chat reported them and they had to go to court. This divided village opinion as some people think “you shouldn’t go to the police about your neighbours.” Thing is, no one did go to the police. Stupid, ranting neighbour forgot that the local community support officer was in the group chat and they reached out to the community to see if anyone wanted to report the neighbour. Regardless, I think if your neighbour is an ableist twat, you absolutely should report it. Sweet, sweet justice imo.

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KeyLog256@reddit

If it helps, and I'm surprised the PCSO didn't know this, that isn't an offence. A horrible and reprehensible thing to say, but not illegal. "I think they should all be euthanised" is just a horrible nasty opinion. "I am going to euthanise as many as I can and I encourage you to join me" is illegal as it is threatening and inciting violence. The best course of action would have been to simply block them from the chat.

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Psychological_Pen200@reddit

So this guy had to go to court for a what’s app message ?? I don’t agree with what he said at all but I think it’s disgusting he was arrested or had to appear in court for a message like that …..Britains getting a lot like easy Germany

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Far-Register-3617@reddit

Thank you! It's absurd that someone is reported to the police and taken to court for saying something they said, however disgusting or offensive it might be.

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sshiverandshake@reddit

Agreed. What they said was totally unacceptable but equally, the CPS and our criminal courts are massively overburdened. This could've been dispensed with via a caution or a FPN and fine.

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Psychological_Pen200@reddit

I don’t know the guy he probably is a complete idiot by the sound of it but he shouldn’t of had to go to court it seems ridiculous for such a trivial thing it really is stupid maybe a telling off by the local police officer but going to court is ridiculous.

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butwhatsmyname@reddit

It bothers me when people get into "You shouldn't report your neighbours to the police" as if that's breaking the social contract, harming the community. My stance is that _doing something which the police would want to investigate_ is breaking the social contract. That's what harms the community - and when a communist accepts that it slowly degrades. Someone reporting that is just the consequence of that break, that harm. I'm going to say that I consider stuff which harms nobody - like smoking a bit of weed - would be a different matter in my own personal universe of right and wrong. Unless you've got shady fuckers flocking to your home, or the smell is constant and overwhelming. But I'm strongly of a mind that if an individual's behaviour causes damage, fear, disruption or pain to their neighbours, they are the person who has stepped out of line. The "one of us" attitude, the "we protect our own" causes so much fucking harm. It's how abusers and paedophiles get to operate in comfort, undisturbed - because "they're family and family sticks together" or because "they're respected in this community and we don't speak badly of each other"

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pajamakitten@reddit

> It bothers me when people get into "You shouldn't report your neighbours to the police" as if that's breaking the social contract, harming the community. They act as if society is one large gang and that snitches get stitches.

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kyridwen@reddit

[The paradox of tolerance](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance) - a tolerant society must not tolerate intolerant behaviour, lest it become an intolerant society.

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SteamerTheBeemer@reddit

Yeah, I was gonna say, with something like weed, that would be the sort of thing where I wouldn’t report it, despite it being something the police.. well actually, I don’t even think the police really do *want* to investigate something like that. But yeah, that’s one of the only exceptions I can think of.

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butwhatsmyname@reddit

Yeah I'm with you on that. I'm not bothered about the couple next door having an annual Friday night party which goes on till 1am. People should be allowed to enjoy themselves a bit. But if it was every week, or 4am on a weekday on the regular then I'd be less amused. I think a part of it for me is about how the "live and let live" piece is often only applied to "people like us". I used to have elderly neighbours who would complain about how the kids (in a black family) over the road are making such a racket all day long at the weekend... but had no problem with the white kids next door being the same. The black family were always perfectly nice, there was no animosity or antisocial behaviour there. For the "people like us" it was "kids will be kids" but for outsiders, any unfavourable behaviour was seen as almost an attack on the neighborhood. The elderly neighbours never said anything overtly racist, certainly never anything hateful, I don't even think they would have realised that they _were_ being racist. But I think they assumed that because I am also white that I would automatically agree - to them I was "people like us". It was very fucking uncomfortable and I don't like it at all.

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JesusofNazareth_@reddit

Yes and no. What you say makes sense in a (relatively) just, peaceful, functional society. But tight community, keeping quiet with the law, distrusting authority is all very valid when society _does_ start collapsing. Look at America. It'll be a reckoning for them in how the average townspeople react to abuse of authority. When a corrupt police or army comes for the minorities and political opponents, you want your community to give them a cold shoulder. Not necessarily saying that'll happen to us, but it's worth remembering.

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MrBenzedrine@reddit

Our local facebook always has someone saying "I'm not a rat, I don't speak to the cops" They're sat at home drinking Frosty Jacks at 11am fantasising that they're Pauly Walnuts

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yawning__pelican@reddit

Completely agree. And in the case above, if you don’t stamp out this kinda behaviour, if only escalates. Just because you see your neighbours more in a smaller community doesn’t give them a passes to be pricks.

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Gullflyinghigh@reddit

>This divided village opinion as some people think “you shouldn’t go to the police about your neighbours.” Neighbours shouldn't do something cunty then should they, simple as that really

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SteamerTheBeemer@reddit

I suppose ableist is the right word, but it just doesn’t feel like it’s strong enough for a guy advocating for eugenics. Absolutely right to report that.

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TableSignificant341@reddit

> and they should all be euthanised.” TAF is wrong with people?!? Wild too that they felt comfortable enough to type that out and push send.

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Cumulus-Crafts@reddit

Worked at Starbucks, and there was a WhatsApp group for work issues. One day, the store manager puts in a photo of two wild mice in the food storage area, with the caption 'Mickey and Minnie lol' and never made any moves to call for an exterminator. So, I anonymously reported this location to the council, with the photos, who sent out a health inspector the next day to check for mice. I very gladly showed the health inspector to my store manager. Store manager that night put a VERY angry text in the gc, telling whoever it was to 'own up to calling the health inspector on us'. I didn't come forwards. I only told her when I handed in my two weeks' notice. She was pretty taken aback, and then forced herself to smile and said "Thank you for calling the health inspector, I wanted to get an exterminator out sooner but the regional manager wouldn't let me, so getting the council in helped me springboard it." Aye, right. Like the RM is gonna stop you from bringing in an exterminator when the food area has mice crawling through it. The last text in the GC before I was kicked out of it was the store manager selling a load of cigarettes that her husband had brought back from Turkey. Very professional.

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Icy_Obligation4293@reddit

The mouse thing is obviously disgusting but what's the issue with someone asking if anybody wants cheap fags? You'd hate to see the group chat for my cafe in that case, we're always doing favours for one another.

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SWITMCO@reddit

They're using a work group chat to peddle black market goods? Don't get me wrong, I always tried to get my baccy from someone who had been on holiday, but I would never use a work group chat to trade. *Especially* as a manager from a large company like Starbucks. It's unprofessional and asking to be sacked.

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Icy_Obligation4293@reddit

Starbucks might be a large company but at the end of the day the staff are just a group of people working in a local cafe. "Work" group chats, while mostly sticking to basic work things, can be pretty damn informal depending on the group, especially in contexts like cafes, bars, restaurants, etc. Obviously the manager felt comfortable enough with rest of the group to have such an informal chat. The only way she would get disciplined (not sacked) is if some jobsworth below her decided to go over her head and leak the chat.

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lumpyspacequeen2@reddit

Not always, but often cigarettes that are from abroad often are way more dodgy (some don't self-extinguish) and if you're caught with them, they can seized. Corner shops can get prosecuted for selling them.

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LauraPa1mer@reddit

Wtf? More dodgy cigarettes from abroad?

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Icy_Obligation4293@reddit

I've never had a UK cigarette that self-extinguishes; that's more of a feature of rolling tobacco. Also, we know cheap fags can be a bit dodgy but it's also not that uncommon among the lower working classes (like, say, baristas) to buy a box of cheap fags from their mate who just got back from Turkey. Just struck me as an odd ending to a legit issue with not reporting pests.

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yobojangles@reddit

Ooh we’ve had plenty. On our new build estate we’ve had drama from people threatening other peoples cats to someone threatening to drive through someone’s wall for mildly irritating them (delightful bunch of folk). But my absolute favourite has to be the workplace drama… personal highlights being back in the days of conference calls when there was a 7am stand up call each morning to debrief on the overnight activities and somebody had forgotten to mute themselves and started having sex, noisily broadcasting it to the 30 other people on the call. Or the guy who recently posted an open letter of no confidence in the CEO on workplace (the corporate version of Facebook). Excellent opportunities to sit back and get the popcorn out.

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3mogs@reddit

I used to work for 999. It's surprising how many people butt dial 999 during sex. And if they were being particularly vocal, we'd have to put it through to police as we couldn't be sure it wasn't someone in distress.

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oli_ramsay@reddit

Lol "you made me so angry I'm going to drive 100mph into a brick wall"

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pm_me_your_amphibian@reddit

That open letter on workplace is glorious work

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screamfish56@reddit

I worked for a printer manufacturer in the tech support department and came into work one morning to find hundreds of printouts sitting on the printer tray of the porn website someone was browsing. He must have pressed print by accident. Never did find out who that was either.

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Eoin_McLove@reddit

We once had someone leave a voicemail of them having really loud sex. Presumably they called in sick and didn’t hang up, or somehow accidentally called without realising. We never worked out who it was.

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Kitchen_Owl_8518@reddit

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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tawohlebanna@reddit

The groupchat I was in with some old housemates got pretty heated when the guy who was in charge of the wifi blocked one of the girls from using it because she wasn’t sending him her share of the bill every month. She absolutely lost it at him, calling him a twat and a waste of space and a bad housemate. Saying that this was the reason he had no friends, etc. All he replied with was “Your breath stinks”, which she had nothing to say to. He never unblocked her from the wifi.

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dimwittedrigmarole@reddit

Had a chat thats recently being investigated. I reported it for racism, homophobia, sexism, you name it. It was there. And most of it all aimed at people I directly work with or I'm friends with. When I joined the chat and came across it all, I lasted two days and reported it all. Been hell since, with lies, twists, and clicks etc. Lost friends, trusts being questioned. A real shit show. Thankfully the people involved in the chat will not be seen around for a while, and have a mark on them that will potentially not allow them to work for a little while in the role we have. It's all on going, not due to finished being investigated now till mid April! Which is awful because I'm WFH and feel very isolated, been four weeks now of just me in a house alone doing nothing. Painful! One member in the chat has lost his partner and kids, she kicked him out and is now staying at his mums. One other has been revealed to be having an affair and is now living with his mum! The third has relapsed back into drugs over this and doing all he can to make lies and "take me down" with them. Going as far as creating shit at work, even though none of us are there (he has been sleeping with someone at work and using them to funnel in lies). I've been told in a meeting today that a fifth person has been identified and has been put on leave whilst the investigation continues! It's a real show currently! When I go back i suspect it'll be a whole new team of people there. And to top it all off, one individual is now suffering massively with mental health as they've been made aware of what was sadi about them and how they were treated and from what I've been told it's sounds like he could be suicidal and theyre checking him regularly and had to phone the emergency contact to have family stay with them during the Investigation! I'm tempted when it's over to post the whole exported chat logs somewhere, with changed names and odd details and everything. Because I suspect people have these sort of chats all over the place, it appears on the news too often. I think people should read through and if they go, that's not that bad, or, that's like our chat. Well, think about its effect because this chat, has destroyed pepples lives.

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Far-Rock-9128@reddit

Fucking hell. Mind me asking what industry you work in?

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ReplicatedSun@reddit

a friend typed "they need to get over themselves" in our full friend group chat after a conversation instead of our smaller group chat, caused a bit of drama but did help in the end

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Organic-Network7556@reddit

I was in a local am-dram play. One of the actresses sent a morning selfie to show off how curly her hair was after she let down her Austen hairstyle from the night before. The issue was one of the young men from the cast was naked in the bed behind her. Oh and she was married at the time.

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Minimum_Leopard_2698@reddit

My partner got kicked out of the village WhatsApp AND Facebook group because he refused to sign up to a “dog walking schedule” There’s a particularly nice spot to take the dogs close to the village and “to avoid any unwanted dog conflicts” some idiot designed a schedule…of when each person can walk their dog…in a public place We have three labs, and take them wherever and whenever we want because they understand how to behave lol

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rampantrarebit@reddit

Group of professionals, all leaders in our field, spread across the UK. One of us is turning 50 so the rest were asked to send a picture of a birthday message to be compiled into his card. Cue multiple messages to the birthday thread "what's your email address", "I've got your work email, or do you want it in your personal email?", "can't do it now I'm away and don't have my laptop" and even from someone who had worked out to just write it on paper, take a photo, and send via WhatsApp message but clearly getting confused by all the fixation on email "I've sent it on here but would you like an email as well?" What a bunch of eedjits (I love them mostly!)

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A_Balloon_A_Balloon@reddit

all of that printed onto a card without editing could have been quite amusing

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philipwhiuk@reddit

Poor guys need to learn about web.whatsapp.com

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404Notfound-@reddit

Teams call, I told my laptop to suck it's mum jokingly because it froze and everyone laughed. Middle aged new employer said I shouldn't be saying such nasty words, and then went on a tirade about her son being called a n word and how it's fine But she didn't say 'n word'. She said it hard r and everything She was gone the next day

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newfor2023@reddit

Not really drama so much as people being very bad with words. One guy who meant to say they were in hospital because of something that happened Friday night. However they managed to make it sound like they couldn't work because of a 4 days of erectile disfunction.

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pinkthreadedwrist@reddit

HOW does that happen?

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newfor2023@reddit

Well instead of using A&E he went for ED, presumably emergency department. Then some very bad wording. Unfortunately they review contracts so that's a little concerning.

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M88ssd@reddit

A friends 40th Birthday “golfing” holiday - what’s app group. Was basically a ‘gents of the family’ trip with some close friends along for the party. *Hotel bathrooms had full wall mirrors. One lad decided to send a full face and all body shot to his Mrs whilst in the shower, with his not-so-impressive length at half mast and a big grin across his face. As he was still shitfaced from the night before, inadvertently sent it to the holiday chat, who his dad, uncles and father-in-law were part of. Before he had time to delete it, the whole group had downloaded it and it’s now a what’s app sticker that’s thrown back at him every time he pipes up.

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Whulad@reddit

We have a very civil middle-class WhatsApp group for our very civil middleclass street. A few years ago our very nice 40 something divorced female neighbour posted a Friday 2am : “So Lucy, how did your hunt for cock go?” At about 7.30 Lucy happily married mother of 2 posted “ er sorry xxxx I think you got the wrong Lucy”….the posts remained up until about 10.30 when they suddenly both disappeared

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OpenBuddy2634@reddit

Not on Whatsapp but street group chat on facebook. New Guy not long moved in sent a long rant about how he was trying to talk to a girl she just started making funny noises at him and waving her hands at him, he thought she was mocking him turns out she was just deaf.

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Lolra89@reddit

Peak 👌

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Lolra89@reddit

The primary school WhatsApp where a mam went off about her son being bullied because there was pen all over his back and we all needed to speak to our kids...someone forwarded on an image of the kids lying on huge sheets of paper drawing around each other to label body parts. She's been quieter since. Context they're 5.

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Lolra89@reddit

The kids are 5. Not the mam.

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ApplicationKlutzy208@reddit

There's always petty beef in our family group chat. Lots of passive aggressive sniping but nothing particularly juicy. I won't join our local groups because I know what the people round here are like - aggressive, argumentative, whiny arseholes. The local fb groups are bad enough and it's ALWAYS ALWAYS the people with kids whinging about how something shouldn't be allowed because somehow children should always be everyone's priority. Like, I dgaf about your bratty crotch spawn, why do they always resort to using children as an attempt to manipulate?

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InevitableFox81194@reddit

I got added to my mothers family side, WhatsApp GC, along with my teen daughter. We both promptly exited from it the moment we were notified. My teen, who was out at the time, messaged me to say, " Not enough therapy in the world can make me stay in that chat" 😆

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Upstairs_Thing_7547@reddit

In a school mum chat group after an active chat about arranging a night out, one mum posted ‘I’m so sick of *name* always bleating on about Josh this Josh that, we get it, you’ve got a boyfriend you boring b___’…. To the group she was in instead of clearly another one.. *name* promptly left the group, and the mean mum was like ‘well we all know it’s true’ They left the school not long after that, and it served as a good reminder that school mums aren’t always friends! Playground drama is worse than when I was actually at school myself!

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Landoritchie@reddit

I accidentally posted "SHUT THE FUCK UP" in a work group. I deleted it immediately, but several bosses did see it. It didn't necessarily cause drama, but it did stress me out a lot.

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BiscuitCrumbsInBed@reddit

During lockdown we had a ridiculously busy WhatsApp chat. There was a pic of man being posted online quite a lot at the time; big bloke with a huge willy. So that got shared or mentioned quite a lot as a running joke. (What can I say, we are all childish!). EVERYONE was involved till one person had to make a comment saying that the latest person who had posted it, must be racist (willly owner was black) and that they couldn't be part of it anymore. The person obviously took huge offense as the jokes were about the willy size, not the skin colour. And we had all been doing it, even the person who had done the calling out. The 'racist' left the group and rarely socialises with the person now, the group chat was wrecked and it's still discussed as to what a shitty thing it was to say.

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DigiNaughty@reddit

Did nobody point out they're a hypocrite if they posted it themselves but were criticising others for doing so?

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BiscuitCrumbsInBed@reddit

Yeah of course, and the fact we were all doing it, so why focus on that person. All got bit messy.

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Ok_Cow_3431@reddit

> big bloke with a huge willy that'd be [Barry Wood](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wood-sitting-on-a-bed-barry-wood) then.

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rosiet1001@reddit

His name was Wardy Joubert

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BiscuitCrumbsInBed@reddit

That's the one! He died young, poor bloke.

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steelicarus@reddit (OP)

I think I know who you’re talking about lol

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AvinItLarge123@reddit

Like all sane people I stay out of the school mums WhatsApp and leave it to the Mrs. There's one bloke in there and a year or two ago he made a joke that I thought was pretty funny but every other person in the chat didn't see the joke and thought he was being rude to one of the ladies. Pretty much all the women in the chat showed the message to their partner who all said that he was just joking and in a lads chat it would be one of the tamer messages. Poor bloke never quite recovered from it though

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LordGeni@reddit

That reminds me of an epic story an old colleague told me. He was at an informal PTA getting to know everyone get together. The lady nominally running it wanted to do an icebreaker where everyone said the most romantic story they have. She turned to my colleague and said "John, you're a bit older than most here, I bet you have some good stories"? "Well, there is one. I was pretty young at the time and was at a local nightclub enjoying it as young lads do, when I locked eyes with the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen. Being a bit drunk and bolshy, I thought I'd at least try and talk to her. To my amazement she was into me as well, we spent the rest of the night together and she even agreed we should get a B&B to go back to for the night. I won't go into details, but it was the most glorious night of my young life. I woke up the next morning and she was still there, looking beautiful asleep on the bed next to me. I couldn't bring myself to wake her so headed down to get breakfast hoping she'd have woken up when I returned. To my dismay when I got back to the room she was gone. No trace of her and no way for me to contact her again. I didn't even know her last name. After panicking and rushing out to the street to see if I could find where she'd gone, I eventually calmed down and made peace. I decided that she'd obviously made her decision and as much as it pained me, the night had been so perfect and the memory so beautiful that it was better for me to treasure that memory than taint it with anger or futile attempts to track her down. I knew it would always be one of my fondest memories. I think that's pretty romantic. You know I can still clearly remember my thoughts as I was walking down the road and I looked back on Fred and Rose's Guesthouse............". None of the mothers spoke to him again. The dads sent him messages afterwards telling him they still hadn't stopped laughing.

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TableSignificant341@reddit

> Like all sane people I stay out of the school mums WhatsApp and leave it to the Mrs. Oh so that's the additional mental labour mothers talk about that dads shirk.

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PantherEverSoPink@reddit

I'm in the mum's chat at my kid's school but I've never understood why it's just the mum's not dads. One man in the group, single parent.

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TableSignificant341@reddit

Yeah so it basically sounds like many dads are simply taking advantage of their partners.

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rob3rtisgod@reddit

Love that lmao. Should have made a dad's chat!

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levezvosskinnyfists7@reddit

Was in a band chat. Minor altercation after our flautist called out our singer in the chat for turning up to rehearsal with some horrible cold just before Christmas (as anyone who has used rent-by-the-hour rehearsal rooms will know they are not renowned for their ventilation or general hygiene) The sequence of events that followed was the singer calling the flautist a cunt, removing her from the chat, posting a voice note of her shouting “Fuck you all, this band is over” then leaving the chat herself.

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pikantnasuka@reddit

I've just learned a new word, so thank you for that

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levezvosskinnyfists7@reddit

‘Flautist’ or the other one?

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pikantnasuka@reddit

Oh definitely the other one, I'm very cultured and totally knew that flautist was an alternative to flutist and certainly didn't google to see if it was something to do with farts 😂

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FrancyMLG@reddit

Not so much a group drama, but someone I know accidentally posted her slagging off of a work friend to her status and it was up until I noticed and told her. She left the job shortly after

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chooselove_@reddit

Our village FB group had a bit of drama last week after a boomer posted asking for a lift to the local Reform UK meeting coming up, as her eyesight was too bad to drive. All the younger, not closet racist people piled on in and it got deleted. Then the admins posted a message about the group being set up to help each other out and not for personal attacks, and so those who missed it asked what was up and the whole thing nearly happened again.

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levezvosskinnyfists7@reddit

There’s definitely a Barnard Castle joke in here somewhere

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AlrightLove75@reddit

I once invited my mum for Christmas and she replied to say 'Thank you so much, I do prefer coming to yours rather than (my sister's), it's horrible there and so much more comfortable at yours.' Only she sent the reply to the group which included my sister, BIL and BIL's parents. Oops.

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Decent-Chipmunk-5437@reddit

My street's WhatsApp has a complete meltdown the other week because an unknown car was parked in the road. A black BMW, blacked out windows. It was a huge overreaction. Like *"I'm calling the police, it's probably drug dealers*" kind of reaction. ...Turns out one of the neighbours had bought a new car.

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Killer_Queeny@reddit

The parents WhatsApp group for the year above my kid had a parent accidentally post a photo of herself and her husband laid on a hotel bed with coke on the bedside table. Oops.

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DigiNaughty@reddit

They should have drank Pepsi instead.

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WorkShirt5587@reddit

My friend group is so small that the group chat is literally me and one other bloke. So basically just a chat.

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slimboyslim9@reddit

So… tell us the drama!

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divine-silence@reddit

I once asked him if he wanted to go for a pint but autocorrect changed it to do you want to go for a hardcore deep penetration anal session with lube and biscuits? Was a bit awkward after but anyway we are doing it again next week.

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WorkShirt5587@reddit

I didn't realise he'd added you to the chat

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blitzwig@reddit

Biscuits? Ugh.

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TheFlyingScotsman60@reddit

....don't you just hate it when that happens.....

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Noctemme@reddit

Not my WhatsApp drama because I have no life, but my friend’s village chat went crazy last year over a couple who kept parking in front of my friend’s gate to go dogging. Always in broad daylight at the most inconvenient times, like 3pm when everyone gets ready to do the school run.

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Dimac99@reddit

I would say that's less of an inconvenience and more of a sex crime.

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Haunting-Breadfruit9@reddit

My ukulele group went into meltdown when it was proposed we wear matching polo shirts for concerts. Choosing the colour alone caused outrage and a deluge of comments. The alternative suggestion of wearing colourful waist coats created another storm and several people threatening to leave. The subject was eventually banned from the group chat and has not been mentioned since. We still wear whatever we want to for our gigs. I think one or two people did actually leave because of it all.

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goldenhawkes@reddit

My choir committee have hours long meetings about the colour of our uniform. Don’t know why it’s so contentious!

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Dimac99@reddit

Some people look better in pastels, some in jewel tones, it's a whole thing. Nobody wants to look washed out while playing the ukulele. Nobody.

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Comfortable-mouse05@reddit

That's pathetic

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OrangeFlavoredPenis@reddit

Went to a convention and a friend had his entire group of friends there, to coordinate and shit for the trip my gf and I joined their group chat. Didn't really pay too much attention to it, left the group WAYYY later because I'm lazy about doing such things. Anyway years later I am looking through the pictures in my phone and theres a video of a guy playing with his dick and its not me. I am absolutely mind boggled no idea whats going on or how it got there. After some confusion and discussion between my gf and I, she remembered that a guy was posting weird shit into the group chat including a video of his donger. No idea why that video saved to my device but gave me a shock at the time.

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MaximusSydney@reddit

Ours is usually pretty boring. The only thing I can think of is, recently we had some religious callers going around the square knocking on doors. A few people put comments on the WA group saying they answered in naked or told them they were satanists etc, cue another neighbour saying these comments were a bit rough for the Christian neighbours to read. I think I just live around nice, normal people.

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69Whomst@reddit

The best I have is that me and 2 other former coworkers of mine have this gc where we plan nights out, but we also have this coworker (1 friend still works at our old place) who we all hate, bc the man bullied a mutual friend and one of us out of the job, and is constantly committing misconduct but always gets away with it, so although our group chat isn't dedicated to dunking on him, we do dunk on him a lot.

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Gnomignomi@reddit

Qq,

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No-Pangolin-6648@reddit

My school parents WhatsApp group had a black parent that decided the white school photographer was racist as he wasn't very good at taking photos. Instead of talking to the school they decided to go on a massive rant in the group chat. You know it's controversial when only 2 or 3 people chime into the discussion out of the 40 or so in the group.

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Rose_Of_Sanguine@reddit

Not WhatsApp, but during the tailend of COVID Lockdowns the village I live in lost their collective minds on Facebook over Cable Ties. Many normal people somehow started to believe that these cable ties indicated the location of houses with dogs and that dog knappers use them to locate the houses and steal the dogs. The histeria eventually led to the police issuing a statement saying that they had had a very low report of dog knapping over the previous 5 years. It had a good side though, someone went round tidying all the cable ties off the lampposts😂

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fionakitty21@reddit

I feel I'm missing out! Only group chat I'm in is with my sisters and ma and no drama involved!

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rosiet1001@reddit

You know what you need to do!

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TheFlyingScotsman60@reddit

Invite us all ....we can easily provide inappropriate photos to spice things up for a small fee.....a very small fee.

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fionakitty21@reddit

Haha! The most drama was when a neighbour of mine was putting a pallet up in place of the gate to the communal garden. I would move it every time and not replace and heard her swearing every night when she moved it back 😂 I once moved it right down the road, which, in my tiny tiny village, meant everyone heard her swearing! I gave daily updates to my family! She doesn't do it now!

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EatTh3rich@reddit

Had a work group chat at where I used to work, they wanted to arrange a staff meal. About 80% of the staff were Muslim including the owners and we were in an area where it’s harder to find a non-halal restaurant than is it to find a halal one. One of the staff was a Middle Aged white lady who was on 0hrs and maybe did one shift a month. She kicked off in this group chat about how she’s not eating any halal meat because it’s wrong and she doesn’t support “those type of people”?? I told her I’ve never been able to tell the difference and can we just choose somewhere to eat and she went on a rant about how I was brainwashed by “woke nonsense”. The entire meal was cancelled and we never saw her again.

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Zanki@reddit

Nothing much. I'm gonna count some Facebook chats with friends as they're the same thing really. FB. My friend group had to cut two guys out. I didn't like either of these men and was happy for them to leave. One was a full on creeper who creeped on me badly. The other was his friend who was an odd one. He ended up stalking a girl in our group to the point she was terrified. Unfortunately since that event and us all getting her away from him (thankfully none of us live near each other), he still won't let it go (found out from my other friends in the group) and for some reason he blamed me for him getting kicked when it was a group decision. I may have argued hard for it, but I don't like abusive people and we couldn't have a conversation if he was on voice calls. He'd just yell over everyone to the point we made a separate group chat so we could actually call and chat. I tried to implement boundaries for all of us and he stomped On all of them, repeatedly and I kept calling him out on it. That's why he was kicked in the end. On the other side of this, the girl got a taste of what it was like to be a victim and keeps attempting to creating drama now. Yes, what happened sucked, but we dealt with it. I get it, she's autistic and mentally is a teen at most, but man, it's frustrating and a little amusing to watch. She doesn't try it with us because I shut it down instantly, but she tries it with others. I know she's just lonely and wants to feel protected/special etc, but that's not the way to go about it. Another friend group had a guy break up with us and I'm still not quite sure why. I think his new girlfriend played a part but I'm not sure. His best friend was a girl in the group. They were close and then he met a girl. She hung out with us for one evening and he was so mad by the end they left early. He kept saying his best friend was giving her evil looks. I was sitting with them and she wasn't. His girlfriend barely talked and we were trying to include her as much as possible. He also went to visit our friend who moved out of the country and had a meltdown on him as well. Last time I saw him he was odd. I told him nfts were a scam after he was talking about buying one and he lost it, kept saying it was the future and I was an idiot for not investing. Yeah, well look what happened there. It was an obvious scam. That's the last time we spoke. Me and another friend were surprised one day he unfriended/removed us from his social media as we weren't part of any of his drama. Guilty by association I guess, but he still stalks us occasionally, shows up in our watched stories on insta and TikTok. So yeah, that's the biggest drama I've had. For the most part all my chats are drama free. I see stupid stuff on Facebook groups etc but I ignore them.

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wtfftw1042@reddit

was an a friend making WA group run by an absolute control freak who thought we should all be incredibly grateful that she took on organising everything (when really she wouldn't let anyone else organise events). Sporadic rants about keyboard warriors (there were none, she was just in paranoid victim mode) and being underappreciated would garner praise and sympathy. It was so bizarre.

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Aggravating-Desk4004@reddit

I'm in a local dog owner's group. Someone asked for a dog walker recommendation. I thought the person they recommended wasn't a good walker, so explained exactly why (he basically didn't walk the dogs, just went to a tiny enclosed park with about 12 dogs and they all stood around bored). I said he wasn't value for money, the dogs weren't getting enrichment, assumed he didn't have insurance, etc, really went to town. Little did I know the dog walker was in the Whatsapp chat. He politely replied with a load of BS saying he only went there every now and then, it was dogs with no recall, etc, which is crap. Walk them on leads, that's better than being stuck in a tiny space every day. Funnily enough there was no mention of whether he had insurance so obviously he doesn't. I replied politely basically calling him out on his BS. A few people in the group turned on me and suggested I was a rival dog walker trying to fuck up his business. I'm not, I just think you should get value for money. Lesson learned to check members of Whatsapp groups before slagging off someone local. I stand by what I say though, he's a dogshit dog walker, but it was a bit of drama. He no longer speaks to me and if I'm in the little green with my dogs, he drives past and doesn't stop. Good, the dogs get a better walk for their money.

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bigpaulyamma@reddit

I called my bosses young son and "Rocky Dennis looking mother fucker" in my work WhatsApp chat instead of me and my colleagues private chat. It was 4 years ago and I still think about it every day.

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supernovawanting@reddit

Not going to lie that made me laugh

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Lenniel@reddit

It's all kicked off in the estate WhatsApp because there were teenagers on the playpark. One of them was beaten up on a neighbours garden. People reported it. But it was only discovered an hour after it happened when someone checked their ring doorbell. Guy who isn't even in the country was kicking off because no one would call 999 to report the kids on the park. People called 101. Eventually abroad bloke's wife asked them to leave and they did. So it dissolved into name calling between abroad bloke and another bloke who also wasn't home. Fun times

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ChrissiTea@reddit

Calling the police because teenagers are in a park?! Really? I understand doing it for the kid that got beaten up - but not for just being there

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d3gu@reddit

I'm in a group chat with my team from my old job, and I'm still good friends with 3 of them (as in, we meet up and do stuff together) but the other 2 less so. They're more in the chat out of politeness, and neither of them got on particularly well with management. Anyway, we were all made redundant at the same time. The company itself has gone bust, and a few weeks ago all current & ex employees received an email to a sort of celebration/handover. I thought it was weird, but hey - free food & drink, and I get to see some friends. I can deal with any awkwardness. I didn't mention it in the group chat, but one of my friends posted a screenshot. Turns out the two 'mean girls' did not get invited. Aaaaawkward. I went to the party. Yes, it was very very awkward. But I also got fed and pretty drunk for free.

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noggerthefriendo@reddit

We had a meme group and someone sent one of those Taylor Swift Superbowl ai images and we all got scared when someone asked if it violated the uks new anti deepfake laws

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never_ending_circles@reddit

Someone got kicked out of the local WhatsApp for getting drunk and making racist comments on several occasions. The reason he wasn't kicked out sooner is the admin was a neighbour of his and didn't want to make things awkward when she saw him. Other than that, it's just people complaining about bins not being collected, fly tipping and rats.

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SamVimesBootTheory@reddit

Not really drama but I'm in a WhatsApp group with some of my old MSc classmates from when they decided to organise a reunion a few years ago (Didn't end up going) and the chat kinda kicked off again because someone was like 'why don't we have another reunion' and people decided to throw out suggestions to do this one abroad and then just turned into a flood of 'look at me doing cool stuff in this cool place' and I'm just sitting here like 'well for me things just got worse since uni' Like I'm not begrudiging anyone their success it's just kinda a whole thing when other people are like 'Look I'm doing so well' and you're like super burned out and broke.

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never_ending_circles@reddit

Hey they may not be doing that well in reality either. Maybe their parents paid for them to join them on holiday. It's usually only when you know someone well and speak to them often that they will tell you how things really are, and a lot of people are feeling burned out and struggling but feel they need to project an image of being successful. It's also entirely possible they could be getting into debt to fund a lifestyle they can't afford. I'm sure you're not alone in struggling.

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Wednesdayspirit@reddit

I was pushed out of my job a year into covid. big meeting, boss wouldn’t provide a safe environment for my health condition and wanted me working around unmasked kids etc. role was previously safe but she changed it to unsafe because she randomly wanted to shuffle staff around how ever she wanted. Also tried to argue with me that masks weren’t effective and covid was just like a cold. Cut to 2 weeks later, I see she’s accidentally left me on the staff watsapp - big long message about the class I was supposed to work in coming down with Covid badly. It only took 2 weeks lol

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lordlitterpicker@reddit

I didn't reply for so long I got embarrassed and left.

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KirstyBaba@reddit

Normal people: If you're upset that Scots get more welfare spending than English folk, why not increase spending in England too? Neolibs: *no not like that*

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