How much trouble would you get in with your boss if he or she looked through your trash can at work?
I would get busted pretty thoroughly.
“Acco, what is such and such doing in here?”
My co=worker was recently busted for making a bunch (like 200) of wasted copies of paper.
Just an example. Any good stories or incidents we should know about?
Somebody at my work threw out a couple empty wine bottles in the bathroom trash. We never found out who the culprit was, but everyone was reminded that alcohol isn’t allowed in the office, even if you’re not actually drinking it. (So much for happy hour, huh?)
Nothing incriminating in my trash can. Remnants of lunch, soda can, gum wrappers, used tissues. And I shred all my paper, since it’s set aside for recycling.
I’m more worried about my boss walking in while I’m posting this. 
Well, it wasn’t in the trash can, but one of the accounting managers (male) where I used to work left, the next one in moved up quickly to a different position, and the woman who took the job next was cleaning out drawers and cabinets one day when she found a tube of Men’s Desensitizing Cream.
The funniest part about that is, I left that job and went to another one, and now I work in the same company as the guy who we believe left it behind.
I’m the evening guy here, while everyone else in the office works during the day. They throw all their incriminating stuff in my garbage. Jerks.
Mens desensitizing cream? Whats that?
My trash can is fine. If my boss saw how I actually ran my 3 departments, she’d freak! (but they don’t because I’m the only one in the company’s history who has been able to make them work on time and under budget so therefore they leave me alone. And they know I’m not above quitting.)
Nothing bad in mine. Empty Diet Coke bottles, snack wrappers, and every piece of paper that begins “As a valued employee of BigAss Bank”. I use those for scratch paper.
Although I did get caught printing non work related emails. Damn supervisor got to the printer before I did.
Well, to put it politely, it’s a product that is used to help a man prevent things from ending prematurely when he is being intimate.
The head office of the company I work for have gone recyclying mad. You are not allowed to put plastic drink cups or waste paper into your wastepaper basket( ! ). Both have to go into special recycling bins. They even send someone round to inspect the wastepaper baskets under people’s desks.If something wrong is found a note is left on that person’s desk telling them of this major crime. Crazy or not?.
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Heck, my boss has bought beer (and brought it into the office) for the team for a Friday afternoon happy hour now and again (and the good stuff too like Guinness and Pete’s Wicked Ale Strawberry-Blonde). And he remembers when a beer/wine party was a Friday afternoon in summer standard–he recalled it very wistfully…
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The trash can in my office? There is absolutely nothing incriminating about that. The recycle bin on my PC Desktop? Now THAT’S another story!
