Employees Share The Boldest Things They Secretly Did At Work, Here Are The 30 Best Ones

I work outside, often away, or at home unsupervised. 8 hour days.

There have been days I've got up, made a couple of phone calls, then gone back to bed.

Other days, like today, I'll be out on site for an hour, then I might head into town for a mooch around.

I was working with my boss a couple of weeks ago. We were done by 11am. We went on a bar crawl for the rest of the day. He's just as bad. Runs his own fishing guide business on the side.

Work in tech and so much stuff can be automated. You occasionally get one of those horrible repetitive jobs for an audit or some such. Oh, you want me to spend 3 days gathering all this data, sure! I spend an hour or two writing the automation script. Enjoy some downtime for a couple of days then run the script that spits out the results in less than 5 minutes. Boss thanks me profusely for my hard work on this laborious task whilst I sit there laughing!

My previous employer was lax as f**k with IT equipment, every year my team would put a requisition request in for new laptops and every year IT would send us each out a brand new, top spec Dell XPS.

Not once did they ask for the old machine back and the department manager was completely uninterested so we kept them.

I must have had upwards of £10k in laptops from that place in the handful of years I worked there.

I'm a home worker. I roll out of bed 5 minutes before my shift starts, pop on a presentable shirt in case I'm about to head into a meeting, and then boot the laptop up. After 30 minutes, when I know where I stand with the workday, I head off to brush my teeth, and get showered and dressed.

Not much of a difference, but it's 20-30 minutes of my life saved every day. It has lead to some awkward situations when I come into an emergency at 9, and I'm still sitting in meetings by midday in my pyjama bottoms.

Farting.

I’m really, really good at silent farts and weirdly, no one ever suspects me. They blame it on Janice every time

I've been moving from a flat to a house over the past couple months. Pretty much all of my house hunting, bill redirects, notifying the bank of change of address etc etc gets done during work time. I basically never do "life admin" off the clock.

Built dozens of kayaks using company resources. I donated the local scout group ten and built myself a grp river shooter with a layer of Aramid.

I was forced to sit through a particularly boring training session over Teams not too long back, on a system I wouldn't be using. I spent most of it on mute with my camera off playing Zelda.

I had a friend my years ago who went on a skiing holiday, but still took calls and emails at the top of the mountain cause they didn't have annual leave

I have 4 screens in my home office. I only need 3 to do my job properly.

The 4th screen is spent watching YouTube, playing games and f*****g about on Reddit.