Misconduct | Boots employee SPIKED colleague's drink in shock L&D teaching

When a colleague is irritating you, there are numerous tactics to help make their presence more bearable. Whether it’s simply taking the high road and letting it slide, or politely confronting the situation in a way that doesn’t cause any conflict going forward, a simple conversation is often the solution.

This is especially true when it comes to training up a new starter. Taking the colleague aside and explaining why they should or shouldn't do something in future not only resolves the situation but it helps with their personal learning and development at the firm.

However, it seems that one employee was not prepared to let his annoyance with a trainee colleague slide. Instead, he went to extreme measures to teach them a lesson rather than training them to understand why their behaviour wasn't acceptable.

A Boots pharmacist allegedly laced a colleague’s water bottle with laxatives to ‘teach her a lesson’ after she ignored requests to not take her water bottle onto the shop floor – Metro reports.