Also, when my parents were in the process of showing their house, someone stole crackers, half open boxes of cereal, and the casserole my mom had in the fridge.
Also, when my parents were in the process of showing their house, someone stole crackers, half open boxes of cereal, and the casserole my mom had in the fridge.
HA HA HA HA! I love that someone took a casserole. WTF???
Also, when my parents were in the process of showing their house, someone stole crackers, half open boxes of cereal, and the casserole my mom had in the fridge.
HA HA HA HA! I love that someone took a casserole. WTF???
Yup. We were going to have it when we got home, but they took it. I really want to know how they got out of the house, past the realtor. (We know it wasn't the realtor.)
Confession: I stole someone's ketchup packet today out of the office fridge. Chic-fil-a forgot to put ketchup in my bag and I can't stand a dry sandwich. I felt guilty taking it since there was just a single packet, but I still did it and hoped that no one really missed their ketchup.
I've eaten salads sans dressing at work when I forgot my own.
Confession: I stole someone's ketchup packet today out of the office fridge. Chic-fil-a forgot to put ketchup in my bag and I can't stand a dry sandwich. I felt guilty taking it since there was just a single packet, but I still did it and hoped that no one really missed their ketchup.
I've eaten salads sans dressing at work when I forgot my own.
HAVE YOU NO HONOR?!??
This is hard core. I'd eat a dry sandwich before lettuce with no dressing. Ick.
I'm a fatty. Not having copious amounts of condiments is like a MAJOR EMERGENCY.
Post by ladybug2002 on Jun 11, 2013 21:55:49 GMT -5
I have had my lunch stolen out of the freezer at work before, as well as a diet coke on a separate occasion. I know exactly who stole the food, because my co-worker made a big show about how she didn't even see mine when she took her very similar meal out of the freezer, and how she doesn't like artichokes so she wouldn't have eaten mine. I was super pissed because I had spent my lunch break helping a friend find a new apartment, so I couldn't even leave again to get myself something.
Now I write my name in sharpie all over anything that goes in the fridge.
In a baggie on the counter in an office kitchen? That would be fair game in my office. In the fridge or labeled it would be off limits, but those strawberries would have been eaten in my office too.
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Yeah, in every office I've worked in, if you want to share food, you leave it out on the counter. Maybe the thief thought that you were sharing?
In a baggie on the counter in an office kitchen? That would be fair game in my office. In the fridge or labeled it would be off limits, but those strawberries would have been eaten in my office too.
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Yeah, in every office I've worked in, if you want to share food, you leave it out on the counter. Maybe the thief thought that you were sharing?
Mine too. Non-shared, non-refrigerated stuff gets kept at your desk.
In a baggie on the counter in an office kitchen? That would be fair game in my office. In the fridge or labeled it would be off limits, but those strawberries would have been eaten in my office too.
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People in my office are pretty well versed in knowing personal food (6 strawberries in a small baggie sitting way in the corner) vs communal food like meeting leftovers or whatever. These were out for like 30 mins so they could come to room temperature at 3:30 in the afternoon. She is just a stealing stealer that steals. Tomorrow I am going to bring in a small basket clearly labeled w my name to sit on the counter with my stuff in it. And wtf to people stealing food during a home walk through.
This obviously doesn't excuse theft, but why wouldn't you just set the strawberries out at your desk?
My cube is right next to the kitchen so I grabbed a water refill, pulled them out of the fridge and put them on the side corner of the counter. Honestly I have never had anything this weird happen. I mean someone ate half a jar of my almond butter that I kept in a cabinet with other peoples private dry goods and then moved to my desk when I realized what happened but fruit in a sealed baggie just screams private to me. I would never think to eat anything like that in a shared kitchen.
I think you should leave out something really tempting, but make sure to put laxatives in it.
One of my coworkers did this, on accident.
He was having bowel issues and brought in a water bottle full of juice/extreme fiber drink mix. It was very obviously some sort of home-mixed drink. When he went to get it at lunch, half of his fiber juice was gone! He laughed, because the joke was on them.
I hope that the juice thief shit their brains out that afternoon, and learned a good lesson.
I really don't get this. It's not that hard. If it's not yours, don't take/eat/touch/smell it! I don't care if it is water or a freakin' salt packet. If it isn't yours, it isn't yours. Period!
I have never dealt with that before. I'm a sahm now, but this is getting me all worked up as if my butt is heading to the office tomorrow and I need to put a lock on my Dodgers lunch bag.
Post by pixelpassion on Jun 12, 2013 0:11:39 GMT -5
At my work, my old office space was by the kitchen and I loved leftover food after conferences/training/meetings, etc. It's kinda crazy how people turn into animals at the office when food is concerned. Any time the announcement that extra stuff is in the kitchen was made over the loudspeaker, there's an intense stampede in that general direction.
@godawgs, you have zero remorse. Zero. You really honestly believe you've done nothing wrong.
Where do you draw the line? Seriously. Where?
At what point do you stop yourself from stealing because you think, "Hey, I'm taking something that belongs to somebody else"? How much does the item have to cost? I want to know.
At what point do you stop yourself from stealing because you think, "Hey, I'm taking something that belongs to somebody else"? How much does the item have to cost? I want to know.
Yes, this is what I don't get either. So a planned lunch item (that happens to be just a condiment, but still someone else's condiment) belonging to the person who brought it, is considered an emergency, okay-to-use-it-cause-it's-there item for someone else?
So yeah, where does the line get drawn? Does that mean if a co-worker HAS to have something to eat with their coffee, then they can steal your blueberry muffin that you've been looking forward to all morning?
What if that ketchup packet was important to the person who brought it? What if they needed it for their dry chicken sandwich? lol
Instead of wondering, it is simple. If it hasn't been made clear that it is available for the taking, don't take anything at all if it isn't yours.
I label my food because by the time lunch rolls around I have forgotten what I brought in for the day and I am soooo paranoid about stealing someone else's food that if my name isn't on it, I won't eat it. (This obviously doesn't apply to leftovers in my own tupperware, but frozen stuff, drinks, etc.)
I switched to the mini cups of creamer that doesn't need refrigeration because folks kept using the half-and-half I put in the refrigerator. Fucking asshats. Even if it's a condiment keep your hands off my food.
Post by lightbulbsun on Jun 12, 2013 7:13:04 GMT -5
Office food theives suck.
We had a food drive at our work where we were going to make bagged lunches for the local soup kitchen. We had all the collected food on a table (pb&j, bread, fruit, snacks) and SOMEONE TOOK SOME FOOD. I don't understand people sometimes.
Totally random--we had a house party back in college and I had a half eaten filet o fish leftover from lunch in the refrigerator and someone took it. The hell? I think leftover McDonald's is bad enough, much less, leftover McDonalds of someone you don't know!
My old job was horrible about this. Someone in my dept would always be missing something they put in the fridge for lunch - even if they plastered their name all over it. Thankfully my boss got a mini-fridge and we started storing our stuff in there.
I've had my containers knocked off the fridge shelf and fall to the floor and bust - and the culprit just set it back in there like nothing was wrong. My name and extension was on it, you could've just told me so I could run out and grab something. Another co-worker had brought in a big bowl of soup for the week. She had her name on it ALL over, and had it wrapped up 5 or 6 times. Come lunchtime Monday (when she brought it in) HALF the bowl was gone. People are rude.