Colleagues keep using my milk!

You could try saying....I seem to be buying milk for the office could everyone contribute £1 (or whatever) a month for milk please as today I went to open my new milk and it was 3/4 full

Cravendale keeps for up to 7 days once opened and up to 3 weeks when unopened.

Boak, boak, boak at using it after it's been open for a whole month.

Are you sure people aren't just chucking gone off milk away?

No one said it is like fresh milk :)

I used to bring in skimmed milk which went untouched by thieves while my colleague brought semi skimmed which people regularly stole. When we realised, I gave her one of my skimmed lids to use on her bottles and hers suddenly started to last longer. Maybe try decanting your milk into something less appealing and see how it goes.

I used to work somewhere that had milk issues. It was a small company and they didn’t mind people buying milk with the petty cash. Cash was freely available for anyone who fancied popping to the shop to buy it. The problem was, no one wanted to go and get it. At one point I started having cereal for lunch so I would go to the shop Monday morning and buy my own with my own money. I only worked there 2 days a week so bought a small one for cereal and tea for the two days. Sometimes even by lunchtime Monday it was pretty much empty. I spoke to every single person individually to explain it was mine (and wrote my name on it) yet it still kept happening. One woman in particular would always own up and say oh sorry I made a tea round it was just because I didn’t have time to go to the shop to buy a communal one! Well that’s great that you’re sorry…. But I don’t have any lunch now unless I go back to the bloody shop! Eventually I bought a lockable flask thing. People became a lot more energetic after that and walked the 5 mins to the shop to buy their own.

The skimmed Cravendale I have in there now I bought last Saturday and it's use by date is the 5th Feb Always lasts really well.

Isn't it best used within 7/10 days or so like a lot of stuff once it's opened regardless of the bb date?

Although if it still smells & tastes OK that's all that matters!

Decant it into another bottle and label it ‘dog milk’.

Food colouring - my husband did this at uni - no one likes green milk!

I think if you decant to take in & leave in fridge it probably wouldn't be long before someone noticed & started to help themselves.

Lock seems the best idea.

If you bring in a small bottle make sure it isn’t date stamped. Our office cleaners used to clear the fridge of anything that looked out of date. I wish I wasn’t retired, I really would love the excuse to use an Udder Lock.

Why doesn’t your boss provide milk?
why doesn’t your workplace have a communal milk ect?

Uh oh.....👍🤣

id get a smaller container and label it soup.

Some of new containers will keep things cold all day so just keep it on your desk, I did this, I would then put the normal bottle of milk in the fridge and squeeze lemon into it so it curdles.

I too thought that!...However ''filtered'' milk definitely lasts significantly longer in the fridge compared to unfiltered milk.

{I think they suggest 7 days once opened and kept in a fridge}

I'd definitely not be keeping for a month though.

Hopefully the search for that image hasn't tainted your search history forever 🤣🤣🤣

What?? the NHS don't provide tea or coffee to staff?
That seems very mean.

Welcome to the public sector. No one gets free drinks.

Oh no.... Yes, you are probably right...!🤣

It lasts a month without going off??

Glad you've ordered the lock thingy but I'd be tempted to do something to the other milk too... like add salt. Laxatives seems excessively mean

What?? the NHS don't provide tea or coffee to staff?

That seems very mean.

I'm sure they waste millions on managers who come up with these ridiculous rules.

I worked as a volunteer in a 'specialist nursing home'' for years when we lived nearby, and there was a new rule that came in that said Volunteers weren't to get a slice of cake at afternoon tea time.

They used to have the most gorgeous home made cakes made by the cooks there, and as people funded their own petrol or bus fares to get there, a hot cup of tea with a slice of delicious cake was a morale booster.

They soon turned the ''no cake'' ruling around, as cake was going to waste!

You never know, some folks are so weird even dog milk wouldn't put them off 😂

In one workplace, I used cappuccino/latte sachets which just requires hot water no milk. Bought them when they were on offer

RUDE! Can you change the useby date? Or get your 4yo or a friends if you dot have one handy , to decorate it. Textas, playdough, paint etc . Nobody will go any where near it.

Someone at our work went in the fridge and used a colleagues item. Colleague thought they were imagining it. One day happened again, colleague caught them
And they had the audacity to say they didn't see the big deal! They were very stroppy about being asked to stop! So strange!