Colleagues keep using my milk!

Cheeky bastards, especially the cereal milk thief! Hope the bottle lock works well OP, let us know 😁

That may not help …
In our school staff room someone took someone’s breast milk and put it in their tea !
Presumably accidentally!

Don't do that 😬......I have heard of creepy ass men who get tuned on by the thought of breast milk.

Maybe get some 'Welpi'' 😆

It's bloody annoying, @Immo8 apart from bringing in a small bottle of it daily, don't know what else you can do?

If it was coffee, you could use coffee mate {horrendously expensive though}- but in tea, coffee mate is not nice.

Lol or tight
iN the NHS we only got tea/coffee in covid, even got a sign saying as covids over no further tea/coffee will be provided. Crazy the difference something so cheap makes for moral

I had to leave a snotty note when my salt mill disappeared from the porters' rest room. I knew it wasn't them and I was happy for other people to use it just not take it away with them. Four or five days later it turned up. I had already bought some table salt for the little salt pot that had run out. I have had to have the likes of macaroni cheese without salt. Not nice!

if my sister had this issue at work i would tell her shes welcome to a few sachets of my breastmilk i got plenty just pop in a smaller normal milk bottle.Clearly label as yours dont touch,if they drink it inform them =p

Thats one way to put people off stealing ,but maybe just labeling it as such will help

Another vote for bringing a flask in each day.

FoxtonFoxton you can be sure that this will be stolen before too long. In my old job everything that wasn't nailed down in the kitchen would soon go missing

@Immo8 , bring in a flask with your milk for a week but put some milk in the fridge laced heavily with laxative. Write clearly on the bottle ‘This milk contains laxative DO NOT CONSUME!’ Next week bring in a bottle similarly labelled but without the laxative, hopefully anyone who didn’t believe you the first time won’t want to repeat their mistake.

This is the answer. Get your own milk and keep it in a locked drawer of your desk.

We had this in an office I used to work at. Lots of us were getting pissed off, someone organised then created a MILK CLUB and we all gave £2-3 a month or whatever to this admin person who bought it for the milk club members only each week. We looked out for non club members nicking our milk and said they were welcome to join the paid club!!

I'd just email & say, "This morning, the last drop (of milk) has veritably overflowed my magnanimous mug. I'm not bringing milk in any more, so you can fend for yourselves you lazy using fuckers...
Good Luck with that."

What a shame. Write a label stating it has medication in it.

I can’t add a separate link to the video review of this but click on this and scroll down - Nigel is an absolute star (and reminds me of Dave off the Royale Family).

Nigel gave it 5 stars.

Love this!!

People have terrible manners and it isn't your responsibility to bring them up to scratch (and they will hate you for trying). Disguise your milk as something else or else bring in tiny doses.

Not good for team relations!

Decant into a bottle, label as breast milk

I think this is the best option. OP, your described experience is pretty common.
Another alternative is to set up a 'milk fund' if you can be bothered. However, IME, that isn't as straight forward as it might be!
I worked in a place where I bought my own teabags in and didn't mind sharing when asked. However, on the rare occasion I had run out, no one had any to share with me! Ahhhhhhh

PP said that didn't stop people at her work 😳

Either start a "tea club" and have members contribute £1 a month or something for shared milk or take in small amounts for yourself daily.

Your colleagues have obviously decided your milk is fair game as you "won't mind" so you either need to lean in and organise, or you need to break the cycle by not having so much available.

A few years ago we had an issue like this. A very strongly worded email was sent out by HR and signs put up stating that taking items from the fridge that do not belong to you is theft and will be treated as so. It seems harsh i suppose but why is it ok to take or steal someone elses food / drink when its not ok to take other possessions. Its still theft.

Needless to say it stopped for a while then someone got caught doing it and were given a final written warning for misconduct. It never happened again.

My company did provide milk though it was just other things that people helped themselves too like bread and things like that.

I gave up office kitchen wars pre covid. I take my lunch, some fruit, a flask, a mug to work with me every day. No longer do I set foot in the kitchen.

I go in three or four days a week and it saves about £20 week.

It's not even not wanting to pay half the time, it's disorganized people who forget to buy their own then just nick yours Op. Learn to say No as well because now they can't steal your milk they'll come begging. Remind them the word borrow means you return it, and they never did

Absolute cheeky fuckers