Colleagues keep using my milk!

OMG - utter bastard! There would have been milk dripping all over the fridge!

its not petty, a method i used was a different container think eg almond milk etc and used normal milk in it

They're horrible though - you can always taste UHT milk and it's not nice.

I hate to tell you this but someone at a previous workplace put some sort of lock on her milk bottle lid. Some b*stard stabbed a hole in the side of the bottle and poured milk out from there instead 😡.

A small thermos in your bag is probably the best way to go.

Take a flask of milk and keep it with you. Put a second bottle of milk in the fridge( different from your usual brand so no one thinks it's you) but put lots of salt in it. Enjoy the results

Honestly, bring it up with HR. They’re consistently stealing from you. It’s low grade and it’s boring but HR are obliged to do something about it.

Ridiculous that you have to buy your own milk. Your fridge is big enough for 30 cartons?

Id be emailing the big boss, asking for milk to be provided. Tight f*ers.

spit in it and put a label on saying you spit in it. end of

take some in each few days - enough to cover the bottom of the bottle for about an inch - looks like you haven't much in there - I bet people wont finish it or ask to use it if it empties the bottle - a) they would have to clean bottle and throw away when they know its yours - label it - b) then they look tight not replacing it

I never understand people who help themselves to other people's food and drink. Maybe it's because I grew up poor, but it just wouldn't occur to me to do this. As far as I'm concerned, that's their food and it's nothing to do with me. I could be starving and I wouldn't think it was okay to touch what someone else spent money on for themselves.

This makes it even harder when my boss helps herself to my food. She likes to eat about half of something (without asking) and then leave it sitting open and exposed to the elements for a day or two, until I get back. Sometimes I don't discover she's done this until I'm sitting down on my break and it's too late to go out and buy replacement food. I'm not going to eat something that has been open to the flies and left to go stale, so I go hungry.

I don't understand the mindset. Lately I've been thinking I might start pouring small amounts of her milk down the sink when she's not around, so she runs out faster. I'm lactose intolerant, so she'll know I'm not drinking it, and would have no idea what's happening. But the thought of her going to pour milk in her tea and not having enough feels like it might be a satisfying petty revenge 😁

The very fact that someone needed to invent this shows how many CFs there out there!

Someone stole my breast milk! This is possibly outing!

I don’t drink milk but my 3 office colleagues had rage that their communal milk was always being used by other teams. They were frequently left with no milk and felt like they were subsidising a whole bloody dairy farm for the organisational staff’s coffee break needs.

At this time I was expressing milk and had an insulated caddy with bottles I’d leave at the back of the fridge. This would obviously go untouched.

My colleagues asked if they could decant their milk into the front compartment baby bottle and store their milk in my caddy.

This deterrant worked a treat for ages.

Then one day some fucker drained most but not quite all of all three bottles!

It was years ago and I still lie awake with an identity parade of suspects in my head.

I'd write a 'dated opened' on it that was several weeks ago, or keep it in an opaque carrier bag (people are generally too lazy to rummage inside) or write homemade yogurt 'contains live cultures and kefir - not suitable for tea/ coffee' on the carton!

Put it in a jug and label it "breast milk"?

Option one - label as "This Milk Contains Medication".
If they ignore the mention of Medication, they're Grade-A whoppers.

Option two- email "Hi All. Instead of having individual milks (mine constantly disappears anyway and no longer lasts) why don't we start throwing in or taking turns instead?"

Scare tactics, or call them out in a totally passive aggressive manner. Always good to have a bit of fun with it 😀

Where I used to work, the company provided milk for tea & coffee. One selfish colleague brought in boxes of cereal and used half of the whole day's supply for his bowl of cornflakes so it ran out by lunchtime. There's always one greedy fucker who spoils it for everyone.

Add some food colouring, my sister did this in uni, a bit of blue made it go grey and unappealing and stopped people stealing it. Probably not a long term solution and does risk people binning it. Though I guess you could say you've added something like vitamins or medication as the cause. If write on it discoloured due to medication so please don't bin, etc. that should scare off any thefts and an excuse to say no to people.

Actually don't think would work with Cravendale as the plastic is opaque iirc. But I agree writing on it opened on such and such probs would stop people after a week haha.

If you're going to be evil...put your lock on someone else's milk mwahahahha

Pretty much! Unless OP has a large desk at work and can have a mini fridge under her desk.

OP can try to send a memo but the reception will be "it's just milk who cares"

Alternatively, start using powdered milk/creamer. Not for everyone but I like it.

I'm intrigued by the UdderLok thing but wondering how non-interoperable the locks are. If you are buying milk and locking it, can I sneak into it if I buy my own UdderLok? <evil moustache twirl>

(I promise not to steal any milk, this is hypothetical).

Jo <suspiciously white moustache...>

Health & Safety won't allow you to store bodily fluids (breast milk, spit etc) into a fridge with consumables. Employers are required to provide a separate, clean fridge for anyone who needs to express at work.

I love working from home.

You can buy milk lids that you need a special key to open. They advertised them in my teaching union magazine. Udderlok . If people ask just say you can't afford to be the only one buying milk.

Obviously unaware of the very old joke where the person who wrote 'I have spat in my milk' comes back to find a note taped to their carton which read

SO HAVE I!