To think that food left in the staff room isn't 'fair game' - trivial!

[TastesLikePanda]

Long whine cut short...
My co-worker bought me a pastry from the shop as a treat, and left it in the staff room for me. She didn't get a chance to tell me it was for me before I went for my morning break so when I saw it there I didn't eat it even though I suspected it was meant for me because I wanted to check with her first.

By the time I had gone down for my lunch break some one else had stolen eaten it...
This lead to a whole afternoon of whining until the guilty party owned up!

AIBU to want to be able to leave a snack in the break room without it being stolen?

Of course you aren't being unreasonable, some people are just rude. I wouldn't dream of touching anything that didn't belong to me.

YANBU

what a pig, I hope she replaces it! if not leave one named for her filled with toothpaste/mustard/soap/chilli sauce.....

invest in name tags

YANBU. However,my staff room as I imagine lots of others, have 'sections,for each subject or key stage. There will always a skank that snaffles the treats of others. Make a cat food danish or some such next time. Worked for me. Then write on the board in the staff room that you made a mistake and left your dog's/cat's treat on the table by mistake. As a busy teacher these mistakes can happen.

There is an unwritten rule in our staffroom that anything left on the table is communal and anything in fridge/cupboard is not. Possibly a mistake?

Wow - very glad I don't work at any of these schools - we regularly bring in chocs/biscuits/treats for everyone and leave them in the staff room for people to help themselves. If it is a personal gift for someone we put it in their pell tray.

Mind you, wouldn't mind working in a school where you get time to go to the staff room lunch break and morning break - I never have time to do that!

It depends where it was left.

My work is the same as beamme's. Anything left on the middle table is fair game. Anything left on the side table or in the fridge is not.

Not a school, public building though so we need to get away from the 'shop floor'

Boxes of biscuits etc left on the tables are 'free for all' but this was a single pastry in a bakery Bag so to me, it would seem obvious that it wasn't up for grabs.

balia - I assumed it was a school too!

OP, you only know the unwritten rules of your workplace - what did the others think?

Leave something else and then once it's been eaten say "Where's that mouldy gone? I was taking it for DC to take to school for science project/for the to eat"

We have a policy that anything left on the coffee table is for anyone regardless of packaging so it could have been a mistake.
Anything specific gets labelled and put on the side.

Is anything else replaying the episode of Friends with Ross's sandwich in their heads?

and YANBU

yanbu, but this was taken to extremes in a place I once worked..

A cream cake once sat there for 3 months.. festering and with more green fur than orville... but nobody would touch it, because it wasnt theirs!

This reminds me of the time my then manager bought us all two Creme Eggs each on a Friday. I ate one, and put the other in MY drawer. I know; my willpower is amazing.

Anyway, on my way to work the next Monday, I thought "Ooh, yummy, I can have a Creme Egg for breakfast!". Imagine my disappointment when it had disappeared. When I discovered who the culprit was, (she'd sat at my desk on the Saturday, so not much detective work needed), I gave her a "WTF?" look and she had the nerve to get all huffy with me! She said, "Oh, I'll buy one for you at lunchtime if it's that important to you.". But she didn't .

YANBU.

SallyCinnamonandNutmeg "My sandwich? MYYYYY SAAAAAAANDWICH??????????" Cue thousands of birds flying into the air at once and Ross asked to take some mental health leave.

Thank you.

You?ve made me remember.

When I was nursing we had one of the SHOs as they were then regularly nick food from the nurses room, we had the same system box of chocs or biscuits on the main table free for all; even doctors anything in the fridge, private. A single of anything; check first.

Anyway this little shit would take food out of the fridge and then fucking give reviews on it. . . . .
Saying 'you little shit that was my lunch/dinner' had no impact on him. Hed offer to buy you lunch, be at the canteen at one, except doctors had protected lunchtimes, nurses didn't and 9 times out of ten canteen would be closed by the time you realised what had happened.

He seemed to think of himself as a 'cheeky little chapie' where he was actually an over entitled little shit. So I made one of what my BIL calls my 2 swallow curry; first spoonful you think oh this is nice, mmm, big 2nd bite and then the top of your head blows off

I can still see his face, his red sweaty face, ahhhh. Good Times.

The ?trick? is lots of lightly roasted cumin seeds and fresh and dried chillies and make it oily

Lol! I'm not quite as bad as Ross but I was bloody looking forward to that little treat and felt quite robbed! Luckily I still had some lunch to eat but if that had been it, I'd have gone hungry because I couldn't have replaced it - shop doesn't take cards and I don't normally have change with me!

Oh the funny thing is the 'culprit' writes his name on his bananas so they don't get eaten by anyone else...

Another main table for all, bench/fridge personal arrangement here.

So if it was left on the main table...

Definitely eat one of his bananas then. And make him buy you a new pastry - seriously, he's a thief.

A plate of cakes or biscuits is one thing, some individual item in a bag/wrapped is quite another, it's just theft.

I think I'd be using a syringe to inject marmite into his named bananas.

Sounds like the house sharer who initials each of their coffee granules but will happily eat your entire food stock for the week.

I second the marmite idea.

Or write "......is a greedy bastard" after his name on his banana and leave it on the main table!

bogeyface - I never want to make you cross!