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to write fuck off on my lunch?

102 replies

FreakinScaryCaaw · 08/12/2013 23:31

Long story short we have a thief at work. No CCTV so we can't pinpoint who it is? Could be more than one as it's a big place?

Anyway we have to bring our own lunch and I usually bring something to pop in the locker or go and get something. But yesterday I brought in something that needed to go in the fridge. A convenience Thai meal that needed microwaving.

Anyway went to get it at lunchtime and someone had slipped off the cardboard sleeve and opened it!! Probably to smell it or taste it see if they fancied it? I was livid. Still ate it though as had nothing else.

So today I took another one, similar thing. But this time I put a little note on saying fuck off and then sellotape and put sleeve back on so they'd have to remove that to see note Grin. Plus tied it up in a carrier bag. Extreme much? Xmas Wink It didn't look as if it had been meddled with this time? The carrier bag was tied the same.

Some people at work don't think it's a big deal but I was furious. Some borked and said they wouldn't have eaten it. I'd never dream of doing this or taking others food. Drinks go missing too. Gits.

OP posts:
Dilidali · 09/12/2013 00:05

Yeah, Caitlin, there's all sorts written on ours too. Doesn't make the slightest bit of difference.

FortyDoorsToNowhere · 09/12/2013 00:06

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Or get one of these and put it up in the kitchen

Dilidali · 09/12/2013 00:09

The camera thing reminds me of a facebook share, this girl had her iphone stolen, the thief kept taking selfies which were being synced into her fb page [grin[

Dilidali · 09/12/2013 00:12

Nah, couldn't do mouldy suff. I think I can smell the mould just looking at that bag.

Original poster
FreakinScaryCaaw · 09/12/2013 00:14

Oh those bags are fantastic. I'm with Dilidali though they'd put me off. Good idea though.

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PigletJohn · 09/12/2013 00:47

I used to work in a small office with a staff kitchen. I kept a loaf of bread in the cupboard, and spread, ham, mustard, and tins of chicken in white sauce (once opened) in the fridge, and make my own sandwiches. On Mondays the tin would be full of white sauce and no chicken. Doubtless the weekend security guard had fished it out.

I bought a metal cash-box tin and put anything likely to disappear in that.

lookatmybutt · 09/12/2013 01:07

I used to put notes on mine I HAVE SPAT IN THIS and I HAVE LICKED THIS. The latter was for cheese. Thing is, I liked to share it with my trusted pals so I had to swear them to secrecy that I had not actually licked it.

I did actually spit in my drinks. If any went missing, I put a memo up on our big white-board saying hope they enjoyed it. It stopped after that.

Nothing was safe in my office. I watched somebody once pick up someone's lovingly prepared lunch that they'd knocked onto the floor.

I did tell my poor colleague her lunch had been on the floor :( He hadn't said anything. Well-to-do middle class caveman that he was. He even fished out the bits that had rolled under the fridge.

Caitlin17 · 09/12/2013 01:19

Dilidali no idea, I never use the fridge. I assume yes otherwise there'd be all office e-mails about it.

PigletJohn · 09/12/2013 01:24

I remember seeing a cake with a note "I HAVE SPAT IN THIS" signed lookatmybutt.

When she came back there were 14 more signatures.

antimatter · 09/12/2013 01:37

I think the idea of biscuits spiked with ex lax chocolate is the way forward!

Rosencrantz · 09/12/2013 01:46

A label on your food saying 'this food contains a powerful laxative, I'm really clogged up and need to get things moving. Any normal bowel that eats it will be shitting for a week'

I dare them to take it after that.

Rosencrantz · 09/12/2013 01:48

Ooh if I remember rightly you can get sandwich bags that make your food look like its mouldy!

LeafyGreen13 · 09/12/2013 02:07

I'd just get some of those freezer packs you get for camping and a insulated bag, then keep your lunch in your desk and lock it. I might be tempted to leave some cake spiked with laxatives in the fridge though. Just for fun!!

Wibblypiglikesbananas · 09/12/2013 02:30

Used to work as ground staff for a large airline. Staff fridge at Heathrow was rich pickings for some. One day a woman came to management and said someone else was eating her dinner. Sounded a bit odd and school playgroup like but went to investigate anyway. There's a colleague, bold as brass, sitting eating someone else's plated up dinner, brought in from home. There was no way she could have made a mistake as the china plate was pretty distinctive and the victim had made her own salad, selection of cheese and cold meat etc. I have never known anything like it - plate stealer had literally looked in the fridge, thought 'I fancy that' and then had the cheek to sit in the staff room and chomp away. Not even the brain to be secretive. The mind boggles...

Wibblypiglikesbananas · 09/12/2013 02:31

Playground, not playgroup!

Groovee · 09/12/2013 05:31

My step sisters, H2B was living with us when I was little and someone was pinching his sandwiches and it had happened to other guys as well.

So my mum made his lunch and put raw chilli in it! The next day my StepBIL's lunch was nicked and 5 minutes later one of the bullies came flying out of the staff room screaming for water. He never stole a lunch again!

NCISaddict · 09/12/2013 05:43

We have to put our name on food in our crew room fridge along with the date and it gets thrown out if it's out of date which pisses me off a bit, if i want to eat out of date food it's up to me.
Anything we don't mind sharing is put on the coffee table where it's promptly inhaled!No one really minds if someone nicks some butter or a slice of bread but never heard of anyone taking 'proper' food.

LambinsideaDuckinsideaTrout · 09/12/2013 05:46

MYYYYYY SAAANDWIIIICH !!!!!!!!

StarSwirl92 · 09/12/2013 05:51

I have a book called 'I lick my cheese' it's about flat sharing notes and the situations behind them. I'm back at home for the moment and even though I hide my food (I can't really afford to pay for extra being a student) my mother always seems to find it and swear blind that it was never hidden. I can't believe I'm faced with the prospect of labeling packets of rice etc in my own home.

I doubt she'll read the labels anyway.

PinkLemons · 09/12/2013 06:24

I was working a night shift once and was really busy. I'd taken in a sandwich that had that days date on and went to eat it at 2am. My bloody manager had binned it cos it was 2 hours out of date [anger] I didn't have time to get anything else either Sad

PinkLemons · 09/12/2013 06:25

The same manager binned someone else's shop bought chilli cos it was a week out of date. Yes it was out of date but it had been frozen!

Misspixietrix · 09/12/2013 07:12

OP my BF had her drink nicked at work. She went mental. Put all over facebook that the money isn't the issue its the principle and when she finds out who's done it she was going to get her revenge. She didn't actually say it was a drink in her post and I thought perhaps they had nicked her phone. The person in question teased up and when she went back to work the next day they were three drinks waiting in the fridge for her.

BornOfFrustration · 09/12/2013 07:45

Never had my lunch nicked but used to get my biscuits pinched when I worked in an open plan office. With 30 people just sneaking one, they didn't last long.

grumpyoldbat · 09/12/2013 08:14

This is why I stopped taking fridge stuff to work. I was fed up working a long shift with nothing to eat because someone had eaten it.

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