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to write fuck off on my lunch?

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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.

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Twoandtwomakeschaos · 09/12/2013 20:08

Surely with the CCTV evidence, the people involved could have had bags searched? How terribly horrid. I hope there was a way for them to be given back anonymously.

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FreakinScaryCaaw · 09/12/2013 20:15

Aww sad about the rings Sad

AndHarry yes do it!

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CoconutRing · 09/12/2013 20:16

When my DSis was a member of civilian police staff, her department had to lock the kitchen door every night, to stop police officers helping themselves to food when the canteen was shut!! (allegedly).

myBOYSareBONKERS · 09/12/2013 20:29

what happened to the person who was caught at the airline?

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FreakinScaryCaaw · 09/12/2013 20:32

That'll be rigth CoconutRing.

Well I've been called in to work tonight as loads off with tummy bug. I'll have tomorrow off instead. Luckily my food will be near me and just snacks Wink

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missusmrs · 09/12/2013 20:32

I have a colleague who puts her skimmed milk in a cats milk container! No one touches that even when free company milk has run out at around 4pm every day!

phantomnamechanger · 09/12/2013 20:32

I have never experienced this and am genuinely shocked at the nerve of people! I've always worked in places where there was communal milk etc provided and now work in an office totally on my own. I do agree that if people are brazen enough to steal food from their colleagues, they are low and would be dishonest in other ways too. eating the plated up meal- just wow, no fear of being caught, challenged? I don't get people like that.

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FreakinScaryCaaw · 09/12/2013 20:33

right*

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FreakinScaryCaaw · 09/12/2013 20:34

Me neither phantom wouldn't even cross my mind.

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HootyMcOwlface · 09/12/2013 20:48

Someone took my lunch from the communal fridge at work once and I was absolutely livid. I spent at least ten minutes bitching about it to the admins, who were as shocked as I was.. "What is this place coming to" etc..

That is, until I got home and found my lunch bag untouched, by the front door, where I'd left it Blush

I felt like such a tit having made a big fuss, that I never owned up. And it was mentioned again a couple of times Blush

AndHarry · 09/12/2013 21:08

:o Hooty I'll make you feel better: I was once targetted by a pickpocket at a bus stop who tried to take my purse and ran off with my phone. I duly spent an hour at the police station giving a statement and the nice PC let me call my mobile provider to report it as stolen and even gave me a lift home in a patrol car. The phone was on my kitchen table Blush The PC wasn't best impressed when I phoned to tell him.

HootyMcOwlface · 09/12/2013 21:10

AndHarry Hahahaha!

Xmas2013MN7256 · 09/12/2013 21:10

This thread is astounding. Nothing like this happens where I work! People just leave food in the fridge and nobody else takes it because, you know, it's not theirs Confused

There's communal milk/tea/coffee/sugar, people pay tea money (10p a cup) to fund it. Loads of communal stuff like biscuits when somebody's been on holiday.

mewmeow · 09/12/2013 21:22

Haha santal, Ross from friends, 'MY SANDWICH!!!' Grin

RubyGoat · 09/12/2013 21:23

Please come back & tell us what happens about the Naga sandwich!

AnUnearthlyChild · 09/12/2013 21:33

We have milk nickers.

I bf Unearthlybaby, and would express at work, keepin the expresses milk in a cool bag in the fridge. Not many women in the office so everyone knew it was mine.

I no longer bf, but I now take my semi skimmed in to work in the medala bottles. Oddly enough. No one ever steals it :)

Stgeorgiaandthedragon · 09/12/2013 21:37

Seriously, what if they are hungry, and can't afford their own lunch!?

JamNan · 09/12/2013 21:48

A sandwich or naice cake laced with chilli oil will soon identify your tea leaf thief.

phantomnamechanger · 09/12/2013 21:52

if they are hungry and cant afford their own lunch, there are other ways of coping/getting help rather than just routinely nicking from colleagues - who may be on similar money and have family/bills to pay. why should they pay for their packed lunch then have to spend out extra on something shop bought to replace it? if they were actually up front with colleagues about being broke till payday or whatever, they might get some sympathy/help.

grumpyoldbat · 09/12/2013 21:52

Seriously stgeorgia what if the person whose lunch has been taken is hungry and can't afford 2 lunches. Why should they suffer? Angry.

The time my lunch was taken I was already skipping meals. I tried to do my eating at work as that's when I needed most energy. I planned ut very carefully to minimise the impact of not enough food. The days my food was taken I had nothing at all. But that's ok isn't, I shouldn't complain because the other person was obviously hungry.

I want to add all through that time, no matter how ill I felt I never once stole any food. I admit I coveted the food of others as in thinking: I wish I could have that but didn't steal a thing.

sykadelic15 · 10/12/2013 02:22

My work colleague doesn't so much steal as she tastes and tries. She tells me about it afterwards (I was super hungry/feeling sick). Asks etc but NEVER replaces what she took (she'll offer for me to have food I'd never eat and she knows that I don't). I've been there 18 months and had to stop buying snacks 'cause I can't afford to keep feeding her!

I didn't know how to tell her to stop eating my food without sounding like a total cow. So I just don't buy food she can easily steal (and change what drawer I store it in on a regular basis :P)

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FreakinScaryCaaw · 10/12/2013 16:42

sykadelic15 make chilli sandwiches and post the result on here.

I'm back in Thursday and am taking something extra in Xmas Wink

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scottishmummy · 10/12/2013 18:02

Someone once told me they put laxative in a homemade brownie
That umm flushed oot the food taker

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FreakinScaryCaaw · 10/12/2013 22:22

Ahh we have a bug going round work so I wouldn't be able to tell who'd ate all the brownies Xmas Wink

Chilli is the way forward methinks? Xmas Grin

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RubyGoat · 16/12/2013 09:15

Any update on this, OP?

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