To think this wasn't 'accidental' it was just bloody rude?

[NotSayingImBatman]

I've just gone to retrieve my lunch from the fridge at work to find a big sign fastened to it that reads "Whoever had the can of diet cherry coke in the fridge I accidentally drank it, sorry, InconsiderateColleague".

That was MY can of coke. The only can of diet cherry coke in the fridge. For it to have been an accident, he would have had to have his own can of diet cherry coke in there, wouldn't he?

But maybe he was mistaken and he had a can in his drawer that he thought he'd put in the fridge. So I went and asked him for his can. He doesn't have one.

SO IT WASN'T A FECKING ACCIDENT THEN, WAS IT? You deliberately took a can of pop out of the fridge that you knew didn't belong to you, because you decided you were thirsty without thinking maybe the owner of the can might have been thirsty too, you selfish arse.

Except I couldn't say that, because I'd be sacked.

And the nearest supermarket is two miles away. Fecking gobshite.

[kickassangel]

This thread has reminded me of when we had a lodger who claimed that she had recovered from bulimia. Turned out that she still had some very obvious food issues - like stealing food from us. So, half a slice of chocolate cake, the last few slices of bread etc. On one occasion, I had made over 50 mince pies for a youth group Christmas party. They were stored up high (and she was short) so would have needed a chair to reach them. As soon as I walked in the room I could see that the pile had diminished massively - she'd eaten about 10 of them!

She always, always, denied it.

[hibbleddible]

Lol at labeling milk as breast milk!

[MagicalHamSandwich]

My boss once accidentally opened and shared among the team a bottle of champagne I had received from the firm - he had simply assumed we'd got the same gift and it didn't matter which bottle he took. No bad intentions at all.

Turned out the gifts increased with the seniority of the recipient - I walked home with his bottle of very expensive cognac and feeling very chuffed about working for Mr Airhead.

I've also accidentally stolen espresso capsules from numerous people because I assumed they belonged to the firm/machine/etc.

It happens.

[TheoriginalMrsDarcy]

To those who have their food taken, you should lace your food with laxatives, then sit back and watch the culprit get up and down to the loo.

[MissDemelzaCarne]

I've just been off sick, I've come back to find my mug has disappeared. I've also had a can of diet Coke go walkabout.

[SeraOfeliaFalfurrias]

When I was in halls at Uni there was a kitchenette on each floor for tea/coffee and we were provided with a litre of milk a day. I bought myself extra milk for protein shakes and labelled it as mine, but people kept stealing it. So I bought a little padlock and put it through a hole I made in the closed spout of the milk (those TetraPak cardboard cartons). The fuckers just opened the other side!!

[reallybadidea]

When I was a student living in a hall of residence one of my flatmates moved a friend in who apparently couldn't afford to rent somewhere herself What was even worse was that she used to help herself to our food. Cheese was the most infuriating thing, because it wasn't cheap and I also really like cheese. Ok took to putting it in a bag with a label on that said 'I have licked this cheese' (which I did as well, in front of everyone). That did the trick

I also work in operating theatres, and food theft is a big problem. I've known people steal whole dominos pizzas that have been ordered in for staff who have been working on a patient all night. Mind you, theft is a problem generally - shoes, coats, cardigans, phones, money: they all go missing regularly

[kickassangel]

I once bought a new mug for work, and labelled it with nail varnish. On the first teacher training day, I put it in the kitchen. Less than 2 hours later it had disappeared, never to be seen again.

[RaspberryOverload]

On the subject of mugs, we all own our own mugs, so anyone trying to use one belonging to someone else would be given short shrift.

[FuckOffJeffrey]

X post with MissDiane re: cold sore

[RaspberryOverload]

We have big fridges provided at work, along with notices that out of date food will be chucked in the monthly fridge clean/check (unless clearly labelled. It's also made clear that using milk that isn''t yours is a big no-no, and these rules are definitely respected.

People have sometimes asked if they can use my milk, and I then get a cuppa made with their milk in return.

So I find people who nick other people's food to be disgusting.

[FuckOffJeffrey]

What is it with people stealing food from shared fridges? It used to happen all the time in my old place. In the end I kept my lunch in a bag at my desk with one of those blue frozen stick things to keep it cool until lunch time.

There was one incident with stolen pineapple slices (pregnant woman's 'cravings' snack). She was normally such a lovely laid back person but we all saw another side of her that day and no one dared touch her pineapple ever again.

YY to the cups thing. I had a cup that someone decided to commandeer when I was on 2 weeks AL. I confronted him when I returned to find my cup gone and him using it, he said he had been using it for ages and it was his now and refused to return it and took it with him when he left. I was really pissed off about that as although it was not an expensive mug it was one I had picked out specifically and there were loads of communal mugs available to use (with company logo) so he really had no need to steal mine. If anything like that happens to me again I think I will lie and say I suffer from cold sores so I use my own mug to stop other people getting infected.

Anyway this thread reminds me of this

[olbas]

I used to use a cash box, it kept everything fresh and cool in the fridge.

[OooooohMissDiane]

Problems with missing mugs can be easily solved with a sticker: I have a cold sore.

[StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes]

triathalon a dragons den idea if ever I heard one come to think of it I have a box of old padlocks from suitcases etc will have to see if one will fit my lunchbox

[triathlon]

Is there such a thing as a lunch box with a padlock?

[Fluffyears]

I don't understand taking homemade lunches...bleurgh you have no idea who made it and how clean they or their kitchen is!

[HunterHearstHelmsley]

Someone stole a mayonnaise sachet out of my salad box once... I was seething!

I carefully cultivated mayonnaise until it was totally off and disgusting and would put it in the fridge and leave it to be nicked!

Mildly amusing if people were unwell.. Much better if they realised before they ate it but after they'd destroyed their lunch.
Haven't done it in a while. Might move onto other condiments.

I've worked places where homemade food has been taken and the tipper ware kept! Also someone where they was investigations and disciplinary over a missing bag of Maltesers.

[McColonel]

I'd be absolutely fuming. What a rude cunt. I wouldn't forgive that.

[WaxyBean]

Clearly I work in a lovely place. One of my team left in May leaving behind half a dozen cans of diet coke In the communal fridge. They're still there and despite being labelled with his name and everyone having attended his retirement do, no-one out of 100 odd people has touched them....

[YeOldeTrout]

I put a note on my milk that says 'Not Your Milk'.

It's full fat milk in a health freak place, so that helps, no one would dare touch it heehehehehe.

[WhatTheJeffHasGoneOnHere]

I'm a nurse and a parent once took one of my colleagues' sandwich out the fridge and ate it. It was labelled with her name. We know because we saw them eating it.

[GladysTheGolem]

(Obviously I asked around the team and left it a few days before I chucked them)

[GladysTheGolem]

I threw out two out of date yogurts (out of date by a month) from the cupboard (not fridge!) they were being stored in and someone had the hump at me a week later. What the fuckkity fuck?!