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

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NotSayingImBatman · 27/08/2015 12:39

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.

OP posts:
SilentlyScreamingAgain · 27/08/2015 13:39

I take my food very seriously. If you caught me on the wrong day, so seriously that I’d report this to HR, just like anything that was stolen from my handbag at work.

I’d certainly have reported that surgeon on the second strike. It's not rude, it's stealing and that's a sackable offence.

MummaGiles · 27/08/2015 13:52

Oh lord I used to work somewhere where we ended up getting almost daily email rants about food going missing from the fridge. I don't know what people think they are doing just helping themselves to other people's food.

beardsrock · 27/08/2015 13:54

Totally unacceptable.

You don't accidentally drink anything.

Lilt doesn't cut it and never will.

beardsrock · 27/08/2015 13:57

Jesus, lots of people steal food don't they? Homemade food in Tupperwares, WTF is wrong with these people? Stealing milk I can understand a bit more, but labelled containers?

ChickenTikkaMassala · 27/08/2015 14:01

I learnt the hard way after someone nicked my bacon and chicken sandwich and Red Bull from the staff fridge, it wasn't an accident.

DragonWithAGirlTattoo · 27/08/2015 14:01

wanker

To think this wasn't 'accidental' it was just bloody rude?
JustOneMinuteAtATime · 27/08/2015 14:04

I used to work with a lady who used to bring cake or biscuits in almost every day, with an exotic recipe. She'd leave them in the kitchen with a note saying that you could try one as long as you gave feedback on her new recipe.

All lovely, right?

Apart from she seemed to take it to me that as she had provided cake for everyone, she could just choose what she wanted out of the fridge/kitchen. If anyone asked where X was, she'd laugh and say she got peckish, and then change the conversation to the cake or whatever she'd bought in.

When someone finally went to HR, she cried and accused everyone of neglecting her. And then it carried on anyway!

StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes · 27/08/2015 14:53

Dragon that is genius Grin worra Grin too

catkind · 27/08/2015 15:00

Dragon, doesn't that result in helpful people throwing away your sandwich?

Gileswithachainsaw · 27/08/2015 15:04

Yanbu.

It wasn't an accident if he didn't have a can of drink in there to start with.

It's almost as bad as people who leave their food in shared fridges til it's rotten and stinks and never throw it out

DontHaveAUsername · 27/08/2015 15:54

I don't think they would have written a note about it if it wasn't an accident, he'd be keeping quiet and hoping you'd blame someone else. Maybe they normally bring a can of coke but didn't today, and just forgot and went to the fridge to get it?

MargaretSchlegel · 27/08/2015 16:02

is NO workplace safe? from food thieves?

CalleighDoodle · 27/08/2015 16:09

People do the same with cups. People take cups in as there are no communal cups. People cant be arsed to bring iwn cup in so take the other persons. Gets to linch and i cant have a brew as my cup has gone

teacher54321 · 27/08/2015 17:26

Oh god, mugs at work are the worst. At my school people had their own mugs and then there were some that were for general use (tended to be free ones from conferences etc). I used one once when I'd left mine in my classroom and a woman who had LEFT THE SCHOOL TWO YEARS PREVIOUSLY but had come back to do a day of supply had a go at me for drinking out of 'her mug'. I heard her bitching about it/me all day.

LeonC · 27/08/2015 18:30

I once worked in an office where we all liked a biscuit, as you do. We used to buy a few packets and keep (hide) them in a cupboard. We noticed stocks going down more rapidly than we ate them. No big deal we just bought more biscuits.
One of the women was a real chocolate lover and kept her stash in her desk drawer. Two or three chocolate bars and maybe a few packs of crisps. She used to finish her lunch with a chocolate fix.
She sent an email round one day asking that whoever took her chocolates had to return them right away. No one in the office had taken it ( no one dared, she took her chocolate seriously) another woman said they thought they had sweets/ chewing gum go missing but thought they must have eaten it.
We realised someone was stealing our biscuits and going through our desks for food. Being good accountants we set up spread sheets tracking our treat stock movement including purchases and consumption (fifo). We soon realised that someone was snaffling at least half of our stuff. Thievy bastards. We set a trap and caught out the manager of another department who usually worked later than us. We reported it to management and this manager had a disciplinary. His defence was if our desks weren't locked then it was ok to take. Hmm

clicketyclick66 · 27/08/2015 18:40

How about writing your name on labels on the food you bring in? I work in a hospital and we MUST do this or unlabelled food gets thrown out.
It would also reduce the chances of anybody stealing it.

Unhappyuser · 27/08/2015 18:44

If you are thirsty a can of coke isn't going to help, have a glass of water. But he should replace it if you really must drink that muck

YeOldeTrout · 27/08/2015 18:48

lol & yanbu Grin

wannabestressfree · 27/08/2015 18:53

I would lose my shit if someone took my diet coke......... I take two a day to school and they are MINE!!
I normally mumble about them containing my medicine if somone is loitering. It generally means they are left alone!

JustOneMinuteAtATime · 27/08/2015 18:59

Of course diet coke helps if you are thirsty. It's personal choice whether to drink that or water.

As long as it's your own diet coke, that is.

MinistryofRevenge · 27/08/2015 19:18

Name changed as this would totally out me IRL. Many years ago some greedy fucker nicked a load of strawberries I'd bought from m&s out of the fridge. They were in a sealed container so the bastard can't have done it accidentally or thinking they were there for the taking. I was a lowly paid typist at the time, most people in the office earned more than me.

Anyway, it made me so mad that I typed out an email saying I hoped that the "theiving bastard" got the shits and choked to death the next time they nicked stuff. Sent it to all staff, including big director, and duly got called in to have a chat with said big director - was young and stroppy enough to realise that I may have given up the moral high ground and so was a bit apprehensive, but went in, apologised for any offence caused to my honest colleagues but said it was theft and should be dealt with.

He gave me a bit of a look, said he agreed with the principle and was glad I'd recognised I'd been a bit unreasonable, but his major concern was that, as an experienced typist, I should know that it's "i before e except after c", handed me a dictionary and said he'd try to find the culprit. Don't know if he ever did, but I'd have walked over hot coals for him since that day. Lovely boss.

allwornout0 · 27/08/2015 19:24

A woman I used to work with got so fed up with people using her named milk kept in the work fridge that she decided to put a label on it saying 'Breast milk' instead of her name.
Nobody ever stole any of her milk again.

GladysTheGolem · 27/08/2015 19:32

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?!

GladysTheGolem · 27/08/2015 19:32

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

WhatTheJeffHasGoneOnHere · 27/08/2015 19:32

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.