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Dirty scutter in the office (pics)

68 replies

CatThiefKeith · 19/09/2015 13:49

AIBU to think that if you bring your lunch into the office and put it in the fridge you should make damn sure that before you go on holiday you either

a) Eat it
b) Throw it away.

I have just opened the fridge and discovered a colleagues salad. She has been away for the past 10 days. It is not pretty. Just about to upload a pic.

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CatThiefKeith · 19/09/2015 14:18

MistressChalk you are right, it is not important, and it was an unwise thread, but I am here alone today so I haven't embarassed her in front of her colleagues, and I've hardly bought her to the attention of the internet - no names have been mentioned and it's just a picture of mouldy salad. Confused

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MaxieMouse · 19/09/2015 14:20

I forget to eat my packed lunch because I'm busy, or I'm so hungry mid-morning that I snack and then don't need lunch, or everyone is going out for food so I join them, or I forget that I brought food in and go out to get some. I think I only manage to eat my packed lunch twice a week at most.

PuntasticUsername · 19/09/2015 14:20

What's in there, anyway? Basically just mushroom and sweetcorn? No wonder if she didn't much fancy it. I like mushrooms and sweetcorn as much as the next person, but still.

SoleBizzzz · 19/09/2015 14:22

Oh sigh another MNetter fretting about a bit of mould Grin

TheHouseOnTheLane · 19/09/2015 14:23

She's not a dirty scutter! She forgot to eat it ffs. Then went away! If anyone is that, it's the others who've watched it daily rotting and left it!

BackInTheRealWorld · 19/09/2015 14:23

Christ on a bike, dirty scutter? He/she forgot their lunch is all? Why be such an arsehole about it?

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CatThiefKeith · 19/09/2015 14:23

sooty it's not an official snack break. We don't get a small and overly warm bottle of milk or anything. We just all gather for coffee and biscuits at about 11.

We don't get a lunch break either, and have to eat at our desks, so the rules are a bit more relaxed.

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FuckYouBitchImWellClassy · 19/09/2015 14:24

Sometimes I forget to eat because I'm having a sleep on the floor of the cash office.

FuckYouBitchImWellClassy · 19/09/2015 14:26

By the way what is a scutter when in reference to person?Blush

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CatThiefKeith · 19/09/2015 14:27

You are all right, I have over reacted. She is not a scutter, she is just clearly not as food obsessed as I am and forgot about it.

Didn't even get to the prawn cocktail. Sad

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ilovesooty · 19/09/2015 14:28

I can't see why you gather for coffee and biscuits at 11 but don't get a lunch break?

If that's the case though I'm not surprised she forgot. She probably wasn't hungry and was busy.

Cloppysow · 19/09/2015 14:28

An unwise post?

Fuck that! Chat is made for shit like this.

People who leave their rotten shit in a communal fridge for other people to clean out should absolutely be pulled up about it. It's selfish.

PuntasticUsername · 19/09/2015 14:28

Scutters are the little repair robots in Red Dwarf. Everyone knows that! Smile

wowfudge · 19/09/2015 14:29

Are you going to replace the container you threw away?

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CatThiefKeith · 19/09/2015 14:29

Classy you sound like my kinda gal!

It's one of my grans words, she might have made it up, she had form for that, but I always understood it to mean a slovenly person. She called me it a lot in my teens

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HippyDippyRidingPretty · 19/09/2015 14:30

Wow, people are really sucking the fun outta life today.

You forgot the lighthearted disclaimer keith.

Shame. Shame on you. Wink

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CatThiefKeith · 19/09/2015 14:31

No Fudge I am not. She's not back for another week and a half and it would have been scuttling round the fridge and attempting to bite the hand of anyone reaching for the milk by then.

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usual · 19/09/2015 14:32

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CatThiefKeith · 19/09/2015 14:32

I know Hippy.

I'll pile up the stones in readiness - you sell the cones of gravel and otters noses. Wink

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FuckYouBitchImWellClassy · 19/09/2015 14:35

I have never seen Red Dwarf Puntastic,I am so deprived Sad .

I get it now Keith and I am still relieved no one had a shit in the office.

OneDay103 · 19/09/2015 14:36

Good on you for throwing it away. All food gets thrown away on a Friday if left in the fridge. Tough shit If you've left behind your nice container, that's the rules. A few people complained about their stuff being thrown away and then were directed to the rules.
Also if anyone warms up lunch and stinks out the pause areas they have to clean the microwave after. Seems very fair.

Cloppysow · 19/09/2015 14:40

No, i'm an absolute slob at home usual

But at work, in a communal kitchen, i always clean up after myself. I'm fed up of having to go through the fridge and throw out rotten food so i can get mine in. We have one repeat offender who thinks it's hysterical when you find her week old blue pork pies and fruit your thumb goes through when you touch it.

HippyDippyRidingPretty · 19/09/2015 14:45

gravel for sale, cones of gravel for sale £3 a cone...

otter noses, bags of otter noses for sale. Still warm and snotty £5 a bag.

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CatThiefKeith · 19/09/2015 14:50
Grin

You'll make a killing today I reckon Hippy!

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Cloppysow · 19/09/2015 14:51

Shit. This isn't chat.

keith YABU for posting this in AIBU. Chat would have loved this.