Someone's nicked my mug!

[Thissideof40]

Just went to make a drink at work and couldn't find my mug in the cupboard so have had to use a spare so had a quick wander to see whose nicked it and there it is sat on some blokes desk.

Now if you see a mug in the office with a picture of someone's kids on it wouldn't it dawn on you that it actually belongs to someone and isn't a spare?

First world problems and all that but come on!!

[MrsTrentReznor]

I use a mug with my favorite rugby player on in my very male office.
It never goes missing!

[WyldFyre]

What about one of these?

[Wombatron]

Some of the gents used to steal my Cinderella mug at work. They soon stopped when I began wandering around going "where's my pink cup? Who as my cup? Are you a Disney princess? Are you"

Heinous crime. Punishable by death in these parts

[MrsHathaway]

I got so pissed off with this at my old old work that I bought eight identical mugs from the supermarket specifically for spares/visitors/newcomers. Cut down the pilfering by a lot.

Took them all with me when I left though

Usually mugs that are obviously advertising are fair game - eg from the office supplies company or recruitment agencies. But someone's children?!

I think when they disappear it tends to mean some careless fucknugget has borrowed it and then broken it.

[magicstar1]

I've a John Wayne mug in work, and everyone knows not to touch it.

Ask him does he know who the kids on the mug are...when he says no tell him that's cos they're yours - same as the mug!

[Toddlerteaplease]

I take my pint mugs home after my favourite one went in the cupboard and was never seen again! My mug has been nick named my specimen pot!

[OhSuckItUpDucky]

JustAnother you made me laugh so hard the dog started barking

[Theadora27]

If I care about the mug, I put it in my locker at the end of each day. Communal cupboards are fair game

[MummyTheGregor]

I used to keep my mug on my desk, often sometimes on the desk with cold, going yukky, left over tea in it... out of spite mixed with laziness... noone wants to steal a grotty mug!!!!

[MummyTheGregor]

do update OP

[TroysMammy]

I've got work mugs for seasonal occasions, Valentines, Easter and Hallowe'en. At the moment I'm using my Christmas one. No-one would dare use my mugs and my colleagues know which mug to use depending on the time of year.

[WuTangFlan]

Get him one of these?

[SquinkiesRule]

Mine has a large letter P on the side, I call it my Pee cup, no one wants it But I keep it in my lunch box and bring it home to wash.

[Rachel0Greep]

My mug got stolen once. Building with loads of floors, left it down for a minute in the canteen, and it disappeared. I always bring in mugs I don't care about since. Nice ones, but not expensive or sentimental in any way.

[Margot2142]

My mug disappeared once, found it in the art room with paint brushes in it! The joys of school!

[Offler]

I love my mug, and will dismember thieves.

[Lunde]

I lost my mug at a language course for immigrants - it was one I had had since I was about 14 with my very English name on it (none of the others had similar names or were English). The school gave us a coffee maker but no cups.

It never turned up and I graduated without seeing it again - until 4 years later when I returned to adult education college to do University entrance requirements. The college had moved to new premises with a student kitchen - and there in a kitchen cupboard was my mug.

[PigeonPie]

Makes me glad I work from home. And everyone at home knows my number 1 coffee mug, my number coffee 2 mug and my number 1 tea mug and my Bovril mug (yes, they're all different!).

[hazell42]

My boss has a habit of deliberately smashing any unwashed cups left in our office, and I am convinced he threw mine away, though he denies it. I drink black coffee only and never wash it, just rinse it with boiling water, but it was a travel mug, so doesn't show the stains and even if it did, it was my mug on my desk. I still resent him for it, though he swears he didn't chuck it (he is passive aggressive but also a bit chicken). However, he did once break my cafetiere. He put all the pieces of glass in a laptop bag and put it under my desk. Still don't understand why

[pipsqueak25]

inconsiderate knob your co worker, taking YOUR mug, i'd give 'im what for !

[MothertotheLordsofmisrule]

Personal mugs and crockery are very important in my workplace as no one does washing up and the same 3 people (incl. me!) were getting ticked off with washing up when it got to the midden stage.

So we all have our own that we wash up and therefore it's not us leaving mugs and bowls to wallow in cold grey water.

Though I did de-gunk the sink and fridge recently.

[Brainrack]

My mug has followed me around workplaces for the past 30 years - I'd be devastated if it disappeared! It's glazed black inside & I drink my tea black, so only needs washing about once a year - reckon that's enough to put anyone else off!!

[Thissideof40]

Well he was only in in the morning and before he left at lunchtime he left the mug in the kitchen on the side so anyone who knew it was my mug would have thought I was a lazy bugger for not cleaning up after myself. So although I didn't drink from it today I still had the pleasure of making sure it went in the dishwasher.

[Admiralclingus]

I get irrationally angry when people come into my house and use my cup. IT'S MY CUP GET YOUR FILTHY FUCKING PAWS OFF IT. Ahem. As you were!

I used to work about 20ft away from where I used to live. I'd take my mug home with me each evening and bring it back in the morning because I couldn't stand other people using it.

[Sleepingonthebus]

I once found my mug in the toilets. Never used it again.