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!!

[blogask]

I would just leave mine in my locker if i am that particular.

[Nicpem1982]

I'd be furious I have a specific mug both at home and work it's the right capacity, weight and keeps drinks hot for ages.

The message is simple if it's not yours keep ur mits off

[fanniboz]

I have my own mug for work and I take it home at the end of every shift and bring it in again with me later in my defence I work in a nursing home so who knows what state it could end up in! I also bring in my own teaspoon

[BigcatLittlecat]

Someone used one of my mugs last week to drink tomato soup out of! I'm still in crisis about it! I hate tomato soup! It was my mug! It's been through the dishwasher 7 times and I'm still scared of it!

[Flumplet]

I would literally have hunted them down to find it. I can't have tea out of some random crappy mug.

[gotthearse]

YABVVU. ITS A FUCKING MUG, not a toothbrush.

[AngryGinger]

We have this lady at my work, a lovely lady buuuut she just appropriates mugs wherever she goes. I lock mine in my locker if I'm going to be in later than she is. Yanbu at all yo be annoyed by it at all

[ChickenVindaloo2]

I don't drink tea or coffee but I do like an occasional hot chocolate.
Having seen the gross work kitchens in most offices and noticing how skanky most of my colleagues are, I prefer to keep a supply of disposable cups for this purpose.
And don't get me started on the communal microwave. I'd sooner die than use it.

[torthecatlady]

I had a reusable Starbucks mug in work and couldn't find it.

I said "where's my cup gone? It was just there 10 minutes ago..."

Then a guy I work with said brazenly, "Oh, I threw it in the bin!"

Cue the look of horror on my face, "WHY?"

Colleague - "I didn't think you'd want to use it again."

(The rage) Of course I wouldn't want my fucking reusable mug from Starbucks.. He even knew it was mine, well actually it's dh's which I borrowed!

On another occasion I took one of those costa thermos mugs into work and someone put it through the dishwasher, breaking the seal.

My work place is where cups go to die, apparently.

[Masketti]

I was given a joke mug when I left one workplace. Memorable for me but a really shit mug for anyone else. Went missing. Couldn't possibly have been broken because it was made of melamine which is probably why no one ever stole it. Still furious.

Lovely mug which reminded me of another workplace. Totally bizarre shape and size so again memorable but not much real use. Someone used it and massively chipped it

Finally cottoned on that being shit doesn't stop someone from using it but being embarrassing does. I went on holiday and came back with a ludicrously religious mug from a shrine. Never been touched

Like the princess mug or rugby player mug PPs mentioned. You just need to find the line, cross it and no one will ever trouble you again.

YANBU. Dirty feckers in my office can neither wash up nor load a dishwasher.

[NoMoreMarbles]

I don't know why some people think it's ok to put their mouth on another persons cup rim...

I use my cup (has a big E on the side and a lovely well balanced size to handle ratio and gorgeous thin rim) and my cup only in work. We all have our own and don't regularly have new faces so it's no excuse for anyone to contemplate using someone else's mug! I don't have cold sores but others in our office do so I will stoop to a swift snatch of my cup if I see anyone else raising it to their lips!

[GriefLeavesItsMark]

I appropriated a mug from the works kitchen a couple of weeks ago; it had the look of a mug with no specific owner, so I just took it.
I am starting to worry that I stole it, but I have got used to it and don't want to give it back.

[CruCru]

Ah, I see. No, there were loads of mugs (most plain) but someone had chosen to bring their own mug in. By using that mug, I was definitely not depriving someone of a tea / coffee.

[oldlaundbooth]

Totally unacceptable.

[Heatherjayne1972]

We have a list up of names and descriptions of each mug along with what each person has milk /sugar etc
Stealing mug that's not yours is a capital offence

[Mamawingingit1234]

Ohhh I totally get this. My old work was gross- people just didn't care so I even had my own knife and fork which I usually kept in my drawer. Wasn't fast enough to the dishwasher one morning and this guy had used it and was running his finger long the knife and licking him finger REPEATEDLY!!!!
So I told him I often used it for peanut butter and good luck (guess who had a nut allergy)

[Lifeonthefarm]

Someone used my mug and broke it. Wtf! I painted it in a pottery place and even wrote my name on it (yes I'm one of those people but I don't give a fuck!)

If I ever saw someone using my mug I would go batshit crazy. Even thinking about it now makes me consider who at my work would be reckless enough to do this and how I would fuck them up if I found them with it!

This really is very first world problems though and I do sound as though I have a milk aggression issue

[Lifeonthefarm]

Mild lol not milk

[PeachBellini123]

I plan on bringing my mug home from work when I go on maternity leave.

I actually lock mine in my drawer after someone borrowed it - it's now got a small chip on the bottom of it

[OhtoblazeswithElvira]

People have dishwashers at work

[MummyIsAFreeElf]

I have my favourite mug at home and go ballistic if any one else uses it, I don't see how work would be any different.

You don't come between a tea/coffee/hot chocolate drinker and their mug!

[toriap2]

Someone dod that to me at work. They then broke it. I never found out who it was though

[Summerlovin24]

They are the sort of people who not only sont wash up but leave dirty mugs.in sink. They are then in the way if you want to wash anything. Bad colleagues...

[Andromache77]

I used to work in a family-owned company, think large multinational but still mostly family-owned and managed, at the headquarters, more precisely three doors away from the owners, so we shared a kitchenette. We had logoed and numbered mugs. On your first day at work you were issued a mug, your mug, which was assigned to you randomly by the bosses' secretary and registered in a list to your name. It was all very official and a bit OTT but hey, no one ever dared steal my mug (or anyone else's for that matter). A bit of healthy CEO fear does wonders.

Years later I was gifted a lovely mug and used it alongside the official one (tea in the lovely one, water in the other one) but I think that I was the office rebel for that .

[thecraftyfox]

My lovely mug got swiped when I started maternity leave unexpectedly early. Two office moves later it hadn't turned up then about 18 months later reappeared in the kitchen so I took it back. I only drink black coffee so never put it in the dishwasher and leave it on my desk (about 50 people use our kitchen area. No dishwasher would make it even grosser). Went on annual leave for 2 days and some fucker swiped it again. I stalked round our floor til I found it on some bloke's desk and took it back. Then sharpied my name all over the bottom of it. We don't have lockers so hiding it is not an option.