to ask you to help with my office battle?

[CopperHandle]

Bloke and I at work having A Dispute over a fiver.
He believes that the fiver is mine, I believe that it is his.
Cue the Fiver War of 2017.

So far he has hidden the fiver between the keys of my keyboard, in my office trainers (kept under my desk) and tucked in the grid cover of my desk fan.

I have stuck it under his mouse (covering the sensor) and taped it HEAVILY with washi tape (brightly coloured masking tape) to his desk.

Fiver is currently on my desk.

I need HELP, please lovely Mumsnetters - I am very competitive in need of a win this week

I have no suggestions, just here to watch the love story unfold

Was going to suggest folding and freezing it and adding ice cubes to his drink

OK, went for a coffee and I know it's somewhere but can't for the life of me find it. Trying to find it without looking like I'm looking. Have checked my stapler, hole punch (finding a delightful amount of hole punch confetti which I'm sure can be utilised), mug, drawers, printer tray, mouse, keyboard, fan...

Don't put it anywhere for ages. Sit back and look smug whilst watching him grow ever more puzzled.

Think you need to ask admin to move this to the relationships board

We had a kidnapped monitor in our work complete with ransom notes.

SoupDragon starting to think that's what's he's done to me

When you find it, wash it. Properly. Fold it up as much as you can. Pop it in your mouth, snog him and pop it over into his mouth...

Have you checked all pairs of shoes under your desk? also do you have files/folders of work on your desk? Check i those, in between pages in notebooks/diaries etc....

I have a strangely desperate need for you to win now that we are deeply emotionally involved on your team...

Does he have a water/drinks bottle of thermos? popping it in there would be great, especially if its not transparent.

if he leaves his computer unattended, change his screen saver (or background image) to picture of fiver.

When you're fed up of the games, stick £2.50 under his keyboard.

Do not put it in a drinking container. God only knows how many people handled it other than you without washing their hands after the loo etc.

I love the balloon idea.

Placemarking :-D need to see who wins this

Look for a video on YouTube of how to do sleight of hand tricks and then 'find it from behind his ear.

Ahh you must win this war

No surrender !

Taped on the ceiling directly above his work chair?

Post it to him in a very official looking envelope?

Add 20p on to it and tell him it's gained interest.

is there a really crap animal at some zoo that you can sponsor/name/adopt for a fiver? If so do so in his name.

namechange I love the idea of it earning interest. that's a great escalating move.

I wonder if OP has found it yet?

Any luck Op?

Best post ever! Ha

Did you find it? Love the jelly idea!

Fiver yet undiscovered.

However he did send me a rather too serious WhatsApp message for my liking saying that he feels bad. Little bit of a backstory but I'm an incredibly underpaid junior member of staff, work way above my pay grade has been put on my plate (rapidly growing company) and I'm literally surrounded by staff members on three times my salary - the level of work I'm doing is not far off their level (though not quite). Fiver Guy is a little cross on my behalf for this reason, and knows that my ex stole almost £10k off me at the beginning of the year, so between those two things, money could be seen as a sensitive topic.

(Told you it got serious!)

He sounds a keeper OP - sorry to hear about the hard time you had. Have you asked for a rise? Make a list of all the stuff you do and go for it.

Fiver my arse!

Are you both single?