To be pissed off about my Easter egg

[Houseonahill]

I feel like I'm being really petty so I'm ready to take it if I am but I bought an Easter egg on sunday afternoon, one of the medium sized ones for a fiver, and took it to work (in a pub) ate about a quarter of the egg and none on the chocolate bars that come with them and forgot it when I left. I went back in this afternoon, actually made a special trip just to get it, and someone has eaten it! They won't tell me who and all think it's really funny. I know it's just an Easter egg and in the grand scheme of things it's not a big deal but I'm on a tight budget and that was my treat for the week. Also I wouldn't dream of just eating something if it wasn't mine.

AIBU to be pissed off? My work friend thinks I am.

I think it does depend on how it was left, out in the open or put away in the fridge for example. I'd have a word with your boss and say its not a nice work atmosphere to have workmates taking your stuff and laughing at you when you complain.. Thats a form of bullying as even if it is just food/choc it leaves you thinking what else do they think its OK to help themselves to in future and that you will be mocked for protesting. That's worse than taking your stuff. Suggest to him it would be a nice guesture of apology to replace it.
Having said that although its annoying, it might be better to just move on.

I agree with a pp. Anything left open in that atmosphere I would chuck. Especially if it had been hanging round a couple of days.

Just say (in an infant school teacher voice) "I don't care who took it, but I expect it to be replaced by tomorrow and then we'll say nothing more about it".

But, yeah, it would be considered fair game round these parts.

YANBU to be pissed off. I wouldn't eat someone else's left over Easter Egg however much I fancied it.

An easter egg is quite obviously NOT "fair game" and open to everyone. A pack of chocolate digestives or a bag of Greggs mini doughnuts maybe, but not an easter egg.

There’s a chocolate orange on the desk next to me. If I asked the bloke who owns it if I can have a bit, he’d probably chuck me the whole thing and tell me to have it all. We’re not tight! I’ve also got a drawer of snacks I offer if anyone is peckish. But I’d never dream of just troughing on someone else’s food without asking.

Oh I'd be annoyed by that too but unfortunately you do end up looking petty for saying so. Asshole chocolate stealing bastards

I worked with a boy who was renowned for helping himself to other people food/treats. One day I put a tub of Ben and Jerrys in the freezer and, sure enough, he had eaten over a third of it. Picture his face when I told him it had been laced with chocolate Ex-Lax!! It hadn't ,but the fear was enough to cure him of his game

Did you call and say you were coming back for it or did you just show up on Tuesday? I would assume a left half eaten easter egg was unwanted and would have disposed of it.

It doesn’t matter whether it had your name on it or whatever, they knew full well it wasn’t theirs they didn’t buy it or bring it in!
This happens where I work too, we have a staff room to eat in on our breaks and I bought a 5 pack of cookies, ate one and left them on the table, the next staff member went for their break after me (we only go one at a time cos it’s retail) and when I came back there was 1 cookie left! Take one maybe but 3 is just greedy, but nobody found it funny just cheeky, the people u work with sound immature !

I was always told I had to wait until Easter Sunday to start eating the choc eggs.

So YABVVVU to tuck in so far in advance.

But not - YANBU to have expected your colleagues to leave your stuff alone. I would want it replacing plus an apology.

If I was cleaning up in a pub at closing time and found a half eaten easter egg, I’d put it in the staff fridge if there was one or somewhere else safe/hidden.
My first thought would not be to guzzle it down like a greedy theiving pig

Yanbu to be annoyed, OP. They should have bought you another one to replace it and apologised.

I would assume a left half eaten easter egg was unwanted and would have disposed of it.

After two days?

You'd be buying me a new one if you binned my stuff!

My first thought would not be to guzzle it down like a greedy theiving pig

We are very different people

Where did you leave it, on the car next to the Queen Vic bust? If yes, YABU I'm afraid.

I wouldn't be buying the greedy gurs treats any time soon.

*on the bar

YABU on several levels

1. For opening an easter egg before Easter Sunday

1. For buying an egg rather than just chocolate, such a waste of money and packaging when it isn't a gift.

1. For leaving opened chocolate out at work and then getting narky when people eat it. They obviously assumed it was to share. Had it been sealed or had it been labelled or put in a private space like a pigeon hole, desk or locker then your colleagues shouldn't have touched it but chocolate left out at work is for sharing.

I think it depends how it was left.

Carefully wrapped up and tucked in a corner while the owner was still on the premises - I'd assume that the owner didn't mean to share and I'd leave it alone.

Roughly open and lying in plain view, specially if the owner had left the premises for the day - I'd assume that the owner had eaten as much as s/he wanted and had left the rest for everyone else.

I do think it's unreasonable to eat something like an Easter egg in front of other people and not offer it round. I'd rather either share or take it home to eat all of it in peace and comparative privacy.

YANBU. I was once given a box of milk tray by a client as a thank you gift for the work I'd done for her. I wasn't in the office on the day she brought them in, and when I was back in the next day the vultures I worked with had eaten the lot. I was not happy.

To be honest as you left it behind I'd assume it was free for anyone to have some.

My first thought would not be to guzzle it down like a greedy theiving pig

Well quite. But it seems like having no self control or morals is perfectly acceptable when greedy shits are faced with a bit of chocolate.

Pathetic.

I can understand them eating the egg itself as there is something irresistible about the ragged edge of broken chocolate that makes you want to 'neaten it up'. So probably lots of small bits broken off in passing until it was gone.
But then there are a couple of bars still in their wrappers . How was that justified? Someone decided that they were theirs to eat in your absence. I would not be happy about that at all. What has the manager said about the theft?

I can understand them maybe thinking it was out for sharing or something, but once you'd made it clear that wasn't the case it seems mean not to replace it

I was saving a particularly delicious piece of egg a couple of years ago. My dad was cat sitting for me as one of them had had surgery and I had to go to work. I said he could have any of the left over egg in the box, EXCEPT the bit in the bowl in the fridge. Came home and he'd eaten it! I was gutted!
YABU to be eating Easter eggs. It's not Easter!

That's disgusting. I'm proud to say I don't have any sense of humour about stuff like this. I'd ask what on earth they think is funny about stealing other people's belongings.