About colleague and their ridiculous diet

[lastqueenofscotland]

I don’t usually get involved with what other people eat but the lady I sit next to at work is doing a VLCD. Fair play to her I’d not have lasted 5 minutes. HOWEVER, she now just helps herself to other people’s food ad lib. I rarely snack at work but bought a bag of crisps yesterday and while I was on the phone she kept leaning over and helping herself to them when I got off the phone and said “do you mind” her response was “I wish I could eat crisps and stay skinny.”
I got to eat hardly any of my fucking crisps!!!!
She’s done it to a lot of colleagues, will just walk past and pick up whatever they’ve got and break off a bit, and most strangely when I was getting my lunch ready and had a bowl on the side and was washing some cutlery came and swiped the most enormous tablespoon full of it.

Aibu to say if you’re that fucking hungry on your ridiculous diet just get something else to fucking eat.
Queeny doesn’t share food.

That's outrageous. Does she even wash her hands first? Eww

What the fucking fresh hell?! She steals food????!!!!!

Their diet is their own business. Their stealing other people's food is not. If it happened once, I might leave it; but on regular basis, no: 'Sorry, that's my lunch'.

Just talk loudly about your contagious skin-contact disease - she'll stop stealing your food pretty quickly.

But seriously, I can't believe she's got away with it. I can't even imagine anyone in my office nicking food that someone else is eating - that shit is WEIRD and inappropriate and socially unacceptable.

Why are people so afraid to speak up for themselves?? It doesn't have to be a drama. No-one needs to be hurt or offended or so taken aback they're struck dumb. Just a simple "eh, buy your own" when she dips into your crisps or "did you just dip into my lunch?" and wait for an answer.

Who gives a toss about her diet / calories or wants to go to the trouble of putting a feckin mouse-trap in your crisp packet (chances are you'd forget it's there anyway).

I used to work next to someone who did this a lot.
I don't have a lot of patience for shit like that, so the 3rd time he did it i smacked my hand down on top of his - hard - looked him straight in the eye and said one word "NO!".
Then turned back round to what i was doing.
The 4th time he tried it i spoke to him like i do with toddlers when they're misbehaving, my tone was a mixture of sarcasm and patronisation.
He never did it again.

Don’t mince your words. Next time she does it simply say to her:

“That is theft. Theft is gross misconduct punishable by instant dismissal. Do you really want to lose your job over a crisp?”

I don't talk to toddlers with sarcasm or patronisation by the way.....just had to explain in baby language, very simply why their behaviour was wrong.

That sounds absolutely crazy! Keeps nicking everyone's food! You shouldn't be putting up with it and need to say something.
I have real eating issues and if someone took a bit of something I was eating it would mean I would go without as I couldn't handle that.
And it doesn't sound like she's on a VLCD at all

I would literally say 'STOP taking my food'. No joke, no conversation. Simple!

TK421 As annoying as the behaviour is, I don't think there's a HR dept in the world that would dismiss someone for nicking a crisp. OP would just sound like a batshit drama queen if she said that!

This is just insane!

Nobody I have ever worked with would just swipe my food, wtf is wrong with her.

Are you friendly rather than just work colleagues? As I find it impossible to believe a work colleague would do that.
Obviously you all need to ask her WTF is she thinking!

She Hangry Lady.

I wouldn't be able to help myself telling exactly where to go!! Pure CF.

I'd make a loud siren noise and shout "FOOD THIEF, FOOD THIEF!!" every time she came near. Bet she'd stop pretty quickly.

Tell her every single time that if she wants more food, she should go and get it herself.

And if she mentions anything like “I wish I could eat crisps and stay skinny.” tell her that she won't be skinny eating other people's crisps either.

Wow. She'd be getting a 'get the fuck out of my food, bitch', from me.

(I don't share food either).

"Oi, get yer thieving hands off my food." Every time.

I'd have a shatter proof flexible ruler on my desk & wack her fingers every time she went near my food, alternatively a snappy mousetrap in a bag of crisps should stop her.

We had a food monster at work. My baldly spoken colleague commented loudly 'oh! I was wondering why your diet isn't working, its because you're eating all our food. We'll be the thin ones at this rate'

"Get to fuck" should cover it. How rude of her.

I loathe people who steal food from my plate and if they do it more than once, having been told in no uncertain terms not to, then the next time they get stabbed in the hand with my knife or fork. Fortunately haven't drawn blood yet but they don't do it again.

Since you can't wound your colleague, either put your crisps in a drawer or next time she does it slap her hand away and say 'you seem to be under the misapprehension that I don't mind you stealing my crisps whereas in fact I do mind, very much, so just stop it!'

I'm glad I'm not the only one that would smack her hand - I was too chicken to say I'd do that, but I actually would - purely on reflex!

Would you not say “You’re on a diet- don’t eat that!”

Is the diet a cover story and actually she’s not bringing in food cos she can’t afford it?

'Can you stop eating my food please it's rude' should cover it without being too rude yourself