to not own up to eating the nuggets?

[NuggieThief]

The other day a couple of my workmates got McDonald’s for lunch. They were in the break room whilst I was but finished before me and left all their rubbish on the table. I got up to clear it up and noticed a box of 6 nuggets had been left amongst the mess. I got a bit greedy and demolished them I was due my period and trying really really hard not to eat junk food but I couldn’t resist them. I thought they were not wanted.

Anyway about an hour later my other colleague came back from an appointment and one of the colleagues who had been to McDonald’s said “your nuggets are in the break room”. I then realised they weren’t leftovers at all and I’d eaten my workmates nugs!

I felt really bad but was too scared to say anything and it’s turned into a bit of a witch hunt round the office. The thing is so many people had been into the break room it’s almost impossible to pin it on me. I managed to get into work early the other day, slip £5 into my colleagues desk to cover the nuggets then went out for a coffee and came back to the office at normal starting time.

But people are still going on about who the nugget thief is and the longer it goes on the more worried I am about saying it was me.

It's too late now. You can't own up. You must take this to your grave.

I just really want to know if kateandme is your workmate!! 😂 😂 😂
Don't ever own up, ever

Start a counter rumour that one of the detectives is actually the culprit... 😁

I think you need to avoid suspicion by going all our detective.

I chucked all the rubbish in the bin after I committed the nugget crime and one of the ladies who made the “pool of suspects” comment actually went digging into the break room bin and took all the rubbish out and discovered the empty nugget box in the paper bag and then announced to the office that a mystery person had eaten them.

So everyone knows they weren’t swept into the bin and that they were eaten

Oh dear

You must take this to your grave now.

Buy yourself a Big Mac, leave it in the kitchen, then sneakily eat it and claim it was stolen too. That should cover you

^^ Do this

This is one of those things that, in real life, you would tell your friends about and everyone would laugh their heads off. Yet on MN, it will be outright theft and you will be branded a terrible thieving horror of a person who is likely to be fired immediately and never obtain gainful employment again because of the great nugs theft of 2019.

Have you logged yourself with 111 yet?

I would not say anything. Hopefully they will forget about it soon enough.

They were there in the room right before you cleaned up. You cleaned them up. They were not taken away and eaten elsewhere the empty box was in the bin.

It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out it was you! They are just waiting for you to fess up!

I feel your pain, I ate my colleagues avocado once, I thought it was left out as a free for all but really I know I should have checked. Luckily I chose to own up as soon as I realised and quickly replaced it, she was ok. It's too late to own up, just join in and occasionally mutter 'who would eat someone's nuggets' so you are not suspected 😁

Too late to own up OP, regardless of what people assume deny deny deny!!!

@ThatssomebadhatHarry no, the colleague whose nuggets they were wasn’t in the office at the time and there was a good hour between me scoffing them and it being discovered the nuggets were missing. In that hour, many other employees had used the break room, hence why no one can pin it on me.

I'm sorry but don't you guys have WORK to do?

You know, like Mrs. Rabbit?

Nuggeting madness

And yes there are two women in particular that are playing detective, one of them even asked everybody what time they entered and left the break room that day shock and the other one said it was a good idea so they could narrow down the “pool of suspects”

You could try coolly suggesting they get on with some work instead ...

Honestly OP, you are sweet to feel so bad but it's a one-off & far too late to own up now. " PP suggesting "oh I threw them out by mistake due to all the rubbish" made a really good point ... but if you do that now so long after the event you will look like a loony.

It was 6 chicken nuggets FFS not a payroll heist. I'm sure you'll never do it again - let it go, & let the 2 amateur Private Dicks knock themselves out.

FWIW OP, I would do the hamburlger idea posted above.

^^

Please tell me 'hamburglar' was an innocent typo

Haha what a situation I’d be whenever they mentioned it and give myself away. can you buy some nuggets and shove them behind a shelf or radiator and announce they weren’t stolen after all someone was playing a prank and hid them, or do you have a dc that can scribble a ransom note on your behalf never confess even if they find proof

I llike the idea of the ransom note. You've already paid back the fiver so make a joke of it - but don't get caught and never actually own up.

You should prepare yourself though OP- if the two Jessica Fletchers do call everyone in for a Murder She Wrote style showdown at the scene of the crime... do NOT confess to the crime just because they say it was you.

Too many people on detective shows get caught because they confess all at the end when the detective is calling their bluff pretending they have evidence they don't.

You're an established nugget thief now- don't be tripped up with their rookie tricks.

@managedmis

how does nobody know who hamburglar is?

there was a good hour between me scoffing them and it being discovered the nuggets were missing

So they were stone cold? Bleugh!

This is a very funny thread through. I also recommend taking it to your grave. Your work colleagues obviously don't have enough to do.

how does nobody know who hamburglar is?

I wondered this! I thought his picture is in all McDonald's children party areas?

you can never ever own up. Never. Ever.

everyone in an office situation fancies themselves as a detective. I am still hunting for the phantom shitter from 2009.

They will not forget this. But you cannot own up. And the longer it goes, the worst it is. Next time someone resigns/gets fired, speculate that it must have been them and hopefully the suspicion will land on them and they will stop talking about it.

Were they the new spicy ones?

(Haven't read through the whole thread).