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To think don't keep taking my drink at work?

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openitsoicanseeyousmile · 12/10/2019 15:34

I'm known to bring a can of drink in everyday for lunch. It's kept in the shared fridge at work - Everyone knowns it's mine as there's a little section box for each person with their name on.

A colleague of mine is pregnant and for the third time has taken my drink and not bothered replacing it. When questioned, she says something along the lines of "Sorry! Bad sickness. This helps. I'll get a new one for you tomorrow".

She always does, it's there the following day. But it means having to go out at lunchtime to get another one. The local shop is only 2 minutes away but it means eating up time I don't have since I have 30 minutes lunch.

I'm really not sure how to go about it. If it was the usual person, I'd tell them to stop the cheek and buy their own to bring in! But she's pregnant and suffering from sickness. I had HG with my son so I feel awful at the thought of telling her she can most certainly never take from me again without asking Sad

I remember the horrendous feeling of needing something sweet and fizzy to curve the sickness and it did often help, so I imagine it's very helpful to her.

Perhaps I should buy a multipack and suggest she goes half's so we can both enjoy them during the week? Or is this too doormat like?

I'm really not sure how to go about it. I don't think she thinks she's being cheeky in the slightest, and is an otherwise lovely colleague.

What would you do? I usually have no issues being assertive but I feel as if the lines have been blurred.

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Girasole02 · 14/10/2019 16:17

I take my can in a cool bag that I keep under my desk. Some people are just rude.

catswhiskers15 · 14/10/2019 16:17

Absolutely Arya.

Fookadook · 14/10/2019 16:25

@gill1960 stop derailing the OP’s thread.

OP, wtf???!

BigFatLiar · 14/10/2019 16:27

Like the 'jail', I'd have a bar of chocolate or kit-kat in thee with the can. Or you could buy bottles and leave them with the top undone and some taken so its obvious you've already been drinking from it, I wouldn't risk drinking from a bottl someone else has been using.

This behaviour is beyond being a CF.

Serendipity79 · 14/10/2019 16:27

Cant believe the amount of people trying to excuse theft and even coming up with ways that the OP should enable it! Pregnancy doesn't make you steal! If you're taking a colleagues drink every day - and only owning up because they see you doing it then you're stealing.

The OP shouldn't be providing her with multipacks, or hiding her drinks anywhere, or locking them away. The CF needs to be told that the OP brings a drink in daily because she actually wants to drink it herself and so therefore CF can buy her own!

bakesalesally · 14/10/2019 16:30

@openitsoicanseeyousmile please come back!!!

RickJames · 14/10/2019 16:32

Can't believe I'm so excited to find out about a stolen can of pop!

Bluntness100 · 14/10/2019 16:33

She's clearly capable of buying her own. Don't be buying it for her, that's the path to hell.

openitsoicanseeyousmile · 14/10/2019 16:53

So, today didn't go too badly although I cannot believe how cheeky she has been! Although not quite as cheeky as previously...

The culprit did bring her own drink in today. A KA like mine, but a different flavoured one. I saw it there when I opened the fridge.

When I went to have mine with my lunch, she had left her KA in my lunch tray Grin

I couldn't confront her because she leaves early for her aqua-natal on a Monday afternoon

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Grumpelstilskin · 14/10/2019 16:54

If she took your can again, I would report her to HR for theft. Funny enough stores and courts do not accept 'baby brain' as as an excuse when caught shop lifting.

Ninabean17 · 14/10/2019 16:55

She's done it again?! Ffs, what did you say?

openitsoicanseeyousmile · 14/10/2019 16:56

Nina She was gone. There's nothing I could say!

At least she left me hers I suppose. Mine was definitely nowhere to be seen

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PepsiLola · 14/10/2019 16:57

So she took your flavour and left hers?!

Grumpelstilskin · 14/10/2019 16:57

Eeek, did not see update. What a brat!

openitsoicanseeyousmile · 14/10/2019 16:57

Pepsi Yep!

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AryaStarkWolf · 14/10/2019 16:58

When I went to have mine with my lunch, she had left her KA in my lunch tray

Sounds like she's just trying to annoy you now

YoureAQuizardHarry · 14/10/2019 17:00

Oh my god what a cheeky bitch

openitsoicanseeyousmile · 14/10/2019 17:03

She was really quite off with me today, but I can't pinpoint how exactly as she constantly had a huge smile plastered on her face.

We were together, about 3 or 4 of us before lunch discussing her pregnancy. I wasn't part of the conversation, just sorting through post but right next to them. The topic of her aqua-natal came up and she said directly to me "You didn't do it did you? It's a shame. It's really beneficial. But I suppose you were always just too sick".

Everyone else noticed the off tone, even though it was said with a smile. The conversation then drifted away and she was gone not long after

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MrMeSeeks · 14/10/2019 17:04

Id report her. Being pregnant does not excuse you being a thief as one poster on here seems to think Hmm

PanamaPattie · 14/10/2019 17:05

You are going to have to get a lockable fridge box as per PP. She is totally rubbing your nose in it. 😳

BumbleBeee69 · 14/10/2019 17:09

"You didn't do it did you? It's a shame. It's really beneficial. But I suppose you were always just too sick"

I'd have said.. Yes and YET never stole a bloomin thing Grin

timshelthechoice · 14/10/2019 17:10

Sorry, but I'd report to HR, too. She's being a cunt. I'd no longer leave my drink in the fridge, either, I'd invest in a coolbag from now on. Ignore her jibes. What a bitch.

Jeezoh · 14/10/2019 17:11

I hope you left her drink and tell her tomorrow she has to replace the one she’s taken!

ThomasRichard · 14/10/2019 17:14

‘Hi Sharon, I noticed you took my drink again today. That’s 4 cans now. Please make sure to bring in replacements tomorrow in x flavour (the one I actually like). Don’t take my drink or go in my fridge section again. NOT happy.’

That’ll do.

timshelthechoice · 14/10/2019 17:20

Wouldn't touch her drink but wouldn't leave mine in there, either.

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