To think a colleague has no right to take something from your desk and throw it in the bin?

[WildflowerChild]

I’m not talking about food/drink.

I threw a staff members minging plastic water bottle in the bin, it had black mould all over it inside the bottle.... sick however she refused to get rid of it as the shape fitted her hand perfectly hmm

She was a health hazzard to herself!

Photo
Birthday card
Flowers
Twee toy

Was it one of those cat pencil sharpeners that meows when you twist the pencil in its arse?

Did they put you in the bin, OP?

It depends what it is. A 3 week old copy of The Daily Mail, probably ok to go in the bin. Your water bottle probably not. A calendar with naked men on, if deeply offended she should have stuck post its over the offending areas instead of chucking it out.

This thread is pointless unless you tell us what it was.

Hard boiled eggs DO NOT keep forever.

That's all I'm saying.

Agree it’s not “your” desk just like it’s not “your computer” so don’t put anything in there that doesn’t belong there and that you don’t want anyone in your office to access at any time.

Well it depends.

Picture of loving child - not ok

Statue of BoJo with raging boner - bin

I’d be furious. A colleague once took a pencil case and dumped it in the kitchen bin amongst all the sopping/coffee grounds tea bags etc. She was incandescent. He’d done it for ‘a joke’. It wasn’t funny, just twattish.

Was it one of those cat pencil sharpeners that meows when you twist the pencil in its arse?

Wait....that exists?!!!

Can you tell us why they threw it away?

I want a cat pencil sharpener😁

Agree it’s not “your” desk just like it’s not “your computer”

Really do you need me to name the company? Would it have been better if I said my colleague threw away something that I left on property owned by Company X?

For ease I call it my desk, just like every other person who doesn’t hot desk and sit at the same desk five days a week.

It was something like a postcard, photograph etc ... something small and personal that was given to me.

I want a cat's bum meowing pencil sharpener. Never seen them as an option on the stationery order, though.

The point is, this has annoyed/ upset you so is it perhaps worth talking to your colleague about it, to try to make sure it doesn’t happen again?
The colleague may not realise that it has upset you.

Was it the flesh eating sister plant to Audrey from Little Shop of horrors? A dead goldifish that had been there for more than a week? A pretend anti-bacterial gel that boomed ‘ha! ha!’ when you tried to sneak some? If none of these then it’s pretty cheeky (and weird).

Did they think it was rubbish, or was it a hostile act?

Context is all.

If it was one of those fish that sing every time you go past they WNBU.

We dont want to know what company just what it was.

There you go:

www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sharp-End-Cats-Bum-Meowing-Pencil-Sharpener-Novelty-Fun-Gift-Gadget-White-/271696989873

@Soubriquet yup

you could even tell because I tippexed my initials on it

Missing the point of the thread completely but I miss 'proper' Tippex for that reason! I remember tippexing my name on the back of my chair because people kept nicking it. It didn't go down well with management as it looked as though I was trying to claim the chair!

I want a cats bum pencil sharpener!

Hahaha

twitter.com/mumsnet_madness/status/1236005338601738245?s=19

We dont want to know who you work for. Maybe there is a rule that no personal items be left out or an infection or fire risk. If it upset you did you challenge the person and ask why they did it.