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.

Your'e not going to say what was thrown so can't answer just delete the thread.

Was it a chocolate cast of your anus.

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

Your “Jim Fixed It Fir Me” medal

I thought we'd know what it was by now.

In all offices I have worked in there is a general unwritten rule that you dont muck about with a colleague's desk. This means:

• leaving personal items alone
• not fiddling with screens, chair height, cables etc (or putting them back where found)

It is bad manners to fiddle with somebody else's property. Even worse to destroy it.

Eight pages later and you won't even say what it was. Maybe the colleague did it because you're annoying.

yogafailure
Me too 😂
OP has probably gone to bed/ out for a meal while this chaos continues.
😂😂😂

If it's your mug and you weren't in the process of cultivating a pet slime mould in it, kill them.

In most of the places I worked at, we had clean desk policies. You put your stuff away at the end of the day. Anything left out was fair game for the cleaners to dispose of.

The cat bum sharpener is going to experience a sharp increase in sales...who can resist!😂

YANBU at all. Unless it's rotting food, no one has a right to take something off your desk and bin it.

I remember my cosmetic bag going missing from the ladies bathroom at work. When I asked about it, the office manager said she binned it as she thought I wasn't using it. How would she have known I wasn't using it, unless she was looking inside it which she probably was as she was a nosey cow.

Brexit related?
Avon saleswoman of the week?

Did you ask them why they had done it? And was the item damaged beyond use?

In which case I'd take something from theirs and do similar.

I hope tomorrow someone somewhere says "do you remember someone binned an x off that desk and they made the crappest thread on Mumsnet about it"

Obvs it's 'not OK' to throw away something from a coworker's desk. The correct thing to do would be to inform management and have them handle it. But there are reasons why one would want something gone:

Offensive material (nude/racist/misogynistic/etc)
Political material (as above or just because they disagree with it)
Religious material (same as political)
'Lovey dove' picture and you're dating their ex
Material that is 'pointedly' about that person

Thing is, OP, you're not only coming across as 'coy' about what the item is, it's also giving rise to the idea that the 'tosser' may have had a very good reason to want to have it removed from your desk.

A coaster woven out of pubic hair?

Does anyone else remember a thread from a few years ago where a MNetters colleague had a golliwog on her desk and refused to get rid of it?

Are you that colleague OP?

Come on op I''m going to bed soon and I wont be able to sleep not knowing. Please ........

Is it your dead cat, taxidermied?

Paper? Snow? A GHOST!!!!!

Booooorrrinnngggg !!

is it a photo of your DH doing his outing hobby??

fucks sake wo/man ?

Is it your dead cat, taxidermied?

Oh, come on, donkey! Who doesn't have a dead cat on their desk?

I think it was an IKEA glass frame containing a pubic hair collection stuck onto a sheet of black card, with names and dates written in gold pen.

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

Helium comedy boobs balloon?

Tube of Novichok?

Your Gender Recognition Certificate? (One for the FWR denizens)

Was it a photo of her husband ?