My colleague has thrown my lunch in the bin

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What is the correct etiquette please?

You need not quote directly from Debretts.

If I weren't in the queue for the soggy salmonella sarnies left in Tescos- I'd write a longer OP.

Part Two here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/a2631196-My-colleague-has-twat-me-over-the-head-with-a-courgette - edited by MNHQ

Oooh, you reminded me, Derek pinched my tin of tomato soup, and I had no lunch. What a knob 😩

In all seriousness I would complain to the boss

If she denies it- hide all her food. When she complains to the boss she will have snookered herself as a pp colleague did

Cardamom seeds make great rodent poo.

Cardamom seeds make great rodent poo.

And grains of rice, painted black.

Take a pic of the inside of the fridge, and send it to your H&S dept. Tell them it's a communal fridge for people to keep their (sandwich) lunches fresh, and she's polluting it with raw meat....you'll probably all get sent home for the afternoon, whilst they fumigate it!

I got sick of people nicking my milk though - it's a pain when you can't have a drink even by lunch time and certainly not in the afternoon.

I tried writing my initials on the carton. I tried labelling it as dog's milk and rat's milk. I tried "Milk is available in many retail outlets, please buy your own".

All that happened was that someone wrote on it "Please can you get semi next time, I don't like skimmed".

I gave up and kept my milk in my locker.

God....why do you always get one of these bully's....in every office?!

My dad tells the story of when he was a scaffolder after leaving school. One worker was very precious about his jam.

Said jam we on the table at break time and the old boy wouldn't share it. He got up to go to the loo and warned everyone not to touch his jam.

They all took turns to spit in it then returned it to its original spot before the old boy returned.

Why shouldn't he be precious about his jam?!

I have a staff room where I work. I don't use it. If I bring food or drink in then it is kept in my car so that on my break I can sit in my car and eat my uncontaminated food!

I could never use a communal fridge, even if things were vacuum sealed, ID still be worried that someone had done something to it!

They all took turns to spit in it then returned it to its original spot before the old boy returned.

That's disgusting. It was his to keep or share. If they wanted jam they could have got their own. Bunch of wankers.

Don't mind me, I'm just marking my place

Agree the jam thing is gross. I'm glad my stuff is always sealed. We cannot keep milk in there as her shit takes up all the space in the fridge so when the small bottle runs out everyone has soft drinks or herbal tea.

Today the atmosphere is going to be grim.

Jam Owner is not the one who comes out badly in that story.

We cannot keep milk in there as her shit takes up all the space in the fridge so when the small bottle runs out everyone has soft drinks or herbal tea.

If I worked there (and used the fridge which I wouldn't but that is irrelevant) I would purchase milk for coffee and tea and make it fit in by removing her stuff and putting it on the counter.

If she stropped, I'd be in her face saying slowly and loudly, "It is a work fridge for everyone so we can have milk in our coffee and tea, it isn't your personal Bejam! Do your shopping after work and stop being such a selfish hog!"

I don't have time to do the shopping after work like you all do- I've got better things to do with my time-

It's a communal fridge that means everybody which means me too

It's not my fault the fridge is so small they should get a bigger one

First come first served

These are the gems she dishes out

She just stops listening. Boss has said she can do what she likes in her free time before she comes into work and nobody has really pushed it further because she's so unpleasant
She's made it all a bit personal because I dated to store my lunch in there.

I don't get pushed over quite so easily as she will find out

I am gripped.

Does boss know she's doing the shopping in THE COMPANY'S TIME though? That's theft too!

Oh I almost forgot- after being offered the suggestion "internet shopping"

"No I like to feel my apples not someone else do it for me!"

I wonder what gem she'll use today?!

It's been the same ones for two years.
I'm buying a bumper fuck off packet of sushi today. And will remove anything perishable in my way
Mum turning into one of those people but I will not poo in her jam- I have standards!

"I'm" not mum

Oh this thread is hilarious!

Like a couple of other posters, I also work in a police station and our fridge has a lock on as the night shift will come into our office and nick all our stuff if we didn't have it. You can't leave food or uniform lying around as it'll disappear!!

I am enthralled by this thread!!!!!

We had a fridge hogger too at my old place of work, the receptionist (who also refused to pick up the phone half the time). . And she was a nasty cow as well that no-one dared challenge on anything, not even the CEO. (They tried to make her redundant once. She replied; 'Don't be so ridiculous' and kept on working there. Still working there - 5 years later!!!).

Anyway, she would hog the fridge and we all gathered together to pre-load the fridge with our genuine lunch stuff. She got SO mad, that she actually made the company BUY her her very own mini-bar fridge which she kept next to her desk PADLOCKED.

Slim cheesy

You description was so spot on I wondered if you were a colleague- FMFF doesn't have a personal fridge though - phew