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

We have a tiny fridge - everyone brings their own milk but the result is endless cartons of milk going off in the fridge. The odd one explodes or leaks but no one ever cleans it. I use Coffeemate!

Shamelessly marking my place for later

This is ridiculous! Is there an office manager would could send out a strongly worded general email about the acceptable use of company fridges?

Our company provides fridges on every floor and it is very clear that they are for every employee to store food in for consuming in work hours only.

Our office manager would be all over this & no-one would mess with her.

First come first served my arse.

#6 on the necessary superhero list!

Can't you hide some really smelly fish or curry in with all her shopping so it stinks the fridge and her food out? People used to put alsorts of smelly crap in our office fridge and it would tinge the other food with the smell. In the end no one wanted to use it at all!

This is what our staff room sink always looks like. I get coffee somewhere else

I never had any bother like this when I worked in an office, we all jollied along quite nicely

I can't believe how immature some adults are....

I would never dream of throwing away people's food or leaving my washing for others to do..so why do they do it?!

Also place marking.

We used to have fridge wars.

Fridges on each office floor were for milk only (bought by company) and the fridges in the canteen were for lunches etc.

Of course most of the lazy bastards couldn't be bothered to walk across to the canteen and either remove the mill from the fridge or it just got left on the side going sour.

Despite repeated requests it didn't change until one person got fed up, took all the lunches out and left them to swat on the windowsill and filled the fridges with the milk.

Well, there was outrage! It wasn't me but I wish it had been.

Don't get me started on heating wars, walking away from the printer when it was jammed/ out of paper etc. Why are there so many entitled people in the world?

Good luck op.

I laughed out loud at the vanishing spoons in Buddah's office

As I said: a bit of gaslighting is the only way to go.

OP, stop doing actual work and update us!

Well what's happening. Hurry up op.

We have to buy our own milk. Generally everyone buys their own (although the boss seems to "share" lots of people's bottles!). There are a few of us who drink tea, and we tend to each buy a box periodically and it evens out over time. There are a couple who drink instant coffee, and they share getting the jar. And a couple who buy a posh coffee (just regular but brewed coffee) from the canteen.

I don't think I've ever actually worked somewhere that the company supplied the milk etc (well - apart from a hotel which was not near a shop and we had very short breaks - you were allowed a cup of tea very grudgingly with lunch).

Sorry, no real dramas to report -shameless place mark--

Im back!- will ask forgiveness for typos already as I'm writing this is my break very hurridly.

Atmosphere- shit of course. She's being cold with everyone- she left a note taped to the fridge (I defaced it- with the help of my IT bitch - His idea for a NN not mine)

She has filled it up with family food AGAIN!(I could be wrong and her lunch might be raw gammon with a raw cod chaser but I doubt it) but its HOT in here- everyone is very keen to make tea because they want to see who is man enough to take her on are very thirsty today. She is bitching to everyone that she has involved management.

A tip about fuses:

If you want to stop an appliance working, put a blown fuse in the plug. It is less detectable than removing it. All BS1362 fuses are the same size, but are available in different amperages. If you put, say, a 3A red or a 5A black fuse into the plug for a kettle, it will blow, but will look the same.

Genuine fuses are sand-filled to prevent flash, and are marked with the BS and kitemarked. Like plugs, they should never have a CE mark, which indicates a fake.

Forgot to add the defaced sign - Blurred to protect the weak and innocent

OMG and the note is in Comic Sans. You should leave a printed out reply in Papyrus. Up the ante!

Personally I would replace one of her items with a toy version each day, but then I like messing with peoples minds like that.

OP please slit the packaging on the cod & gammon and push them together in the fridge.

This thread is gold.

Just one thing though:

Factory sealed raw meat isn't a health hazard.

Alas not true. They've tested sealed packs and up to 10% have campylobacter on the outside. I always, always wash my hands after handling packaging (actually if I'm picking it up in the supermarket I handle it with a bag on my hand, but that's just my inner scientist being paranoid...)

This could genuinely make you sick.

Your colleague is barmy and your boss is spineless. This is not a good combination.

Or put a note on the cod to tell her about cod worms (saw this on another thread and it's vile!)

Personally, I would tread very carefully here. The more you wind her up, the more likely you're going to end up busted and she will happily wave as you're shown the door.

Why can't you just be an adult and deal with it in a mature way? Stooping to her level isn't going to do you any favours and will look bad to your employer.

What about:

Notice -
Personal lunch belonging to me was removed from this fridge.
This fridge that Management has provided to store food items to consume in work.
We are all delighted with the lunch in store for us today!
Thanks - the staff.

Piglet John that is the best advice you've ever given out!

However I need to know what was blurred out in the 2nd photo.

Be really, really falsely sympathetic and say you had the same issue yesterday when your lunch was thrown in the bin.

Tell her you wi also report it to management because there's clearly a thief in the office.

Then throw something else of hers away.

What does the defacement say op? We can't read it!

I think you should write 'Well stop doing it to other people then!!'