My colleague has thrown my lunch in the bin

[DidYouBINmysushiyouTWAT]

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

Why not just say 'It's a communal fridge, don't remove other people's stuff and stop storing your shopping for home in it?'

No?

Or-another idea-unwrap all the food she has left in the fridge. Leave hand prints and fingertip indents in everything she has stored in there, so it is plain that every item has been pawed and swiped. Say nothing.

Can you just ask her why she thought it was ok to bin your lunch?
Why is everyone so scared of this woman?

Arf- I love that. Her turkey slices will been opened and binned (that'll be the fastest fake wee ever) I will do exactly that.

We had the email circulated she hasn't changed a thing. I sometimes get dropped off to work early (when she is supposed to be on the premises) and there she is next door in the supermarket- loading up on KIEVS and CHOPS (angry voice) then she spends the next 20 minutes packed all her shit into the tiny work fridge.

I would send an email round the whole team, humorously worded as the opening pages of a 1930s whodunit... the mysterious case of the disappearing sushi.

Go to the butchers and buy a pigs trotter. Swap the trotter with her raw meat.

Buy a joke severed foot and place next to her food.

Buy some clear plastic pots and experiment with various liquids until you can make a urine coloured liquid and fill pots. Label as urine samples.

Buy some fake plastic cock roaches and hide in and on her food packaging.

Or do as I would and tell her to do her fucking shopping on the way home from work and only keep packed lunch or snacks in fridge the same as everyone else as her filling it with her shopping is taking the piss!

Our fridge has a big sign saying anything left will be binned at 16:30 on Friday. It's clear it's communal, though.

Just remember if you print any arsey messages that IT (and therefore HR) will be able to trace which device sent it to the printer, if it's done within the office. I would be tempted to print some arsey messages, mind you.

I think its ok ijustwanna but we'll keep you posted x

Our fridge policewoman threw away someone's expensive selection of cheese bought that day from a specialist shop because it was 'very stinky'.

Please excuse my last post, was texting/posting and got mixed up. Has been repoted!

PaulAnka- I have done that a million times. Her responses vary from "first come first served" "There's plenty of room there" "Communal means me too"

So today I put my lunch in there- and it miraculously has opened itself and launched itself into the kitchen bin.

Everyone is scared of her- she's pretty intimidating to the others. She's not very pleasant when she doesn't get her own way. I am going to shove one of her things in the bin. Ive had enough.

Buy a pack of googly eyes and stick a pair on every item she puts in the fridge.

'My lunch was in there and you binned it. It cost X. I'd like to be compensated for it.'

And then you need to show the photos of the fridge to whoever is the boss in there because keeping raw meat in it can get the company into a lot of trouble if someone got sick.

Colleague is a bully. You're well within your rights to ask them to pay for your replacement sarnie. Bullies only bully when they can get away with it.

Does your boss know nothing of this, or are you all completely cowed by this person?

Reported!!!!!

Ijustwannadance did you just text on a thread?

The best one! Find a photo of her and get it enlarged. And do this
www.instructables.com/id/head-in-a-jar-prank/

Excellent dance

If it's a communal fridge and you have cooking facilities can you not have kievs all round, and thank her for her generosity?

Hahaha Ijustwanna - you did, didn't you?

Close the office and get everyone on a fingertip search for your lunch.

Then let HR know. We're basically in loco parentis for employees so we won't make this face -> promise!

I would take the raw meat out and put it on the worktop...every time

She should do her shopping after work! It's not exactly a massive trek to the supermarket is it.

I'm quite laid back but I would be kicking up a fuss about it. I think the most PA thing to do would be to arrange for all your colleagues to turn up early and fill the fridge with lunch boxes. Then stand in the kitchen drinking tea when she arrives with her stuff.

Where I used to work there was a woman who did this regularly. Someone accidentally used the milk she had bought in her lunch break once to make a cup of tea, she went nuclear

Have you ever seen the episode of Friends where somebody steals Ross' sandwich - there is your role model.