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My colleague has thrown my lunch in the bin

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DidYouBINmysushiyouTWAT · 04/05/2016 14:30

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. Angry

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

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letthefundusbegin · 05/05/2016 11:32

It's a lovely sunny day, hide the cod on a windowsill somewhere?

And of course photographic evidence is needed

diddl · 05/05/2016 11:33

Perhaps someone should put a note that says "this fridge is for everyone to use stop filling it up you selfish bitch"

I can't understand why nothing has been said to her.

Presumably management don't care that one person is making everyone else miserable?

paddypants13 · 05/05/2016 11:33

Or remove one item of hers, keep it in the fridge at home for a couple of days and then put it back.

It will mess with her mind.

MTPurse · 05/05/2016 11:33

Please tell us what it says op!

DidYouBINmysushiyouTWAT · 05/05/2016 11:35

nomilk

I defaced it by putting my actual NAME- so the note now looks like it was put on there because MY food was nicked- sorry to miss that out.

I'm rushing a bit Grin

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LaContessaDiPlump · 05/05/2016 11:35

Or perhaps add a note saying:

' I completely agree with X. Throwing out other people's PERSONAL items is such a scummy action; only a person with no functioning brain cells (or a person who'd been severely provoked by such an individual) could possibly do such a thing.'

winningticketholder · 05/05/2016 11:36

Just put "someone owes me sushi :)" then add to the list as the war continues...

OTheHugeManatee · 05/05/2016 11:38

Throw something else expensive of hers away, and then be very sympathetic to her as someone has also been throwing your lunch away. Suggest the two of you talk to management about it together.

MrsKoala · 05/05/2016 11:40

Some peoples lack of self awareness is mind boggling. She is probably feeling really hard done by and righteous. What a cock.

Ilikewinetoomuch · 05/05/2016 11:41

This reminds me ofan episode of friends! "You threw my sandwich away!?! MY SANDWICH!! MYYYY SANDWICH!"

Procrastinationismybitch · 05/05/2016 11:45

I would do a huge online shop, get it delivered to the building, preferably to the boss' office but clearly marked as for her attention. Watch her squirm while she tries to explain and maybe drop in a casual "However are you going to fit all this in the fridge?!"

Or, wait until she pops to the loo and do a lunch order for everyone from a local deli that delivers in her name and tell them payment on delivery.

WhatHo · 05/05/2016 11:46

This thread is awesome. Bravo Sushi, you need to add a note saying "same here - someone filled the fridge with home food and binned mine - this will also not be tolerated" Grin Grin

In my office days I had a fabulous but very badly paid job - it was a bit like Bear Grylls' The Island - paradise from the outside, horrendous if you're actually trying to live on it. It meant that in general we all pulled together. We had a fridge, free tea, coffee and milk from the company, toaster, microwave, proper coffee pot, even a little sandwich maker, and all was well in paradise for a long, long time.

However it was not to last. A couple of of new people started and used the facilities with gay aplomb, crumbs everywhere, repeatedly setting off fire alarm with burned bread, finishing milk, not washing up, cooking fish in the microwave and not cleaning it after (bleugh) etc. The receptionist Jen, who was also the PA and the HR (is that even legal?) got totally fed up and took it upon herself to police the kitchen. She was actually a darling but quite embittered and got everyone's backs up but was in an impossible position because she had so many hats.
She got more and more annoyed, PA notes multiplied, got defaced etc etc etc, but because we were all cool creatives our attitude was 'yeh, go burnt sandwich maker! Stick it to the man!" (yes we were twats but there's a kind of hilarity in it all)

Until one day we came in to find all the amenities except the fridge and kettle had gone. Turns out Jen OWNED them and had got so fed up she'd removed them all. We were a much more chastened office after that.

Then The Porridge Milk scenario happened (god this must be common) and the Hell of Old Rotting Food. After various 'please don't use the milk for porridge' 'please chuck away your old food' emails, Jen lost it again.

The note read "The next time someone uses all the milk in the porridge or leaves rotten food in here, I'm taking the fucking fridge home"

Even the 'children' in the office behaved after that.

I asked her months later and she admitted she didn't own the fridge OR the sandwich maker etc. She'd hidden them all in the basement storage room. Grin

letthefundusbegin · 05/05/2016 11:46

Throw something else expensive of hers away, and then be very sympathetic to her as someone has also been throwing your lunch away. Suggest the two of you talk to management about it together

^^
This. Exactly this.

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 05/05/2016 11:47

*Can they put a CCTV mini camera in a kitchen and film a worker without their consent

WhatHo · 05/05/2016 11:47

Oh I see - you put your name on it. Got it Grin

FreshwaterSelkie · 05/05/2016 11:47

Comic sans! The calling card of passive aggression. Of course she would use that.

She's dreadful. and a bad household manager, that daily shopping lark must really add up.

covertblackberry · 05/05/2016 11:47

Well done OP! Although I'm ever so slightly disappointed that the defacement wasn't an image of a courgette cock Grin

WingDefence · 05/05/2016 11:49

Wow - have just caught up on the whole thread. Well done OP! Grin

diddl · 05/05/2016 11:51

What are people congratulaing the Op for?Confused

StealthPolarBear · 05/05/2016 11:52

I was going to suggest signing your name :)

ManonCrempog · 05/05/2016 11:52

Oooh yes, say what WhatHo said about someone having filled the fridge with home food and binned yours!

zzzzz · 05/05/2016 11:56

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VimFuego101 · 05/05/2016 11:57

I would add a comment on the note in red pen. '0/10, worst haiku ever'.

IlikePercyPig · 05/05/2016 11:57

Why don't you deal with it like an adult? Tell her to stop being a cunt Grin

SecondMrsAshwell · 05/05/2016 11:58

Do you have a microwave in your office? Take her food and cook it all, or half cook it and put it back.

Sorry if someone's said that already

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