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

Not really sure about this! yes i get she is being an inconsiderate Twunt, but surely you can either go to management and explain this as you need to go higher than her if shes the issue, or just remove all the personal home shopping, leave it on the side then you and your colleagues put your lunch/milk etc in and a sign on the fridge advising it is a Communal fridge and not for personal home items.
Whats she going to do then - complain to her manager/director that people have removed her weekly shop which is why shes also in work late?
Surely these notes are just going to get ignored as she really doesnt think she doing anything wrong anyway without action being taken??!
perhaps thats just me though...

We temporarily lost our microwave when someone microwaved a whole fish and it caught fire, nobody ever admitted having done it. The smell was incredible.
We have now permanently lost our microwave because our new, architect designed, kitchens have boiling taps and dishwashers but no space for microwaves, coffee machines or bins, no cutlery drawers, no draining board and very little cupboard space, they are, however, very well lit through skylights that leak.

She is bitching to everyone that she has involved management?? What? Can she seriously be campaigning for sole use of the communal fridge?
Let her. It'll get sorted without you having to lift a finger.

shoeaddict83 and other posters suggesting OP talk to a manager - RTFT! OP has already spoken to the manager:

DidYouBINmysushiyouTWAT Wed 04-May-16 15:08:50
expat- that is interesting- I did escalate it to the manager "it's really hard to fire people these days" was her parting sentence.

Me: "hmm is it as hard to manage people too?" got a frosty response.

I'll have to go in a minute.

To all those saying Speak to her directly! Take it to management! Please just RTFT. She has. It hasn't worked.

1)Cut the feet off her chicken next time and staple (?)them to the fridge.

Apparently, "chicken feet are best used for protection of your personal belongings, basically, anything that belongs to you that you do not want stolen. It also protects you and your belongings from negative energies or dark entities"

Although it is said that the most powerful chickens' feet are the ones that come from black feathered chickens and not Tesco!

Or make a voodoo doll out of one of her potatoes, add a few pins (googly eyes- optional )

Oops sorry Beauty cross posted.

Utterly shamesless placemarking.

This is GRIPPING. I cannot wait til the next episode update.

I LOVE that you "acquired" her note by putting your name on it, brilliant! not like she can deny it, is it.

I do think that you shouldn't have to do this alone though - if management won't step in, then the rest of the staff should have the balls to back you up at least.

The floor I was on had a woman who was a real b-word

What's a b-word

Beauty Queen i have RTFT thanks, which is why i also know the OP also stated further down from the one you quoted;

On a serious note. I will go about the managers head as it's been going on for too long and sushihater is just causing all kinds of grief.

So my post was referring to going above the managers head which she has said is an option.

New note as if written by her.

Dear colleagues,

I don't give a fuck about your packed lunches, or your having milk in your tea or coffee!

I have put my daily/weekly groceries in the fridge and it's tough titty if there is no room for anything of yours!

I will be binning any packed lunches that get in the way of my pork chops or Dairy Lea triangles!

Don't you know who I am?

Carol/Nicola or whatever her name is.

Put a mouse trap and rat poison in the fridge next to her food

What an excellent idea that in no way could lead to dismissal and criminal charges.

In hysterics laughing you are all evil but brilliant.

Stealth is right. This is not a matter for HR. They are not your mummy. You deal with it yourself or collectively or appeal to the office manager to talk some sense into her.

Would you think the same if it was a colleague taking money out of your desk drawer? Theft is theft.

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

YOU MONSTER! There is such a thing as going too far.

not place marking, oh no

If 'theft is theft', shouldn't the police be involved?

And there in lies your next note

And yes, using comic sans should be deemed a criminal offence

Op is your lunch in there today?

She's getting management support because she's difficult. They are tacitly going along with this because they're worried about her kicking off (bad management on their part, but there's a lot of it about). What you need to do is make it more of a problem that you & her other colleagues are hacked off by this than it is when she is the annoyed one. For that you need numbers. Go to your other colleagues and say 'look, we can't let this slide any longer. I want you all to come with me to see the boss and say we want her to be told not to take up the whole fridge with her shopping, because we're all fed up with it'. Either that or you all need to confront her en masse like the Avengers and say you've all had enough and her fridge misuse has to stop. It's not fair of everyone else to leave it all to you. They need to step up.

Yes if someone was stealing cash I'd be inclined to call the police

Tate you are a monster
op hope she doesn't get to do some kind of damage to you because she looks like she will be getting super mad now. Keep us posted.

She sounds absolutely mental. Who on earth inconveniences an entire office thinking that their groceries take precedence over everyone else's lunch?

I quite like that she responded with a haiku though.

It must be lunch time! What's happening? I'm finding this more exciting than I should be. nudges Madams placemark slightly out of door