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

Love the homage to William Carlos Williams. You must print it out and put it on the fridge, OP.

Your co-worker sounds rather unhinged. How much shopping does she need to do? Is she feeding an army?

who cleans the fridge OP?

In the UK, campylobacter bacteria are the most common cause of food poisoning. The bacteria are usually found on raw or undercooked meat (particularly poultry), unpasteurised milk and untreated water.

It is not acceptable that she is putting raw meat in an office fridge meant for lunches. But it's even less acceptable that she's putting it on the top shelf where it can drip onto other food.

I'd stick a print out about campylobacter to the fridge next, with relevant sections highlighted.

I'm retired but this thread is bringing back horrible 'wonderful' memories of our 'Battle of the Fridge'. But ours was an employee who decided it was her job to clean out the fridge with no notice and bin anything she deemed to have been in said fridge too long. She actually took to marking items people would put in for 'extended use' (butter tubs, milk cartons, jam jars) with the dates she noticed them in the fridge so she'd 'know when to throw them out'.

She also 'patrolled the sink'. God forbid you should put a dish or cup full of soapy water in to soak at lunch with the intention of washing it at afternoon break. You'd get an email reminder around 2 pm with a cc to management!

Why not add the odd item to her shopping - a half eaten pork pie maybe?

I have to placemark. This is too good.

I used to work in a lab and we shared a staff room for all departments. Certain departments would buy biscuits cakes, treats etc and leave on their departments table. Most people were sensible and not take something from another department without asking. But one girl would go around and fill up her bag with stuff from the tables, then put it in the fridge with a note not to touch it. She would wear her labcoat in the staff room too which is just not okay. Her bike mysteriously got duck taped to the ceiling one day.

Previous place I worked at, somebody would buy special soya milk that kept being pinched. Laxatives got put in it. Half the office went home sick.

I once used somebody's milk because I'd ran out on my tea break. She wasn't there to ask so I just used it. Lunch time I nipped out and bought her a new carton because I felt so guilty!

I also used to buy stuff and tell people they can use it. Just replace it if you use the last of it. Worked very well, I sometimes ended up with posh items that people had replaced it with

does she leave all her stuff in the fridge still in the carrier bags? If so I would cut the bottom of all of them, then cut open all the food packaging, place very carefully back on said shelves in said fridge & wait for the result when she leaves that day

do what Zofranks suggests.

Imagine her grabbing the carrier bag in her rush out the door only to find that halfway down the hall the arse falls out of her bag and all her food falls out of their packaging onto the floor.

And then she misses her train because she has to clean it all up.

Liska No problem, no apology required

What is FMFF? I can only find this

Federation of Malaysian Freight Forwarders

I think I'm missing some of the meaning from this thread ...

This is gripping stuff btw.

I used to have a colleague who would "borrow" i.e. steal people's clothes if she felt cold. Which was every day as she would come to work wearing short skirts, a vest and nowt else - not that I care what she wore, but it clearly wasn't going to keep her toasty. Pop to the toilet or to another office and you would come back to find your dickhead colleague wearing your jumper, cardi, scarf or coat. And then when you confronted her on it, she would giggle in a way she probably imagined was cute and REFUSE TO GIVE IT BACK.

Only recourse was to stand over her, glaring and say "I'm just going to wait here until you give me back my [whatever]" at which point she would eventually look at you like you were some kind of massive fun hater and remove it. But only I very few people had the nerve, and most would just sit there, freezing themselves, looking sad.

She used to pinch people's stuff without asking as well, things like lipbalm, and just leave them on her own desk or in her drawer. The infuriating thing was apart from everything about her if she'd just asked to borrow things, we'd probably have said yes! But to her that wasn't part of the "fun".

Can't believe that bowl story earlier! Poor you.

How big is her family for all this shopping!!

chatty

FridgyMcFridgidaireFace

I don't know what FMFF is either, taken me ages to work out what OP meant.....

shoeaddict83 Sorry, I thought the 'she' in you need to go higher than her if shes the issue meant the fridge woman, I obviously misunderstood.

Glad to be enlightened on FMFF - I had got as far as Fucking Minging Fridgehog Fucker.

"Her bike mysteriously got duck taped to the ceiling one day."

Most of this thread has had me grinning widely, but this comment made me actually snort with laughter!

Valentine2 But why?

Because this, apparently

I used to work in an office of 20, where each and every person brought in their own coffee, tea, sugar, mug and milk each week. 20 or so pins of milk in the fridge and labelled, all half finished and thrown out on Friday afternoon and 3pm, even if the date was next week and even if you were staying at work until 5, because the officemanager did it. It was a oopen plan office and NOBODY spoke unless on the phone. It was the most hostile work environment I've ever experienced.

This fridge is for everyone's use
For storing of milk, and of lunch
So to hog it is CHILLER ABUSE.
Don't worry, your face we won't punch

If you hog it; but family shopping
That clogs up the fridge will be left
On the side to go rancid and gopping.
If that leaves your children bereft

Of their evening meal, please recall
That you did just the same to us here.
So be thoughtful; be nice; BUY IT ALL
AFTER WORK, THEN GO HOME. There's a dear.

beauty no worries, perhaps not clear enough but yet i meant to go ver her head as OP said she could.

freshwater think we need to go with your NN for fridgehogger!!!

Bugger, I've just repeated what other posters have already said/linked to.

I'm taking myself off to the corner to give myself a good talking to about RTFT before posting.

I do see the irony, yes.

What would she do if you stored expressed breast milk in there?

photo of bike taped to ceiling please

Our office gets a twice weekly sainsburys delivery of: all the tea, coffee, milk, herbal teas, lemons, hot chocolate, chocolate digestives etc.

Thank goodness. I couldn't be doing with labelling my own milk, etc. And all that nonsense.