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

very interested

Exit, you say that but I bet your fridge is filled with all your personal shopping, isnt it? Fridge thief! :p

OK serious and sensible suggestion now.

How about Mrs Fridge Hogger changes her working hours so it is better for everyone else for her to go the supermarket after work like a normal personand everyone else gets to use the fridge and not just her. So if her normal hours are 9 til 5, she could work 8 til 4 and hit the supermarket at 4 and still be 'at work' at the same time?

Or print out the dictionary definition of 'communal' and stick that on the front of the fridge?

The first result I got on google was 'used or shared in common by everyone in a group'.

So Mrs Fridge Hogger can't shop after work because she's too busy? Riiight. Doncha just love these competitively 'busy' people!

Some fab suggestions on here. I quite like the idea of requesting a further communal fridge, since the one is use is inadequately sized. Brings it to management notice a bit more. Particularly if there's a risk of lots of staff members having to go off sick because their warm sandwiches have made them ill.

I vote for buying lunch for everyone in the office, keeping in a cool bag till the shopping is taken out, then filling up the fridge with lunch for everyone so that there is no space the next morning.

If necessary repeat this everyday...buy lunch at lunch time for the next day so the fridge is full from lunch to lunch and no time slot for shopping filling.

Aah, the office fridge.

Ours is filled with various cartons of milk in every variety.

All with marker lines drawn on them to show how much has been used and initialed to show ownership.

We've got a food shopper in our place too, who thinks nothing of removing things to ensure her tea for five thousand can fit in.

This thread makes me anxious and reluctant to return to work any time soon. I guess because this has been going on for years she thinks she has every right to park her shopping there. But following sushi-gate I would absolutely print a very large notice 'Communal fridge for food to be consumed during office hours only', tape that to the fridge with duct tape, inform gormless manager of your move and then give one warning only, after which all personal shopping gets ceremoniously dumped on fridge hogger's desk until she gets the message.

OP just a question - are you SURE it was FMFF who binned your sushi? Could it have been someone else?

She is being totally unreasonable putting her shopping in the fridge. I'm curious though whether there could be a secondary culprit about.

Also, why did management reply to your complaint to say it is hard to fire people? Why not just have a word with her? It surely isn't a sacking offence?

you lot rule.

Surely the correct response to the man who claimed to have ejaculated in his milk was for someone else to leave a note saying "So have I".

the old jokes are the best

All this and we still don't know who the actual sushi binner is?

"Also, why did management reply to your complaint to say it is hard to fire people? Why not just have a word with her? It surely isn't a sacking offence?"

That's what I thought as well!

Sounds as if they just don't want to be involved.

When the fridgehogger discovered that something of hers was missing she asked Op, so presumably she guessed that it was in retaliation for throwing Ops sushi away.

Moving on to Page 25 but life is starting to take over, which is really fucking annoying and rude.
This is the best thread in ages. I'd have gone absolutely MENTAL if my food ever went missing. EVER

Unplug fridge, wheel it round to her desk and plug it in there. Remove her office chair and place a cushion on the top of her fridge. Leave a note saying, 'Seeing as how you think it's your fucking fridge, you're welcome to it. Your chair belongs to me now as I need somewhere extra to keep my handbag on as I don't like it being kept on the floor.'

Tate15 you are my hero I actually snorted with laughter

I used to work in a place where the weekend security guard used to take stuff out of the office kitchen. I used to make sandwiches in there, and often had a loaf of bread, tub of spread, opened tin of chicken in white sauce, tomatoes, mustard etc. Several times I came in on a Monday to find the chicken tin in the fridge only had white sauce in it, the meat filched.

I resorted to a small locked cash-box in the fridge, and also tipped away any unused milk on a Friday afternoon to discourage weekend raids.

I used to take lime cordial to work. I don't drink tea or coffee at work & kept a bottle of lime in the tea room so I could have a cold drink at break times. It used to go down pretty fast but people were generally reasonably subtle & didn't take the piss by leaving the bottle completely empty.
Then a new bloke started. He soon got a reputation for nicking people's milk and lunches etc but no one could prove it was him.
My line cordial was still going down faster than I was using it, then one day it vanished completely. The whole bottle, gone! I knew it was him, but couldn't prove it.
So I bought another one. Tipped out 100ml of the cordial and replaced it with liquid laxative.
I put it in the tea room with a note stuck on it saying 'there might be laxative in this, steal at your peril'
New bloke was off sick the next day with "d&v" He never spoke to me again.
Well, I did warn him!

My employers bought us one of those huge American fridges. It was supposed to contain the milk for our tea and coffee and small lunches - ie sandwich / soup, etc.

We have several twats colleagues who on a Monday put a weeks worth of lunches in there, one person who buys stinky cheese so when you open the fridge it smells like a vomit fart, one person who after a catered working lunch puts all the left overs on a plate for her own person use (and forgets them for a few days but woe betide if they get thrown out) and several others who put stuff in the fridge that shouldn't be in there, I'm talking un-opened tinned goods, eggs! massive bags of dried pasta, porridge oats, honey, mustard. We have two long walls which have base and wall mounted cupboards which are 90% empty.

Shared fridges bring out the worst in people. AND my work kitchen has CCTV!

AIBU to be a bit miffed that nothing like this happens wrt the communal fridge I have the pleasure to share at work?
I'd like a bit of drama rather than communally bought milk, communal bread and marg/butter with everybody bringing in whatever they fancy and sharing it with everybody else? How blood boring and vaguely (and worryingly!) communist

The thread just keeps on giving - OP, any suggestions here you are going to use? Do please update - it's The Law, dontcha know

I used to work in a place where the weekend security guard used to take stuff out of the office kitchen

That's nothing. I worked on a site once where the overnight security guard (male) used to do a shit in the ladies toilet and not flush it. I was the only woman working on the site and had what I thought was the only key to my personal toilet.

But no, after a second day of finding his unflushed turd smiling up at me first thing on a morning, I had a quiet word with the site manager and it never happened again.

Yes, do ask management for another fridge, as Fucking Mrs Fridge-Hogger has to keep her daily shopping in it and there's no room for people's lunch. Yes, you say innocently, she shops every day over there, before work - that's why she so often opens up late" innocently innocently as if they all just know she opens late......

I'm so much enjoying this thread.. thank you all!!! :o

Someone in my work has had a habit of throwing people's stuff from the fridge in the bin. Or so we thought all these years until 6 months ago when she ate my chocolate out the fridge. Since she doesn't work in my office much I knew I wouldn't see her so passed on a message through her partner. Message was :"tell that person that if she touches my stuff again I will cut her fluffy fingers off 😄 This was after having spoken to my manager to have a word with her and he refused.
I was suspended for 4 months. 😂 That was one fantastic paid holiday I'll say.

Best thread in ages!

Reminds me of when I used to work at Heathrow. Large communal staff room, large communal fridge. One woman brought in a plated up dinner, think Ploughman's style. It was on her own crockery from home, covered with cling film. She went into the break room to eat said lunch and someone else was merrily tucking into it! I mean, there'so one thing nicking a ready meal from the fridge, but a meal prepared by someone else? There's no way the food stealer didn't know what she was doing. When confronted, she seemed totally nonplussed. It took a senior manager going in and giving her a telling off, as she finished the meal, for her to even comprehend she might have done something slightly wrong. She got a formal warning and work paid for new food for the person whose dinner had been nicked but still - some people are entitled!

honestly, at this point i would remove all of her stuff from the fridge and put it on the counter top with a note

"This fridge is for communal use.. that means for the employee's to keep their lunch in. It is not for keeping shopping in.
Anything not clearly lunch will be removed."

I'd go home early.

With her shopping.