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

I can't believe it's taken me this long to notice the OPs username

'FRIDGE MAY BE USED BY ALL EMPLOYEES.

IT IS NOT FOR YOUR PERSONAL SHOPPING STORAGE.

ANYONE CAUGHT REMOVING OTHER PEOPLES LUNCHES WILL BE SMACKED ROUND THE FACE WITH A KIPPER.'

What shopping bags does she use?

Remember the old hiding a brick in a classmates P. E bag?

Can you please try and do that so she has to lug her heavy shopping home!

This thread has just brought waves of ex workplace stress crashing back to me . The porridge eaters, the tea thieves, the fridge raiders, mum's been to Iceland (before work), the slobby bastards who can't wash a dish, all of them, the fuckers.
The worst was the mug borrower. He used to display massive, suppurating cold sores with alarming frequency. He had no problems using other people's mugs, taken from other people's desks. I pointedly bought him his own mug, with his name on it, but once used there was no mummy to wash it for him so he left it in the sink and grabbed the nearest clean one. Half the staff got cold sores.
By the time I left I had a mini fridge under my desk, bought my own milk (despite work supplying some...that all went on porridge and "lattes") and a stainless steel mug (that I could autoclave frequently) kept in a locked drawer.

I was a people person before I worked there, now I am happily self employed.

Is there a freezer compartment in that fridge OP? If there is I would helpfully put her raw meat and fish in it...to stop it going off. You can't be too careful with food poisoning.

trips over ContessaDiPlump's place marker, lands in undignified heap, gets up, limps off, and stands peeping round corner.

Picks up all the place markers & puts them in MNHQ's fridge Then puts up H&S notices regarding loose place markers.

Take in a bag for life and buy something from the supermarket, put it in the bag for life. When you go home, put her shopping in your bag for life and voila! You won't have to shop for aaages never have to buy another yoghurt

I would confront her politely. I would also escalate her fridge hogging to her managers, I would post signs, send memos, emails and continually being it up in meetings. I hate selfish misplaced entitlement and would make it my personal crusade to stop it plus no-one fucking throws away my lunch.

OMG!
Many years back I worked on a small office with 4 FT staff. We had a 1/2 size fridge.
We regularly bought a load of food on a Monday and had bits through the week.
Milk was provided by the company, no one was a milk hog. And of someone had soup we'd offer them some of our bread because you had a loaf. It was mentally civil.
We had a washing up and cleaning rota (like students! 😂)
The office nazi didn't like rice so I rarely ate it unless she was pissing me off.

I really feel like I missed out on a whole experience of being in an office!!! (Now self employed!)

Back to your problem OP.
You need to rally the troops. Les Mis style. Stand on your chair, wave a red scarf in the air and get them all to start using their fridge. It is their right!!!

fridge abuse
will nobody think of the fridges!

Where I used to work mug stealing was rife, so I simply had a very very stained mug that NO-ONE touched because quite simply it was minging. It was a small price to pay knowing that only my germs (and the small eco system I was creating) touched my mug.

I was actually offended when the PA took my mug home to bleach, but then she reminded me I was now in a secure area with restricted access and my own office

I work from home now and claim the fridge as my own.

I think this problem needs a committee.

When she eventually leaves, make sure you are in charge of the office whip round.

Buy a new fridge with the money and wrap the old one to send her on her way!

Get some butchers string and link all the meat together, so when she pulls one they all fall out.

Barbara I stole your lunch when you weren't looking too

Shamelessly page marking after RTFT!

We had one of those mini fridges in the office where I used to work - massive company but 10 of us worked in a small office within an office as we were a specialist team. We all chipped in a bought a mini fridge to store lunch, milk etc. After a few weeks we couldn't get anything in the fridge because it was filled with 'lactofree' stuff. One of the 'newer girls' who no-one liked for her 'me, me, me' attitude had filled it and claimed to be 'lactose intolerant (despite never mentioning it before and gladly drinking coffee and milky hotchocs from our coffee machines with preadded milk) but the fridge was constantly jam packed with her stuff and apparently our stuff that wasn't lactose free wasn't allowed to touch her stuff in case she was bad. Right nightmare that woman was. She hadn't even chipped in to buy the fridge with us!!

Was glad when she left! Come to think of it, I wonder what happened to the fridge after we all got made redundant :/

OP, have you thought of taping your sushi to the shelf?

My co-worker brought me lunch from M&S today. Plus chocolate cookies. He hasn't mentioned I've eaten all his Percy Pigs too.

I used to temp for years. It suited me, lots of short term contracts and you could observe the batshit of office life without getting involved. I used to often get called parachuted in when a person they were all scared of was away and asked to change a system. No one was brave enough to do it while the office sociapath was present but they would rationalise they could 'blame the temp'.

One extremely dysfunctional office i went to had 3 women ruining it for everyone, i named them George, Zippy and Bungle. Not only were they physically uncannily like them but they also were exactly like them in nature. I suppose that made me Jeffrey (coincidentally i am also Jeffreys doppelganger).

Another office i worked in they locked the toilet roll and washing up liquid away and i would be the key holder and when people needed the loo they would come and ask for bog roll and then bring it back. This was because they had loads of thefts of all their household type stuff. Apparently they employed students and paid them buttons so some of them subsidised their income with the office shit paper.

Buy a lunchbox with a handle and a padlock then lock your lunch onto a shelf.

Make sure you get to work on time, then as soon as she's a minute late phone her number for literally 1 ring & hang up. Then immediately phone your boss to say 'it's gone 8 am, and X isn't here, has she called in sick because you can't get in & she's not answering her phone.' Repeat every single time. When she does open the door, rudely push past her & get to the fridge first.

Hello. No other fridges no.
And with regards to her working hours they already are slightly different to ours which is why she is in "early" to open up and leaves earlier than the rest of us- office locked by boss.

Someone taped a FridgeRaiders bag to her chair when she'd left with her shopping bags for tonight .

I'd make my replacement lunch out of her shopping then bin the rest!

My colleague and I regularly buy eachother a treat - a new chocolate bar, a slice of cAke from the corner cafe that make their own cakes. We all (8) bring in bits and pieces occasionally and occasionally have a pizza.
Makes me really sad to hear of all this crap that goes on.