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

Tate that is fucking brilliant!

Or, wait until 3.30pm and go home sick. From food poisoning you think you picked up from eating your lunch out the fridge filled with raw meat.

If she pipes up "but it wasn't in the fridge, it was in the bin" you can do a citizen's arrest for theft.

don't worry ijustwanna

MARKING PLACE :)

'She's not very pleasant when she doesn't get her own way. I am going to shove one of her things in the bin. Ive had enough.'

Wouldn't have intimidated me at all. She needs dobbed into HR. I'd have grassed her ages ago.

Against H&S to have raw meat in such places from what I know.

Was your lunch home made, supermarket bought but in date, or what?

Because I am bin happy and chuck any milk in our communal fridge that is more than one or two days out of date, and ditto anything else, in the bin.

Leads to little PA notes saying "I don't care my butter is a month out of date, leave it alone".

I don't chuck anything else that isn't growing mould, though. I am talking literally growing mould here.

Can you go one further and remove the plug from the fridge tonight before you leave, She will be utterly baffled tomorrow morning with her carrier bag of perishables and nowhere to put them

Can you string her up using stationery supplies and make an example of her?

Citizen's arrest in the office- YES! Her face in the floor, your knee in her back as you read her her rights, I can just picture it...

God. How does she get away with intimidating people? Is there HR? A manager?

Ijustwanna
Op, you need to confront her. If her stuff takes up all the fridge then remove some and tell her you have done it. Plus tell the boss about raw meat, gross

Sorry. At least it wasn't a dirty text message!

Cuff her with some parcel tape!

Drspouse - wtf instead of passively throwing it out, how about you ASK the person whose item it is if you can or if they will.

She probably is HR. Tsk.

She sounds awful and I don't know why you've put up with it so long.

Be reasonable and if she won't respond then escalate. Why should she be allowed to do as she pleases at the expense of others and why are people allowing her to get away with it?

Change Brownie guy for "fridge woman"

Love the head in the jar- thanks I needed some ideas for our upcoming wedding anniversary.

stick she hates me because I am liked by clients and peers and stand up to her when she pushes it. She needs me there as I have a certain set of skills (ha- say that like Liam Neeson) and it makes life very easy for her. She is just lacks so much awareness.
We cannot come in before her as she has the keys and opens up.

Her turkey is in the FUCKING bin!

Game on - food wars! the other ladies and chaps are going to crap themselves when they get caught n the crossfire!

Have toyed with putting burgers next to the sink or maybe even her yoghurts in the top drawer of the filing cabinét.

The ramen office fridge... Ours us normally empty, but if you put something in there, and do not have it out in the same day by 3:45 pm, my colleague would go to the boss and ask for an email to be send around to the whole building to ask the owner of the peanut butter jar to come and remove it from the fridge...

If I was not a such q chicken, I would suggest getting one of those small Icebags for your lunch and take pleasure on binning one item of the fridge everytime you have a coffee.

Ramen??? That polite corrector of my phone, I'm pretty sure I wrote "damned"

Next time, make a buffet out of her stuff. That'll learn her.

Shit like this is why I'm self-employed

Wait until she goes to the toilet. Get an elastic band and place tightly around the end of one of her jacket sleeves so when she goes to put it on she can't push her hand through.

Pour a cup of water on her chair if it is the fabric covered sort. Soak it evenly so that it doesn't look wet.....

Get black ink and liberally coat the ear piece of her works phone.

I'm sorry but if anyone threw my lunch away I would make their life a living hell!

I love this thread, I love a bit of PA payback mess with her head OP!

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.

I just assumed you worked somewhere wanky like Shoreditch where you can't move for Ramen fridges and cereal cafes MeMy