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 would be with Steppmum.

Tackle her face to face. Say that your lunch needs to be in the communal fridge, you expect to be able to put it there and you expect to find it still there when you go to get it at lunchtime. Tell her that the communal fridge is for the use of everyone, not just for her, and if she refuses to listen then tell her you will go to the manager about it.

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Just remember if you print any arsey messages that IT (and therefore HR) will be able to trace which device sent it to the printer, if it's done within the office. I would be tempted to print some arsey messages, mind you."
Only if you call it arseymessageforthefridge.doc. If you call it document 1 it'll be fine. And I really can't see it or hr getting involved at such a petty level surely.

I would put something in the fridge but cover it in paint or glue. Maybe wrap in cling film and put paint on it so it looks like blue cling film or something, then you'll find out the culprit when they cant wash it off :D

Factory sealed raw meat isn't a health hazard.

YY to Head in a Jar in the Fridge, surrounded by "raw mini chicken fillets".

No MOVINGON- that's me

only joking.

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.

I like the wet office chair. I am curious now and itching to youtube ross and sandwich.

I want to make a big raw food fucking face on the kitchen table with chicken Kiev eyes and a courgette cock

I have just guffawed at the idea of a face with a cock. Made of courgette

I once had to referee arbitrate a dispute about whether a vegan employee had a right to request another colleague hang their leather jacket elsewhere.

Fridge wars is for management though. We only deal with the serious shit in HR

Whisky we did that when someone kept putting our wing mirrors in at night- bit of veg oil on the back and it stopped pretty swiftly...

Blue food colouring applied in small amounts to her shopping should discourage her. You could ham it up with "Oh gosh I think there's something wrong with this fridge! There's some meat in there that's gone a really funny colour!"

TopseyT- i don't think you're getting it. I have asked SEVERAL times. Ive even mentioned she should be in work instead of shopping when she was ten minutes late and I got soaked waiting for her dumb ass to open up so I could get in - she said she got stuck in a queue and pointed to her shopping- I told her I do my shopping after work- that was my top tip. She doesn't get it.

drspouse
I use milk well out of date and butter. If it doesn't look or smell off leave it alone if it's not yours.

I wouldn't do any passive aggressive stuff or do any throwing away. Go through the proper channels. Although I hope you ignore that advice as I want to see her reactions to all this.

Trevor- right now- the things I am imagining!

pog haha great!

Right, sorry, I thought you meant she opened up and the went next door- thought that would give you time to fill the fridge.

In that case I think you all need to turn up with really smelly food tomorrow- egg, fish, and onion-containing sandwiches galore. Leave out on your desks (loosen wrappings to let smell escape), and lament the lack of space and smell loudly all morning.

DH- is livid- he hears it all the time- he's told me to go to the bin and bin the whole lot!

But he commends my face idea. (We're a team)

I'm just here for the courgette cock.

Wee in her handbag and stick a post-it note on said bag bearing the message 'you know why'

Go shopping tomorrow morning as well, or just brink a bag of random stuff with you. When she opens up, run past her and stuff your things in the fridge. Make sure you leave a little corner that would fit a yogurt or so. Tell her it's your fridge too and there's plenty of space.

If you would like to fill the fridge with horrible jars of unidentified stuff that leak over her meat to put her off using it, then the following mixtures may be useful:

clamato juice with mixed tinned beans;
cream and pineapple juice;
fish sauce with diced soft cheese in it; and, the piece de resistance....
Baileys and tomato juice.

Just saying.

This woman needs a good kick in the flaps, she sounds like a dick.

Take all of her food home, cook it and email her a photo of you enjoying your replacement meal!

Go to the doctors and get loads of sample bottles. Then, using warm water and just a dab of Marmite/Oxo (this is how we made fake samples in school) make a series of 'wee' samples. Stick labels on them with times (as though you'd been asked to take several samples throughout the day).

If she complains about you keeping wee in the fridge, just drink one. In front of her. Then wink.

That ought to settle her hash.