My colleague has thrown my lunch in the bin

[DidYouBINmysushiyouTWAT]

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

Start removing things and leaving anonymous IOU post-it's: "IOU one fillet steak and 5 oranges"

leave it alone. It's not yours so it's not for you to throw away. If it gets that bad complain to management or if you have it, facilities, and they should intervene, maybe sending out a mass e-mail.

Management do this regularly and nothing gets thrown away by the original owners. Facilities likewise (though maybe once a year they direct the cleaners to do it). When the fridge stinks because it's got 10+ out of date pints of milk in it, it's not useable by anyone.

If I found a used takeaway packet sitting in the corridor, or mouldy food on the countertop in the communal kitchen, I'd throw it away. Those are also rubbish, and are a health hazard, and are obstructing other people's use of the space. I don't see how the fridge is any different.

You could ransom her shopping. Post bits of it back with the demands.

CuntyMcCuntface

That is brilliant! I am so glad I wasn't there, I would have laughed so much I would have been seen as the guilty party.

Someone I know told me of a colleague he worked with who took his own butter into work and was fed up of other people using it. He got a piece of kitchen roll, shoved it inside the container then smeared toast crumb butter around the edges, and smeared marmite on it too.

Remove all shopping and put it in a cupboard or fridge on another floor?

Moving yes!

Or, steal some onions (or similar) and take photos of them in amusing locations over the course of a few days. Print the photos off and tape them to the fridge..

I'm howling at this! The IOUs are a brilliant idea!

I think regularly throwing away / stealing (why waste them?) single items will be the deterrent you need. Get the entire office doing it so she can't suss the aggressor. She'll be mad as a wasp but she'll stop leaving her shopping in there.

Open the pack of chicken breasts or pork chops and remove just one.

This thread is just what I needed today

We have this taped to our fridge door at work.....

Have you ever seen the episode of Friends where somebody steals Ross' sandwich - there is your role model.

Haha, I came onto the thread to say the exact same thing!
Passive aggressive notes all the way.
"I'm DidYouBin's sandwich, so don't eat me, OK?! [GRIN]

Just no shouting and getting yourself taken off work on sick leave.
"You threw my sandwich AWAY?! MY. SANDWICH?!!!!"

I suggest taking up taxidermy and putting your fresh road kill in there every morning.

You've got to get her back for that, remove the most expensive item - every day.

This may be a pooping in the handbag offence.

I think you should release a bag o' bugs into "her" fridge.

Why don't you just replace your binned meal with some of her shopping

I vote you have for lunch whatever she was planning to have for dinner. After all, if she's binning your food then she must be expecting you to eat from what is left in the fridge.

And why did she OPEN your sushi before binning it?

How about just asking her "WHY?" in front of the whole office

"WHY did you take it upon yourself to throw my lunch in the bin?"

If the woman likes her eggs, may I suggest having some eggs at home for a few weeks and then swapping them one day for her nice fresh eggs

Or replace a couple with hard boiled eggs.

Can you put her stapler in jelly?

Eww Dr if the milk is solid and not in a frozen way then I think on 'elf and safety grounds you can chuck it out before it walks itself out.

Yes I do suspect that this may have happened overnight on some occasions.

Likewise if there is something living in a jar that I don't want to invade my sandwiches...