My colleague has twat me over the head with a courgette..

[DidYouBINmysushiyouTWAT]

Too vague?

Surely the email is Carte blanche for her to keep doing her daily shop since she does empty it every night......
Someone (brave ckc?) needs to reply all and say please be considerate to others and leave space for everybody's courgettes/lunch/sushi otherwise you're back to square one.
Viva la courgette

Please fill the fridge full to bursting with courgettes

So FMFF has basically sent an email to everyone saying "remove your crap lunch from my the company fridge every night so there is room for my family food shop in the morning."
She has more neck than a giraffe!

ok so remove your stuff - then stuff it full again in the morning before she arrives with her lunch! She cant complain then as you've done exactly as asked!!
If shes late in due to doing her shop then you can do this cant you? (or have i got it wrong that she arrives later than the rest of you??)

Shoeaddict the problem is fridge fucker is only one with keys and she shops before she opens up and immediately fills the fridge

I think the only option is to hide the fridge

this has gone full circle, and leaves the offended to carry on filling the fridge every morning as she has the keys... New strategy needed. This has entertained me since last week, so we cant stop now! think the reply to the email with "Why" is the best idea, swiftly followed by a purchase of petri dishes and agar jelly, which you can just smear your fingers over, hide in your desk for a couple of days to grow, then put them in the fridge, with resultant mold fur all over.

bacon apologies thats the bit i couldn't remember from previous thread, whether she just arrived into office late or if she arrived late but made everyone else wait as she opened up!
Fair enough that ideas out the window then...

perhaps reply with an email saying that its no issue as it is a communal frigde and therefore no personal items that are not required for lunch or during the work day should not be stored in it anyway?

Take the door off the fridge.

How on board is anyone else?

Enough to barge past her & get to the fridge first?

Enough to take out her obvious shopping to make place for their lunch?

Surely if she is asking people to remove stuff at the end of the day she is acknowledging their "right" to use it for the day iyswim?

Send an email back with this?

Why......it only needs emptying at the end of the week, so it's empty again for Monday so that everyone can use it again.

Copy the boss in

Ah found you.Was looking for this thread,i even started another one to ask was their an update.

Agree that an email reply is needed!

Be standing outside the office door, waiting for her to open it, with bags of stuff for the fridge
Even if you have to take home some of the stuff in there today and bring it back in the morning
Comment to her that you have shopping for the fridge and have been patiently waiting for her arrival so that you can put the stuff in there

Make sure there are at least 6 courgettes

Okaaaayyy... So, since she always gets in first and stuffs the fridge with her crap, when you come in tomorrow and find it all, you innocently take it out and leave it on the side, put your lunch in, and if she says anything, you say "Oh, I thought it must have been left in here overnight, so I took it out - we got this email, you see....'

I would reply that personal items such as butter or jam have a longer shelf life in the fridge and therefore do not need to be removed at the end of each day, so long as they have been labelled. Removing them and taking them home in the heat like today would cause them to spoil.

So long as the fridge is only being used for food to be comsumed during staff breaks, there will be plenty of room for items to remain in the fridge overnight if they need to be kept refridgerated.

That email needs challenging before you go home tonight. Definitely make it clear that fridge should be used only for lunches etc

I would ask why the fridge is not available for all staff during the day, seeing as this appears to be a problem too.

reply to all:
No. Also please note there are many birthdays in the next fortnight. Please be mindful that fridge space will be needed for all those lovely cakes.

Do courgettes freeze. ITBitch is going to Tesco's to see if there are any he can buy in bulk. He's joking in sure.

We are all a bunch of chinless hoofwanking-custards and doubt we'd actually load them all in the fridge 😁

If it's loaded with her shite tomorrow (boss not in) we are going to take it in turns the open the door and put the kettle in 😁 There's a fourth person we've managed to convert( it's her birthday on Thursday )

I'm eating sushi tonight also 🍛🍙🍚🍚

Shove that up your courgette hole!

I would email back -
yes I agree the fridge
Should be used to solely contain employees lunches. joints of meat, multipack yogurts not permitted. There simply is not the space for everyone to store their families shopping, staff lunches and milk. It's everyone space and hogging is selfish even more so now the weather is getting
Warmer and people want chilled drinks and salads during the working day. Hopefully everyone is on the same page and family dinner hoggers stop removing others lunches.

I am a bitch though. I'm not ops IT bitch but I am an IT bitch lol.

IKEA sell toy fabric courgettes.

Oh yes they do.

Good to see we are still on the winning team, the death blow has to be struck now OP so prepare to do final battle!

Some notes:

Firstly I trust that HQ will see fit to add this to classics; Fridge Wars - The Saga Continues etc.

Secondly I adore ITBitch and have come to the very definite conclusion that he alone is responsible for Franz Ferdinanding OP's original sushi in a complex fridge reclamation scheme Machiavelli would have been proud of. ITBitch clearly needs more work to do, something slightly more challenging at least in case he gets bored enough to accidentally hack something american and get deported.

Thirdly, I agree fridge should not be emptied as per anon email request. Possesion is nine tenths of the law and all that. Either reply "Why" and wait or reply "Terribly sorry but that option is unworkable due to the lack of space left for employees by keyholder's personal belongings first thing every morning. Please inform staff how we can help management reach a working solution. Our current suggestions are;

• to ensure all staff are aware that fridge space is communal therefore shared equally and not open to monopolisation (possibly punishable by removal of fridge priviledges?)
• to increase available fridge space as necessary

Staff also request the nomination of second and third key holders immediately to negate the daily issues surrounding opening time management since this inconveniences everyone. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance blah blah "

I will leave the proof reading and edits to the MNMassive. Hold tight OP, keep that fridge filled with treats for all and remember any casual chat from management must be verbally responded to with "but it is very hard to fire people isn't it?"

OP - can you cancel the cheque?