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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
DIR By: Chez Miriam
Date: October 10, 2019, 9:23 am
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--- Quote from: Codewoman link ---
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> I worked with a woman who had a nose for free food. Any
department had food for any event, she was there. She was famous
for this throughout the company. At one point we threw a baby
shower at work for a coworker and she had the gall to say
"Anyone who wants to come should chip in for the cake. I'm sick
of people mooching food around here." I just about fell off my
chair. I didn't respond because I was so flabbergasted. I just
stared at her until our co-host said she thought that would be a
bad idea.
>
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That needs a 'wow, just wow' smiley - the gall of the woman!
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
DIR By: Kimberami
Date: October 10, 2019, 9:28 am
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You know, I'm not always grateful for my coworkers, but I'm
feeling that way today. I've never known anyone around here to
be malicious. I once had a coworker "steal" my drink. I kept a
few sodas in the common fridge because we worked in a remote
location. He was really thirsty during his night shift. He
replaced it when he came back to work. He started keeping a few
sodas at work after that. It was not an issue at all.
#Post#: 40151--------------------------------------------------
Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
DIR By: Debleo528
Date: October 10, 2019, 2:37 pm
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I once got really mad because someone had eaten my freshly
purchased candy bar. I complained loudly until I realized I had
eaten it myself. :P
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
DIR By: TootsNYC
Date: October 10, 2019, 2:56 pm
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That reminds me of the police officer who got mad because
someone had taken a bite of his sandwich, and accused the
McDonald's workers of having done it as a prank.
HTML https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officer-who-accused-mcdonald-s-workers-taking-bite-his-sandwich-n1035796
He forgot he'd taken the bite himself until the security footage
revealed it.
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
DIR By: katiekat2009
Date: October 10, 2019, 5:35 pm
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I love to read "Ask a Manager" even though I am retired! My
favorite was a guy stealing a female co-worker's spicy food
lunch. He accused her of making him sick and "trying to poison
him", and took it to HR. HR called her in, wrote her up and then
fired her! Fast forward to - She got a lawyer and threatened to
sue. Company owner called her and said it was investigated. It
was found out that the male co-worker was having an affair with
HR Director. They both got fired, and female co-worker got her
job back. You can't make this stuff up!
HTML https://www.askamanager.org/2016/07/a-coworker-stole-my-spicy-food-got-sick-and-is-blaming-me.html
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
DIR By: HenrysMom
Date: October 10, 2019, 8:54 pm
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In the same theme, I saw on one of those “r/“ YouTube videos
that someone, who liked spicy food, got tired of having his
lunch stolen. So he put a lot of ghost peppers in chili, and
took it to work. The thief ate it, got sick and went to HR, who
then scheduled a meeting with OP for the next day. OP brought
the chili to the meeting and invited everyone there to taste it
while eating it himself, thus proving that he didn’t spike the
chili deliberately. End result was thief eventually got fired
for the theft(s).
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
DIR By: Rose Red
Date: October 10, 2019, 9:19 pm
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I don't remember where I read this. Maybe youtube. Someone put a
note on the fridge telling a food thief that the peanut butter
ice cream they stole was actually laxative for her dog.
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
DIR By: Aleko
Date: October 11, 2019, 2:25 am
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In a previous workplace I found that someone was helping
themself to my breakfast cereal (I've never been able to force
down breakfast at 6 am, and used to keep the makings of
breakfast in the office to eat when I arrived). Of course in the
normal way of things you can't easily be 100% sure that someone
has been freeloading out of a box of cereal - you think maybe
you've just been giving yourself larger helpings and that's why
it's going down so fast. But when the thief actually unsealed an
unopened box for him- or herself, that was kind of a dead
giveaway. I stuck up a sign in the kitchen saying 'Whoever is
stealing my cereal, please stop it' - and was pulled up by the
office manager for using a nasty judgemental word like
'stealing'. I toyed with the idea of amending it to 'pilfering',
decided it wasn't worth the hassle of being pulled up again, and
reluctantly settled for 'taking'. Grrr!
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
DIR By: Chez Miriam
Date: October 11, 2019, 6:29 am
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--- Quote from: katiekat2009 link ---
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> I love to read "Ask a Manager" even though I am retired! My
favorite was a guy stealing a female co-worker's spicy food
lunch. He accused her of making him sick and "trying to poison
him", and took it to HR. HR called her in, wrote her up and then
fired her! Fast forward to - She got a lawyer and threatened to
sue. Company owner called her and said it was investigated. It
was found out that the male co-worker was having an affair with
HR Director. They both got fired, and female co-worker got her
job back. You can't make this stuff up!
>
>
HTML https://www.askamanager.org/2016/07/a-coworker-stole-my-spicy-food-got-sick-and-is-blaming-me.html
>
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That reads like a Not Always Right story, but I'm guessing Ask A
Manager is a lot more rigorous!!
--- Quote from: HenrysMom link ---
>
> In the same theme, I saw on one of those “r/“ YouTube videos
that someone, who liked spicy food, got tired of having his
lunch stolen. So he put a lot of ghost peppers in chili, and
took it to work. The thief ate it, got sick and went to HR, who
then scheduled a meeting with OP for the next day. OP brought
the chili to the meeting and invited everyone there to taste it
while eating it himself, thus proving that he didn’t spike the
chili deliberately. End result was thief eventually got fired
for the theft(s).
>
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The only time I had food stolen was when I was in a
card-entrance-only office full of lawyers. ::)
I can't remember if I posted this on the 'old site' or was put
off by the accusations of 'retaliatory rudeness' from posting],
but I just used to dose up my food with Encona Hot Sauce [mm,
spicy!]. I know that once I reached a certain threshhold, my
food was thereafter untouched [and way below my personal
tolerance ;)]. I don't think I could tolerate a ghost chilli.
:o Great for the sinuses!
I never felt I was doing anything wrong; I didn't believe that
making my food to my taste should have been a problem [and if it
discouraged "taking"*, so much the better], but I understand in
those days mileage varied somewhat more than (I feel) it does
now.
I'm hoping that Lady B doesn't think I'm a heathen who deserves
putting in Time Out for such heinous behaviour as protecting the
food I paid for out of my much more meagre salary from very
well-paid "takers"*! :-\
* Thanks, Aleko's former employer(s), for the enlightened policy
of downgrading theft [automatic grounds for instant dismissal]
to an oops! >:( </end sarcasm>
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
DIR By: DaDancingPsych
Date: October 11, 2019, 6:30 am
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--- Quote from: Aleko link ---
>
> In a previous workplace I found that someone was helping
themself to my breakfast cereal (I've never been able to force
down breakfast at 6 am, and used to keep the makings of
breakfast in the office to eat when I arrived). Of course in the
normal way of things you can't easily be 100% sure that someone
has been freeloading out of a box of cereal - you think maybe
you've just been giving yourself larger helpings and that's why
it's going down so fast. But when the thief actually unsealed an
unopened box for him- or herself, that was kind of a dead
giveaway. I stuck up a sign in the kitchen saying 'Whoever is
stealing my cereal, please stop it' - and was pulled up by the
office manager for using a nasty judgemental word like
'stealing'. I toyed with the idea of amending it to 'pilfering',
decided it wasn't worth the hassle of being pulled up again, and
reluctantly settled for 'taking'. Grrr!
>
--- End Quote ---
Yet, if you were "taking" the office supplies, there would be
disciplinary action taken... oh... and they would call it
"stealing".
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