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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: TootsNYC Date: October 11, 2019, 9:19 am
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[quote]That reads like a Not Always Right story, but I'm
guessing Ask A Manager is a lot more rigorous!!
[/quote]
AskAManager doesn't really fact-check. She may email back and
forth, but generally she's not too worried about being spoofed.
If she thinks the topic brings up an interesting point that
other people might learn from, she uses it anyway.
Though I guess "having the person's email and sometimes emailing
them" is "a lot more rigorous" than Not Always Right. ANYTHING
is more rigorous than Not Always Right.
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: Rose Red Date: October 11, 2019, 9:56 am
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[quote author=TootsNYC link=topic=1359.msg40194#msg40194
date=1570803559]
Though I guess "having the person's email and sometimes emailing
them" is "a lot more rigorous" than Not Always Right. ANYTHING
is more rigorous than Not Always Right.
[/quote]
Ha! True. Off-topic, but once on NAR someone submitted the old
chestnut that he was lounging around and the owner of the
company happened upon him and gave him a days pay and told him
he's fired for laziness and wasting company time. That joke's
older than the hills but NAR posts everything as fact.
#Post#: 40232--------------------------------------------------
Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: MagicEyes Date: October 11, 2019, 4:56 pm
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I haven’t had too many problems with food being stolen at work,
but when I ate breakfast this morning I’m pretty sure there was
less fruit in the fridge than I had yesterday. :'( I’ve had
food stolen in the past, but I thought that was over. I guess I
was wrong.
#Post#: 40249--------------------------------------------------
Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: LifeOnPluto Date: October 11, 2019, 11:41 pm
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I reckon someone needs to invent some kind of mini-alarm for
lunchboxes or lunch bags... Like in that kid's book "Dear Mr
Henshaw"...
#Post#: 40256--------------------------------------------------
Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: Dazi Date: October 12, 2019, 5:31 am
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I swear some of these I could have written. I've had...
The boss who stole my food even though he knew I have horrible
food allergies and I just couldn't go get something quick.
I've had the guy who said I tried to kill him with my super
spicy food, but I just come from an area with hot food and I
love it.
And my personal favorite... I've had the guy who said I tried to
kill him because he stole my lunch and had an anaphylactic
reaction to the peanuts in it (this was pre peanut allergy for
me). I still to this day don't understand why the hell you'd
steal and eat random food when you KNOW you have an anaphylactic
food allergy. Oh, and the jackhole didn't even carry an EpiPen,
I used one of my own on him, but he still insist to this day
that I tried to kill him with my lunch. ::) ::) ::)
#Post#: 40269--------------------------------------------------
Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: Aleko Date: October 12, 2019, 12:36 pm
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[quote]And my personal favorite... I've had the guy who said I
tried to kill him because he stole my lunch and had an
anaphylactic reaction to the peanuts in it (this was pre peanut
allergy for me). I still to this day don't understand why the
hell you'd steal and eat random food when you KNOW you have an
anaphylactic food allergy. Oh, and the jackhole didn't even
carry an EpiPen, I used one of my own on him, but he still
insist to this day that I tried to kill him with my lunch. ::)
::) ::)[/quote]
To which I suppose the only answer would be, 'Listen, sunshine,
if I had really been trying to kill you, I would'nt have wasted
a perfectly good EpiPen saving you, and you'd be dead. You be
more careful from now on, I might not want to waste another.'
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: Rose Red Date: October 12, 2019, 1:57 pm
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I don't understand the mind of people who steal random unknown
food and claim the rightful owner is trying to kill them. What?!
I don't even know you! I have a right to put ghost peppers or
peanuts in in my own dang food. If you steal it, it's on your
own dang head.
Personally, I hate that you have to prove that you didn't tamper
with your own food on purpose to trap a thief. They shouldn't be
stealing!!!!!
#Post#: 40272--------------------------------------------------
Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: jpcher Date: October 12, 2019, 3:03 pm
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I bring a grocery store pre-packed bag of small apples to work.
There's a dozen apples in the bag, so the bag stays in the work
fridge for a few weeks. If someone else is in the kitchen when
I'm getting my apple I'll ask if they would like one as well. I
can share, no problem.
One day when I went to get my apple (in the morning) I found the
bag missing from the fridge. Shock! There were 5 apples left!
Disappointed, I turned my head and saw my bag of apples in the
garbage. I picked up the bag and the apples were still a bit
cold, so someone threw the apples away earlier that morning.
(Maintenance comes around in the evening to empty the trash bins
so there was nothing in there except for my bag of apples). I
took my bag of apples out of the trash and put it back into the
fridge. I took an apple back to my desk, not as cold as I
normally like them but still crunchy an delicious.
Then I put a note on the fridge "To whoever threw my apples
away, please don't do that again."
I mean, I can police my apples. If they're going bad I know well
enough when to toss them!
Here's the funny: A few weeks later admin sent an email about
cleaning out the fridge basically saying "if you don't have a
name on it then it will be tossed."
Good for her! and I thanked her for taking care of us.
I happened to be in the kitchen when admin was tossing stuff
from the fridge. Admin said "oh, I don't know what to do!" I
asked her what the problem was and she was pointing to a bagged
single apple (not mine!) I said "It doesn't have a name on it,
so toss it." She said "yes, but it's an apple."
I think that my note about not tossing apples influenced her a
bit.
That single apple in a baggie still sits in the fridge, many
months later. I wonder how long it will stay there.
#Post#: 40275--------------------------------------------------
Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: Lula Date: October 12, 2019, 4:06 pm
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[quote author=Rose Red link=topic=1359.msg40200#msg40200
date=1570805761]
Ha! True. Off-topic, but once on NAR someone submitted the old
chestnut that he was lounging around and the owner of the
company happened upon him and gave him a days pay and told him
he's fired for laziness and wasting company time. That joke's
older than the hills but NAR posts everything as fact.
[/quote]
OK, now I feel thick-headed...what's the joke?
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Re: Workplace Lunch Theft: A Solution?
By: Rose Red Date: October 12, 2019, 5:01 pm
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[quote author=Lula link=topic=1359.msg40275#msg40275
date=1570914412]
[quote author=Rose Red link=topic=1359.msg40200#msg40200
date=1570805761]
Ha! True. Off-topic, but once on NAR someone submitted the old
chestnut that he was lounging around and the owner of the
company happened upon him and gave him a days pay and told him
he's fired for laziness and wasting company time. That joke's
older than the hills but NAR posts everything as fact.
[/quote]
OK, now I feel thick-headed...what's the joke?
[/quote]
Sorry, I left out the part that the guy doesn't work for the
company.
The owner saw some kid hanging around and thought the kid worked
for him. He thought the kid was goofing off on company time,
paid him for the day, and "fired"him. Turns out the kid is not
an employee at all but got away with money. Usually the punch
line is another worker arrives and ask the owner where the
messenger guy/pizza guy/etc. went.
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