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Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Venus193 Date: June 4, 2018, 7:15 am
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We've all dealt with office food thieves. Many of their victims
are lower-paid employees who can't afford daily take-out or
eat-out experiences, which makes this particularly egregious.
Once upon a time we discussed this at the other forum and some
of the stories were epic. Tell your stories about these
miscreants getting caught. Do not include incidents of culinary
sabotage at the risk of this thread getting locked.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Thitpualso Date: June 4, 2018, 10:51 am
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I have a story of an epic food thief. It doesn’t involve
someone’s lunch being hijacked. It involved theft from a
museum function.
The guy was caught stealing several platters of roast beef, ham
and shrimp from a reception for a show opening. He claimed it
was going to a charity like City Harvest that distributes
unused and left over restaurant food to soup kitchens.
It was a good try but there were two problems: groups like CH
don’t accept open food like that. Also, the reception for the
opening hadn’t even begun.
Because of this (and other strange activities) the thief lost
his job.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: ZekailleTasker Date: June 4, 2018, 8:15 pm
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Food Thief One: We had a tea function at the library to which
everyone brought cakes and cookies. One staff member always
made brownies to die for. (She swore it was just a plain old
mix, but she had to be adding something because they tasted like
nothing that came out of a box). We were setting up for the tea
and the alleged Food Thief came in. Brownie Baker and I left to
get back to work. A short while later, just before the tea,
Food Thief announced he was having stomach trouble and went home
sick. The entire first layer of the brownie plate apparently
went with him as he was the only one up there.
Food Thief Two: Coworker was getting angrier and angrier
because her fruit cup kept disappearing from her lunch every
single day. She only told two of us about this and did not
announce it on email, so it was a pretty small circle who knew
about it. One day, she went to lunch a bit later and, once
again, the fruit cup was gone. In walks Our Director who heads
over to the refrigerator and, while she was watching, proceeds
to go through everyone's lunch. He asked her how she was and
she, playing innocent, said "Well, everything is good, but we
have a food thief." He looked at her. "Someone took the
dessert out of my lunch bag," she explained. "Every day."
"Oh--the sugar free fruit cup with all the pineapple?" he asked
and just kept going out the door.
She kept her lunch in a cooler by her desk after that. Other
folks began to follow her example. Pretty soon, the boss
started buying his own lunch.
He's gone now.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: POF Date: June 4, 2018, 8:26 pm
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It was me !!!!!
I had brought cottage cheese and strawberries to work in a
ziplock container. I must have forgotten about it because a
week later - I noticed it in the back of the little fridge.....
Oh no - it must be green. I just tossed it.
An hour later one of my staff sked me if I had seen her lunch
floating around. Yep - I threw away my employees lunch. ( I
bought her a new lunch ) I was so embarrassed
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: MarisaWood Date: June 5, 2018, 12:45 am
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Oh, I have one from my last week of work on my most recent temp
assignment!
The lady in the cubicle next to mine kept a bowl of fun-size
candy bars in her office... but, on Monday, she arrived at work
to find her entire bowl of Kit-Kats gone, and a candy bar
hanging from a rubber band noose, a toothbrush, and a demand
note in cut-out-magazine letters in their place.
My office neighbor refused to negotiate with the candy thief (or
thieves) and posted a sign over the candy bowl calling for the
return of the missing Kit-Kats. I wasn't the thief--but I did
find out who the main instigator was: a prankster who was
annoyed with her doctor's orders to avoid sugar and who was,
suspiciously, absent the day after the candy disappeared.
On Wednesday, I handed my neighbor a note letting her know I was
plotting to rescue the stolen candy--and asked her to keep the
plan Top Secret "because of the risk of harm to innocent
Kit-Kats."
On my last day, I bought a bag of fun-size Kit Kats and gave it
to my office neighbor as a parting gift. ;D
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Venus193 Date: June 5, 2018, 5:59 am
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People absenting themselves after stealing food? That's a new
one.
At one of my offices my lunch was stolen three times. I never
caught the person in the act but one day she was talking about
the spanakopita she had stolen the day before, claiming she
"found" it. It had been in the fridge in a paper bag; it was
not a left-over from any food ordered for a meeting.
This was a person I reported once for trash-talking me to
someone I supervised and who criticized the cinnamon-laced
coffee I made every morning (which everyone else loved). At
that moment I was tempted to confront her, but was afraid it
wouldn't have done any good. When I discussed the trash-talking
with her supervisor I discovered that while the company would
have loved to terminate her they feared an age-discrimination
lawsuit. When we lost a client a year or so later she was "laid
off."
Nobody missed her.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Girlie Date: June 5, 2018, 7:23 am
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A coworker of mine would bring in packets of oatmeal and grits
to eat in the mornings before work. She began to notice that
they were disappearing, and began questioning all of us to see
if we had been taking it. Of course, we all denied it (and were
all innocent).
She walked into the break room one morning to find the
highest-paid person in our entire office digging through the
cabinets, pulling out her box of oatmeal, and making himself
breakfast. She was not happy, but wasn't sure how to address it
without causing a scene. She finally just started keeping her
food in her desk.
The breakfast thief walked into the break room one day while I
was eating lunch. I had a sandwich and a bag of Chex Mix.
Without asking, he reached over, picked up my bag of Chex Mix,
reached his grubby, unwashed hands in, and began eating. I wish
I'd said something to him, but I was intimidated (and
shocked!!!) at the time, which might not have been a bad thing,
because a year later he became my department head. >:(
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Rose Red Date: June 5, 2018, 9:12 am
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I love food thief threads :D
I told this in the old board. Once I brought a fast food
sandwich deal so two sandwiches. I ate one and put the other one
in the fridge (kind of hidden it too). It was gone the next day.
Why would anyone steal something when you don't know how old it
is? Gross. Perhaps they go through the fridge everyday so they
know what's new and what's old so they know what to steal?
ETA: Oops. I missed the part asking stories about "getting
caught." Oh well.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: cali.in.uk Date: June 5, 2018, 9:36 am
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There was a time that I would bring a specific kombucha into
work (I think it was Synergy Trio) and I would leave it in the
communal fridge without my name on it because I was the only one
who drank it. One day I opened the fridge (which is huge) and
was looking for a place to put my lunch and I came across a
rogue Kombucha that I had forgotten about, and I was pleasantly
surprised. I drank it with my lunch.
I found out later that one of my newer colleagues had had her
Kombucha "stolen" out of the fridge, and everyone was saying
"wow, no one steals food here!" I was horrified! I found her and
told her what happened and bought her another one the next day.
I'm glad that I had gotten wind of the issue because I would
have been none the wiser and she would have thought she was
working with a food thief.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: cleargleam Date: June 5, 2018, 9:55 am
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I love these, but at the same time, I find it just amazingly
*sad* - especially the frequency with which the culprit is a
manager/boss.
I carefully mark my beverages and food items, though not because
I'm worried someone will steal them. I just want to be certain I
remember they actually are mine!
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