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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: TeamBhakta Date: June 13, 2018, 8:50 pm
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Why the middle?
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This Cosby Show episode would be my guess ;)
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Get a looong little doggy Date: June 14, 2018, 11:53 am
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Years ago, I worked in a small office where the other lady and I
would share. I had a jar of mayonnaise, she had a jar of mustard
and we'd take turns buying a loaf of bread, sandwich meat, etc.
Yeah, our food thief was one of the two bosses that not only
contributed nothing to the food pool but was giving us more and
more of his work until he didn't have much to do and we were
drowning in work.
We much preferred fresh made sandwiches but started making our
lunch at home and hoped he wouldn't steal them out of the
refrigerator! Why is it always the ones that have the biggest
paycheck that steals food from the minions?
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Chez Miriam Date: June 14, 2018, 12:54 pm
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[quote author=Get a looong little doggy
link=topic=322.msg5547#msg5547 date=1528995193]
Years ago, I worked in a small office where the other lady and I
would share. I had a jar of mayonnaise, she had a jar of mustard
and we'd take turns buying a loaf of bread, sandwich meat, etc.
Yeah, our food thief was one of the two bosses that not only
contributed nothing to the food pool but was giving us more and
more of his work until he didn't have much to do and we were
drowning in work.
We much preferred fresh made sandwiches but started making our
lunch at home and hoped he wouldn't steal them out of the
refrigerator! Why is it always the ones that have the biggest
paycheck that steals food from the minions?
[/quote]
I think with some people, the more they have, the more they
want. ::)
The only time I had food stolen, it was from my desk drawer, and
I never did find out who took it. I lost a couple of books that
way, too. Seems ironic that the only place I've ever had to
lock my desk drawers during the day was working in a room full
of lawyers. ::)
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: mimi1318 Date: June 14, 2018, 2:19 pm
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There was a great one on Ask a Manager not too long ago
HTML http://www.askamanager.org/2016/07/a-coworker-stole-my-spicy-food-got-sick-and-is-blaming-me.html
HTML http://www.askamanager.org/2016/10/update-a-coworker-stole-my-spicy-food-got-sick-and-is-blaming-me.html
A food thief stole someone's spicy food, got sick and tried to
claim food owner was trying to poison them and get them fired.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Chez Miriam Date: June 15, 2018, 1:33 pm
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I'd never booby-trap my food, but I have wondered in the past
what would happen if someone stole my leftovers from the fridge.
I like a level of spice that most of my family can't stand, and
when the food has gone cold, it invariably needs 'pepping up' a
bit. If I can feel my nostril hairs singeing but the top of my
head doesn't blow right off, I know I've got the balance pretty
much spot on. ;)
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Pattycake Date: June 15, 2018, 2:05 pm
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[quote author=Chez Miriam link=topic=322.msg5676#msg5676
date=1529087625]
I'd never booby-trap my food, but I have wondered in the past
what would happen if someone stole my leftovers from the fridge.
I like a level of spice that most of my family can't stand, and
when the food has gone cold, it invariably needs 'pepping up' a
bit. If I can feel my nostril hairs singeing but the top of my
head doesn't blow right off, I know I've got the balance pretty
much spot on. ;)
[/quote]
[emoji37] whoa! I am very much a milder is better person. It
would serve someone right then if they took yours!
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: pierrotlunaire0 Date: June 16, 2018, 9:14 am
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[quote author=HenrysMom link=topic=322.msg5461#msg5461
date=1528935281]
[quote author=nuku link=topic=322.msg5297#msg5297
date=1528846361]
Nobody ever figured out who did this, but we had our suspicions.
When I worked as a new employee trainer, one of the other
trainers was having a potluck with her class. They were evening
employees, so she put the 9x13" cheesecake that she had made in
the office fridge (group fridge in the cafeteria for the entire
office building). Somebody cut a piece out of the very middle.
She was pretty disgusted by that.
After that, whenever we put potluck items in the fridge, we'd
wrap it up with plastic and tape and have colleagues check on it
regularly. Best case scenario was to keep stuff in cars during
cold weather.
Oh, and she was a former pastry chef who had worked at the
best-known bakery-cafe in town. So, her cheesecake was pretty
amazing, and it was sad that she had to throw one away. (If you
ever get a chance, I highly recommend working with a former
chef.)
[/quote]
Why the middle?
[/quote]
To be absolutely nasty? I mean, taking a piece from the corner
can be disguised by trimming the cake on one side so no one
knows. But in the middle is the equivalent of flipping the
bird: I stole a piece and made the rest of you feel
uncomfortable as to what else I might have done to it.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Rose Red Date: June 18, 2018, 3:00 pm
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[quote author=pierrotlunaire0 link=topic=322.msg5744#msg5744
date=1529158473]
[quote author=HenrysMom link=topic=322.msg5461#msg5461
date=1528935281]
[quote author=nuku link=topic=322.msg5297#msg5297
date=1528846361]
Nobody ever figured out who did this, but we had our suspicions.
When I worked as a new employee trainer, one of the other
trainers was having a potluck with her class. They were evening
employees, so she put the 9x13" cheesecake that she had made in
the office fridge (group fridge in the cafeteria for the entire
office building). Somebody cut a piece out of the very middle.
She was pretty disgusted by that.
After that, whenever we put potluck items in the fridge, we'd
wrap it up with plastic and tape and have colleagues check on it
regularly. Best case scenario was to keep stuff in cars during
cold weather.
Oh, and she was a former pastry chef who had worked at the
best-known bakery-cafe in town. So, her cheesecake was pretty
amazing, and it was sad that she had to throw one away. (If you
ever get a chance, I highly recommend working with a former
chef.)
[/quote]
Why the middle?
[/quote]
To be absolutely nasty? I mean, taking a piece from the corner
can be disguised by trimming the cake on one side so no one
knows. But in the middle is the equivalent of flipping the
bird: I stole a piece and made the rest of you feel
uncomfortable as to what else I might have done to it.
[/quote]
Yeah, it's weird. If you don't like crust, you can just trim it
off of your slice. Digging in the middle seems such messy work.
I'm having a hard time imaging how that's done without getting
cake all over my hands, and my fingertips all over the cake. But
maybe that's their intention.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: AfleetAlex Date: June 18, 2018, 3:14 pm
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I'm thinking now of the McDonald's ad where the guy comes up to
the counter and says with a sigh, "I'd like the 'My Office is
Full of Kleptos' lunch." Then you see him rummaging in his
office fridge and finding the post-it with his name on it
attached to nothing. It amused me. ;D
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: frog24 Date: June 18, 2018, 4:10 pm
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[quote author=Rose Red link=topic=322.msg5910#msg5910
date=1529352009]
Why the middle?
[/quote]
Slight derailment from the food thieves... I was once invited
to the home of a university professor, along with a whole lot of
other students. He liked having pot luck parties at his house
where all sorts of conversations could happen. So I went all
out and made a pavlova. Huge discs of crispy meringue, layered
with whipped cream, chocolate shavings and fresh fruit.
The dessert survived the drive out the prof's place (in the
middle of nowhere, so an unpaved, potholed driveway), and made
it onto a table positively groaning with food.
About 20 minutes later, I look over and see the prof's 10 year
old son with a knife cutting himself a piece out of the center
of the cake. After he finished cutting, he got a spoon and
scooped out the middle, crushing the surrounding layers into
dust. The beautiful cake was reduced to a pile of mushy
grossness. I tried to stop him when I saw him digging in with
the spoon, suggesting that I could cut him a piece from the
side. He didn't want that... he wanted the piece he cut, and
"since it was his dad's house, he could do whatever he wanted".
Suffice it to say, no one else tried my dessert after that.
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