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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: nuku Date: June 18, 2018, 5:31 pm
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[quote author=Rose Red link=topic=322.msg5910#msg5910
date=1529352009]
[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.)
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Why the middle?
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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.
[/quote]
And this was a cheesecake, so the crust was only on the bottom.
We're pretty sure we know who did it, and that he just wanted to
add an extra soupcon of jerkiness to his behavior.
#Post#: 5942--------------------------------------------------
Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: TootsNYC Date: June 18, 2018, 6:58 pm
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I think it's a bit statement-making. "I know other people won't
approve of my doing this, so I'm going to REALLY do it."
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: AnnaT Date: June 20, 2018, 12:00 am
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[quote author=TootsNYC link=topic=322.msg4900#msg4900
date=1528516237]
It escalated so rapidly!
Melinda's first response was perfectly reasonable (though doing
it in a reply-to-all might have made it seem like she was trying
to publicly call Katrina stupid).
And then Melinda went off the rails immediately, with the
"ridiculous" crack.
That's what made me think there just had to be a backstory.
And i think that had to be Katrina's food on Level 20.
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When this happened the 'reply' and 'reply all' buttons on our
email where rightnexttoeachother so reply all happened quite a
bit (they have since been moved a couple of buttons apart). And
yes, there was prior tensions...
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Moose Date: June 20, 2018, 6:30 am
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I was the food thief once [emoji15]
We have 3 fridges in our break room and everyone just puts their
stuff where ever there is room. I will sometimes bring in 2 or 3
frozen meals and just store them there so I don't have to carry
them in every day. My last day of work before my days off, I
went to the freezer, grabbed (what I thought was) my last frozen
meal and had my lunch.
I came back to work 3 days later to an angry email that had gone
around when someone from the other squad had gone for her lunch
and it was gone. I had grabbed the wrong frozen meal out of the
wrong freezer. I was mortified. I wrote her back apologizing
profusely and went to the store that night after work and bought
her a replacement meal and four others (store was having a sale
lol) and wrote her another email telling her where her new meals
were. Luckily she was the forgiving sort and we're still work
friends to this day. ;D
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Chez Miriam Date: June 20, 2018, 9:59 am
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[quote author=Moose link=topic=322.msg6100#msg6100
date=1529494210]
I was the food thief once [emoji15]
We have 3 fridges in our break room and everyone just puts their
stuff where ever there is room. I will sometimes bring in 2 or 3
frozen meals and just store them there so I don't have to carry
them in every day. My last day of work before my days off, I
went to the freezer, grabbed (what I thought was) my last frozen
meal and had my lunch.
I came back to work 3 days later to an angry email that had gone
around when someone from the other squad had gone for her lunch
and it was gone. I had grabbed the wrong frozen meal out of the
wrong freezer. I was mortified. I wrote her back apologizing
profusely and went to the store that night after work and bought
her a replacement meal and four others (store was having a sale
lol) and wrote her another email telling her where her new meals
were. Luckily she was the forgiving sort and we're still work
friends to this day. ;D
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I don't think of you as a food thief: you made a mistake and
once you'd been notified of that, you apologised and went over
and above to rectify it. That's a genuine error, made right by
a good person - different than theft!
If you accidentally took my food, apologised, and bought me five
meals in replacement, I'd still be your work friend to this day.
;D
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: kckgirl Date: June 21, 2018, 6:00 pm
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My mother told of a guy at work who ate the wrong lunch by
mistake. There were no names on the brown bags, and he took the
one he thought he had put in the refrigerator that morning. He
found out what happened when a coworker said her lunch was
missing. They asked what was in her lunch, and he immediately
confessed that he didn't know he took the wrong one because his
wife packed it. He apologized and offered her his lunch or money
to buy one. I'm not sure which choice she went with.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: GardenGal Date: June 23, 2018, 2:28 pm
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[quote author=kckgirl link=topic=322.msg6375#msg6375
date=1529622056]
My mother told of a guy at work who ate the wrong lunch by
mistake. There were no names on the brown bags, and he took the
one he thought he had put in the refrigerator that morning. He
found out what happened when a coworker said her lunch was
missing. They asked what was in her lunch, and he immediately
confessed that he didn't know he took the wrong one because his
wife packed it. He apologized and offered her his lunch or money
to buy one. I'm not sure which choice she went with.
[/quote]
Definitely not a food thief, just an honest mistake.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Victoria Date: July 3, 2018, 2:18 pm
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Apparently we have A Food Situation at work that I was not aware
of until today, but it's giving me fodder for this thread.
There's been a kerfuffle over things being thrown out by people
other than their owners in the fridges. However, things tend to
sit and rot because we don't have a mandated fridge clean out,
and apparently the cleaning staff aren't supposed to go in
there. Occasionally people have quit or been fired and their
food will sit there for years. The most egregious thing I've
seen (a couple of months ago) is a yogurt that expired before I
started my job in 2013. I also threw out packets of salad
dressing (I suspect that we got them with catered food) that
expired in 2015.
Specifically, Jane insists that Jill threw away her Chinese
takeout. Jill is notorious for exacting vigilante justice on
expired food in the fridges, but to be fair, they do need it.
Jill told me that she threw the takeout away because it had
sprouted a fur coat. But Jill is now required to snap a picture
of allegedly-furry/moldy/expired food, state which fridge she
got it from (we have numerous floors and numerous fridges), and
send the picture to HR before tossing anything.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: TootsNYC Date: July 3, 2018, 2:27 pm
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[quote author=Victoria link=topic=322.msg7701#msg7701
date=1530645521]
But Jill is now required to snap a picture of
allegedly-furry/moldy/expired food, state which fridge she got
it from (we have numerous floors and numerous fridges), and send
the picture to HR before tossing anything.
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Insert eye-roll here > > > > ::)
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: pierrotlunaire0 Date: July 3, 2018, 2:35 pm
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[quote author=TootsNYC link=topic=322.msg7704#msg7704
date=1530646061]
[quote author=Victoria link=topic=322.msg7701#msg7701
date=1530645521]
But Jill is now required to snap a picture of
allegedly-furry/moldy/expired food, state which fridge she got
it from (we have numerous floors and numerous fridges), and send
the picture to HR before tossing anything.
[/quote]
Insert eye-roll here > > > > ::)
[/quote]
Because everyone loves looking at photos of furry food! ???
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