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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: HenrysMom Date: July 3, 2018, 2:38 pm
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[quote author=Victoria link=topic=322.msg7701#msg7701
date=1530645521]
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.
[/quote]
I brought this up on the other site: At my old job, one of my
“other duties as assigned” was to do a regular clean out of the
floor fridge. I put a sign on the break room door, the fridge
door, and on the bulletin board. I sent out the “please remove
your items or they will be dumped” e-mails at one week, 4 days,
day before, day of, and hour before. At 3 p.m. on Friday, I
emptied the fridge and turned it over to the movers to defrost.
Things that were expired or were “fuzzy” were dumped, items that
still looked fresh or in Tupperware were moved to the downstairs
fridge, and I left a note stating that.
You’d think that, with all the notices and e-mails, I’d covered
my tuckus. Nope, not a bit.
Sure enough, I got in trouble for dumping a manager’s lunch,
because I hadn’t given enough notice. I asked how could five
e-mails over 7 days and 3 signs with block letters an inch high
be “not enough notice.” My boss said, “Well, it wasn’t enough
notice for (manager), so you were in the wrong.” Oh yeah, and
the manager’s lunch wasn’t one of the saved ones - he had left
it in the fridge for at least a week, so it was “fuzzy.”
#Post#: 7710--------------------------------------------------
Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Victoria Date: July 3, 2018, 3:24 pm
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[quote author=HenrysMom link=topic=322.msg7707#msg7707
date=1530646718]
[quote author=Victoria link=topic=322.msg7701#msg7701
date=1530645521]
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.
[/quote]
I brought this up on the other site: At my old job, one of my
“other duties as assigned” was to do a regular clean out of the
floor fridge. I put a sign on the break room door, the fridge
door, and on the bulletin board. I sent out the “please remove
your items or they will be dumped” e-mails at one week, 4 days,
day before, day of, and hour before. At 3 p.m. on Friday, I
emptied the fridge and turned it over to the movers to defrost.
Things that were expired or were “fuzzy” were dumped, items that
still looked fresh or in Tupperware were moved to the downstairs
fridge, and I left a note stating that.
You’d think that, with all the notices and e-mails, I’d covered
my tuckus. Nope, not a bit.
Sure enough, I got in trouble for dumping a manager’s lunch,
because I hadn’t given enough notice. I asked how could five
e-mails over 7 days and 3 signs with block letters an inch high
be “not enough notice.” My boss said, “Well, it wasn’t enough
notice for (manager), so you were in the wrong.” Oh yeah, and
the manager’s lunch wasn’t one of the saved ones - he had left
it in the fridge for at least a week, so it was “fuzzy.”
[/quote]
Apparently there used to be mandated fridge clean outs where I
work but managers here were complaining so that stopped. But
there was also controversy around it because apparently the
staff threw out everything (even frozen meals) and then that
devolved into well, should we really be asking them to pick and
choose, and then where's the line for when to throw something
away, etc.
#Post#: 7716--------------------------------------------------
Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Rose Red Date: July 3, 2018, 4:18 pm
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Ewwww. Fuzzy food.
Unless I was forced to clean, I wouldn't touch the fridge with a
10 foot pole. I'd simply buy lunch or bring food in a cooler or
don't need to be refrigerated. I can't deal with other people's
ickiness. Take picture?! :::shudder::: Jane can keep her fuzzy
Chinese food :P
#Post#: 7728--------------------------------------------------
Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Victoria Date: July 3, 2018, 8:17 pm
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[quote author=Rose Red link=topic=322.msg7716#msg7716
date=1530652709]
Ewwww. Fuzzy food.
Unless I was forced to clean, I wouldn't touch the fridge with a
10 foot pole. I'd simply buy lunch or bring food in a cooler or
don't need to be refrigerated. I can't deal with other people's
ickiness. Take picture?! :::shudder::: Jane can keep her fuzzy
Chinese food :P
[/quote]
The fridge itself is (somehow, inexplicably) very clean. It's
just that if you look closely you can find, say, a two-year-old
carton of orange juice.
#Post#: 7732--------------------------------------------------
Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: VorFemme Date: July 3, 2018, 8:46 pm
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My last job had two fridges for a floor with a hundred or more
people on two shifts. Both fridges were over-stuffed to the
point of no room for cold air to circulate...
I had been using an insulated lunch bag with Blue Ice (brand
name) because the trainees were moved around and had nowhere to
leave our lunches. I just kept using an insulated lunch box
when I got assigned to a desk of my own (had to replace the soft
insulated lunch bag with a hard shelled plastic one - VorGuy
"borrowed" the soft sided one for a car trip and it was never
seen again in our house) and kept my food in my file drawer (the
office was going paperless - so the "files" were on the
computer). I knew where my lunch was...and I kept cash in my
wallet in case I forgot to pack one (or left it on the counter -
it happened once or twice when running late).
The only time I'd really been worried was fifteen years earlier,
when I had a new baby in day care, a new job, and a new milk
pump to use twice a day to keep her fed. I'd heard stories
about milk going missing as people used it for coffee or poured
it out, not knowing how fresh it was. Or just someone getting
grossed out...never heard a peep about the baby bottle of milk
nor did it ever go missing. I reused my lunch bag to store her
milk bottles...which might have helped, as they had a name and
that day's date on them.
#Post#: 7735--------------------------------------------------
Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Kiwipinball Date: July 3, 2018, 9:43 pm
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[quote author=Victoria link=topic=322.msg7728#msg7728
date=1530667025]
[quote author=Rose Red link=topic=322.msg7716#msg7716
date=1530652709]
Ewwww. Fuzzy food.
Unless I was forced to clean, I wouldn't touch the fridge with a
10 foot pole. I'd simply buy lunch or bring food in a cooler or
don't need to be refrigerated. I can't deal with other people's
ickiness. Take picture?! :::shudder::: Jane can keep her fuzzy
Chinese food :P
[/quote]
The fridge itself is (somehow, inexplicably) very clean. It's
just that if you look closely you can find, say, a two-year-old
carton of orange juice.
[/quote]
Probably because Jill's been keeping it clean by getting rid of
really gross stuff. A two-year old carton of orange juice isn't
going to be that gross unless you open it. Take out food growing
fuzz? Will start smelling bad and get grosser. And if I were
Jill I wouldn't go to the trouble of taking pictures - I'd just
stop using the fridge (I almost always bring a sandwich and
other food that doesn't need to be refrigerated - leftover from
school lunches, so it wouldn't be hard for me; might be harder
for Jill).
#Post#: 7819--------------------------------------------------
Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: DaDancingPsych Date: July 5, 2018, 8:12 am
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Yet another reason why my job satisfaction lowered after
co-irker was hired (ie. Boss's drinking buddy.) We have had a
small dorm sized refrigerator in the office since before I
started. On most days, it sat fairly empty. Boss typically had a
bottle of water or pop (soda/coke) in there and on occasion he
would do some grocery shopping and fill it up (and most times
remember to take the food home at the end of the day.) So, I
could easily store my lunch which takes up a very small space in
there.
Then co-irker was hired. He immediately filled the fridge to its
max. There was so much food in there that there is no way it was
a single lunch. I would have to squeeze my small lunch in there
every day. Then the stink came along. I would open the door and
it would reek and that is when I realized that co-irker was
leaving left over lunches in there and never removing them. I
started asking, "Hey, is this someone's take out? It appears to
be molding." It was always co-irker's. Despite doing this quite
often, co-irker nor boss were not getting the hint. So, I
stopped asking and started tossing fuzzy food. No one said
anything, so it was obvious that co-irker was not even missing
these things. I finally grew tired of playing mom and this site
(errr... the old one) gave me the idea of bringing my own
personal insulated lunch bag and blue ice. I refused to open the
refridge.
Then this week happened. I dropped my frozen blue ice and it
exploded. =( Never fear, co-irker is on vacation this week, so
maybe the refrigerator is safe. To fit my lunch, I had to remove
a moldy bag of shredded cheese. There is also a take-out
container with stinky food. While it is not moldy, I am doubtful
that one would want to eat it after returning from a week on
vacation (and who knows when it arrived in there.) But that is
why he's a co-irker... no consideration for others.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Pattycake Date: July 5, 2018, 8:37 am
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[quote author=DaDancingPsych link=topic=322.msg7819#msg7819
date=1530796373]
...snip
Then this week happened. I dropped my frozen blue ice and it
exploded. =( Never fear, co-irker is on vacation this week, so
maybe the refrigerator is safe. To fit my lunch, I had to remove
a moldy bag of shredded cheese. There is also a take-out
container with stinky food. While it is not moldy, I am doubtful
that one would want to eat it after returning from a week on
vacation (and who knows when it arrived in there.) But that is
why he's a co-irker... no consideration for others.
[/quote]
There is NO WAY I would have put my lunch in there regardless! I
would rather eat it warm or go out for something. Ugh! Most
things won't spoil in the time between getting to work and
having lunch.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Rose Red Date: July 5, 2018, 8:43 am
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[quote author=DaDancingPsych link=topic=322.msg7819#msg7819
date=1530796373]
Then this week happened. I dropped my frozen blue ice and it
exploded. =( Never fear, co-irker is on vacation this week, so
maybe the refrigerator is safe. To fit my lunch, I had to remove
a moldy bag of shredded cheese. There is also a take-out
container with stinky food. While it is not moldy, I am doubtful
that one would want to eat it after returning from a week on
vacation (and who knows when it arrived in there.) But that is
why he's a co-irker... no consideration for others.
[/quote]
I actually still wouldn't have put my lunch in there and just
bring a can of soup or PB sandwich that day. Who knows what's
seeping in the air in there? I also wouldn't have removed the
cheese. That just teaches him you will clean up after him
eventually. I say let the fridge get stuffed with rot. You are
right that a woman shouldn't play the role of mommy to the men
in the office.
#Post#: 7859--------------------------------------------------
Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Soop Date: July 5, 2018, 11:25 am
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[quote author=Pattycake link=topic=322.msg7830#msg7830
date=1530797857]
There is NO WAY I would have put my lunch in there regardless! I
would rather eat it warm or go out for something. Ugh! Most
things won't spoil in the time between getting to work and
having lunch.
[/quote]
I don't even bother to put my lunch in the fridge or use a
cooler bag or anything. I'm just too lazy to do it when I get to
work and I'm not worried about my food going bad. I do put my
couple of groceries in there if I shop on the way to work.
Our fridge is quite large and cleaned fairly regularly. I've
occasionally thrown out fuzzy things and no one has complained.
Everyone tends to label their dressings and such (and others are
respectful of that). Which is a good way to prevent some
insanely cautious person from throwing out your dressing because
it's past the sell by date. We had one person who would bring
her entire week's lunches in on Monday who took up lots of space
(one veggie drawer and the portion of shelf above it). She was a
'food is only fuel, so it should be as cheap as possible'
person. I had trouble relating to the notion of eating the same
thing every day for lunch for 5 days straight. By Wednesday or
Thursday, I'd be hitting the food court to relieve the boredom.
She was also notorious for going in the executive kitchen
looking for leftovers from catered lunches, which is a no-no in
our company.
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