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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: DaDancingPsych Date: July 5, 2018, 12:16 pm
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[quote author=Rose Red link=topic=322.msg7835#msg7835
date=1530798189]
[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.
[/quote]
You are probably right about not tossing the cheese, although,
my previous lack of efforts has not helped. Since I stopped
cleaning the fridge, I know that the old food piled up a bit. I
heard Boss ask about a few food items (which were obviously
co-irker's). They reeked so bad, that he not only tossed them,
but walked the garbage immediately to the dumpster. After this
happened a few times, you would think Boss would coach co-irker
on the issue (not that I saw) or co-irker would be embarrassed
(if he was, he did not correct anything.) But the cheese is the
only thing that I have tossed in well over a year. The only
space that I clean is my office. In the shared spaces, I only
clean up after myself.
#Post#: 7869--------------------------------------------------
Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Dazi Date: July 5, 2018, 12:40 pm
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Ah...about 10-15 years ago, I worked in an office with a
notorious food thief. I got sick of his shenanigans. Since I
have severe food allergies, if he ate my lunch, it's not like I
could run to a local fast food place to replace it...and I
shouldn't have had to! All the complaints to the boss fell of
deaf ears.
One day I went to the local Thai restaurant and ordered Thai hot
chicken pad thai (with a few modifications due to my own food
allergies). Sure enough, CW couldn't help himself and took a few
bites of my leftover Thai food. He then accused me of trying to
kill him because apparently, unbeknowst to me, the idiot was
allergic to peanuts (not a severe anaphylactic allergic
response, but he did have a nice spattering of hives) and he
burnt the crap out of his mouth due the the spice level. Now,
this wasn't a prank or anything, this is my actual favorite
order from the Thai place and I usually order it Thai hot.
I did point out to the manager that if he has a food allergy,
it's not anyone's but his own fault if he's stupid enough to be
eating unknown food. Second, we had been complaining for months,
some people for years, over his food thievery. It was her fault
for not taking it seriously and addressing it with him prior to
this occurring.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Rose Red Date: July 5, 2018, 12:58 pm
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[quote author=Dazi link=topic=322.msg7869#msg7869
date=1530812406]
*snip*
I did point out to the manager that if he has a food allergy,
it's not anyone's but his own fault if he's stupid enough to be
eating unknown food. Second, we had been complaining for months,
some people for years, over his food thievery. It was her fault
for not taking it seriously and addressing it with him prior to
this occurring.
[/quote]
What was the aftermath? Did he keep stealing?
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Dazi Date: July 5, 2018, 1:06 pm
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[quote author=Rose Red link=topic=322.msg7877#msg7877
date=1530813482]
[quote author=Dazi link=topic=322.msg7869#msg7869
date=1530812406]
*snip*
I did point out to the manager that if he has a food allergy,
it's not anyone's but his own fault if he's stupid enough to be
eating unknown food. Second, we had been complaining for months,
some people for years, over his food thievery. It was her fault
for not taking it seriously and addressing it with him prior to
this occurring.
[/quote]
What was the aftermath? Did he keep stealing?
[/quote]
Yes he kept stealing, just not my food. Since I found out he
couldn't tolerate spicy and I love spicy, I just made everything
I brought super HOT. I quit not too long after that for another
job. He STILL works there last time I checked.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: guest426 Date: July 5, 2018, 1:16 pm
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[quote author=Victoria link=topic=322.msg7710#msg7710
date=1530649490]
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.
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The office I used to work in (changed jobs about 6 weeks ago)
had a no-mercy policy. At 6:00PM every other Friday, the
custodial staff would empty the refrigerators and freezers in
the break room. No mercy, no looking for names/dates/whatever.
This was by order of the executive VP of the department, so
there was no one in the building who could overrule him. To
make it easier to remember which Friday it would be, it was
arranged so that the purge would always fall on pay day.
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Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Pattycake Date: July 5, 2018, 1:31 pm
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[quote author=MrTango link=topic=322.msg7881#msg7881
date=1530814563]
[quote author=Victoria link=topic=322.msg7710#msg7710
date=1530649490]
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.
[/quote]
The office I used to work in (changed jobs about 6 weeks ago)
had a no-mercy policy. At 6:00PM every other Friday, the
custodial staff would empty the refrigerators and freezers in
the break room. No mercy, no looking for names/dates/whatever.
This was by order of the executive VP of the department, so
there was no one in the building who could overrule him. To
make it easier to remember which Friday it would be, it was
arranged so that the purge would always fall on pay day.
[/quote]
I like that. Something every one knows about, happens regularly,
no excuses, and no burden on the cleaners to vet the goods.
#Post#: 7884--------------------------------------------------
Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Rose Red Date: July 5, 2018, 1:31 pm
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Our office claims to have a No Mercy policy, but the committee
that handles fridge cleanup are too nice and will check dates,
put back containers in good condition, etc.
There's been talk of every employee taking a turn cleaning the
fridge besides the committee. If that happens, I will warn
everyone that I will follow the No Mercy rule. Take your stuff
or kiss your condiments and fancy glass Pyrex and Tupperware
goodbye. There's no reason you can't take your stuff to your
desk and put it back after the cleaning.
#Post#: 7897--------------------------------------------------
Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: crs1881 Date: July 5, 2018, 3:24 pm
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All this talk about cleaning out fridges reminds me of this...
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#Post#: 7936--------------------------------------------------
Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: kckgirl Date: July 6, 2018, 7:14 am
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On the old board, someone cleaned out the office fridge in the
morning, and couldn't believe all the push back when coworkers
complained that their lunches brought in that day were thrown
away before lunch. Still, to this day, I think it was a bad move
the clean out the fridge before lunch.
At my job, the fridge was in the hallway near the vending
machines. The custodian cleaned it out regularly, usually on a
Friday. A sign would be posted on Monday telling what time
Friday afternoon he would throw things away, and he'd be pretty
merciless. If an item had a name and current date, he'd leave
it. Otherwise, it was gone. Nobody could claim they didn't know.
The sign was big, and everybody walked by that fridge all the
time.
We didn't have food thieves, but there were a couple of mistakes
where someone would heat up the wrong frozen meal when there
were multiples in the freezer.
#Post#: 7954--------------------------------------------------
Re: Office Food Thieves Getting Caught: Do Tell!
By: Dazi Date: July 6, 2018, 10:17 am
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[quote author=kckgirl link=topic=322.msg7936#msg7936
date=1530879291]
We didn't have food thieves, but there were a couple of mistakes
where someone would heat up the wrong frozen meal when there
were multiples in the freezer.
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At my previous office I had this issue with yogurt. People would
just pick up any flavor if they had brought one in and eat it
without checking that it was theirs. It didn't matter if I had
my name in bold black marker on it...mine would bet eaten
anyway. Most of the time this wasn't a problem, but I got burned
several times with being left nothing but strawberry yogurt or
other brands that I couldn't have due to my food allergies. I'm
allergic to strawberries and I can't have anything with beet
food coloring or beet sugar (if it just states natural vegetable
food coloring, that's out as well since it is almost certainly
from beets). Any idea how many varieties of yogurt that nixes???
A few people got pissy because I got fed up and started bringing
my lunch in an insulated lunch bag and locking it in my file
cabinet.
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