VENT . . work refrigerator/freezer thieves!

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  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    Also, I read on a different MFP thread about how someone's boss kept stealing a girl's lunch, but always denied it when confronted. So she made a couple wet cat food sandwiches and labeled them as her lunch. He ate them, then she publicly announced that "whoever" ate her lunch just ate a bunch of cat food. Her lunches never went missing again. :laugh:
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    Get a really nasty coloured plastic container (but make sure it's actually fit for keeping food in) even better if you scruff up the outside a bit (or a lot)

    get a marker pen, and write "Urine Sample" on the outside and stick a biohazard sticker on it.

    Store your food in that container in the work fridge.
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  • snappyapples
    snappyapples Posts: 76
    Buy a thermal lunch bag and an ice pack. Keep it at your desk. YES it's annoying but when I worked in an office I kept my lunch at my desk and my snacks in a drawer after a box of granola bars and my lunch went missing. Never happened again :).
  • SnuggleSmacks
    SnuggleSmacks Posts: 3,731 Member
    I frequently keep diet soda, cans of sparkling water, and yogurt in my work fridge. After things disappeared a few times, I learned to write "I'm a thief" on the bottoms of the cans and packages. Anyone who steals them won't notice, but if they eat/drink it in front of anyone, they will get very embarrassed.
  • LisAri72
    LisAri72 Posts: 60 Member
    I would hesitate to put the bosses or supervisors initials on something because what is to stop him/her from then eating it? Just because they are in an authority position doesn't mean they can't be a lunchroom thief. They would have perfect excuse, their name is on it.
  • AlwaysInMotion
    AlwaysInMotion Posts: 409 Member
    Buy a thermal lunch bag and an ice pack. Keep it at your desk. YES it's annoying but when I worked in an office I kept my lunch at my desk and my snacks in a drawer after a box of granola bars and my lunch went missing. Never happened again :).

    ^^^ THIS. Let's you skip the food thievery altogether.

    I also bring in lots of treats for the office... and stealing from me would bring that to a screeching halt. I'd be tempted to put a note on the fridge "You take my lunch, no one sees homemade brownies in this office again. Capiche?!?"
  • mxmkenney
    mxmkenney Posts: 486 Member
    This happens to me too! If I leave my unopened snack in the fridge overnight, it will be gone the next day. It's like what the hell?? Bring your own snack - it is so ghetto! The worst was when my kid was doing cookie dough sales for baseball and co-workers left their orders in the freezer overnight. The next morning they were ALL GONE. We're talking 6 tubs of cookie dough! Who the heck does that?!?
    Now I write my name on my snack/lunch in bold, black Sharpie marker and specifically write "DO NOT TOUCH!" So far it hasn't been taken, but I also don't leave it in the fridge overnight anymore.
  • culo97
    culo97 Posts: 256 Member
    get a marker pen, and write "Urine Sample" on the outside and stick a biohazard sticker on it.

    Store your food in that container in the work fridge.
    Oh hell to the no!

    If I saw a container in the breakroom refrigerator with the words "Urine Sample" on it, I'd probably throw it away. I don't care what's in the container. That is sooooooooooooooo disgusting, I'm getting the chills just thinking about it. The idea of someone's pee bowl near my milk makes me want to puke.

    Reminds me of the mysterious coworker who kept putting his nasty, grubby, sweat stained, cold pack on the ice cubes. Not in a door slot, in one of the bin drawers or on an empty shelf in the freezer, all of which were available. He laid it touching the ice cubes that people used to make drinks. I tried leaving notes asking him not to be such an inconsiderate, revolting pig but he did it a few more times. So, using a hand full of paper towels, I threw the cold pack away on another floor so he couldn't find it.

    My technique to try to keep people from eating or drinking my stuff is to tape a post-it with my name across the opening. Any theives have to be pretty bold to break the tape and have a Post-it with someone else's name on it showing. So far, I haven't noticed that anyone has opened or used my stuff since I've done it. I have had people act like it hurt their feelings because I put my name and a tape seal on my stuff, though. Why I should bother them, I don't know.
  • yodenody
    yodenody Posts: 4 Member
    Fridge thieves?

    NOOOOOOOOOO!
  • HereWeGoAgain7
    HereWeGoAgain7 Posts: 163 Member
    Had this happen alot at my old workcenter. One time, I came back from a day off and found my entire food cabinet empty, except for $20 and a note.

    "Long shift, no cars, no one answering calls, sorry we cleaned you out. Hope this helps."

    My new workcenter? Everyone shares the food in the fridge, so if its not fair game you have to send out an email to everyone that says WHY its not fair game.
  • nolabone
    nolabone Posts: 117 Member
    I seriously can not believe that adults do this. Blows my mind. You think people would know to bring in food if they're going to be working all day, and that it is never appropriate to steal from others.
  • uconnwinsnc
    uconnwinsnc Posts: 1,054 Member
    There are lunch bags with little locks on them I believe. If not, dibs on that invention idea.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I can't even believe stuff like this. I would make a HUGE issue if I worked in an office where this happened because it is stealing, plain and simple. I know this may sound a bit ridiculous since it's tiny edible things from the fridge, but if I were a business owner/director I would be really concerned about employees stealing in other ways (from the company) if this happened!

    On the flipside though...I HATE IT when people leave their food in the employees' communal fridge forever. At my current workplace no one seems to eat in the building ever, which is fine...but there are Lean Cuisines and prepackaged protein shakes in the freezer and fridge that were there when I started last August! I have no idea who they belong to. Obviously they're not causing an issue but in past jobs I've had coworkers leave their smelly rotting leftovers in the fridge and that is a pet peeve.
  • Shuuma
    Shuuma Posts: 465 Member
    I have never had anything taken. I HAVE shared when someone was short on money or food, though. I would have a HUGE issue with someone rifling through my carefully weighed, measured, and prepared lunch bag. That is so wrong!

    I agree with Seltzermint about the rotting food thing. The last place I worked at that had a fridge, we had a policy to put name and date on what we brought-even sodas, condiments, and snacks. We also had "clean out" day once a month where we would warn in advance that anything left at the end of the day would be pitched.

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