Food Theivery at the Office

_Pseudonymous_

So this morning I go to the office kitchen to heat up some breakfast sandwiches that I had in the fridge. I work 2 full time jobs and don't always have time to cook so this is a preferred alternative to picking up fast food all the time (cost wise and calorie wise and such). When looked in the fridge I saw they weren't there. Looked around and I saw them sitting on the counter, some of them missing all of them thawed out as if left out over night.

Flames! Flames on the side of my face!!!

So here is my inquiry to you...

Have you ever had anyone steal your food at work and if so, did you seek revenge? How did you make them rue the day?


I appreciate any and all suggestions.

embrace_the_dark_side

Time to pull out the DNA kit and hunt down the vicious criminal who violated the sanctity of your frozen food rights

miss_jessiejane

I've had it happen a few times. It made me mad at first, but then I figured maybe they needed it more than I did. How bad would it suck to be hungry at work all day because you couldn't afford lunch? So it doesn't make me mad anymore, although sometimes it makes me sad, for whoever took it and sometimes for me, if I was really looking forward to whatever I brought.

_Pseudonymous_

I've had it happen a few times. It made me mad at first, but then I figured maybe they needed it more than I did. How bad would it suck to be hungry at work all day because you couldn't afford lunch? So it doesn't make me mad anymore, although sometimes it makes me sad, for whoever took it and sometimes for me, if I was really looking forward to whatever I brought.

Maybe so, but I don't know because I am one of the lowest paid employees in the office and brought everyone pastries yesterday, enough for everyone to have 1-2 each to try and boost morale during a stressful time at our office.

Secondly, it's one thing to be hungry and take a sandwich, it's another to take some sandwiches, and then leave the rest out overnight so that they go bad.

I wish I were a good enough person to be understanding but I am not. I mean, if they would have asked I would have shared. But now I don't have any breakfast and that is money wasted.

surfinbird_1981

It used to happen a lot in University so my friend and I make some "**** cakes" once out of flour, eggs, spit, snot, fly repellent and all kinds of nasty stuff...

We baked them up and left them out to cool...one went missing :sick:

ValeriePlz

At a law firm I used to work at, I had a can of Emerald spiced almonds on my desk. The head partner ate the ENTIRE CAN one night, leaving about four almonds left at the bottom. I was so mad, especially since I was only a temporary employee and couldn't really afford to have the boss stealing my food.

At my current office, stealing isn't a problem, the bigger annoyance is people leaving stuff in the fridge wayyyy too long.

_Pseudonymous_

It used to happen a lot in University so my friend and I make some "**** cakes" once out of flour, eggs, spit, snot, fly repellent and all kinds of nasty stuff...

We baked them up and left them out to cool...one went missing :sick:

The_Enginerd

Make a second batch. Add a good dose of laxative to each one.

stetienne

At a law firm I used to work at, I had a can of Emerald spiced almonds on my desk. The head partner ate the ENTIRE CAN one night, leaving about four almonds left at the bottom. I was so mad, especially since I was only a temporary employee and couldn't really afford to have the boss stealing my food.

At my current office, stealing isn't a problem, the bigger annoyance is people leaving stuff in the fridge wayyyy too long.

Same at my office...one person actually brings in eggs (she has chickens...don't ask) that she sells to other employees, and assumes it's totally cool to use up half of the fridge.

I hope you called the idiot partner on the almond thievery...that's just a bull$hit power move that shouldn't go unchecked.

cursiny

Was just discussing this topic with a fellow MFP friend earlier today.

It frustrates me to no end also. Big things (frozen lunch meals) to small things (pack of gum in my desk drawer) all seem to disappear on third shift.

I have no good answers as to what to do here outside of a locked area,which I do not have at my work space, to hold non-perishables, but am anxious to see suggestions!!

jkwolly

Miska_

I work with engineers- food stolen is on the daily.

I just make it known that I spit in all mine.

marsellient

Yup...I worked in a school where things started to go missing out of lunch bags (we're talking paper ones, so it's a long time ago) and then progressed to parts of things, as in a bite out of a sandwich....ewww. Eventually, the perpetrator was caught, sadly suffering from a mental illness as It turned out she'd been shoplifting as well. Very sad.

singlefemalelawyer

BrainyBurro

So this morning I go to the office kitchen to heat up some breakfast sandwiches that I had in the fridge. I work 2 full time jobs and don't always have time to cook so this is a preferred alternative to picking up fast food all the time (cost wise and calorie wise and such). When looked in the fridge I saw they weren't there. Looked around and I saw them sitting on the counter, some of them missing all of them thawed out as if left out over night.

Flames! Flames on the side of my face!!!

So here is my inquiry to you...

Have you ever had anyone steal your food at work and if so, did you seek revenge? How did you make them rue the day?


I appreciate any and all suggestions.

duh. post a rant about it on MFP!

oh, wait... nvm.













j/k. serious answer... i've seen this happen (not to me) and the victims left snarky written notes on the fridge door about it. that's pretty much all you can do. it makes you look like the office jerk though because everybody will see the note. *shrugs*

randomtai

This.

MissJacquelineN

Ugh yes! Then I posted this.. https://www.flickr.com/photos/123920155@N08/13991890001/

and the next morning I got this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/123920155@N08/14006836765

Iceberg_Simpson

I would seriously cut a bish.

My coworkers know better than to mess with my food.

Go_Mizzou99

We all have or "special spot" in the office fridge. My favorite is the office mooch unabashedly using my salad dressing, ketchup, mustard, etc. When I asked him about this, he said food is sacred and off limits but condiments are for everyone.

I put ghost pepper sauce in my ketchup...that worked.

mediamogulsteve

Make chicken enchiladas with cat food.

Oscarinmiami

That used to happen to me until I made a nice soup made of laxatives and dog poop, I put my name on it, and "Don't touch", I left it in the fridge and someone took it...the next day I put a note stating I hope you enjoyed the dog poop and laxative soup you ate yesterday....I've never had that happen again...lol

dcaiani

here's a quick and easy way to stop food thieves. Put some ipecac in something very tempting and let the food thief take it. You'll find out in a hurry who the food thief is!!

shmulyeng

At my previous job, my boss used to take my coworker's jelly bellys. One day I brought in a pack of BeanDoozled (https://jellybelly.com/nav/cat1/beanboozledjellybeans/0). One can only imagine the fun when he ate it!

fuzilojak

When I uses to drink soda I'd have people steal them all the time. Since I switched to diet/unsweetened tea I don't have that issue.

As far as revenge. One of the better ones I saw involved melting down a box of ex-lax and whipping it into a jar of peanut butter. I"m sure if you did something like that you'd discover the culprit fairly quickly.

Spacegirlley

I remember having a similar issue with housemates when I used to share. I never knew who was stealing my food until I decided to try and catch them out. I used to work at pizza hut at the time, so I brought home some "specialty" pizzas from work. Wrote my name on the box, wrote do not touch, extremely spicy etc; enough to warn anybody that it was mine and very spicy. I had made the pizzas myself by layering the bottom of the pizza with all the hot and spicy food and spices I could find and covering the top with normal "safe" toppings. I knew who ever ate it would suffer, no matter how high a tolerance they had. Next day I came home from work to one of my housemates all red faced, sweating and looking like they had been through an ordeal. I asked them did they touch my pizza? He couldn't lie, it was all over his face! Needless to say, my food was never touched again.

BootCampC

Make a second batch. Add a good dose of laxative to each one.

this is great too

What I did when someone was stealing my food , I added hot pepper (jolokia) hottest pepper around to the oatmeal , well it didn't take long to find out who it was when the heat hit Him.. so I got my revenge and found out who it was.. and got a good laugh as well

fauxpunker

I've gotten my revenge. Working in maintenance for a time, guys were always taking whatever was in the fridge.

A little spoiled milk here, a bit of laxative there... people learned to leave my food alone.

pattycakes80

happened last week to my chobani yogurt. i complained to ANYONE that would listen, scowling and such. ALL dramatic-like.

the next day? a chobani yogurt appears in the spot my missing yogurt was swiped from. same flavor, same container (and not the same one, a friend had helped me search that day so i didn't just miss it).

i believed the person was hungry, stole it and felt bad after. replaced it when they had time.

either that or i just stole someone else's chobani.

my point? make it known that it is NOT COOL, DUDE. and sometimes people will respond.

MagJam2004

I've had it happen a few times. It made me mad at first, but then I figured maybe they needed it more than I did. How bad would it suck to be hungry at work all day because you couldn't afford lunch? So it doesn't make me mad anymore, although sometimes it makes me sad, for whoever took it and sometimes for me, if I was really looking forward to whatever I brought.

this may be so, however when it started happening at my office the resolution came quickly. Our no-nonsense boss gathered everyone together and basically pointed out that this was stealing, and it wouldn't be tolerated. If and when they were caught, they would be fired. Plain and simple. Then stuff started being left in the fridge for forever. There is now a Friday 4PM rule. If you still want your food, hurry before it ends up in the garbage at 4:05.

TheRoadDog

Back in the 80's I had someone on Swing Shift going through people's food in the lunchroom. Sometimes taking it, sometimes eating half and leaving the other half in the fridge.

I tried a couple different things.

Made a chicken salad sandwich with chopped up habaneros in it. They took a couple bites and left the rest.

Most effective was putting Syrup of ipecac in some chowder. I not only stopped the person, but found out the next day who it was, because they were violently sick and sent home. I then confronted the person when they returned to work. I got wrote up for that, but it was worth it.

MassiveDelta

I had a friend who kept having people use up her coffee creamer. so the new bottle she bought she took a selfie of herself spitting in it and sent it to the whole office. No more problems.