Food Thiefs

InvidiaXII

So I had a Trader Joe's frozen mac and cheese in the work fridge that I was saving for a rainy day. There's a group lunch and my coworkers are ordering pizza-- I said "I'll pass, I have something here. Don't order any for me." Lo and behold, I go to the freezer and someone has stolen my mac and cheese!!! >_< I literally had my initials on every side of the damn box, so I'm pretty sure it was no accident.

Now I have nothing to eat! I'm sooo mad. I don't know why people think stealing a $3 thing of food is any different from sneaking up to my desk and walking off with my lipstick or some other possession. I'm not above putting another one in there laced with elephant-strength laxatives as a trap. Anyway, that's my rant. Does this happen to anyone else?

Nerple

. I'm not above putting another one in there laced with elephant-strength laxatives as a trap. Anyway, that's my rant. Does this happen to anyone else?

A buddy of mine did something like this (but much worse) once. I'd say what it is but it makes me feel like vomitting everytime I think about it.

ScatteredThoughts

It hasn't happened to me, but when I worked at a call center it was a common occurrence, unfortunately. There were a few people who got fired - I guess they thought the video camera in the break area was just for show.

DieVixen

Ive done it,but you would be amazed at what you do when you have not eaten in a week.

BrettPGH

You need to do exactly this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVCaaTjCfuk

UponThisRock

shooting spree

TheRoadDog

So I had a Trader Joe's frozen mac and cheese in the work fridge that I was saving for a rainy day. There's a group lunch and my coworkers are ordering pizza-- I said "I'll pass, I have something here. Don't order any for me." Lo and behold, I go to the freezer and someone has stolen my mac and cheese!!! >_< I literally had my initials on every side of the damn box, so I'm pretty sure it was no accident.

Now I have nothing to eat! I'm sooo mad. I don't know why people think stealing a $3 thing of food is any different from sneaking up to my desk and walking off with my lipstick or some other possession. I'm not above putting another one in there laced with elephant-strength laxatives as a trap. Anyway, that's my rant. Does this happen to anyone else?

Had someone that kept getting into other people's lunches at my last work. I'd like to tell you how I put a stop to it, but my Parole officer advises me against it.

TylerJ76

It's happened to me.
I caught the guy who was doing it.

I was pissed.

If you're that hard up for food, ask and I will gladly let you have it.

LovelyLifter

Those evil hungry HCG biatches at work stole my peanut butter !!

jad54

Leave some more mac and cheese in there, only pour a little ex-lax (or eye drops) in there this time. You'll just have to glue it back so it appears as though it's been unopened. You'll find the culprit. Trust me.

AdoraK

This has happened to me in the past. My solution was to bring in a mini fridge and put it in my office!

Dark_Roast

Leave some more mac and cheese in there, only pour a little ex-lax (or eye drops) in there this time. You'll just have to glue it back so it appears as though it's been unopened. You'll find the culprit. Trust me.

Just don't forget that you tampered with it and eat it yourself!!

UsedToBeHusky

I had someone steal a can of Dr Pepper that I was saving for myself. I knew who it was because she was a Dr Pepper fan too. So I stood by her desk and ranted about it to another co-worker. She popped her head up over the cubicle wall with that 'deer-caught-in-the-headlights' look. It never happened again and I pick on her about on FB. She is nice lady. I don't think it was on purpose.

But in your case, its sounds like some folks in your office are a bit jealous of your success. Sorry to hear you got screwed out of your lunch.

tomomatic

Happens to me all the time.

One time I took one of my empty pieces of tupperware and put a note in it that said "Congratulations, lunch thief! You have eaten something that used to be inside the human body. Enjoy!" I put all this in a brown paper bag.

Anyways, my message got reported to security but the thievery didn't. I assume the reporter was also the thief. Alas, both remain anonymous.

AlayshaJ

I hate it when anyone eats anything I specifically bought for myself. I almost bit my husbands head off because he ate a bag, yes a whole bag in one sitting, of gummy bears I was letting get stale. (Dont judge me!) He said that he told me they were there and I said "I know." so that was his que to eat them... I KNEW THEY WERE THERE BECAUSE THEY WERE MINE. He said that since I only said I know, that I wasn't claiming them. YOU DIDN'T BUY THEM, SO OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE NOT YOURS TO EAT.

I also once trashed my brothers room for eating my apple sauce, hot cheetos, and chocolate milk. (I was 14)

Its my biggest pet peeve ever.

DO NOT TOUCH MY FOOD.

If you didn't buy it, DONT EFFING TOUCH IT.

StarkLark

There was a week or so back in high school that much lunch got taken out of the lunchroom fridge for 3 or 4 days in a row, so I figured it was pretty intentional. So I went to the bait shop after school and bought a package of night crawlers. The next day I packed my delicious lunch as usual, then made an identical lunch except I filled the inside of my ham sandwich with several large squirming worms. Got to school early and placed the "bait" lunch in the fridge and went about my day.

Sure enough, when I got back to the caf for my lunch period my lunch was gone! I never found out who took it or even heard anything about it, but my lunch never disappeared again. Maybe your coworkers deserve a modified pizza to liven up their lunch hour

/cool story bro!

macpatti

Sucks that your lunch was stolen, but I wouldn't risk my job or being in trouble legally by putting laxatives or eye drops in food hoping someone else will eat it.

allifantastical

I hate that! I used to work at a hotel and we had a break room and we would be stuck sometimes behind the desk for 12 hours, so I would bring in things and write my initials all over them.

One of my "friends" got a job doing the night laundry position and when I would come in, in the morning things that I had in the fridge would be gone. To the point where, if I had eaten a sandwich and only eaten half of it and put the rest back, she would eat it! We weren't that close as friends!! She sometimes did house cleaning and we were allowed to take things that people had left like bottles of water or can's of pop/beer, but she would take bags of chips and things that were already open, and eat them.

Grosssssss!!!

atsteele

I'm not above putting another one in there laced with elephant-strength laxatives as a trap. Anyway, that's my rant. Does this happen to anyone else?

Although laxative laced food is a tempting solution, I wouldn't be surprised if someone could sue you for it and/or complain to HR and you could lose your job.

And yeah, it's happened to me. It's probably happened to most anyone who works outside their home. Heck, I regularly have my food stolen by my husband and children!!

Laurelje

Posts like this make me appreciate the mini-fridge in my office so very much! ;-)

InvidiaXII

I'm not above putting another one in there laced with elephant-strength laxatives as a trap. Anyway, that's my rant. Does this happen to anyone else?

Although laxative laced food is a tempting solution, I wouldn't be surprised if someone could sue you for it and/or complain to HR and you could lose your job.

True, I definitely wouldn't want to get in trouble for that! But if I put laxes in my clearly-for-me labeled food--I would make sure there was a really big, obvious label-- and somebody ate it anyway and complained, I would say that I put the meds in the food for my own GI problems. Maybe I take them every day, "what I put in my own food is my business", that sort of thing. I would hope the person blindly eating others' food in the fridge would be held with some accountability!
I probably won't do anything, but it sure is fun to think about.