VENT . . work refrigerator/freezer thieves!

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:

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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.

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?!?"

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.

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.

There are lunch bags with little locks on them I believe. If not, dibs on that invention idea.

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.