HOW COULD SOMEONE DO THAT?!

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  • reen62
    reen62 Posts: 26 Member
    We used to have someone where i work who would eat other people's food and then pretend like she didn't know it belonged to anyone. It stinks to have that happen to you! Maybe that person needed that lunch because she had no money to buy or bring her own.
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
    I'm gonna laugh when you go home and realize that you made it, but forgot to pack it ;-)
    LMFAO I hate when I do that! Like it's gotten to the point that the moment I suspect someone stole my food, I automatically think "wait 'til I get home and find my precious food laid out on the counter, gone to waste."

    To OP - I hope you find the culprit. Give 'em a good shakedown when you do.
  • babbityboo
    babbityboo Posts: 98 Member
    There is a lunch thief in every workplace. May I suggest a nice batch of ex-lax brownies?

    BEST IDEA EVER!!!!!!! x
  • lor007
    lor007 Posts: 884 Member
    I had a problem with the women I used to work with stealing my coffee creamer. No one would admit to it, so I filled up an empty bottle of half milk/half vinegar and put it in the fridge. Nobody took any after that.
  • StrengthIDidntKnow
    StrengthIDidntKnow Posts: 543 Member
    I made chicken and rice once, someone ate all the chicken out of it and left the container with the rice sitting on the counter.
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
    I know there was a few times back when things were really reallly hard for me,that i had taken someones lunch out of the fridge. but that was after not having eaten in 3 days since what little money i was making was going to keep a roof over my head
  • jarrettd
    jarrettd Posts: 872 Member
    I take food-theft very personally. I had that happen where I work. I made it known that from now on, I would spit on everything I brought to eat, and anyone was welcome to it. I haven't had anything stolen since.

    I had plans for spiking stuff with laxatives or ipecac syrup if it continued. Yep. I was that mad.
  • ilookthetype
    ilookthetype Posts: 3,021 Member
    These will help prevent further lunch theft! I used to work in a restaurant where this happened all the time, which was ridiculous because we got free lunch so why eat steal one...

    Anyway buy these: http://www.ladiesgadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Mold-Lunch-Bag-Keeps-Your-Sandwiches-Safe.jpg
  • writtenINthestars
    writtenINthestars Posts: 1,933 Member
    Ohhh man, that happens at my work! The location I use to work in was a shared building with another company and the people next door would eat our food all the damn time! They wouldn't even try to hide it :grumble:
  • california_peach
    california_peach Posts: 1,809 Member
    I had a problem with the women I used to work with stealing my coffee creamer. No one would admit to it, so I filled up an empty bottle of half milk/half vinegar and put it in the fridge. Nobody took any after that.

    OMG!! My kids sneak into the fridge and drink the damn coffee creamer. I do all that normal parent stuff like scold them and but them in time outs. I was going to beat them with the bottle next, but I totally doing this instead. Sweet.


    **Please note: no children were harmed in the writing of this post. If I were to beat my little darlings when would laugh and run away. They fear me not.
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    My measured, weighed and self-prepared chicken wrap!!!
    Perfect! Could you please pass along the calorie count on it? It was FANTASTIC! I owe you one. Thanks for understanding!
  • hllamaster
    hllamaster Posts: 137 Member
    Make a lunch with lots of exlax you will find out....
  • Johnnyswife
    Johnnyswife Posts: 1,447 Member
    I can't imagine wasting an hour of my time trying to figure out who ate my food. It's not like your firstborn was kidnapped.
    And this seems like the kind of person who would steal someone's lunch.
    Make a lunch with lots of exlax you will find out....
    Oooh!! Good idea!! Make it a brownie and another chicken wrap!! Keep bringing the decoy in, until someone swipes it!:laugh:
  • shawnscott5
    shawnscott5 Posts: 295 Member
    I use to have that happen all the time. I went to one of those gag stores and bought a fake rat and put that on top of my lunch inside my lunch box. LOL Problem was solved. You could try fake poop too!
  • MrsKyhemia
    MrsKyhemia Posts: 35
    I remember when I was pregnant, someone stole not only my lunch (which was spaghetti)...they took the container, too!! Everything was gone! I was so mad...How could someone eat a stranger's leftovers??? That's nasty...

    Well, my coworker had an expired OceanSpray Cranberry Drink in her desk drawer that was expired in 2010 and we got even, lol. All she did was put it in the fridge and POOF it was gone, lol. Hope they liked it :wink:
  • audram420
    audram420 Posts: 838 Member
    I'm gonna laugh when you go home and realize that you made it, but forgot to pack it ;-)

    thinking the same thing. haha!
  • janet_pratt
    janet_pratt Posts: 747 Member
    And when the culprit is caught, terminate them! Or at the very least, fire them.
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    I had an experience which i tought pretty unique. I left a burrito at work in the frige over the weekend because I didn't have time to eat it. On monday I didn't bring my lunch because of the leftover burrito. Then I found the burrito was cut in half, heated, put back to the frige. Apparently someone thought of it, took it, and then realized they didn't like the flavor...
  • kriots
    kriots Posts: 375 Member
    i've had that happen to me once when I worked for a "big bank" in the back office side, well on my frozen food, i started to actually write my name on the box... there I saw my food sitting on some guy's desk, and he was eating it..i went up to him and asked how it tasted, and he laughed, asking why, and i told him b/c it was MY FOOD he was eating!!! I demanded that he pay for my lunch. He coughed up $10 bucks, and quit work actually that day b/c he was ashamed...and he should be....i'm super nice and all, but never, ever f uck with my food.
  • Cella30
    Cella30 Posts: 539 Member
    This happens in our office sometimes and it's so scandalous! People post threatening signs all over the fridge and hallways. lol The thing is, I would never be desperate enough to eat someone else's lunch. I've seen the way they treat the bathroom... hell naw! Who knows what they do to their food. :noway:
  • staceyrrad
    staceyrrad Posts: 25 Member
    Haha! At least I'm not the only one!

    There is only 12 of us, and we have prided ourselves in saying we are a like family there. As a friend I was offended. As management, what else have they taken? What else could they take? Money? Product?

    Thank you guys for the support! Haha it was just a bit of a surprise, I think that'd be so icky. Haha
  • tgh1914
    tgh1914 Posts: 1,036 Member
    So I work as an assistant manager at a local restaurant/coffee place. And more often than not, I have very hectic and crazy days at work. Like yesterday, I didn't get to sit down for lunch until 2:30pm. (I start at 7am) So I grab my lunch out of the fridge, get comfy and open my lunch bag.

    Only to find that my home made chicken wrap was gone!!

    My measured, weighed and self-prepared chicken wrap!!!

    I'm the semi-boss, so I spent an extra hour after my shift, trying to catch the culprit on the security cameras. Nothing yet. Everyone knows how much effort I put into my lunches. How dare they?


    Anyone else had this happen to them?!
    Sorry, I couldn't help myself :ohwell:

    Do you mind adding a little mayo next time? :wink:
  • catshark209
    catshark209 Posts: 1,133 Member
    It was probably summertime_girl! Check her profile pics against that video tape! :laugh: :laugh:

    Nah, I have way too many germaphobic issues to ever eat food that I wasn't sure where it came from. I just couldn't be bothered with wasting my time to catch the perpetrator either.

    Then why are you bothering with wasting your time making a snide comment on this post?:huh:
  • DWilbanks
    DWilbanks Posts: 420 Member
    we had that happen at my work frequently.... so I made a cake and put exlax in it..lol... we found out who the culprit was
  • FL_Nettie
    FL_Nettie Posts: 265 Member
    My measured, weighed and self-prepared chicken wrap!!!
    Perfect! Could you please pass along the calorie count on it? It was FANTASTIC! I owe you one. Thanks for understanding!

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • redhead91
    redhead91 Posts: 251
    That would seriously piss me off! Never mess with the good of a woman who is hungry AND trying to lose weight! God I would go so crazy if that happened!
  • summertime_girl
    summertime_girl Posts: 3,945 Member
    we had that happen at my work frequently.... so I made a cake and put exlax in it..lol... we found out who the culprit was

    If you're serious, and you really did this, you're opening yourself up to lawsuits. Here's just the first one of dozens that show up in a Google search.

    http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_east/20020131exlax2.asp

    I mean seriously, I'd be pissed too if someone took my food. But poisoning them, spending my little free time trying to catch them, it's too much and a waste of time. I'd rather leave a note on the fridge, or as HR to issue a company-wide memo.
  • swordsmith
    swordsmith Posts: 599 Member
    I have access to 350 acreas and a backhoe with a 20 foot arm- they will never be found...
  • jarrettd
    jarrettd Posts: 872 Member
    we had that happen at my work frequently.... so I made a cake and put exlax in it..lol... we found out who the culprit was

    If you're serious, and you really did this, you're opening yourself up to lawsuits. Here's just the first one of dozens that show up in a Google search.

    http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_east/20020131exlax2.asp

    I mean seriously, I'd be pissed too if someone took my food. But poisoning them, spending my little free time trying to catch them, it's too much and a waste of time. I'd rather leave a note on the fridge, or as HR to issue a company-wide memo.


    Someone can sue you because your name offends them. Or the color of your mailbox. Or the length of your hair. They are called frivolous lawsuits and they happen all the time. (Remember the guy that sued God?? Or the homeowner who was sued by the burglar for cutting himself on glass from the window he broke to get in??) So, hypothetically, I make a meal that contains meat, and that meat is later recalled for e. coli contamination, but in the meantime, a lousy thief steals it and gets sick from it. He's gonna sue me and win? So you're saying my lunch is a liability??

    Threats and memos are useless. People already know this is wrong. They do it anyway, until or unless they are taught that it has consequences. (Can't you just see a sign in a convenience store window "Please refrain from armed robbery, Thank you. Mgmt.")

    I would gladly defend myself in court. "Well, you see, you honor, I have the worst case of chronic constipation ever recorded. I make myself special meals everyday just so I can hope to live a normal life. I never dreamed someone would be hurt by it <sniff> <sniff>") In my world, let the lunch thief beware.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I used to work for neurologists who lived in million-dollar homes. I made $10 an hour (and was one of the higher-paid staff). If a drug rep didn't bring lunch one day, the docs would steal the support staff's food from the fridge.
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