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Stolen lunch in the work place

#43
When I took my first office job, early 2004, I had my lunch swiped a few times. I would usually bring in a few items to last the week, label them with my initials and date the packaging. I noticed stuff disappearing much faster than I was eating it. Same deal with the flavored coffee creamers. One of my co-workers told me that's how things go in an office environment. I was naive at the team, so I figured that must indeed be how it is.

I work from home now, so it's no longer a problem.

-Mike
 
#44
Never had anyone not own up to taking from my stash. I keep flavored coffee creamer, a bottle of Hazelnut Syrup and Vanilla Syrup sitting in my office, what can I say, I like fru fru coffee. I have had people take a creamer or use the syrup and leave a note which I don't mind as much. Sometimes they even leave a flavored Keurig coffee as a replacement, but everyone knows, Do not take my last creamer!
 
#47
It happened to me twice. I work in an architectural firm staffed with supposedly professional adults. The first time I was pissed and a bit incredulous. The second time even more so. Both times my name was written on the package in large black letters. I simply sent an email to the entire staff explaining what had happened and letting them know that I hope whomever took my lunch enjoyed it. I never did find out who did it of course, but I know whoever it was was a total ahole. Which is the weird thing because no one I work with strikes me as being that way. I haven't put any food in that fridge since.
 
#48
At a TV station where I worked, one day I was in the lunchroom eating lunch and the chief engineer walked in, opened the fridge, and started rifling through other peoples' lunch bags to see what they had for beverages. He found a Coke or something that was to his liking, so he took it. Looked at me, grinned, and walked out. He didn't even care that I saw what he was doing. I knew he was a prick before, but I didn't realize how much of a prick he was.
 
#49
Years ago, I worked with an older fellow who had been on staff at a smelting plant for decades, and he told me many great stories, such as this one: He worked with a Francophone named Jacques, who had a fondness for donuts. Everyone else knew this, too, and Jacques' donuts would often go missing out of his lunch-bag.

This went on for a few weeks, until there was a general safety meeting, and all the staff gathered in the lunch room. Jacques was one of the last to arrive, and when he did, he had a donut in his hand, and grin on his face. Someone asked what he smiling about, and Jacques proceeded to drop his pants, and run the donut up and down his penis. As this was going on, he laughingly explained that he had been doing this for two weeks, to every donut he had packed in his lunch...

Bazinga!
 
#53
gttim said:
Then I would leave a note saying, "I did to!"

I would never steal a lunch, nor lick one, but I would love to leave that note!
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:spit:

You and I would be like Jim and Dwight from The Office.:p

InsaneBassninja said:
I ate something what wasn't my a few times and thought I was my. People need to lable there names because am not sure whats my and what is theres.
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Dude, I started learning English when I was 13 and I don't think I wrote a sentence this much gramatically incorrect even back then. Congratulations.:D
 
#56
I haven't had anything stolen from my current place of work, but the job previously someone stole my half eaten lunch.. I can't remember what it was, but I'm pretty sure we went for beers and pizza on our lunch, stuck the remainder of my food in the fridge after and on my next break it was friggin gone! I was in shock. It was half eaten! I'm pretty sure I got a cheesesteak sandwich that had bites taken out of it and everything
 
#58
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#59
machine gewehr said:
Dude, I started learning English when I was 13 and I don't think I wrote a sentence this much gramatically incorrect even back then. Congratulations.:D
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IIRC, this has come up before with this poster. I'm not sure whether we a) decided to give him a hard time in hopes he'd improve, b) gave up because there was no hope, or c) allowed partial credit for effort because of a learning disability.

If a), it didn't work.

If b), we were right.

If c), not shamin', just sayin'.

As you were.
 

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