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Who steals other people's food? This is completely bizarre to me. Do these people do it every day and just never bring their own lunch? Do they just see somethi
by mathieuh 9y ago
Who steals other people's food? This is completely bizarre to me. Do these people do it every day and just never bring their own lunch? Do they just see something that takes their fancy and decide to nick it?
The mind boggles.
- jxramos 9y agoI heard about this at my wife's former workplace that there was a food thief haunting the break room fridge. It's nuts but really happens.
- noir_lord 9y ago"Sorry boss, I have stomach issues I need to take a laxitive but the taste makes me sick so I mix it with my lunch, heres my prescription, by the way and on an entirely unrelated note...has anyone seen Peter this afternoon?"
- stevewillows 9y agoI worked at a place where one of the senior leaders stole a temp's lunch and completely denied it, despite the sandwich being on his desk. Its so shameful.
- lbeltrame 9y agoBack during my Ph.D. days people stole coffee capsules from others. I remember having a few in my drawer, only to find none the following morning. It can be mind-boggling, but it definitely happens.
- fasj82 9y agoCan't compare coffee capsules to food you cooked yourself.
- mathieuh 9y agoIf they were in his drawer though... I don't know what it is about office spaces that causes latent kleptomania to surface with such regularity.
- lbeltrame 9y agoThat was just the tip of the iceberg though. That place had some serious thefts going on. Once, a group leader's iMac was stolen one day: it was tied to the table with a Kensington lock, but the chain was just sawed off...
- microwavecamera 9y agoI don't know the motivation but it's a common problem for some reason. I worked at one place where it got so out of hand me a few other co-workers got fed up and spiked a bunch of our leftovers with brutally hot habanero sauce and left them in the fridge in the lunchroom. It worked.
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- LandR 9y agoI work in a shared working space, it's just me using my stuff yet the amount of milk, tea bags and sugar I get through and have to keep buying... Even tried labelling it yet people just to go to fridge or cupboard and help themselves... It's so annoying.
- mmanfrin 9y agoTo be fair, if I saw milk in the fridge of a coworking space, I would guess it was communal.
- c22 9y agoAt the coworking space I frequent there is a small bucket and a sign, when people take some sugar or a teabag or whatever they drop a quarter or a dime in the bucket. Whenever the space is out of teabags someone empties the bucket and buys some.
- kevin_thibedeau 9y agoThis sounds like a call center or similar place where they're desperate to fill the cubes with as many warm bodies as possible, sociopath or not. The behavior of HR suggests a less than professional workplace with high turnover.