Theft at work

[skyring]

Kerri has been complaining about people stealing food out of the lunch room fridge at her work. She had a small tub of yogurt go missing recently. Kerri loves her yogurt and she made some pretty pointed comments about people having to be careful of food thieves. So everyone at her work is on the lookout for whoever it is who has been lifting food.

OK. Now remember that meal that I crunched up recently? Kerri reckoned that I'd eaten all the glass in it, and she put some leftovers into a plastic container for her lunch the next day. She also took a small tub ofAldi yogurt because she loves her yogurt. She put both items in a blue plastic bag so that the food thief wouldn't have an easy target, got to work, put it all in the fridge and went off to her office.

Comes lunchtime, and she's not feeling that hungry and doesn't want the crunchy pasta, but she needs her yogurt. She loves her yogurt. So she goes to the fridge, grabs the Aldi yogurt on the shelf, eats it up and sails through the afternoon. Comes to going home time and she goes to retrieve her leftovers in the plastic container.

She goes to the fridge, pulls out the blue plastic bag and looks inside. Yup, there's her leftovers in the plastic container. And the tub of Aldi yogurt beside it, both exactly as she left them there that morning!

Comments

[bookczuk.livejournal.com]

Heh...

We had a food thief at work several times. One time I'd made some curried chicken. They took a bite out of it and actually left me a note saying it was too spicey for them. Could I please tone down the seasonings nect time I made it?

[whytraven.livejournal.com]

I wrote a real nastygram to the food thieves in my student kitchen once. For my 22nd birthday a friend fixed up a medieval style banquet, complete with a chicken, and we put the leftovers in the fridge, and there really wasn't much left the next morning.

So I put a note on the door of the fridge expressing my wish that the thieves would become sick with salmonella, and got multiple nasty looks the next morning. ;-)

I got my own fridge shortly after that.

[onyerbike.livejournal.com]

Got ya beat, there. At the casino, we have multiple fridges (like soda coolers, with glass doors) for bagged lunches. Somebody once brought pizza for lunch, and had it wrapped in tinfoil. They got their lunch bag to eat, opened it up, got out the pizza-shaped tinfoil, opened that up, and....nothing. Some thief had eaten it, and then wrapped the foil back up just the way it was before, and then put it back! Others have reported finding notes in their lunch bags like "That was good - thanks". Some people have no respect.

[thebiblioholic.livejournal.com]

I was so expecting you to say one of her co-workers was bleeding from the tongue later that afternoon... :-)

[fechtbuch.livejournal.com]

We had a fridge thief at college. It really is annoying to have your food stolen. I found a "Dr & Quinch" cartoon in which they advised someone whose milk was being nicked from the fridge to replace milk in a bottle with an unstable liquid explosive..."then when the milk-happy scuzzbucket pours it over his cornflakes...BOOM!". I stuck the cartoon to the fridge door - more to vent my annoyance than anything, but the thefts did stop :-)

A poisoner confesses

[yokospungeon.livejournal.com]

I got sick of it, so I used to put a pint of milk topped up with tasty shampoo back into the fridge. It had a sticker on - THIS MILK HAS BEEN CONTAMINATED WITH SHAMPOO.

After a few weeks the milk stopped getting nicked & I stopped adding the shampoo.

Re: A poisoner confesses

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Lucky you didn't use the real thing!

[resqgeek]

This was one of my concerns when my office relocated to the new buildings earlier this year. In our old facility, I had my own small fridge in my office, so food theft wasn't a problem. However, in our new digs, we are specifically prohibited from having fridges (or any other appliances for that matter) in our offices. Each floor has two common pantries, which left me with two concerns. The first was the risk of food theft, which so far has not been a problem (though we've only been here for three months). The other was about how well the fridge, microwave ovens, etc. would be cleaned. Thankfully, the cleaning staff appears to be thoroughly cleaning them every Friday evening, and anything left in the fridge at that time is thrown in the trash, so we aren't fostering any science experiments in the back of the fridge.