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!

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[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.