Bastards in the work space

bear1

So recently there have been people complaining that the food they leave in the fridge for lunch gets either eaten or take nibbles from it and put it back.
Seemed to die down a bit until a friend showed me the chicken breast he had made had chunks taken out of it.
One lady in particular buys expensive milk for some reason (soya I believe) and also leaves it in the fridge till one day she noticed the newly bought carton was empty.
After it happened again she decided revenge was hers and got a carton of the soya milk and poured sour milk and fairly liquid into it.
Mixed it up and away she went to the work the next day.
Came back later on to find the carton open and left on the counter with wet patches on the floor and never ever had problems again.
Now we've a new issue where people who leave cigarettes on their desks for the night come back to find half the smokes gone or in some case an empty box.
Some utter ****ers these days in offices.
Does anyone else encounter this kind of crap?

WHIP IT!

bear1 wrote: »

So recently there have been people complaining that the food they leave in the fridge for lunch gets either eaten or take nibbles from it and put it back.
Seemed to die down a bit until a friend showed me the chicken breast he had made had chunks taken out of it.
One lady in particular buys expensive milk for some reason (soya I believe) and also leaves it in the fridge till one day she noticed the newly bought carton was empty.
After it happens again she decided revenge was hers and got a carton of the soya milk and placed poured sour milk and fairly liquid into it.
Mixed it up and away she went to the work the next day.
Came back later on to find the carton open and left on the counter with wet patches on the floor and never ever had problems again.
Now we've a new issue where people who leave cigarettes on their desks for the night come back to find half the smokes gone or in some case an empty box.
Some utter ****ers these days in offices.
Does anyone else encounter this kind of crap?

See, for me, lunches, dinners, sandwiches etc are no-go items - absolutely... but your milks, butters, ketchups n whatnot are kinda communal. You leave milk in the work fridge, it's fair game if you ask me...

Controversial topic this... :pac:

Pinch Flat

Just put a few bogies in your sandwich. Problem solved.

Are Am Eye

Put a sticker on your food marked - "Poisoned"

bear1

I disagree.
If you go out of your way to buy expensive items and you trust that leaving it in a fridge for workers will be safe then no one should have the right without asking to use said product.
Wouldn't matter what the item is to me if someone is using it without asking it's being a prick.

WHIP IT!

bear1 wrote: »

I disagree.
If you go out of your way to buy expensive items and you trust that leaving it in a fridge for workers will be safe then no one should have the right without asking to use said product.
Wouldn't matter what the item is to me if someone is using it without asking it's being a prick.

So cheaper items are ok?

Some Yoke

I was working on a wall for several years to protect our people then this bastard came in, he knew nothing, took over our workplace, and let dodgy people through the dang wall.
Jon snow was his name I think

cajonlardo

Put a post it on my milk " I spat in this"
Came back at lunch and some so & so had written " So did I"

Skill Magill

bear1 wrote: »

So recently there have been people complaining that the food they leave in the fridge for lunch gets either eaten or take nibbles from it and put it back.
Seemed to die down a bit until a friend showed me the chicken breast he had made had chunks taken out of it.
One lady in particular buys expensive milk for some reason (soya I believe) and also leaves it in the fridge till one day she noticed the newly bought carton was empty.
After it happened again she decided revenge was hers and got a carton of the soya milk and poured sour milk and fairly liquid into it.
Mixed it up and away she went to the work the next day.
Came back later on to find the carton open and left on the counter with wet patches on the floor and never ever had problems again.
Now we've a new issue where people who leave cigarettes on their desks for the night come back to find half the smokes gone or in some case an empty box.
Some utter ****ers these days in offices.
Does anyone else encounter this kind of crap?

Cigarettes should be burned, foul pestulant things they are

EPAndlee

Just buy your own fridge

EPAndlee

Just buy your own fridge

Edward M

Not a problem for me, I never bring lunch, but a few colleagues do and often blame me if their stuff is took, I never touch it, I buy my lunch everyday. Fcuk them too the bastards, deserve to get their mingy sambos stolen.

bear1

WHIP IT! wrote: »

So cheaper items are ok?

Nope, I'm using the milk as the example here.
Regardless of the cost I wouldn't agree.

server down

bear1 wrote: »

So recently there have been people complaining that the food they leave in the fridge for lunch gets either eaten or take nibbles from it and put it back.
Seemed to die down a bit until a friend showed me the chicken breast he had made had chunks taken out of it.
One lady in particular buys expensive milk for some reason (soya I believe) and also leaves it in the fridge till one day she noticed the newly bought carton was empty.
After it happened again she decided revenge was hers and got a carton of the soya milk and poured sour milk and fairly liquid into it.
Mixed it up and away she went to the work the next day.
Came back later on to find the carton open and left on the counter with wet patches on the floor and never ever had problems again.
Now we've a new issue where people who leave cigarettes on their desks for the night come back to find half the smokes gone or in some case an empty box.
Some utter ****ers these days in offices.
Does anyone else encounter this kind of crap?

If somebody drank fairy liquid they would have a pretty good case to sue. Pretty pretty pretty good

DivingDuck

I always wonder what's wrong with people that they think nothing of using other people's stuff without their permission. These kind of twits ruin it for everyone— half the advice in the last thread was "get rid of the fridge".

Why can't people just keep their hands off what isn't theirs? Is that honestly so hard for people?

server down

DivingDuck wrote: »

I always wonder what's wrong with people that they think nothing of using other people's stuff without their permission. These kind of twits ruin it for everyone— half the advice in the last thread was "get rid of the fridge".

Why can't people just keep their hands off what isn't theirs? Is that honestly so hard for people?

It depends. Milk is communal, so is bread. Your mothers hot stew is yours to keep.

DivingDuck

server down wrote: »

It depends. Milk is communal, so is bread.

Who says, though? If I buy it, what gives you the right to take and use it?

I'm sure you're perfectly fine with someone using your communal items, so it's not a hypocrisy issue but one of fairness. Why should the folks who wouldn't dream of touching anything belonging to someone else (and we do exist, I promise) have to share their things when they're not using anyone else's?

Poor Uncle Tom

Camera in the canteen,

camera = bastard eradicator,

DivingDuck

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Camera in the canteen,

camera = bastard eradicator,

My first thought, but there's all kinds of data protection issues with this now.

FizzleSticks

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corner of hells

Years ago there was an issue with large amounts of food going missing from a canteen in an office I worked in.
The chief suspect was one of the chefs who arrived in early every morning. Management assumed he was on the stroke.

Anyways a plan was hatched to catch him in act where three managers arrived in earlier than him to catch him out.

Turned out that one of waitresses used to travel in with him and they were doing the hokey kokey in locker rooms before starting work.

ianob7

Skill Magill wrote:

Cigarettes should be burned, foul pestulant things they are

Well that's great input right there

FizzleSticks

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Poor Uncle Tom

Reminds me of:

Why do people name their food in work?
Today I ate a snadwich called Brian....!

Autosport

Use a small picnic bag. Keeps the food cold. It's what I use and it solves the problem

Stoner

corner of hells wrote:

Turned out that one of waitresses used to travel in with him and they were doing the hokey kokey in locker rooms before starting work.

But who stole the grub !

corner of hells

Stoner wrote: »

corner of hells wrote:

Turned out that one of waitresses used to travel in with him and they were doing the hokey kokey in locker rooms before starting work.

But who stole the grub !

I dunno , three managers catching the chef and the waitress doing the hokey kokey was more interesting.

DivingDuck

corner of hells wrote: »

I dunno , three managers catching the chef and the waitress doing the hokey kokey was more interesting.

Not to the lad who owned the food.

frag420

You do realise that it’s the burning that makes them foul pestulant things...

Skill Magill wrote: »

Cigarettes should be burned, foul pestulant things they are

myshirt

I can't believe people still do it, but it 100% goes on. Wtf are people thinking when they eat another person's sandwich? This isn't an isolated incident. It's genuinely widespread.

tayto lover

Christ. I thought the sandwiches were supplied by the company. I ate three.

server down

server down wrote: »

If somebody drank fairy liquid they would have a pretty good case to sue. Pretty pretty pretty good

On what grounds? Fairy liquid is harmless, that's why people use it for washing their plates, cups and cuttlery. If it was in any way dangerous Fairy would be regularly paying out to idiots who accidentally on purpose drink a cupful.

Deub

Put laxative in the milk then wait for the start of the show.
Make sure to remove all the rolls from the toilets before.

DivingDuck

Deub wrote: »

Put laxative in the milk then wait for the start of the show.
Make sure to remove all the rolls from the toilets before.

Maybe do a whip around for the cleaners beforehand.

Cocoon

Get a pack of these sandwich bags

dd972

Just stay at home all the time if you can wrangle it.

Privacy and sanity.

Captain Slow IRL

server down wrote: »

If somebody drank fairy liquid they would have a pretty good case to sue. Pretty pretty pretty good

That's the same bullsh*t reasoning that protects criminals in this country. If it wasn't theirs, they shouldn't be drinking/eating it.

myshirt

Cocoon wrote: »

Get a pack of these sandwich bags

Sandwich will be thrown out. I put my sandwich in the fridge at 8.30, seen it there at 11 when I got some milk, and it was gone at 12.30 by some bitch who left a note that something was gone off in the fridge / someone left the fridge open so she proceeded to dump everything in the fridge. Ffs, she might do that in her own house, but that was my sandwich.

PeterParker957

myshirt wrote: »

Cocoon wrote: »

Get a pack of these sandwich bags

Sandwich will be thrown out. I put my sandwich in the fridge at 8.30, seen it there at 11 when I got some milk, and it was gone at 12.30 by some bitch who left a note that something was gone off in the fridge / someone left the fridge open so she proceeded to dump everything in the fridge. Ffs, she might do that in her own house, but that was my sandwich.

My sandwich... MY SAAAANDWIIIICHHH!!!!

greencap

bear1 wrote: »

So recently there have been people complaining that the food they leave in the fridge for lunch gets either eaten or take nibbles from it and put it back.
Seemed to die down a bit until a friend showed me the chicken breast he had made had chunks taken out of it.
One lady in particular buys expensive milk for some reason (soya I believe) and also leaves it in the fridge till one day she noticed the newly bought carton was empty.
After it happened again she decided revenge was hers and got a carton of the soya milk and poured sour milk and fairly liquid into it.
Mixed it up and away she went to the work the next day.
Came back later on to find the carton open and left on the counter with wet patches on the floor and never ever had problems again.
Now we've a new issue where people who leave cigarettes on their desks for the night come back to find half the smokes gone or in some case an empty box.
Some utter ****ers these days in offices.
Does anyone else encounter this kind of crap?

All private items must be locked or password encrypted.
Anything that isn't tied down you might as well count as gone.

My lunch stays in a locker. Bring my own cutlery, and salt sachets.
Trust and rely on no one.

bear1

server down wrote: »

If somebody drank fairy liquid they would have a pretty good case to sue. Pretty pretty pretty good

On what grounds?

wakka12

WHIP IT! wrote: »

So cheaper items are ok?

No but if its a clearly more expensive item than say regular milk then its pretty obvious , even more obvious than usual, the buyer didn't buy it for communal use

DivingDuck

wakka12 wrote: »

No but if its a clearly more expensive item than say regular milk then its pretty obvious , even more obvious than usual, the buyer didn't buy it for communal use

Maybe just assume it's not for communal use unless the purchaser expressly says it is, rather than assuming it is for communal use unless the purchaser expressly says it isn't?

Don't take things you didn't buy without the person who bought it saying you can. This isn't a hard concept.

andekwarhola

I must be blessed. After nearly 20 years in different offices, the amount of bad people is pretty small. In fact, most were annoying rather than bad. Maybe I was the bastard.

Talking anything from a work fridge or cupboard that's not explicitly communal is just acting the cnut as well.

Wanderer78

andekwarhola wrote:

That said, maybe I was the bastard.

Wear that badge with pride!

OldMrBrennan83

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whoopsadoodles

We have our own fridge in our office because the communal one is rank. In our office one, no one in a million years would take anything without asking and we keep it clean.

In the communal one in the coffee room there's a good chance some of the stuff walks out by itself. Rotten.

I'm fussy enough about food though so there's not a chance I'd eat anything if I didn't know where it came from. The thoughts of people who'll eat food from unknown sources terrifies me more than the thoughts of the thieving bastards tbh.

bee06

I used to keep a tub of butter in the fridge for toast and the odd time someone would use it but I always put it down to someone thinking it was theirs because a few people would use the same brand. I may have had a few yogurts go missing over the years as well but nothing consistent.

I’ve never working in a company where the milk wasn’t provided by the company though. Major pain in the arse having to bring your own milk!

Teyla Emmagan

You'd need to be some prick to drink someone else's soya milk. Surely it would be obvious to anyone that they bought it because they couldn't drink ordinary milk?

whisky_galore

The boss leaving his lunches and partial lunches to rot in the fridge. One rule for us...

Cee-Jay-Cee

This happened to me a few years ago. I used to buy a six pack of yoghurts and leave them in the fridge on a Monday morning. They’d usually be all gone by Thursday (I’d have had 3 of them and 3 stolen)

One week after one was taken, I put a note on the rest of them saying

“Smile for the hidden camera!... you have 24hrs to come to me and apologise for stealing my yoghurts otherwise I will email the video to everyone in the building telling them not to leave food in the fridge as you steal it”

That day a girl cane to me and apologised for stealing my yoghurt. I took great delight in telling her there was no camera and to go and buy her own fücking food in future. I have no doubt she was stealing other people’s food too.