Bastards in the work space

MojoRisinnnn · 06-12-2017 12:03pm

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

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.

Jesus mate I'll make sure never to piss you off.

seamus · 06-12-2017 12:06pm

DivingDuck wrote: »

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

It's not that complicated, really. CCTV needs to have a stated purpose and that purpose needs to be balanced against the right to privacy.

So an employer can put CCTV in the canteen to protect against theft and maintain hygiene, but that camera needs to be specifically trained on the relevant areas and avoid recording anything it doesn't need to. It can't just record the entire canteen.

Likewise if the purpose of the camera is to prevent theft then that's all you can use it for. If it captures the workshy kid popping into the canteen when he's not on a break, you can't use that footage to discipline or fire him.

If it's not possible to use CCTV without recording the entire canteen, then you can't put it in. Employees have a right to privacy while off the clock.

Like others, I haven't encountered food theft much, the more typical problem I encounter is people who bring food in and leave it there for weeks. Anywhere there's been a fridge, it has to be cleaned out every month and tupperwares full of gone off food just thrown straight in the bin.

Although what drives me crazy is when the employer fills up the canteen with all the basics; milk, etc; it always seems to be cleaned out by 3pm on a Friday. I'm convinced there's some skinflint who goes in after lunch and reasons that anything which hasn't been eaten is fair game to take home.
Of course the fncking canteen is bare then when you want a cuppa at 4pm.

bear1 · 06-12-2017 12:18pm

MojoRisinnnn wrote: »

Jesus mate I'll make sure never to piss you off.

Serves her right.

OldMrBrennan83 · 06-12-2017 1:45pm

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evil_seed · 06-12-2017 4:53pm

What's fairly liquid? Extra watery water?

gerrybbadd · 06-12-2017 5:01pm

server down wrote: »

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

How? Milk wasn't theirs. They shouldn't have been near it. It wasn't intended for them. Case would be thrown out pretty quick

The Pheasant2 · 06-12-2017 5:16pm

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

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.

Nice

server down · 06-12-2017 5:24pm

DivingDuck wrote: »

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?

FFS milk is communal in every single office I have ever been in.

And no, if we had to buy the milk I wouldnt care if someone used my milk. In those situations, like house shares, you make a rota system. And buy communal milk.

People on the internet are weird.

server down · 06-12-2017 5:29pm

bear1 wrote: »

On what grounds?

On attempts to poison someone. People on the internet are weird.

Corvo · 06-12-2017 5:31pm

I'd love if they stole my food, I'd feel more justified in strangling one of them.

OldMrBrennan83 · 06-12-2017 5:36pm

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Billgirlylegs · 06-12-2017 5:44pm

If there are communal arrangements then someone organizes collections and some arrangements in place. Someone buys the milk/bread/tea/coffee and contributors help themselves

If a person is not contributing money, they are not part of the community and are not alone stealing but worse are a miserable git.

bear1 · 06-12-2017 5:48pm

server down wrote: »

On attempts to poison someone. People on the internet are weird.

Hmm are you saying that someone who decides to take something that doesn't belong to him/her Drinks fairy liquid and decides to sue cause they had an attempt on their life?
Yeah.. people are weird alright.

bear1 · 06-12-2017 5:49pm

Patww79 wrote: »

But there's no communal milk in a lot of places so people are robbing milk that other people bought for themselves. If you let it slide, people are programmed to walk all over you and take more and more. People need harsh lessons.

I get the impression the poster is one of the people who take without asking

server down · 06-12-2017 5:53pm

bear1 wrote: »

I get the impression the poster is one of the people who take without asking

I definitely take milk without asking. It company provided though. If I worked in the kind of hellhole where milk wasnt provided Id get a rota/round system going.

The kind of people who have their own milk are the kind of people who dont do rounds in pubs, its the tiny peasant mind at work.

server down · 06-12-2017 5:54pm

bear1 wrote: »

Hmm are you saying that someone who decides to take something that doesn't belong to him/her Drinks fairy liquid and decides to sue cause they had an attempt on their life?
Yeah.. people are weird alright.

yeh.

If you poison a thief who breaks into your house same law applies. You will be jailed.

Its a very strange thing to do, I mean if you are a peasant milk horder with your special milk just label it.

How many people work in places without company supplied milk anyway?

bear1 · 06-12-2017 5:55pm

server down wrote: »

I definitely take milk without asking. It company provided though. If I worked in the kind of hellhole where milk wasnt provided Id get a rota/round system going.

The kind of people who have their own milk are the kind of people who dont do rounds in pubs, its the tiny peasant mind at work.

Such a stupid post.
We don't have this system as there are near on 400 people on our floor.
So according to your logic the entire floor should pool money together and then someone every hour should rush to the shop which isn't close and buy milk for the floor.
Bollocks.
So you admit yourself that if the milk wasn't communal then you wouldn't take It?

bear1 · 06-12-2017 5:56pm

server down wrote: »

yeh.

If you poison a thief who breaks into your house same law applies. You will be jailed.

Its a very strange thing to do, I mean if you are a peasant milk horder with your special milk just label it.

How many people work in places without company supplied milk anyway?

I see.
You're mad.

OldMrBrennan83 · 06-12-2017 5:57pm

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TerrorFirmer · 06-12-2017 10:55pm

A while back in work I had a sealed family pack of cheese that I threw into the fridge one evening.

Went to get it the following day to make a sandwich and it was torn open and all but one slice was gone.

Can't understand the gall of some people really. Do they care about what would happen if the owner came in while they were helping themselves to the contents?

Milk and butter is communal in our place, nothing else is though I wouldn't care if someone used some mayo/ketchup or took a slice of bread from a full pan.

But nicking other peoples lunch/opening packets is just baffling to try and understand.

Naos · 06-12-2017 11:11pm

server down wrote: »

I definitely take milk without asking. It company provided though. If I worked in the kind of hellhole where milk wasnt provided Id get a rota/round system going.

The kind of people who have their own milk are the kind of people who dont do rounds in pubs, its the tiny peasant mind at work.

What if I only like one cup of coffee a day and you like five?

DivingDuck · 06-12-2017 11:16pm

What I struggle to understand is how and why people get so angry about others wanting to do their own thing when it really doesn't affect them in any way. Unless there's no room in the fridge for everyone to have their own space (which I would completely understand being something that would cause frustration), why can't people just let others have their private, individual items?

I choose what I want, I pay for it, and I want to use it. I don't want to choose, pay for, or use other people's things. I don't want other people choosing, paying for, or using my things. How can this cause so much upset and frustration for others?

erica74 · 06-12-2017 11:23pm

server down wrote: »

How many people work in places without company supplied milk anyway?

There is no company supplied milk, teabags, coffee etc where I work nor where my husband works. The last 2 places I worked in didn't supply any of this either. My experience is that it's really common for these things to not be supplied. There is no shop nearby where my husband works so if he forget to bring anything with him, he's tea-less for the day.

06-12-2017 11:30pm

I was involved with a charity that had a lot of volunteers coming and going in one small office. There was free tea, coffee and biscuits and then there was these little snacky things you could buy for a euro. You just took one and left your euro and the profit (probably about 50 or 60 cent) went back to the charity. It was just a really small way for that one office to give back.

Im guesstimating here but I think they made about €600 a year out of this. But all of a sudden a person(s) starting taking the snacks without paying. About 20 quid a months worth. It wasn't a mistake because there was signage and all the volunteers were gently reminded you had to pay. But they kept doing it. It hadn't been copped onto for ages either so all in all I'd imagine they took at least €100 worth of snacks. (I think it was one person because at one point it was noted there was a few going missing in the space of one very small shift).

In the end they just had to get rid of the snacks altogether. Maybe I'm being petty but I found it really annoying. I don't care if it's only a little snack worth a euro, you're still stealing .. and from a charity. Wtf like!

s4uv3 · 06-12-2017 11:34pm

When I was pregnant last year I went through a phase of drinking chocolate milk. For a couple of weeks, it was all that'd settle my stomach. I had a wee carton of it in work, drank half on morning break, and was keeping the rest for lunchtime.
I'll never forget the rage when I went to get it and it had vanished, and when I stomped around to ask what had happened to it, a colleague had chucked it out because "it looked like it had been there ages and I just thought......"

Needless to say I friggin flipped the mental hormonal lid

Mister Vain · 06-12-2017 11:34pm

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?

A guy I work with did something similar with his sandwiches. He started putting peanut butter and Mayonnaise on them and that put a stop to it. Although eating someone's sandwich is nothing compared to taking a sh1t on the floor, or using the company phone to ring back home to the Congo and raking up a bill of 3 grand. No joke.

Badly Drunk Boy · 07-12-2017 10:41am

The only things I ever leave in the fridge in the canteen are drinks, eg, water, orange. However I always put in a Berocca or milk thistle tablet to make them seem a bit dodgy. I've never had any problems.

Motivator · 07-12-2017 10:57am

There are some seriously angry and sad people on this thread. In my office there are two big fridges to accommodate 19 people and in the four years I’ve been with the company not one person has had anything stolen. A few times someone has mixed up a container of soup with someone else’s but there has never been a lunch “theft”.

FYI, if your lunch/milk/teabags etc. has been taken or tampered with then you’re probably hated in your workplace and lots of people are laughing at you.

greenspurs · 07-12-2017 11:03am

Motivator wrote: »

There are some seriously angry and sad people on this thread. In my office there are two big fridges to accommodate 19 people and in the four years I’ve been with the company not one person has had anything stolen. A few times someone has mixed up a container of soup with someone else’s but there has never been a lunch “theft”.

FYI, if your lunch/milk/teabags etc. has been taken or tampered with then you’re probably hated in your workplace and lots of people are laughing at you.

You must work in Facebook or Google or some other idealistic nirvana workplace.
You are lucky that people aren't taking other peoples food.
And to say people are "HAted" because people are taking their food, is a bit simplistic, and silly really ...

Malayalam · 07-12-2017 11:38am

This is outside the ambit of my life experience (thank goodness). Only thing I can think is people are on drugs and don't know/care what the hell they are doing. :pac:

kg703 · 07-12-2017 12:27pm

I used to go to weight watchers so drank the "delicious" pink milk. The job I was in provided milk but only the full fat so I used to go and buy my own and asked the staff of 12 in the place to not drink it as I ate cereal every day and we had strictly timed 30 minute breaks so if I had to go buy it on my lunch, that was ten minutes gone already. Wouldn't mind if someone asked for a drop for tea but the company provided milk, people just didnt want to walk down to the shop (wouldnt be taken out of your break if you were doing the milk run) and in turn would use mine.

One day I taped over the lid of the milk with a big sign saying X milk, please do not use it. Half the carton left. Went in for my cereal lunch and the whole lot was gone. Nobody had been bothered to go and get the free milk so pulled the tape off mine and made cereal with it. Went out to the staff and asked who took it, I was pretty furious. One of the women eventually said 'it was me so effin what ill buy you more milk' Ended up in a big row - said she didnt see the sellotape and sign OVER THE LID.

Im not a round dodger, nor am I scabby, I know milk is only a euro. Its the point that she was too lazy and completely inconsiderate and rather then go get the milk that is free, use mine, knowing there was none left for me and I would have to buy more on my lunch and then only when I confronted everyone admitted it.

If you buy something and ask people not to use it, its only manners not to! How do people not get that?!

Mister Vain · 07-12-2017 11:18pm

Anyone else eat lunch in their cars? I'd say about 50% of the staff in my place do.

sligojoek · 08-12-2017 1:15am

Mister Vain wrote: »

Anyone else eat lunch in their cars? I'd say about 50% of the staff in my place do.

Usually when I'm on building sites. Some of the communal eating areas aren't the most appealing.

I had a great laugh today. I've been doing a bit of work for a woman over the last few weeks. She told me from the word go, to help myself to tea or coffee or anything I fancied from the fridge. I bring my own sandwiches and make tea at lunchtime. Today a carpenter came to do a few jobs in the morning and when he was done we had our lunch break together. He brought in s packet of ham and made two sandwiches. We were chatting before he left and next thing a dog jumped out of his van with a mouthful of ham. After failing to catch the dog and give him a kick up the arse he drove out to the gate, stopped and threw the rest of the ham out and shouted , "You might as well fucking have that as well you little cunt". And drove off.

Bastards in the work space

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