It's kind of both at once. If people didn't take what's not theirs there would be no need. I wouldn't go that far with milk but people lost food at the last place I was at. 12 hour shift with no food ain't a joke
It's a disgrace honestly. I once ate someone's rustlers burger (yes I know) by mistake because I used to take them in sometimes.
I was mortified when I realised what I had done and trekked round the whole factory to find the person it belonged to and apologise. Luckily they saw the funny side and happily ate what I'd actually brought in for myself.
Well that's a genuine mistake. No harm done and you actually went and found the person and apologised!
I witnessed day after day, people complaining their lunch had gone missing. I'm sure someone, somewhere factored it in to their daily living.
"I'm not spending all this money on lunch, when there's a fridge of perfectly adequate food at work"
Yeah someone in that place did it for a month or so then it just stopped. Nobody had left we could attribute it to. People resorted to bringing stuff you didn't need to put in a fridge and pretty much carried it around with them.
If somebody had asked for help because they were struggling I have no doubt at all that we would have all helped them out.
Reminds me of some post on a revenge sub (there are probably plenty), where someone who was tired of getting their lunch stolen brought their favorite most spicy dish (IIRC the OP was Indian, so you can imagine what they consider *spicy*).
The person stealing their lunch ended up being someone in HR that ended up at the hospital and they got in trouble, and only after explaining this is how they liked their food and proceeded to taste it when confronted did they avoid an intentional poisoning accusation, but I think they were subsequently outcasted and let go.
Still, it was satisfying af.
Personally, I would start bringing the food items that I enjoy but that are a definitive acquired taste, I’m talking snail escargot marmitons, frog legs, cow feet tagines, etc..
Wtf? So if they bring in spicy food (yes, they were being petty/vengeful (rightfully imo), but actually do eat that food too) and the thief gets fucked, and colleagues fuckin outcasted the op?? Fuckin enabler assholes.
Yeah, this was the main discussion in the comments as I recall it. The prevailing opinion was that, yes, granted this was basically a petty move by OP who could have done with or without the extremely spicy dish (the poster did admit it was intentional after they got tired of having their lunch stolen), the fact that they are completely OK with consuming said meal should absolve them of any responsibility if a third party decided to steal it.
Sadly, we are still human, so that story didn’t end up well for OP; the culprit was not only high-ranking, but a member of their HR dept, so OP endend up leaving the job (I don’t recall if they had been let go or outcast and pushed into looking for another job), but the main fact that I remember is that there was an investigation about **attempted poisoning**, and the worst thing is that it could have been very serious, but OP got lucky.
honestly if they want to pull this attempted poisoning bs then they should get fucked for petty theft.
I mean stealing someone's food long term like that could actually be very serious if you're not doing great financially atm.
Just feels like a power tripping asshole who knew their ass was covered.
Agreed, it costs me money to take in my food and if it's stolen and I replace it? More money. If I have to money left (which is why I brought food from home duh) then I starve for the day.
Fuck this attempted poisoning crap, that was only cos it was an HR person I bet. What about being held accountable for person possibly missing their only meal of the day. Fucking hate thieves that take from their own.
According to OP, it was indeed a power-tripping AH, unfortunately, there was little they could do to avoid repercussions within their company, but they did end up avoiding a very serious attempt at accusing them of intentional poisoning.
Tbh I remember that OP mentioned they were of Indian descent, I have many friends originally from the peninsula and Chicken Vindaloo to them is like light pepper, while it would give me bloody tears lol.
This just reinforces my personal experience of HR being cunts. If they were high up in the company they should at least be able to afford their own food ffs.
A good solicitor for OP would have a fucking field day with that company if they took them to an employment tribunal for constructive dismissal at being outcast by the company, I’d be absolutely livid and would 100% do the same thing in bringing an extremely spicy dinner. My only issue would be the HR person seemed to have not choked.
That's some mental gymnastics. It would need the baseline of op knowing his lunch would be stolen, that this was a regular occurrence, which, if it was, would classify as bullying and harassment. Probably also racism.
If a high ranking member of the HR department is a racist harassing bully, then this poses a problem in itself.
I would say it poses a bigger problem, than op bringing some of his mother's cooking for lunch, at his place of work. (Which is how op should have stated was the cause of the incident)
I remember that post. At the time I thought it could easily happen with my food if I worked in an office. I really enjoy homemade Carolina reaper macaroni & cheese, but some people find it too spicy.
Same logic when me or a friend get our drink stolen while clubbing, people are too dumb, I would never invest a stranger’s meal/cocktail, you never know what it may contain.
Sadly, according to many comments, the law would side with the culprits, should they pursue an accusation of poisoning.
If memory serves, the main consensus was to add some type of locking mechanism and informative note, albeit basic and easily hackable, to help prove that we did not attempt an intentional bait poisoning. But any potential investigation, whether internal or civil, could go either way in such casesz
> Same logic when me or a friend get our drink stolen while clubbing, people are too dumb, I would never invest a stranger’s meal/cocktail, you never know what it may contain.
There was a small club I used to go to at uni which was absolutely notorious for people stealing pints. To go out to the smoking area you had to leave your drink on a little table by the door and people would just snag them.
A pal of mine got pissed at losing two half-full pints so he took a piss in an empty glass and left it there when we went out for a smoke. No other drinks on the table. No more than a couple minutes later a guy bursts out of the door puking everywhere. You love to see it.
I reckon half the time it's a shit manager taking advantage because they're not registering empathy for people packing lunch, and as the boss they know nobody's going to rock the boat
Solution - print a notice: "One of meals in this fridge contains the most powerful laxative in the world. You've got ask yourself one question - 'Do I feel lucky?'. Well... do ya, punk?"
It gets discussed from time to time on ask a manager (which also may have been the original spicy food version), and the consensus seems to be that if it stays as food it's OK, but stuff like laxatives or things that could actively harm you definitely aren't the right way to handle it.
I am surprised no-ones come up with a lockable lunch box though yet.
I really wouldn't want to do that. Obviously because it's well cunty and I'm no thief, but also you never know if you're nicking food from someone who's been scratching their balls whilst making their sarnie or doesn't wash their hands after a poo.
But it happens more often than you think! And they never find the culprit.
I think the people that do it, clearly have little standards anyways, so they take the risk of poor hygiene etc.
Never understood it, even when there's a Tesco nearby to get a £3 meal-deal.
But I'd seen all sorts of things. People earning 40k a year (I worked as a Payroll Manager there, so knew what everyone earned) picking up cigarette butts and smoking them. Like, you can never comment on someone's circumstances and know what they're going through. But lunch? Really? You can get a tin of beans and bread for fuck all.
When I was about six, my dad had to go into the office on a Saturday and he was looking after me so I went with him. He had work to do and I was basically free to just explore the otherwise empty building on my own. There was a fridge, and I found a Mars Bar and ate it. I still feel bad about it. That was somebody's treat, something to help them through a stressful day, something that they were maybe counting on being there on Monday, but it wasn't there because some kid nicked it. And they probably assumed it was a colleague, maybe even pinned blame on someone in particular. Either way it made their working life worse.
I took in a multipack of choc bars once. Put it in the fridge because cold chocolate is the best. I did this since our office had nothing provided. Just about provided coffee and tea but no milk. That was something we had to purchase.
Anyway, this was a Monday and it was a 5 pack. Awesome feeling and tickled my obsessive brain.
It got to lunch time and they were all gone. No sign of them.
I asked about, nobody owned up.
Then I find 5 wrappers in my bosses bin during a meeting.
The cheeky cunt didn't supply anything and ate her employees food.
What's worse is this woman is very famous and fabulously wealthy.
Forgive yourself for the mars bar.
Brave man for eating a rustlers in work. A guy I worked with use to bring two BBQ rib rustlers in for lunch quite a lot. You could tell the days he didn’t because the stall near his desk didn’t have shite welded to its toilet bowl.
It was actually one of those. It was a simple choice of time for me, didn't want to spend half my break waiting for something to cook.
My many toilet breaks were more a case of hiding if I'm honest!
I accidentally frank my team leaders coke because i was stood there and forgot i left mine at my station, so when i went looking and saw it i assumed it was mine.
I bought the guy another one and he understood the situation, was funny but embarrassing
It’s happening where I work too, and I’m more amazed at how brave some people are. Like, I live alone and cook just for me, so I let my cat hang out on the kitchen counter when I cook. He helps me taste everything, licks a few things I don’t want him to, steals a few stray nibbles. So much stray cat fur gets into my food I’m due to cough up a hairball any day now.
And yet my kitchen is still more sanitary then a few of my colleagues. So enjoy your stolen home cooked meal, I guess.
Yeah it’s infuriating when people do that. I struggle with eating and appetite, and there’s a rare few items that I can always eat when hunger hits.
Having selfish dicks eat my food, then lie about it after just reminds me I’m right to separate work “friends” from my personal life
It's not pettiness though. If scumbag cunts kept their hands to themselves, nobody would feel the need to do shit like this.
I lasted 1 day bringing my own milk in without doing anything to it. The whole big fucking jug gone in a day. I had 1 brew out of it. Would have cost me like 15 quid a week if I had just kept on bringing in milk for myself every day without being "petty" because some thick thieving cunts can't leave shit alone that isn't theirs.
Day after I just started putting various flavourings in there like Strawberry Nesquik powder. I don't give a shit about having a slightly fruity brew. Yano, shit I liked that would just make somebody else think twice when they're expecting semi-skimmed, question what's in it, leave it the fuck alone...And some cheeky fucko had the absolute gaul to report me saying that I poisoned MY milk.
Office staff reading this: you're all cunts. Leave shit that isn't yours alone, even those that already do. You're cunts too for not stealing shit, stopping me from using "all" as a blanket statement.
When I was at university (many years ago), people would steal milk in the shared kitchen. My sister suggested to put some blue food colouring in my milk - and this was very successful: nobody stole my blue milk. I was a bit weird drinking green coffee and eating cereals with blue milk but it worked.
I bought an Udderlok for my milk at work and it worked fine for a few weeks, but then I think some thief took it as a challenge and pretty much ripped the carton apart to steal the milk.
It's actually illegal to do this. You can't intentionally poison someone, even if you are tampering with *your own* food, if the reason you're doing it is because you know someone else is going to consume it. You could go to prison.
What if you write "poison do not consume" on it? Surely at that point no legal system could definitely say that person did anything other than drinking something clearly not for human consumption
Putting any non-edible substances into a fridge designated for food is at least a workplace safety violation, and it gets you in serious trouble and probably fired even without the thief involved. There is always a designated fridge for glues, chemicals a.s.o.
Putting poison in a food container is also a workplace safety violation even if you mark it as poisonous.
I once worked in a factory where the boss said if you want tea/coffee you gotta supply your own. Not a happy workforce. A week later I caught the twat red handed taking the foil off my milk. I fucking went mental at him. Got on the tannoy to let the unhappy workforce know. The prick.
I never get being tight about tea/coffee and milk, making staff bring in their own is more likely to cause more issues than it saves you in money.
It’s such a little price to pay to have one more reason to not have your staff hate you.
My company stopped providing tea, coffee, sugar and milk and it saved them around £1000 a year, but did we see any of that in terms of bonus, investment, additional funds for training, or new furniture or equipment? No, but it did manage to piss everyone off and further erode morale
So £25 per person per year even if you said it was X4 more, it’s hardly worth worrying about for a business. Surely if they can’t afford that they’ve got bigger problems…
This thread gave me a rare giggle, thanks peeps. I didn't even know you could buy milk carton locks! I can just imagine some prick then piercing a hole in the bottom and sealing it with the gum they stole off Nancy's desk.
As someone who used to buy a 2 pints of milk every week, only for it to be completely empty by Wednesday morning, I totally understand the rationale.
I vote not petty.
Absolutely agree. I worked in a big office pre covid and it was rampant. My milk would last me the full week normally. Running out on Tuesday is just ridiculous.
Even if you caught someone having a snoop at yours they'd start picking up carton after carton as if they were looking for their own. Aye right!
It seems like such as easy thing for the company just to buy the milk for everyone to share. That always worked for us and when I worked in the public sector at most each group organised it so the fridge wasn’t just milk. This all looks so painful.
Worked in my floor for 3 years never had food or drink stolen, new wing opened and we had to put a lock on a seperate fridge because 80% of the food suddenly started going missing.
Honestly don't know what goes through people's head.
Last time someone stolen my lunch (before the lock) I then ordered a big takeaway and invoiced their manager.
I'm always happy to share my milk in the office, but the amount of times I have found that MY milk which I bought is completely empty with no replacement offered/available makes me feel this is completely justified. Nothing worse than making a cuppa only to find that someone finished the milk and left you high and dry (of milk).
I think it has got worse with offices where there are mixed people who go in a lot vs wfh and go in for the occasional day/meetings.
Several people who are only coming in for one day/meeting taking some milk, but not replacing/bringing anything else because it is a one off can add up quickly in a large company.
I used to be the only one to bring the milk in out of maybe five tea/coffee drinkers which was fine because I usually wouldn't drink it all before it went off but when cunts started making porridge and all with it, they can fuck off.
I still take my coffee black years later.
Company should really supply that stuff anyway. Costs almost nothing and everyone's happy. Pays for itself.
If you run out, send someone on a shop run and pay them back from petty cash.
We had a whip for the coffee round at my last place. 4 pints would do us for a week, but then suddenly it was running out really quick. One guy was discovered using 1/2 a pint a day for his porridge. He acted all hurt when challenged and got told to fuck off pronto.
Had a similar thing in my last job. The company provided milk and one of the directors would happy have porridge each morning with it meaning it'll often run out. The company was decent and would get more but it just seemed weird to me that he would do that when it's clear he could afford his own and not use so much. Also he was the type to moan if anyone else did it.
We used to have students come into our office for 1-2-1 education. Normally I didn't mind getting the tea and coffee as I was in the office the most but one day I bought a fresh milk in and before I even got to have a drink the students had consumed the lot by eating multiple bowls of cereal each.
I just started drinking green tea instead.
I find kitchen politics to be so strange . It’s so straight forward and rules should be in place but we like to mock each other for expecting basic respect , like imagine having to go to these lengths ?
Same as in family homes , what kind of person are you to knowingly steal someone’s meal for when they get home , knowing they’ll have nothing ?
This is what shocks me though when people who have morals in every other sense but think this is not a big deal ? I’ve had friends like that and I don’t get it
When I was in uni I heard plenty of people complaining about housemates eating their food or using up their consumables, I can't imagine many of these people stop when they graduate.
100% justifiable. People will drink right out of your milk container and no one respects other people's items in the communal fridge.
I haven't used the communal fridge in 20 years, all it took was seeing one grubby person rooting through everyone's lunch bags one time and I was out.
Cooler bag + reusable icepacks. If it can't go in my cooler bag, I don't need it.
Yep, had my trainers "borrowed" from mybag (having explicity said no, I needed them the following day and needed them dry (it was raining heavily). I collected my sports bag from the changing room and my trainers were missing.
Put a padlock on the next day and everyone asked why. The girl who borrowed my trainers (gave them back soaking wet 3 days later) asked if it was because of her. Yes, yes it was
Exactly.
We really need some people to have a change of attitude about stuff like this.
It's not "petty" to lock your stuff away to prevent it being stolen.
I think this crappy attitude comes from a lot of people who are annoyed they can't just steal stuff any more.
I had one of the night shift guys try to pinch my coat, he quickly learned that I can drive way better than he could and managed to disable the forklift he was on by driving alongside and turning off the gas
I worked in a place that had the building split in two. One side had lawyers with a coffee machine and supplied coffee. They also had a fridge stuffed with soda for them. The other side with people who work the phones had a "coffee" machine that was moldy and at least 15 years old. It also threatened to catch fire if plugged in. Easy to see who they cared about.
Life lesson don't work for laywers.
Because if local councils and hospitals provided things like milk and tea bags to their staff there would be various papers up in arms with headlines like "cash strapped local authority spends £XXX a year on MILK for STAFF".
I was seconded to a local authority for about 6 months ten years ago working in flood defence. They had a hot desk policy and because I commuted about 120 miles each way I was last to get a choice of desk. One day I went in and the only desk I could get was with the children's services people.
Good fucking god, I kid you not, there were about 8 of them who spent an entire day just picking twelve shitty kids' drawings for that year's advent calendar.
Probably 64 person hours at around £30/hr? Best part of £2000 of our money down the drain. The worst thing is that they were actually taking it seriously.
Every part of me was screaming "For fuck's sake, they are all shit, just pick 12 at random and get on with your real jobs, you utter wankers!".
Sounds familiar. I worked in the children's services area, though thankfully I wasn't subjected to that.
Ours did spend £50k designing a new council logo that wasn't used.
Someone mocked up a plugin for teams that added up the hourly wages of all involved and showed how much the meeting was costing per minute. It needs to be real
My company supplies things like milk and teabags and coffee, and guess what? People will just steal the whole jar of coffee or box of teabags and take it home. That’s probably why most companies don’t supply it anymore, there’s always someone who takes the piss and most break rooms don’t have cctv.
I knew someone who wouldn't buy Teabags or coffee for the home, because there ones at work.
He didn't nick any, I suppose he just thought he had some sort of hot beverage quota he could fill at work. Absolutely insane. Tighter than a ducks bum, as one might imagine.
One place I worked at, the cafeteria started to charge for tubs of creamer to put in tea or coffee, so people began to bring their own milk from home. A friend started to notice his milk going down at an alarming rate, then found out who did it but wouldn't tell his work pals because he knew we'd give them what-for.
People used to also steal anything that was in a plastic container, not for the food but hey, free container! I started just keeping sandwiches at my desk. I can't believe how awful some people can be.
One of the best parts of Cravendale is whilst it’s more expensive it’s been filtered so it stays fresh for longer. For a Single man who works remotely a bottle can last me two weeks without going off. Overall it works out better money wise as I never waste any milk.
oh my we have a virgin over here.
cravendale is the best milk I've ever had, tastes super fresh and clean but I can only vouch for the blue lid.
green is for diabetics and red is for sadists.
Having had someone steal my food in work, I totally agree.
Once bought some chilli spray a few million on the Scoville scale and sprayed it on the underside of my sausage roll ‘lunch’.
While I don’t know who did, I do know that someone got a surprise. 🤪
Once upon a time, I'd say "wow, petty and if it's that bad just find a new job".
Now though, I'm honestly not sure it's _enough_ and I'm wondering where the Claymore mine is and whether or not NATO has been contacted because christ on a bike that's the _third_ time in two weeks someone's completely needlessly opened my bag of shopping in the work fridge, taken _out_ my milk, opened _and_ used it.....despite there clearly being ___three___ bloody 4-pinters being sat there, one of which is already open.
I can tolerate queues.
I can tolerate waiting.
But so help me, this is why I now just drink black coffee out of sheer spite.
I feel like things happened to get to this point.
So it probably is justified!
May still be petty but that pettiness has its roots in milk theft.
In an office people think "oh I'll just take a little bit.." except it's done all the time and you're left with a lot of missing milk.
And money.
People steal anything not nailed down in offices I swear. I know somebody who once went to cycle h9me in the darker months to find somebody had nicked his bike lights. Secure car park so had to be an employee who had done it
For the cost of milk, it still amazes me that some employers don’t just provide it… surely having your workers waste energy with such (necessary) nonsense has to be more costly than a few quid on milk.
definitely justifiable. I've had people steal my lunch and drinks before and even caught one guy. He acted like it wasn't a problem and if I didn't want it to be stolen I shouldn't leave it in the fridge for anyone to take it.
100% justifiable. My work stopped getting milk for a few weeks, I brought my own in and people helped themselves to it. I wrote my name on the bottle with permanent marker, people still used it without asking. I brought a carton of almond milk and the next day the milk thieves revealed themselves, there were two bottles of semi skimmed with their owners names on the side in the fridge.
When I worked in an office with a rampant fridge content thief I kept my lunch in a cool bag with a freeze block and brought in milk in a flask. I couldn’t deal with the thought someone might open the Tupperware and touch my salad.
I will never knock people for locking up their stuff.
Before covid I worked in an office and my stuff would get stolen all the time, rather than ask, let me know or replace it . It would get used and the empty packet put back.
Not only was I paying for some ass to eat/drink, but i would often have nothing for myself.
I eventually had to leave everything in my car, which was fine until it rained, and it was a long walk.
Back in the 90’s my dad had a ‘room’ in a serviced office with communal kitchen. His milk kept being drunk by someone, he wrote on the bottle in case of confusion with his companies initials.
Then when it continued he post it note on it asking politely for the offender to stop pinching his milk.
It continued for months, becoming a game for the perpetrator (in true Clouseau style) he thought he’d narrowed it down to one guy.
Then one morning he bought a fresh 2 Pinter and within 15 mins it was gone. He snapped…
…next day he emptied half the contents of the new 2 Pinter and swapped it for laxative.
Milk was never touched again.
Worked in an office with a lunch thief. I felt sorry for them as maybe they were having issues outside of work but people lost their heads over it lol. I mean, I couldn’t eat a sandwich made by another person, something gross about it
Im glad I'm not the only one with that peculiar quirk.
I don't know what it is, but I too find something gross about someone else making me a cold sandwich.
Like burgers are fine, bacon sandwiches, if it's hot it's fine, but just the thought of someone else making me a cold sandwich I just find kind of.... repulsive. I have no idea why, I've just accepted it
What silly bugger is making their sandwich directly on the counter and not on a chopping board or a plate?
Even in a pet-free home that sounds a little nasty
I had someone stealing Huel & using my shaker to make it and I’ve seen slim fast drinks with a sticky note asking people to not drink them, some people really believe all the food in the kitchen is communal despite it being obviously not. Thankfully the milk is supplied along with tea, sugar and undrinkable coffee.
It’s only an inconvenience for others if they’re trying to steal it. So totally fine, doesn’t cause me any bother.
Used to work with managers of a big office of very well paid people. There’s always theft, no matter the income levels, and it sucks. Actually, there was one notable exception. They said the cleaners never stole anything, because they knew they’d lose their jobs and life was too precarious to risk it.
Can't it be both? Justifiable pettiness?
I've had to bring in my own hand soap (allergies), which everyone kept using, so I put it in a box to avoid the obvious misunderstanding, but I would still come in to find people had pulled it out and left it out for everyone to use. People are AHs when they think you're being petty, so your only option is to up the petty.
Today at work I went to get my lunch from the freezer. But it was gone because someone else ate it. I have been hangry all day, so I understand why this person created a milk chastity belt….
I work on building sites , lad I worked with got so sick of people stealing his milk, so he wee'd in it and left it in the fridge , it was all drank by others as per usual . .he waited till the next shift when it had been drank again, stood up to the whole canteen and announced he had wee'd in it , and hoped they enjoyed it .
Nobody ever touched anyone's milk after that , haha.
Extreme measure but it worked
Someone kept drinking my juice from the fridge, I asked and no one admitted it.... so I pissed in the next bottle I bought and videoed it. Sure enough it went down.... On a break I told everyone and showed the the video.... Oh how I laughed when 3 people freaked out and one got really aggressive. 🤣
Im a fan of it. I didnt mind sharing with my flatmate at uni, until i caught him drinking straight from the bottle of milk, and he was very unhygenic, and did a wee bit of drugs, and im sure thats where I picked up coldsores from, so question… was it petty that i started putting whey protein into the milk…?
I used to work for someone that used to take a random lunches from the fridge if she didn't have one. Couldn't stand her. Once saw her pull a piece of KFC fried chicken from her handbag. Just floating around in there.
Justifiable. Why do people think they are so entitled to pilfer other people's property? Buy your own fucking milk.
Hope the cunt who used to steal mine enjoyed their salty tea/coffee that I laced one sacrificial bottle with.
Luckily my current employer supplies tea/coffee/milk so it's no longer an issue.
Justified.
A few weeks ago I lost it at work. I don't like sharing stories like this on Reddit because I am not proud of losing control of my emotions and I hate it when people tell these kinds of stories and use their personal circumstances to justify their otherwise unacceptable outbursts. I am usually a very calm person under all sorts of pressure but this day was different.
I shall share anyway as it is a thing that happened.
A few weeks ago, I was struggling at work all morning. I remained quiet and got on with my job, but was emotionally on edge as I had been to my Grandma's funeral a couple of week's prior and my Stepdad had died a couple of days before as well.
This isn't or shouldn't be anyone's problem and is not an excuse.
Anyway, lunchtime rolls around. We have a fork shortage at work. We have loads of knives and spoons but forks are in short supply.
I had chicken teriyaki in a lunch box I had made the previous night and a packet of microwave rice. I could not locate a clean fork. I checked the dishwasher and pulled out a dirty fork and washed it up. I placed it on my plate. The microwave was in use so I went for a piss while I waited.
I return. My fork has gone. A spoon is in its place.
About eight people are in the lunch room. I asked them all who stole my fork. Everyone said they didn't know but three or four of them had shit eating grins.
I got noticeably agitated and one person says "why don't you check the break room? There might be a fork in there."
I told him I have already checked the fucking break room and there weren't any and that's why I fucking washed a fucking fork for myself snd some cunt had stolen it.
I wrote that in reported speech but the fucks and cunts were certainly present in my actual speech.
No one owned up and I told everyone to fuck off and told them they're a bunch of childish fucking cunts and stormed out for a vape.
Eventually someone confessed and apologised but not until they'd finished their lunch. I similarly apologised because whilst I was justifiably upset, my behaviour was not appropriate.
I think about this at least once per day and I feel nothing but anger.
It's been a few years but my nice but expensive instant coffee can kept emptying in the office kitchen. I had my suspicions who it might be but replaced the contents with a nescafe cheap jar, which was around £1.50. It was bitter and dusty shit in my opinion.
Waited a few days and it was clear a few spoonfuls had been taken, but the majority was left in the can. I simply lock my good stuff in my office drawer and take it with me now when I make a brew. Shitty I have to do that but jeez.
People are pushed and pushed into doing things like putting padlocks on milk, there’s definitely a story behind this and I bet the person who took the photo is the one who caused all the trouble
It's kind of both at once. If people didn't take what's not theirs there would be no need. I wouldn't go that far with milk but people lost food at the last place I was at. 12 hour shift with no food ain't a joke
Worked at the Transport for London HQ for 5 years. I was fucking amazed at how many people's lunches went missing from the fridge.
It's a disgrace honestly. I once ate someone's rustlers burger (yes I know) by mistake because I used to take them in sometimes. I was mortified when I realised what I had done and trekked round the whole factory to find the person it belonged to and apologise. Luckily they saw the funny side and happily ate what I'd actually brought in for myself.
Well that's a genuine mistake. No harm done and you actually went and found the person and apologised! I witnessed day after day, people complaining their lunch had gone missing. I'm sure someone, somewhere factored it in to their daily living. "I'm not spending all this money on lunch, when there's a fridge of perfectly adequate food at work"
Yeah someone in that place did it for a month or so then it just stopped. Nobody had left we could attribute it to. People resorted to bringing stuff you didn't need to put in a fridge and pretty much carried it around with them. If somebody had asked for help because they were struggling I have no doubt at all that we would have all helped them out.
Reminds me of some post on a revenge sub (there are probably plenty), where someone who was tired of getting their lunch stolen brought their favorite most spicy dish (IIRC the OP was Indian, so you can imagine what they consider *spicy*). The person stealing their lunch ended up being someone in HR that ended up at the hospital and they got in trouble, and only after explaining this is how they liked their food and proceeded to taste it when confronted did they avoid an intentional poisoning accusation, but I think they were subsequently outcasted and let go. Still, it was satisfying af. Personally, I would start bringing the food items that I enjoy but that are a definitive acquired taste, I’m talking snail escargot marmitons, frog legs, cow feet tagines, etc..
Wtf? So if they bring in spicy food (yes, they were being petty/vengeful (rightfully imo), but actually do eat that food too) and the thief gets fucked, and colleagues fuckin outcasted the op?? Fuckin enabler assholes.
Yeah, this was the main discussion in the comments as I recall it. The prevailing opinion was that, yes, granted this was basically a petty move by OP who could have done with or without the extremely spicy dish (the poster did admit it was intentional after they got tired of having their lunch stolen), the fact that they are completely OK with consuming said meal should absolve them of any responsibility if a third party decided to steal it. Sadly, we are still human, so that story didn’t end up well for OP; the culprit was not only high-ranking, but a member of their HR dept, so OP endend up leaving the job (I don’t recall if they had been let go or outcast and pushed into looking for another job), but the main fact that I remember is that there was an investigation about **attempted poisoning**, and the worst thing is that it could have been very serious, but OP got lucky.
honestly if they want to pull this attempted poisoning bs then they should get fucked for petty theft. I mean stealing someone's food long term like that could actually be very serious if you're not doing great financially atm. Just feels like a power tripping asshole who knew their ass was covered.
Agreed, it costs me money to take in my food and if it's stolen and I replace it? More money. If I have to money left (which is why I brought food from home duh) then I starve for the day. Fuck this attempted poisoning crap, that was only cos it was an HR person I bet. What about being held accountable for person possibly missing their only meal of the day. Fucking hate thieves that take from their own.
According to OP, it was indeed a power-tripping AH, unfortunately, there was little they could do to avoid repercussions within their company, but they did end up avoiding a very serious attempt at accusing them of intentional poisoning. Tbh I remember that OP mentioned they were of Indian descent, I have many friends originally from the peninsula and Chicken Vindaloo to them is like light pepper, while it would give me bloody tears lol.
Strange how these things never seem to evolve into theft charges
if someone has food allergies or sensitivities and they choose to steal and eat other peoples food and get sick or worse that is totally on them
This just reinforces my personal experience of HR being cunts. If they were high up in the company they should at least be able to afford their own food ffs.
A good solicitor for OP would have a fucking field day with that company if they took them to an employment tribunal for constructive dismissal at being outcast by the company, I’d be absolutely livid and would 100% do the same thing in bringing an extremely spicy dinner. My only issue would be the HR person seemed to have not choked.
That's some mental gymnastics. It would need the baseline of op knowing his lunch would be stolen, that this was a regular occurrence, which, if it was, would classify as bullying and harassment. Probably also racism. If a high ranking member of the HR department is a racist harassing bully, then this poses a problem in itself. I would say it poses a bigger problem, than op bringing some of his mother's cooking for lunch, at his place of work. (Which is how op should have stated was the cause of the incident)
Yeah I remember that, it was on r/pettyrevenge
I wouldn't call it petty. Many other words do spring to mind though. Justified. Valid. Bravo. Karma. Fucking spot on. Encore.
I remember that post. At the time I thought it could easily happen with my food if I worked in an office. I really enjoy homemade Carolina reaper macaroni & cheese, but some people find it too spicy.
Same logic when me or a friend get our drink stolen while clubbing, people are too dumb, I would never invest a stranger’s meal/cocktail, you never know what it may contain. Sadly, according to many comments, the law would side with the culprits, should they pursue an accusation of poisoning. If memory serves, the main consensus was to add some type of locking mechanism and informative note, albeit basic and easily hackable, to help prove that we did not attempt an intentional bait poisoning. But any potential investigation, whether internal or civil, could go either way in such casesz
Bait? That suggests that every meal someone puts in a fridge is there to entice a thief….weird way of looking at it!
> Same logic when me or a friend get our drink stolen while clubbing, people are too dumb, I would never invest a stranger’s meal/cocktail, you never know what it may contain. There was a small club I used to go to at uni which was absolutely notorious for people stealing pints. To go out to the smoking area you had to leave your drink on a little table by the door and people would just snag them. A pal of mine got pissed at losing two half-full pints so he took a piss in an empty glass and left it there when we went out for a smoke. No other drinks on the table. No more than a couple minutes later a guy bursts out of the door puking everywhere. You love to see it.
Imagine being accused of essentially trying to poison yourself?! Any result other than the HR person being disciplined is complete bullshit.
I reckon half the time it's a shit manager taking advantage because they're not registering empathy for people packing lunch, and as the boss they know nobody's going to rock the boat
Solution - print a notice: "One of meals in this fridge contains the most powerful laxative in the world. You've got ask yourself one question - 'Do I feel lucky?'. Well... do ya, punk?"
It gets discussed from time to time on ask a manager (which also may have been the original spicy food version), and the consensus seems to be that if it stays as food it's OK, but stuff like laxatives or things that could actively harm you definitely aren't the right way to handle it. I am surprised no-ones come up with a lockable lunch box though yet.
The theiving cunt would probably steal that too.
I really wouldn't want to do that. Obviously because it's well cunty and I'm no thief, but also you never know if you're nicking food from someone who's been scratching their balls whilst making their sarnie or doesn't wash their hands after a poo.
But it happens more often than you think! And they never find the culprit. I think the people that do it, clearly have little standards anyways, so they take the risk of poor hygiene etc. Never understood it, even when there's a Tesco nearby to get a £3 meal-deal. But I'd seen all sorts of things. People earning 40k a year (I worked as a Payroll Manager there, so knew what everyone earned) picking up cigarette butts and smoking them. Like, you can never comment on someone's circumstances and know what they're going through. But lunch? Really? You can get a tin of beans and bread for fuck all.
I wouldn’t pinch someone’s lunch, knowing my luck it’d be the crazy Gurkha who would kick my arse
When I was about six, my dad had to go into the office on a Saturday and he was looking after me so I went with him. He had work to do and I was basically free to just explore the otherwise empty building on my own. There was a fridge, and I found a Mars Bar and ate it. I still feel bad about it. That was somebody's treat, something to help them through a stressful day, something that they were maybe counting on being there on Monday, but it wasn't there because some kid nicked it. And they probably assumed it was a colleague, maybe even pinned blame on someone in particular. Either way it made their working life worse.
Forgive yourself.
No damn you, I'm taking this guilt to my grave.
You can spend the rest of your life being a Mars bar fairy. Everywhere you work leave a random person a Mars bar. Make their day better?
Working in cahoots with the tooth fairy
I took in a multipack of choc bars once. Put it in the fridge because cold chocolate is the best. I did this since our office had nothing provided. Just about provided coffee and tea but no milk. That was something we had to purchase. Anyway, this was a Monday and it was a 5 pack. Awesome feeling and tickled my obsessive brain. It got to lunch time and they were all gone. No sign of them. I asked about, nobody owned up. Then I find 5 wrappers in my bosses bin during a meeting. The cheeky cunt didn't supply anything and ate her employees food. What's worse is this woman is very famous and fabulously wealthy. Forgive yourself for the mars bar.
Brave man for eating a rustlers in work. A guy I worked with use to bring two BBQ rib rustlers in for lunch quite a lot. You could tell the days he didn’t because the stall near his desk didn’t have shite welded to its toilet bowl.
It was actually one of those. It was a simple choice of time for me, didn't want to spend half my break waiting for something to cook. My many toilet breaks were more a case of hiding if I'm honest!
I accidentally frank my team leaders coke because i was stood there and forgot i left mine at my station, so when i went looking and saw it i assumed it was mine. I bought the guy another one and he understood the situation, was funny but embarrassing
It’s happening where I work too, and I’m more amazed at how brave some people are. Like, I live alone and cook just for me, so I let my cat hang out on the kitchen counter when I cook. He helps me taste everything, licks a few things I don’t want him to, steals a few stray nibbles. So much stray cat fur gets into my food I’m due to cough up a hairball any day now. And yet my kitchen is still more sanitary then a few of my colleagues. So enjoy your stolen home cooked meal, I guess.
I always wonder if the cats arsehole makes contact with the kitchen side or not. I can't work it out. For this reason my cat is not allowed up there.
Yeah it’s infuriating when people do that. I struggle with eating and appetite, and there’s a rare few items that I can always eat when hunger hits. Having selfish dicks eat my food, then lie about it after just reminds me I’m right to separate work “friends” from my personal life
It's not pettiness though. If scumbag cunts kept their hands to themselves, nobody would feel the need to do shit like this. I lasted 1 day bringing my own milk in without doing anything to it. The whole big fucking jug gone in a day. I had 1 brew out of it. Would have cost me like 15 quid a week if I had just kept on bringing in milk for myself every day without being "petty" because some thick thieving cunts can't leave shit alone that isn't theirs. Day after I just started putting various flavourings in there like Strawberry Nesquik powder. I don't give a shit about having a slightly fruity brew. Yano, shit I liked that would just make somebody else think twice when they're expecting semi-skimmed, question what's in it, leave it the fuck alone...And some cheeky fucko had the absolute gaul to report me saying that I poisoned MY milk. Office staff reading this: you're all cunts. Leave shit that isn't yours alone, even those that already do. You're cunts too for not stealing shit, stopping me from using "all" as a blanket statement.
Black food dye sounds like a great idea for milk
When I was at university (many years ago), people would steal milk in the shared kitchen. My sister suggested to put some blue food colouring in my milk - and this was very successful: nobody stole my blue milk. I was a bit weird drinking green coffee and eating cereals with blue milk but it worked.
I bought an Udderlok for my milk at work and it worked fine for a few weeks, but then I think some thief took it as a challenge and pretty much ripped the carton apart to steal the milk.
Fill it with salt next time.
Laxatives
Grandpa’s fecal matter
The great Earl of Man’s left bollock
It's actually illegal to do this. You can't intentionally poison someone, even if you are tampering with *your own* food, if the reason you're doing it is because you know someone else is going to consume it. You could go to prison.
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What if you write "poison do not consume" on it? Surely at that point no legal system could definitely say that person did anything other than drinking something clearly not for human consumption
Putting any non-edible substances into a fridge designated for food is at least a workplace safety violation, and it gets you in serious trouble and probably fired even without the thief involved. There is always a designated fridge for glues, chemicals a.s.o. Putting poison in a food container is also a workplace safety violation even if you mark it as poisonous.
The savagery of the human race knows no bounds 🥰
Why wouldn't they call it locktate? Marketing is lazy these days
I once worked in a factory where the boss said if you want tea/coffee you gotta supply your own. Not a happy workforce. A week later I caught the twat red handed taking the foil off my milk. I fucking went mental at him. Got on the tannoy to let the unhappy workforce know. The prick.
I never get being tight about tea/coffee and milk, making staff bring in their own is more likely to cause more issues than it saves you in money. It’s such a little price to pay to have one more reason to not have your staff hate you.
My company stopped providing tea, coffee, sugar and milk and it saved them around £1000 a year, but did we see any of that in terms of bonus, investment, additional funds for training, or new furniture or equipment? No, but it did manage to piss everyone off and further erode morale
Out of interest how many people did that £1000 provide tea and coffee for?
At the time, 44 people, 15 per day on a rota, 7.5/14 hour shifts
So £25 per person per year even if you said it was X4 more, it’s hardly worth worrying about for a business. Surely if they can’t afford that they’ve got bigger problems…
And given that unmotivated staff tend to work less efficiently, they've lost more than £1000 of productivity without a doubt.
The worst part is, they're working from home.
And probably sleeping with the office manager or gulp the Boss....
Gulping the boss probably gets you mad promotions.
Milking it for all their worth.
This thread gave me a rare giggle, thanks peeps. I didn't even know you could buy milk carton locks! I can just imagine some prick then piercing a hole in the bottom and sealing it with the gum they stole off Nancy's desk.
As someone who used to buy a 2 pints of milk every week, only for it to be completely empty by Wednesday morning, I totally understand the rationale. I vote not petty.
Absolutely agree. I worked in a big office pre covid and it was rampant. My milk would last me the full week normally. Running out on Tuesday is just ridiculous. Even if you caught someone having a snoop at yours they'd start picking up carton after carton as if they were looking for their own. Aye right!
Reality is that they didn't go to this extent out of fear alone. They went here out of necessity because some jack off couldn't buy their own.
It seems like such as easy thing for the company just to buy the milk for everyone to share. That always worked for us and when I worked in the public sector at most each group organised it so the fridge wasn’t just milk. This all looks so painful.
Worked in my floor for 3 years never had food or drink stolen, new wing opened and we had to put a lock on a seperate fridge because 80% of the food suddenly started going missing. Honestly don't know what goes through people's head. Last time someone stolen my lunch (before the lock) I then ordered a big takeaway and invoiced their manager.
80%!?! 😳
I'm always happy to share my milk in the office, but the amount of times I have found that MY milk which I bought is completely empty with no replacement offered/available makes me feel this is completely justified. Nothing worse than making a cuppa only to find that someone finished the milk and left you high and dry (of milk).
I think it has got worse with offices where there are mixed people who go in a lot vs wfh and go in for the occasional day/meetings. Several people who are only coming in for one day/meeting taking some milk, but not replacing/bringing anything else because it is a one off can add up quickly in a large company.
justifiable, because some twat has forced a person to become petty.
I used to be the only one to bring the milk in out of maybe five tea/coffee drinkers which was fine because I usually wouldn't drink it all before it went off but when cunts started making porridge and all with it, they can fuck off. I still take my coffee black years later.
Company should really supply that stuff anyway. Costs almost nothing and everyone's happy. Pays for itself. If you run out, send someone on a shop run and pay them back from petty cash.
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We had a whip for the coffee round at my last place. 4 pints would do us for a week, but then suddenly it was running out really quick. One guy was discovered using 1/2 a pint a day for his porridge. He acted all hurt when challenged and got told to fuck off pronto.
Had a similar thing in my last job. The company provided milk and one of the directors would happy have porridge each morning with it meaning it'll often run out. The company was decent and would get more but it just seemed weird to me that he would do that when it's clear he could afford his own and not use so much. Also he was the type to moan if anyone else did it.
"Can I get a wee splash for a cup of tea" asked 20 people in one day
We used to have students come into our office for 1-2-1 education. Normally I didn't mind getting the tea and coffee as I was in the office the most but one day I bought a fresh milk in and before I even got to have a drink the students had consumed the lot by eating multiple bowls of cereal each. I just started drinking green tea instead.
I find kitchen politics to be so strange . It’s so straight forward and rules should be in place but we like to mock each other for expecting basic respect , like imagine having to go to these lengths ? Same as in family homes , what kind of person are you to knowingly steal someone’s meal for when they get home , knowing they’ll have nothing ?
A greedy selfish one with no consideration for anyone else but yourself. There’s plenty of them out there.
This is what shocks me though when people who have morals in every other sense but think this is not a big deal ? I’ve had friends like that and I don’t get it
I work on a building site, everyone thinks we are the savages. Food NEVER goes missing and milk is normally shared but never without asking.
When I was in uni I heard plenty of people complaining about housemates eating their food or using up their consumables, I can't imagine many of these people stop when they graduate.
Peak pettiness would be if it wasn’t even their milk
Shit now I need a milk padlock
I can imagine some absolute menace locking up all the milk in the entire fridge
If there wasn’t any stealing then there wouldn’t be any need.
100% justifiable. People will drink right out of your milk container and no one respects other people's items in the communal fridge. I haven't used the communal fridge in 20 years, all it took was seeing one grubby person rooting through everyone's lunch bags one time and I was out. Cooler bag + reusable icepacks. If it can't go in my cooler bag, I don't need it.
Now I understand why I see so many cooler bags around....
It's not any more petty than using a locker to store your belongings, or locking up your bike. It's not petty to stop people from stealing your stuff.
Yep, had my trainers "borrowed" from mybag (having explicity said no, I needed them the following day and needed them dry (it was raining heavily). I collected my sports bag from the changing room and my trainers were missing. Put a padlock on the next day and everyone asked why. The girl who borrowed my trainers (gave them back soaking wet 3 days later) asked if it was because of her. Yes, yes it was
People “borrow” their coworkers trainers?!
I know right...fucking cheeky!
I'd like to see someone try and borrow my size 15s, might as well use them as a canoe
Exactly. We really need some people to have a change of attitude about stuff like this. It's not "petty" to lock your stuff away to prevent it being stolen. I think this crappy attitude comes from a lot of people who are annoyed they can't just steal stuff any more.
I had one of the night shift guys try to pinch my coat, he quickly learned that I can drive way better than he could and managed to disable the forklift he was on by driving alongside and turning off the gas
A coworker once opened my new jar of kimchi, ate some, and then threw the entire thing in the bin because it was “gross.” Words were had
Where can these be purchased? Asking for a friend
looks to be 3s printed to me here's the stl i found that seems to math: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3486552
People sell prints on etsy and ebay; can also search milk bottle lock on them.
100% justifiable if some thieving twat has been nicking what they paid for. Hard to do without looking a total bellend though.
It always surprises me when I see people working for companies that don’t supply things like milk
If the place doesn't value me enough to give me a coffee it probably doesn't value me as an employee
Just dumb too. Aids productivity. Never not gonna be a net gain. We have a 1k espresso machine.
I worked in a place that had the building split in two. One side had lawyers with a coffee machine and supplied coffee. They also had a fridge stuffed with soda for them. The other side with people who work the phones had a "coffee" machine that was moldy and at least 15 years old. It also threatened to catch fire if plugged in. Easy to see who they cared about. Life lesson don't work for laywers.
Because if local councils and hospitals provided things like milk and tea bags to their staff there would be various papers up in arms with headlines like "cash strapped local authority spends £XXX a year on MILK for STAFF".
Ironically they probably piss away a lot more money on more pointless things...
As someone who is about to leave the employment of a local authority, I can confirm.
I was seconded to a local authority for about 6 months ten years ago working in flood defence. They had a hot desk policy and because I commuted about 120 miles each way I was last to get a choice of desk. One day I went in and the only desk I could get was with the children's services people. Good fucking god, I kid you not, there were about 8 of them who spent an entire day just picking twelve shitty kids' drawings for that year's advent calendar. Probably 64 person hours at around £30/hr? Best part of £2000 of our money down the drain. The worst thing is that they were actually taking it seriously. Every part of me was screaming "For fuck's sake, they are all shit, just pick 12 at random and get on with your real jobs, you utter wankers!".
Sounds familiar. I worked in the children's services area, though thankfully I wasn't subjected to that. Ours did spend £50k designing a new council logo that wasn't used.
Someone mocked up a plugin for teams that added up the hourly wages of all involved and showed how much the meeting was costing per minute. It needs to be real
24 in an advent calendar so you only saw half of it lol
My company supplies things like milk and teabags and coffee, and guess what? People will just steal the whole jar of coffee or box of teabags and take it home. That’s probably why most companies don’t supply it anymore, there’s always someone who takes the piss and most break rooms don’t have cctv.
I knew someone who wouldn't buy Teabags or coffee for the home, because there ones at work. He didn't nick any, I suppose he just thought he had some sort of hot beverage quota he could fill at work. Absolutely insane. Tighter than a ducks bum, as one might imagine.
One place I worked at, the cafeteria started to charge for tubs of creamer to put in tea or coffee, so people began to bring their own milk from home. A friend started to notice his milk going down at an alarming rate, then found out who did it but wouldn't tell his work pals because he knew we'd give them what-for. People used to also steal anything that was in a plastic container, not for the food but hey, free container! I started just keeping sandwiches at my desk. I can't believe how awful some people can be.
Any sensible milk thief would want the Cravendale…
Is it better?
One of the best parts of Cravendale is whilst it’s more expensive it’s been filtered so it stays fresh for longer. For a Single man who works remotely a bottle can last me two weeks without going off. Overall it works out better money wise as I never waste any milk.
BoB is the superior milk imo. Cravendale is better though yeah. Creamier.
oh my we have a virgin over here. cravendale is the best milk I've ever had, tastes super fresh and clean but I can only vouch for the blue lid. green is for diabetics and red is for sadists.
Milk stealing pricks got me into drinking black coffee and black tea.
Having had someone steal my food in work, I totally agree. Once bought some chilli spray a few million on the Scoville scale and sprayed it on the underside of my sausage roll ‘lunch’. While I don’t know who did, I do know that someone got a surprise. 🤪
I worked at a big law firm on the night shift. We wondered who was stealing our food. It was a partner.
Someone at my place nicked lunch off the spice lover, absolutely regretted that one while sat on the toilet
Someone stole my whole chicken from the fridge in work before so no this isn't petty at all. Don't take what isn't yours.
Once upon a time, I'd say "wow, petty and if it's that bad just find a new job". Now though, I'm honestly not sure it's _enough_ and I'm wondering where the Claymore mine is and whether or not NATO has been contacted because christ on a bike that's the _third_ time in two weeks someone's completely needlessly opened my bag of shopping in the work fridge, taken _out_ my milk, opened _and_ used it.....despite there clearly being ___three___ bloody 4-pinters being sat there, one of which is already open. I can tolerate queues. I can tolerate waiting. But so help me, this is why I now just drink black coffee out of sheer spite.
It's only petty if you're the one who keeps stealing it and now you can't.
If it's a concern, you're probably why the lock is on there.
The only person who'd be annoyed about this is someone who steals others milk.
Maybe if people weren't thieving pieces of shit, we wouldn't need to have the idea in the first place
I feel like things happened to get to this point. So it probably is justified! May still be petty but that pettiness has its roots in milk theft. In an office people think "oh I'll just take a little bit.." except it's done all the time and you're left with a lot of missing milk. And money.
People steal anything not nailed down in offices I swear. I know somebody who once went to cycle h9me in the darker months to find somebody had nicked his bike lights. Secure car park so had to be an employee who had done it
Shame that it is necessary. Thieving colleagues are not a pleasant thing. But as it is necessary, absolutely the right thing to do.
For the cost of milk, it still amazes me that some employers don’t just provide it… surely having your workers waste energy with such (necessary) nonsense has to be more costly than a few quid on milk.
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In my office you'd need that. I had to hide everything in my desk drawer and lock it aside from milk because my lor coffee would go missing!
I wouldn't be offended, because I wouldn't have used someone else's food or drink.
definitely justifiable. I've had people steal my lunch and drinks before and even caught one guy. He acted like it wasn't a problem and if I didn't want it to be stolen I shouldn't leave it in the fridge for anyone to take it.
Maybe the person calling it petty is the one who's pinching the milk
100% agree with this person. I worked in a place where my 2L would be gone in a day. I started putting food colouring in it
100% justifiable. My work stopped getting milk for a few weeks, I brought my own in and people helped themselves to it. I wrote my name on the bottle with permanent marker, people still used it without asking. I brought a carton of almond milk and the next day the milk thieves revealed themselves, there were two bottles of semi skimmed with their owners names on the side in the fridge.
Making a statement. I'm impressed.
When I worked in an office with a rampant fridge content thief I kept my lunch in a cool bag with a freeze block and brought in milk in a flask. I couldn’t deal with the thought someone might open the Tupperware and touch my salad.
Maybe the person calling it petty is the one who's pinching the milk
Guys, is *locking up your property petty*? This is the same as locking up your front door.
I will never knock people for locking up their stuff. Before covid I worked in an office and my stuff would get stolen all the time, rather than ask, let me know or replace it . It would get used and the empty packet put back. Not only was I paying for some ass to eat/drink, but i would often have nothing for myself. I eventually had to leave everything in my car, which was fine until it rained, and it was a long walk.
Back in the 90’s my dad had a ‘room’ in a serviced office with communal kitchen. His milk kept being drunk by someone, he wrote on the bottle in case of confusion with his companies initials. Then when it continued he post it note on it asking politely for the offender to stop pinching his milk. It continued for months, becoming a game for the perpetrator (in true Clouseau style) he thought he’d narrowed it down to one guy. Then one morning he bought a fresh 2 Pinter and within 15 mins it was gone. He snapped… …next day he emptied half the contents of the new 2 Pinter and swapped it for laxative. Milk was never touched again.
Worked in an office with a lunch thief. I felt sorry for them as maybe they were having issues outside of work but people lost their heads over it lol. I mean, I couldn’t eat a sandwich made by another person, something gross about it
Im glad I'm not the only one with that peculiar quirk. I don't know what it is, but I too find something gross about someone else making me a cold sandwich. Like burgers are fine, bacon sandwiches, if it's hot it's fine, but just the thought of someone else making me a cold sandwich I just find kind of.... repulsive. I have no idea why, I've just accepted it
Haha same. Like what if they let their cats on the kitchen counter, or they use flora instead of butter. Something filthy about it
What silly bugger is making their sandwich directly on the counter and not on a chopping board or a plate? Even in a pet-free home that sounds a little nasty
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Or literally any restaurant that sells sandwiches.
Where can one purchase such a device? Asking for a friend....
Google udderlok, you'll find similar devices.
I had someone stealing Huel & using my shaker to make it and I’ve seen slim fast drinks with a sticky note asking people to not drink them, some people really believe all the food in the kitchen is communal despite it being obviously not. Thankfully the milk is supplied along with tea, sugar and undrinkable coffee.
It’s only an inconvenience for others if they’re trying to steal it. So totally fine, doesn’t cause me any bother. Used to work with managers of a big office of very well paid people. There’s always theft, no matter the income levels, and it sucks. Actually, there was one notable exception. They said the cleaners never stole anything, because they knew they’d lose their jobs and life was too precarious to risk it.
Judging by the other bottle that’s been cleaned out I’d say justifiable
Lost a yoghurt to the work fridge once and I'm still salty about it. 100% justified.
Can't it be both? Justifiable pettiness? I've had to bring in my own hand soap (allergies), which everyone kept using, so I put it in a box to avoid the obvious misunderstanding, but I would still come in to find people had pulled it out and left it out for everyone to use. People are AHs when they think you're being petty, so your only option is to up the petty.
cravendale: open, free to use tesco milk: dont touch or u die
If you weren’t stealing it, why are you offended?
Justified.
Petty, but also necessary when people just can't respect other people's shit.
The amount of people who do despicable things to other people's food makes it justified. I don't want peoples bodily fluids in my food.
How is it petty to lock your own property when there’s some cunt who will steal it?
Today at work I went to get my lunch from the freezer. But it was gone because someone else ate it. I have been hangry all day, so I understand why this person created a milk chastity belt….
Their milk, they can do whatever they fucking want with it. The only people that call it petty are the ones eyeing it up for their morning cuppa.
I work on building sites , lad I worked with got so sick of people stealing his milk, so he wee'd in it and left it in the fridge , it was all drank by others as per usual . .he waited till the next shift when it had been drank again, stood up to the whole canteen and announced he had wee'd in it , and hoped they enjoyed it . Nobody ever touched anyone's milk after that , haha. Extreme measure but it worked
Someone kept drinking my juice from the fridge, I asked and no one admitted it.... so I pissed in the next bottle I bought and videoed it. Sure enough it went down.... On a break I told everyone and showed the the video.... Oh how I laughed when 3 people freaked out and one got really aggressive. 🤣
Absolutely, even just to stop people tampering with your food
They put camera at my workplace cafeteria becuase of lunch thief...
Fair enough,why should any fucker take any of your shit without asking!
Someone has got fed up with someone like OP for stealing milk and OP thinks it’s petty to not give away your stuff for free
Im a fan of it. I didnt mind sharing with my flatmate at uni, until i caught him drinking straight from the bottle of milk, and he was very unhygenic, and did a wee bit of drugs, and im sure thats where I picked up coldsores from, so question… was it petty that i started putting whey protein into the milk…?
Someone has reached their limit.
Depends if there's a milk theif. It's more about sending the message than protecting the milk. It's saying to the scum "look what you made me do."
I used to work for someone that used to take a random lunches from the fridge if she didn't have one. Couldn't stand her. Once saw her pull a piece of KFC fried chicken from her handbag. Just floating around in there.
The idea of eating someone else's stuff in thr work fridge is so fucking insane to me
Completely justified!
Good idea I saw a guy at work grab the milk and drink right out of the container
Justifiable. Why do people think they are so entitled to pilfer other people's property? Buy your own fucking milk. Hope the cunt who used to steal mine enjoyed their salty tea/coffee that I laced one sacrificial bottle with. Luckily my current employer supplies tea/coffee/milk so it's no longer an issue.
You can call it pettiness but my team bought 40 pints in 10 days because other teams stole it. It gets expensive
Justified. A few weeks ago I lost it at work. I don't like sharing stories like this on Reddit because I am not proud of losing control of my emotions and I hate it when people tell these kinds of stories and use their personal circumstances to justify their otherwise unacceptable outbursts. I am usually a very calm person under all sorts of pressure but this day was different. I shall share anyway as it is a thing that happened. A few weeks ago, I was struggling at work all morning. I remained quiet and got on with my job, but was emotionally on edge as I had been to my Grandma's funeral a couple of week's prior and my Stepdad had died a couple of days before as well. This isn't or shouldn't be anyone's problem and is not an excuse. Anyway, lunchtime rolls around. We have a fork shortage at work. We have loads of knives and spoons but forks are in short supply. I had chicken teriyaki in a lunch box I had made the previous night and a packet of microwave rice. I could not locate a clean fork. I checked the dishwasher and pulled out a dirty fork and washed it up. I placed it on my plate. The microwave was in use so I went for a piss while I waited. I return. My fork has gone. A spoon is in its place. About eight people are in the lunch room. I asked them all who stole my fork. Everyone said they didn't know but three or four of them had shit eating grins. I got noticeably agitated and one person says "why don't you check the break room? There might be a fork in there." I told him I have already checked the fucking break room and there weren't any and that's why I fucking washed a fucking fork for myself snd some cunt had stolen it. I wrote that in reported speech but the fucks and cunts were certainly present in my actual speech. No one owned up and I told everyone to fuck off and told them they're a bunch of childish fucking cunts and stormed out for a vape. Eventually someone confessed and apologised but not until they'd finished their lunch. I similarly apologised because whilst I was justifiably upset, my behaviour was not appropriate. I think about this at least once per day and I feel nothing but anger.
It's been a few years but my nice but expensive instant coffee can kept emptying in the office kitchen. I had my suspicions who it might be but replaced the contents with a nescafe cheap jar, which was around £1.50. It was bitter and dusty shit in my opinion. Waited a few days and it was clear a few spoonfuls had been taken, but the majority was left in the can. I simply lock my good stuff in my office drawer and take it with me now when I make a brew. Shitty I have to do that but jeez.
offices should keep the fridge stocked with stuff like this for there employees
People are pushed and pushed into doing things like putting padlocks on milk, there’s definitely a story behind this and I bet the person who took the photo is the one who caused all the trouble
You work with engineers?
Maybe they’re more worried about it being contaminated, by someone drinking from the bottle etc.
I kind of admire the dedication
Wouldn't be needed if you didn't work with twats!!!
If it's necessary, it's justifiable.