Another Co-Worker Rant...

[ducklite]

Same co-worker as usual.

I made a huge platter of Christmas cookies--spent probably 20 hours working on them, and brought them in last week. It was probably 10-15 pounds of cookies, on a 12x18 tray piled a good 6-8 inches high. About 2/3 of them had been eaten Friday afternoon, and when I came in this morning, a co-worker asked if I had taken the cookies home. I told her I hadn't. She then told me she thought the other co-worker had been rustling around in the kitchen last Friday as the first co-worker had been getting ready to leave for the night.

So I asked the second co-worker straight to her face if she knew what happened to the cookies, and she said "Oh they were delicious, only a few left so I took them home."

I said "There was almost a third of that tray left" and she got defensive and said "Nu-unh, only a a few. I took them home for my Grandkids."

***!!!! I know for a fact that when I left at 5:10 there was 1/3 of the tray left, because I wrapped them all up so they wouldn't get stale over the weekend. The audacity of that woman. I'm am FURIOUS!

I didn't make them as her personal freaking baker, I made them for my co-workers to have as a treat. If she wanted "a few" to take home she should ahve asked. But to take at least three pounds of cookies, and then LIE about it. She just disgusts me.

Vent over.

Anne

 

[Missy1961]

That would piss me off big time! I don't blame you.

 

[disykat]

Wow - if she's stealing cookies from her coworkers without thinking twice about it, what else is she stealing?

 

[ducklite]

Wow - if she's stealing cookies from her coworkers without thinking twice about it, what else is she stealing?

That thought has crossed my mind, especially because we've had things go missing before, and she stays later than anyone most nights.

Anne

 

[Byrd]

I'd really be mad too! Sad that she probably has no clue as to what she did was very wrong.

Some people think they are above everyone else, we have one at our school. She thinks she's the perfect teacher, but she doen't want any children in HER class that aren't members of the country club. Sorry to vent too!

 

[JCJRSmith]

Well, you know what they say: "no good deed ever goes unpunished." Let it go. It is the Holiday season and not worth getting upset over. Pity the woman, but don't get mad.

 

[CathrynRose]

She just disgusts me.

Vent over.

Anne

I agree with you.

People + Offices + Food = Disaster.

People are freaking pigs.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I don't think I'd get too upset over it. Next time when you leave, just put em in a sealed container and put em away in a cupboard. After all, you don't want them to sit out all night do you? Out of sight. Out of Mind.

 

[snowy76]

At my DH's station, there was a guy who would eat other people's LUNCHES from the fridge -- not leftovers that had been sitting around, mind you, because maybe someone left them there. Nope -- these were lunches packed that morning! DH started carrying an insulated lunch bag b/c of it. People hated this guy. No joke, he retired due to heart and weight issues. Nothing to do with eating a tremendous amount of other people's food each day...

 

[CathrynRose]

We have a food thief here, too.

The "names on everything" seems to have stopped him for now, but heck if you didnt buy icecream bars - what makes you think you can help yourself cuz there's no name on it??/ Or frozen meals too?

Pigs - Im telling you.

 

[ducklite]

I hope she has an allergic reaction to them and breaks out in hives all over her face.

I'm really pissed about this.

Anne

 

[figment52]

Is this the lady with a husband in another department that comes over and eats too, or am I confusing you with someone else?

Either way, that was uncalled for.

Can you send her a bill since you did her holiday baking for her - just kidding.

 

[Fitswimmer]

We've got one of those too. He runs around looking for who has food out and then helps himself. He never contributes financially or brings something in himself. The first Friday of every month we get bagels and he takes extras home for his family!
Now when we see him, we IM "Mine, Mine, Mine" like the seagulls from Nemo!

 

[ducklite]

Is this the lady with a husband in another department that comes over and eats too, or am I confusing you with someone else?

No, that's another posters psycho co-worker.

way, that was uncalled for.

Can you send her a bill since you did her holiday baking for her - just kidding.

I thought about letting her know that I'd gladly bake custome cookies for her--for a charge. Three pounds of Christmas cookies is a lot of time and effort--and EXPENSE! I think altogether I've spent over $60 on baking and decorating supplies for all the cookies I made this year. I've gone through almost 20 pounds of flour, six pounds of butter, four pounds of confectioners sugar, four jars of molasses, plus regular sugar, brown sugar, eggs, baking cocoa, and who knows how many tubes of decorating gel, containers of sprinkles, and bags of candies.

Anne

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

I agree with you.

People + Offices + Food = Disaster.

People are freaking pigs.

That is so true.

The second to last Christmas that I worked retail the corporate offices sent our store a nice gift. It was that tin of butter cookies (forgot the brand name), but it was HUGE! It could have fed a family of 5 for a week! The employees ate all of it in 1.5 days. All of the employees working the floor ate them, so the cashiers didn't get any. How sad.

But customers are no better. One summer at that store we had a promotion for some new hair products from Australia. We were sent boxes of these cookies from Australia to hand out to customers, one each. People were taking handfulls, like 6 cookies each! We ran out before the promotion ended. But, the day it ended, we received like 20 more boxes. The manager handed out those boxes to the employees that deserved them. I think I had received like 3, and they were very appreciated!

 

[Am_I_There_Yet]

***!!!! I know for a fact that when I left at 5:10 there was 1/3 of the tray left, because I wrapped them all up so they wouldn't get stale over the weekend. The audacity of that woman. I'm am FURIOUS!

I didn't make them as her personal freaking baker, I made them for my co-workers to have as a treat. If she wanted "a few" to take home she should ahve asked. But to take at least three pounds of cookies, and then LIE about it. She just disgusts me.

Vent over.

Anne

She'll be wearing them for months to come. You can laugh then.

That's a lot of cookies!

 

[Philagoofy]

Anytime someone is trying to give some extra food away, a bagel or some fries, I say just put it out, someone will take it, they always do. I think we could just about put garbage out & people would take it cause it's free.

When they give free samples out on the sidewalk, like gum or a new beverage, there was one guy here who somehow would manage to get a whole slew of them. I think he'd sell them later at a garage sale.

Shows what he was doing all day, going out & walking back & forth I guess, real busy.

 

[robinb]

Could have been worse. She could have pawed through all of them picking out her favorites ... after one of her potty breaks .

 

[Shugardrawers]

I frequently bake for Dh's crew at work. Now, these are construction workers and there are 35 of them so I never send him with less than 100 cookie or enough of whatever I make to feed less than 70 people. He brings it in, sets it on the table and goes to work at 7am. At the 9am break there is usually nothing but crumbs left and 1/2 the crew complaining that yet again they didn't get any of whatever was in the box. Somehow, a good 25 people found a reason to be in an area of the ship they'd never be in and just so happened to pass through the break room. Probably led by the one guy who always walks away with 6 cookies at 7:01 am and comes back for his 2nd handful at 7:30am. If I don't pack some in his lunchbox Dh doesn't get any. I once made a solid hunk of fudge that measured 18x24". It took them slightly longer, until 10:30 that day but still, that's a LOT of fudge. I don't know how people who know something wasn't made for them can be so greedy

 

[agnes!]

Anne/OP -

I think you should do something nice. Make some special cookies, wrap them up in pretty cellophane with a bow and make a point of giving them as gifts only to co-workers you *like*.

Then when Miss Greedy LePig comes snuffling around, you can say that she already got her present.

agnes!