Son's supervisor at work is getting into ds's lunch

[sorcerormickey]

You could probably find a lunchbag that has 2 zippers (one from each end) and put a little lock on them where they meet in the middle.

A little extreme, but when you are dealing with a weirdo, ya gotta do weird things!

 

[ogreenlee]

Drop Visine onto the lunch. He'll be boss-free for the rest of the day. Just make sure he uses the bathroom down the hall.

 

[Scurvy]

As funny as all the suggestions of sabotaging the lunch are, please make sure that your son doesn't actually do anything that could could hurt someone. The laxative and visine suggestions are hilarious but would be terrible ideas to actually do - people have been sued and lost because of doing things like that. Now if your son likes unusually hot/spicy foods, or if he enjoys other revolting sounding combinations like peanut butter with sardines and pickles, there's nothing wrong with him packing lunches containing things like that. But unless he can prove that he routinely puts laxatives in his lunch for his own use he needs to avoid doing something like that.

Plus, if this person will continue to have access to his lunches, do you really want to make him angry? There's no telling what he will do to your son's food if he discovers that your son has sabotaged it. After he stops stealing the lunches, he could start licking them or adding something terrible (like visine) to them and your son wouldn't know until after he starts (or finishes) eating them.

I tagree with others that the best suggestion is just to keep the food someplace where the guy can't get it.

 

[EthansMom]

I would just start packing lunch with a cold pack and storing it my desk, car, or other reasonably private space. Likewise, with anything else personal or private. A guy who will swipe food right off the sandwich probably won't stop with just getting into someone else's lunch.

 

[Lollipop's Mom]

I seriously would make some special chocolate chip cookies with ex-lax.

 

[OceanAnnie]

If it were me, I'd keep my lunch in my vehicle in a cooler as pp suggested. I'd also request a transfer out of this guy's department. I wouldn't want to work with a thiefy jerk.

 

[MICKEY88]

I'm amazed at the number of people who are suggesting committing a crime by sabotaging the food, as someone else already posted, people have lost jobs for such a thing, and people have been arrested for such a thing also,,

yes the supervisor is not acting like an adult, but why stoop to his level, it would be much easier , to simply tell him that he has been witnessed taking food, and if it occurs again upper management will be notified..

 

[Albort]

If it were me, I'd keep my lunch in my vehicle in a cooler as pp suggested. I'd also request a transfer out of this guy's department. I wouldn't want to work with a thiefy jerk.

Thing is, something this ridiculous shouldnt be THAT MUCH of a problem. not enough to transfer out. Its better to face the problem imo.

if you want, most companies over 50 ppl have HRs that have to be discreet about your complaint. You can approach them for theft. If they somehow release the name and the guy/upper management retaliates, you can sue the company for harassment. upper management is same but its safer with HR.

i know that because im part of a management team at disney and we had to sit through a 4 hour online course about harassment/sexual harassment. (it was paaaain... )

but knowing me, i just milk the guy just for the hell of it. Like bring a lunch with a note in it with like "Nice Try" or like put on expired mayo or something... he deserves it!!!

 

[OceanAnnie]

Thing is, something this ridiculous shouldnt be THAT MUCH of a problem. not enough to transfer out. Its better to face the problem imo.

if you want, most companies over 50 ppl have HRs that have to be discreet about your complaint. You can approach them for theft. If they somehow release the name and the guy/upper management retaliates, you can sue the company for harassment. upper management is same but its safer with HR.

i know that because im part of a management team at disney and we had to sit through a 4 hour online course about harassment/sexual harassment. (it was paaaain... )

but knowing me, i just milk the guy just for the hell of it. Like bring a lunch with a note in it with like "Nice Try" or like put on expired mayo or something... he deserves it!!!

You may be right. But facing a problem with someone that takes advantage of his position (by snatching food or whatever else he might be doing) is dicey. He wouldn't be fair, I'd imagine. I'd want out. I wouldn't say why I'd want a transfer, but if another opportunity came along, I'd take it.

 

[Albort]

You may be right. But facing a problem with someone that takes advantage of his position (by snatching food or whatever else he might be doing) is dicey. He wouldn't be fair, I'd imagine. I'd want out. I wouldn't say why I'd want a transfer, but if another opportunity came along, I'd take it.

i also am in a position where i can also take advantage of things, but i know i will be retaliated somehow. however, my company's higher management team are more equal, listening to both sides as well as a union that stand for everyone....

when i was below, we used to do things that make it inconvenient for the boss... like make excuses until he stop stealing food... like ohh i dont have energy because my lunch got stolen, etc. but then again, i got away with a lot...

 

[nutterbutter2010]

Taking the bacon out of the middle of a sandwich??? Are you kidding me?? That is so nasty, I probably would have kicked the guy in the back of the pants if I saw him doing that to my food. His nasty, licked fingers going in and out of my sandwich, and god knows what else. Sorry, but I would have reported him to UPPER MANAGEMENT right then and there. That is DISGUSTING!!!!

 

[PrincessKsMom]

I'm with Nutterbutter on this one. I'd report him immediately. Everyone is so worried about making him sick and how it's not right, but he's STEALING. I'd rat him out in a heartbeat.

 

[LuvN~Travel]

If your son has the know how or one of his buddies do, put in a hidden camera. Then send the video of the day to upper management. Anonymously of course.

Kim

 

[MonkeyDishwasher]

Non-harmful food additives:

Cupcakes with a tuna filling
A1 Brownies

Just a few that I've seen pass through my workplace. And yes, they did their job well. The stories about those items lived on as a legend, and the food swiping (by several different people) ceased after that.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

If I was your son and I saw someone with their hands in my lunch I would let them know that if I ever found out that they touched my food again I would break their fingers. Of course I am pregnant and I am not sharing my food with anyone.
Seriously though- I would tell the guy to cut it out and then if he didn't I would report him to upper management. Why is he so afraid to rat the guy out? Why go through all the dramatics of packing a gross lunch or hiding your food? Confront the weirdo and then take it up the chain. He is a manipulator and is using his position to do whatever he wants. Sorry but I would put up with that nonsense. We used to have that problem with someone at my old job. Let me just say that one night someone had had enough of it and it never happened again. (no it wasn't me)

 

[Scurvy]

I'm with Nutterbutter on this one. I'd report him immediately. Everyone is so worried about making him sick and how it's not right, but he's STEALING. I'd rat him out in a heartbeat.

I agree. I am one who said the OP's son shouldn't sabotage his food (at least not with anything that could be harmful) but really I don't see why he doesn't just report it. That seems like the easiest and most logical thing to do.

 

[sbell111]

I'd make a fake lunch with spoiled/rotten food (or a little laxative in it) and let him eat it and keep the "real" lunch in his car. Ok, maybe not, but it's fun to think those things up.

That is exactly what I was thinking. The fridge lunch would include last week's chicken salad while the 'real' lunch sat in my car.

The first person who vomits is the person who has been stealing my lunch.

 

[sbell111]

I'm amazed at the number of people who are suggesting committing a crime by sabotaging the food, as someone else already posted, people have lost jobs for such a thing, and people have been arrested for such a thing also,,

yes the supervisor is not acting like an adult, but why stoop to his level, it would be much easier , to simply tell him that he has been witnessed taking food, and if it occurs again upper management will be notified..

Please point me to a law in any state that says that it is illegal to make yourself a nasty lunch or to make yourself a lunch using spoiled ingredients.

I also doubt that anyone has ever been fired for making themselves such a lunch.

 

[It'sWDW4me]

Please point me to a law in any state that says that it is illegal to make yourself a nasty lunch or to make yourself a lunch using spoiled ingredients.

I also doubt that anyone has ever been fired for making themselves such a lunch.

My thoughts exactly. And are there any laws stating that you must eat everything you pack? If you brought in a lunch labeled with your name and someone else pilfered it how on earth could you be blamed? He stole that ex-lax brownie/tuna salad containing 1/2 cup of salt sandwich/tuna cupcake (LOVE that one!!!), you didn't give it to him!! Why is it your fault that he's now puking his guts up for the rest of the afternoon?

ETA: I worked with someone who continually stole people's stuff out of the fridge/freezer and then proceeded to blame me! What made it worse was that she and I were the only two working noon-9 so it had to be one of us and she had about 6 months seniority over me. I had no idea that this was happening until I actually did borrow a frozen meal one night. I replaced it with the exact same meal the next morning (before lunch) and told the person that I borrowed it from. That's when I found out that there were lots of meals "borrowed" but never replaced. Funny, after that co-worker was fired for disappearing for hours on end for 3 days in a row, no other food went MIA.

 

[Albort]

If I was your son and I saw someone with their hands in my lunch I would let them know that if I ever found out that they touched my food again I would break their fingers. Of course I am pregnant and I am not sharing my food with anyone.
Seriously though- I would tell the guy to cut it out and then if he didn't I would report him to upper management. Why is he so afraid to rat the guy out? Why go through all the dramatics of packing a gross lunch or hiding your food? Confront the weirdo and then take it up the chain. He is a manipulator and is using his position to do whatever he wants. Sorry but I would put up with that nonsense. We used to have that problem with someone at my old job. Let me just say that one night someone had had enough of it and it never happened again. (no it wasn't me)

retaliation is the reason why most ppl dont tell upper management.

ppl dont know about an employee's harassment rights since the employers doesnt really tell anyone except for its management team.