Totally immature behavior at work!

[Microcell]

I must be sheltered! No one steals food in my office! It cracks me up to visualize the old ladies I work with doing all that!

 

[KrnB]

Wow - that is unbelievable immature. Not only to steal the milk, but to put the empty container back in the fridge.

I'm really curious how this saga is going to turn out.

I don't bring my lunch from home very often, so it's never happened to me, but I have heard stories. Sad how often that happens.

Vamp - that story cracked me up - I guess that's one way to teach someone not to steal!

 

[EsmeraldaX]

Oh - I will keep you all posted. I'm wondering what will happen tomorrow.

 

[Mish19]

Sounds like what happened at my jobs cafe area, however "mangos" were the stolen item of choice. Someone stole someones mangos and the victim left a note starting out mature then the last paragraph were filled with cursing!
I missed seeing the actual note but many people described the note to me. Not sure what happened to the mango owner.

What bothers me is the building management says if your food ever gets stolen to come to them. Now what are they going to do? I doubt they would reimburse the victims food.

What in the world possesses people to think it's OK to just run up to the fridge and take someone else's food!
Either I've been lucky or noone likes what I bring to work, LOL.

 

[Laura]

LOL this thread is very funny! I can't wait to find out what happens tomorrow. It's like a soap opera.

 

[fran99999]

I worked at a job that had a food thief. This person would open and take a bite out of each sandwich until they found one they liked. I being the really mean one, soon realized they loved tuna. So off I went to the store and purchased Tuna Cat food I put my name on the bag and annouced I was on a diet so it would be Tuna for me each day. YES I said I was mean. I made these sandwiches for about 2 week. Yes they disappeared each day and I went out and Purchased a Tuna sub at the local sub shop.

Then on the last day I made the Tuna as usual but added a special surprise of exlax to the sandwich ( the tuna and mayo covered the taste apparently very well) Yes we found the person, I started watching the bathroom and you guessed it they had to go in quite a few times.


I never told because it was the owners son. LOL

I never left another lunch in that fridge. And to my knowledge no ones else had issues with their lunch.

 

[gr8tpanther]

I have a heard time keeping an interest in some threads, but THIS one is hilarious! and can't wait to hear more.

I have worked many places that have practical jokers, be creative and bust the culprit in a way that he will NEVER forget.

 

[Jenn Lynn]

While I was in High School I worked at a pizza place. There was a girl who would take the leftover pizza from the customer, who was dining in, to the back to wrap it up so they could take it home. Well, we caught her eating their pizza! A piece here or there.

We just told the manager and she talked to her. I couldn't believe it though because we always ate free food from the restaurant that was made for us.

 

[oogieboogie]

I'll tell you another way I've gotten back at stealers:

I would grind up habanero peppers (for those of you who don't know - it's the hottest chili pepper known to man). Well, I ground up 2 of those suckers, mix it in my chicken salad sandwich and innocently put it in the fridge.

Then I would go around subtly telling people that I had this really yummy sandwich that my mom made me and how I was just dying to eat it at lunch.

he..he..he... sure was fun to see who kept coming back to the water cooler to get more water!!!!

Oh, yeah... I'm mean when it comes to people stealing other people's lunch!

 

[Tina]

We also have a food thief in my office. The worst that I witnessed happened to a co-worker who had been eating chicken wings one afternoon. She couldn't eat them all, so she put them in the fridge to finish up the next day. Well she went to get it the following afternoon and opened the box to find only chicken bones. Now its one thing to steal someone's lunch, but to return the bones is just plain cruel. She was steamed. It got so bad that I finally broke down and bought a mini-fridge for my office that I share with 2 other people. Now the 3 of us don't have any theft issues.

 

[Tina]

We also have a food thief in my office. The worst that I witnessed happened to a co-worker who had been eating chicken wings one afternoon. She couldn't eat them all, so she put them in the fridge to finish up the next day. Well she went to get it the following afternoon and opened the box to find only chicken bones. Now its one thing to steal someone's lunch, but to return the bones is just plain cruel. She was steamed. It got so bad that I finally broke down and bought a mini-fridge for my office that I share with 2 other people. Now the 3 of us don't have any theft issues.

 

[cynsaun]

So, Esmeralda, what happens when HR realizes that the VP is the one who writes with green ink and has a milk mustache? Will he be fired?

 

[phamton]

Originally posted by Muffin
I've heard that a few drops of Visine in a drink will give someone the runs real bad.

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/visine.asp

Claim: A few drops of Visine brand eye drops taken internally will cause diarrhea.

Status: False.

A drink spiked with Visine not only won't produce diarrhea in the one unfortunate enough to drink the concoction, but ingestion of the product is downright dangerous, making this "harmless" form of retaliation fraught with hazard.

The active ingredient in Visine eye drops is Tetrahydrozoline HCl 0.05%. Swallowing this substance can result in a number of nasty effects, including:

* Lowering body temperature to dangerous levels
* Making breathing difficult, or even halting it entirely
* Blurring vision
* Causing nausea and vomiting
* Elevating and then dropping blood pressure
* Causing seizures or tremors
* Sending the ingester into a coma

One thing tetrahydrozoline has not been known to do is to cause sudden onset bouts of severe diarrhea. Yet if Visine doesn't cause diarrhea, it has done things far more terrible. Drinking it can (and has) caused severe depression of the central nervous system.

In October 2003 an unnamed Southern California high school student put eye drops in teacher's water bottle in an attempt to give his instructor severe diarrhea. Others in the class who saw the act removed the adulterated beverage before the intended victim could drink it. The student responsible has been charged with tampering with a drink with intent to cause harm.

Revenge seekers still not quite convinced that a Visine mickey finn won't produce the diarrheal results they crave, or that the drinking of such a potion could potentially result in a life-threatening medical crisis in the object of their prank, should consider one final fact: the act of secreting noxious substances in ingestibles for the purpose of bringing harm to others is called poisoning.

 

[Maleficent13]

Originally posted by phamton
the act of secreting noxious substances in ingestibles for the purpose of bringing harm to others is called poisoning.

So, this brings up an interesting point. Let's say I bring a lunch to work, label it as mine, and include a "noxious" substance in it. If a coworker steals it and eats it and gets sick, am I liable?

 

[EsmeraldaX]

GRRRR

I got to work an hour late today. I don't know yet if any update has been done on the fridge bandit.

I'll try to find out later!

 

[Doesney]

Originally posted by EsmeraldaX
GRRRR

I got to work an hour late today. I don't know yet if any update has been done on the fridge bandit.

I'll try to find out later!

Please hurry, we are all in suspense. Surely your workload can wait for the DIS

 

[EsmeraldaX]

Originally posted by Doesney
Please hurry, we are all in suspense. Surely your workload can wait for the DIS

My "workload" ? LOL! Do you even know what my job entails?

 

[phamton]

Originally posted by Maleficent13
So, this brings up an interesting point. Let's say I bring a lunch to work, label it as mine, and include a "noxious" substance in it. If a coworker steals it and eats it and gets sick, am I liable?

That is a very good question. I'm not a lawyer nor do I play one on tv but wouldn't this be similar to putting up a sign saying: "Beware of dog!" If a thief broke into your house and was attacked by the dog, would you be liable? I don't know. What if a child got in your yard who couldn't read and was attacked? Would you be liable? What if someone was illterate or couldn't read English and was attacked? I don't know. These same arguments would probably be similar to adding a substance to food and labelling it. Even ExLax could be lethal for people with certain chronic lillnesses.

Bev "food for thought" Hamilton

 

[Maleficent13]

Hmmm...to go even further, if I make chicken salad, and include walnut pieces in it, and someone steals my sandwich and eats it, and then gets sick because they were allergic to walnuts, am I liable?

Okay, we need the opinion of a lawyer on these...or at least someone who stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!

 

[snarfer1]

Originally posted by EsmeraldaX


My "workload" ? LOL! Do you even know what my job entails?

Let me first state, that this thread has become my absolute favorite thread!

Next let me ask.....

EsmeraldaX, so what does your job entail?

Tony