Your opinion- Girl Scout Cookie mishap

[torinsmom]

Around here, you pay when you order GCS. Maybe it varies from council to council. I didn't buy any this year.

Marsha

 

[Tinkerbell58]

You personally paid her; she should have personally delivered the cookies. I would want my money back, also.

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

I'm totally stunned that taking stuff from the people you work with is obviously totally excepted and normal.
Don't you think that is just plain stealing and that those who took the cookies should pay for them?

I think the reasons people are againt the woman and not the coworkers are that first of all they were not delievered which is the way we are instructed to give them out, and also they were not even labeled. If she at least labeled them, it would still be wrong but the coworkers woould hold some responsibility. In most break rooms, anything left is left for everyone. I often over bake (because I llove to but shouldn't eat it) and my DH takes it and leaves it in the breakroom for anyone. Our extra GS cookies are left with a sign that if anyone wants them they can pay him, but ones left out would be eaten.

Around here, you pay when you order GCS. Maybe it varies from council to council. I didn't buy any this year.

Marsha

That is absolutely NOT allowed around here, we are not allowed to do that at all. I wouldn't buy any with the pay ahead rule either. Especially not from a neighbor or coworker I hardly knew.

 

[dogluva]

Just curious what you would do in this situation. I want my money back.

Someone at work was selling GSC, and I bought some (for me & my mom who is a Thin Mint addict). I had a pretty decent sized order. When the cookies came in, she asked for the money, I paid her, and she was to give me the cookies that night at the end of shift since they were in her car. She ended up leaving early and we missed each other. No big deal. I work with her on Fri nights only, and apparently she took all the cookies on Monday and put them on the counter in the breakroom, no note or name on them or anything. They disappeared. (of course)

Several coworkers admit they saw cookies in the breakroom, no note or name, and not in a bag or anything. Just a stack of cookies. Now I think I should get my money back since I never got my cookies, and she is saying it is not her fault someone stole them. I think it is her fault. What do you think?By the way, I also feel that I should mention there are several other people who paid for cookies and either didn't get them, or did not get what they ordered. SO something is a little "off" with this lady. I know I am going to end up with no money and no cookies, I just think it is crazy that this lady thinks it was ok to just toss em on the counter. Even if I had been at work, I would not have taken them if they did not have my name on them.

Next year I am predicting poor cookie sales for this woman. lol.

Her fault. Get your money back and if she doesn't give it to you, call the council office.

 

[Disneyadore]

yes, but you can't get blood from a stone either.

If the break room is open, there may have been some people who assumed that boxes of cookies there with no name were free for the taking.

So if some one accidentally forgets her handbag or laptop its just free for ever one to take it?

Personnel I think this "habits" is very dangerous and just on the edge of criminality. If that break room was in my company the first thing I would do is installing several camera's.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Of course it's not just "free for anyone to take". But by not securing your own belongings, you run the risk of having someone steal them, yes. Is it right? Of course not - but not everyone has the same ethics.

And while cookies are NOT in the same category of one's purse or coat, the OP didn't even have a CHOICE in this instance. She didn't have ANY control over the cookies. SHe paid for them. She fulfilled her end of the transaction. The coworked selling them failed to deliver the item (cookies) TO THE BUYER.

As a poster pointed out above, the OP should ask the coworker what she would expect if she had delivered the cookies to the OP and then, instead of handing the payment to the cookie-seller, the OP had placed it in the breakroom?

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

I guess it depends on the place then, DH's office anything on the table is for anyone to enjoy. BUT, sounds like this was the way at OP's office too and for that alone she should have been handed her cookies, plus, that is the way we are told to deliver the cookies.

 

[kaytieeldr]

So, listen, speaking of Girl Scout cookies... if anybody north of Boston is reading this thread and knows where I can get some cookies...

 

[dakcp2001]

So, listen, speaking of Girl Scout cookies... if anybody north of Boston is reading this thread and knows where I can get some cookies...

Haha I can tell you where NOT to buy them! lol.

 

[OceanAnnie]

I'd want my money back for sure. I can't believe your co-worker would do that and think it was okay.

 

[belle&sebastiansmom]

Around here, you pay when you order GCS. Maybe it varies from council to council. I didn't buy any this year.

Marsha

Our leader said it didn't matter when we got the money, as long as we got it. DH sold most of DD's cookies at work and collected most of the money upfront. It worked out well and dd was the first kid to turn in her money order. Our leader is new and this is dd's first year as a Daisy, but the leader told us we'd be out of pocket any boxes that we placed an order for but that were not paid. So that's why hubby tried to get money upfront.

It may not have be cool to take the cookies from the break room, but I don't see it as stealing if this is the type of office to share food items by simply leaving them for the community on the counter. The co-workers probably assumed they were bought for everyone to enjoy. Now the cookie seller was at great fault in this instance. OP, call your council.

And another poster said that they ordered their cookies online.Does the main GS organization do this? Because even in our cookie brochure it says, "Girl Scouts (or Girl Scout families) cannot sell cookies on the internet. Make the sale in person." I seem to remember a few years ago a story that made national news about a kid that got in big trouble because her dad set up an internet site to sell her cookies.

 

[ms.yt]

So if some one accidentally forgets her handbag or laptop its just free for ever one to take it?

Personnel I think this "habits" is very dangerous and just on the edge of criminality. If that break room was in my company the first thing I would do is installing several camera's.

Have you not ever worked in a place with a break room? That's pretty much the universally accepted rule. If it's out on the table, it's fair game unless it has somebody's name on it. Of course, that applies to food items. To compare cookies to stealing a purse or laptop is pretty ridiculous.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Our leader said it didn't matter when we got the money, as long as we got it. DH sold most of DD's cookies at work and collected most of the money upfront. It worked out well and dd was the first kid to turn in her money order. Our leader is new and this is dd's first year as a Daisy, but the leader told us we'd be out of pocket any boxes that we placed an order for but that were not paid. So that's why hubby tried to get money upfront.

It may not have be cool to take the cookies from the break room, but I don't see it as stealing if this is the type of office to share food items by simply leaving them for the community on the counter. The co-workers probably assumed they were bought for everyone to enjoy. Now the cookie seller was at great fault in this instance. OP, call your council.

And another poster said that they ordered their cookies online.Does the main GS organization do this? Because even in our cookie brochure it says, "Girl Scouts (or Girl Scout families) cannot sell cookies on the internet. Make the sale in person." I seem to remember a few years ago a story that made national news about a kid that got in big trouble because her dad set up an internet site to sell her cookies.

It is against policy to take money with the orders however it is done of course.

The reasoning is because GS scams are popular around cookie time. Kids pose as GS and "sell cookies", ripping people off.

As for internet sales, now that is absolutely against the rules. Now you can email friends and family, that is OK.

 

[Disneyadore]

Have you not ever worked in a place with a break room? That's pretty much the universally accepted rule. If it's out on the table, it's fair game unless it has somebody's name on it. Of course, that applies to food items. To compare cookies to stealing a purse or laptop is pretty ridiculous.

Yes for twelve years but NOBODY ever even attempted to take anything that did not belong to them. And taking a cookie is the same as taking a purse is the same idea.I would be taking something that does not belong to me.
No matter how I would try to sugarcoat it be telling myself its an universally accepted rule its stealing.

 

[ms.yt]

Yes for twelve years but NOBODY ever even attempted to take anything that did not belong to them. And taking a cookie is the same as taking a purse is the same idea.I would be taking something that does not belong to me.
No matter how I would try to sugarcoat it be telling myself its an universally accepted rule its stealing.

Sounds like a real fun place you work at.

 

[OceanAnnie]

Yes for twelve years but NOBODY ever even attempted to take anything that did not belong to them. And taking a cookie is the same as taking a purse is the same idea.I would be taking something that does not belong to me.
No matter how I would try to sugarcoat it be telling myself its an universally accepted rule its stealing.

I know this might sound strange, but all of the places I've worked it was encouraged to take things set out on the community table! Sometimes people made an announcement that they bought something for co-workers, sometimes not. It was a rule that anything left on the break room table was a gift for others. Looking back, it's funny how many people knew that rule but didn't know a lot of others.

 

[ms.yt]

I know this might sound strange, but all of the places I've worked it was encouraged to take things set out on the community table! Sometimes people made an announcement that they bought something for co-workers, sometimes not. It was a rule that anything left on the break room table was a gift for others. Looking back, it's funny how many people knew that rule but didn't know a lot of others.

Yeah, that's the way it is at almost every place I've ever heard of or been in. Apparently Disneyadore's office is in some strange parallel universe where that doesn't apply. Or nobody just ever brought anything because they knew some people were so uptight about it!

 

[Goofyzgurl]

Yes for twelve years but NOBODY ever even attempted to take anything that did not belong to them. And taking a cookie is the same as taking a purse is the same idea.I would be taking something that does not belong to me.
No matter how I would try to sugarcoat it be telling myself its an universally accepted rule its stealing.

I know at any place I've worked if you leave it on the table in the break room that meant it was to be shared. In fact, I had some cookies that I didn't want and put them on the table last week. People will bring in cake, set it in the breakroom on the table, that they made the weekend and everyone will partake.

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

I know at any place I've worked if you leave it on the table in the break room that meant it was to be shared. In fact, I had some cookies that I didn't want and put them on the table last week. People will bring in cake, set it in the breakroom on the table, that they made the weekend and everyone will partake.

That is the way it has been everywhere my Dh worked at, and the limited work I have done same thing.

 

[Disneyadore]

Yeah, that's the way it is at almost every place I've ever heard of or been in. Apparently Disneyadore's office is in some strange parallel universe where that doesn't apply. Or nobody just ever brought anything because they knew some people were so uptight about it!

Thank you for letting me know that honesty and keeping your fingers from other persons belongings is called being uptight in the US.
Learned something new today and added in my dictionary.