Food stolen from break room fridge?

[cindybubbles]

Have you ever had your food stolen from your work fridge? Food theft is the reason why I kept my lunch and drinks in my backpack, and I would never take anyone else's food.

I always ask which food is private (i.e. someone else's and not for sharing), and which food is for everyone to use, since we put company milk and company party leftovers in the fridge as well.

What are your stories?

[kpzra]

I brought my food in with me each night, so I never had that happen. We did have a problem with the catering food (for private airplanes) that was ordered and paid for being eaten/stolen. It turned out to be a new employee who was fired for drug use while at work.

We had a fridge in the line room for employee use and then two huge glass front fridges in another room for catering, there was no way to not know. The company lost several thousand dollars before he was caught (they had to replace it as rush orders). If it was left over food it was fair game and marked as such (crews flying from Hawaii in winter to Alaska would bring us fresh fruit all the time).

[Amina516]

Oh yes, the memories. Please see this old thread

http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...ad.php?t=92783



In new news, there was a person who was fired a short while ago. I was convinced she had an undiagnosed mental disability (not an insult, I really think she did). Once she left, the food thefts stopped. Im assuming it was her. It would make sense for how she behaved. I feel bad that she felt she had to resort to stealing food. I and many others would have gladly purchased her lunch/dinner.

Nothing pisses me off more though, than a stolen meal. It really grinds my gears.

[cindybubbles]

Oh yes, the memories. Please see this old thread

http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...ad.php?t=92783



In new news, there was a person who was fired a short while ago. I was convinced she had an undiagnosed mental disability (not an insult, I really think she did). Once she left, the food thefts stopped. Im assuming it was her. It would make sense for how she behaved. I feel bad that she felt she had to resort to stealing food. I and many others would have gladly purchased her lunch/dinner.

Nothing pisses me off more though, than a stolen meal. It really grinds my gears.

I was wondering where that thread was again! Thanks for posting the link!

[cindybubbles]

No one in my mom's former workplace ever stole her lunch. That's because she always packed rice, and it seems, few other people like rice there.

A coworker of hers (J from this thread) also packed curry rice for her lunch.

[NorthernZel]

Mr Zel was indirectly a victim of this - you see, the fridge is scheduled to be cleaned every Monday morning, and instructions for the cleaner (from an outsourced company) are that all food in the fridge is to be discarded.

Too bad that the Saturday-Tuesday graveyard shift team (which Mr Zel is a part of) weren't notified of this.... they had stored bread, cheese and meat for the whole shift period and found it all disappeared suddendly.

[mathnerd]

We had a problem with food theft at the bank. I didn't work in a branch, but in a back shop department in a building that housed several hundred employees, and the break rooms were for all of us. For the most part it was standard, boring food theft, until the day the thief grabbed the lunch bag that contained a person's insulin and syringes. They never did show back up.

[MadMike]

I've had a couple microwave meals and some snacks vanish from the fridge, but the thing that I had the most trouble with was sodas. The vending machines are a rip-off, so I usually bring my own stuff from home. I don't like coffee, so I bring in two sodas each day. The one I drink when I get in, and the other I put in the fridge for lunch time.

Usually my lunchtime sodas vanish once in a great while, and I honestly can't remember when the last time was that it happened. But at one point, they were disappearing pretty much every day. After about a week of that, I got tired of it and shook the hell out of the thing before I put it in the fridge. Think of the beer can in the paint shaker from The Simpsons.

That one also disappeared, but it stopped happening after that. I wish I could have seen the look on the poor bastard's face.

[MoonCat]

Story from my sister: Where she's working now, they have a shared fridge. There's a sign on it sayng that the fridge will be cleaned every other Friday, and if you want something, mark it clearly, "please do not throw out." She said last week, there were several items in the fridge, all marked as requested, including something of hers. They all had dates on them, too, nothing more than a couple of days old.

So they came in on Monday, and....the fridge was empty.

They were all pretty pissed off, but she doesn't want to say anything because as a temp, she feels it's not her place, and she's not sure if the other workers are going to speak up. Very annoying, though.

[bhskittykatt]

I never leave anything overnight in the fridge, so it's not a problem for me. We don't have much in the way of food thievery here. (Leaving your stuff in the fridge until new forms of life grow on it though...that is a problem.)

[Draper Mel]

I've never had a problem with having food stolen. The places I tend to work have too few people for anyone to steal stuff without getting caught.

Passive Aggressive Notes often has pics from people trying to prevent food theft or complaining about it. This one is my favorite:

Dave's 4 Life!!!

[shopgirl15]

This is why you keep a laxative package in there, disguised as a candy bar, in case someone decides to take your lunch

[Android Kaeli]

Never really had any problems with my food being taken, then again I only take my water and a snack that i'll eat that day. An old manager had a hot pocket stolen once, though. He even caught the person in the act!

[protege]

Uh guys? CS does not condone tampering with food. As much as I like seeing assholes get their "just desserts" the potential trouble just isn't worth it.

[bhskittykatt]

An old manager had a hot pocket stolen once, though. He even caught the person in the act!

A while back we did have a food thief. CW1 caught CW2 heating up her dinner. When confronted, CW2's excuse was "Oh, I thought it belonged to CW3."

...and that makes it okay how???