Dilbert Food theft comics

[cindybubbles]

Proof that even labeling your lunch doesn't work:
Ted Sandwich

Another example of boss drink theft:
"Free" Soda

Here are some more:
Being evil used to mean something
My Lettuce is Gone!
Crime Pays
Luckily for me, I'm a sociopath

There were three more that I found, but I can't post them because doing so would break the rules.

Your thoughts on these?

[eltf177]

How typical.

Can you post links to the other two?

[XCashier]

There were two more that I found, but I can't post them because doing so would break the rules.

Your thoughts on these?

Why would that break the rules?

Food thieves suck. That is all.

[NecessaryCatharsis]

Why would that break the rules?

My first thought was Dilbert food porn? Rule 34.

[Kaylyn]

Probably food sabotage, would be my guess.

[wolfie]

Many years back, the Dilbert site had a "question of the day" where users could submit answers, which were then viewable by all. One was a PHB-esque comment that I'll paraphrase here:

Every day there's some whiner complaining that they didn't get a lunch. That's why I always eat at 11:00, when there's a good selection in the fridge.

[cindybubbles]

Why would that break the rules?

Food thieves suck. That is all.

Two involve actual food tampering, one done by Dogbert, and the other by someone unknown (and pointed out Dogbert saying it was a message from God). The third is about Alice lying about food tampering so that she could find out who keeps taking her lunch.

In the first and third cases the food thief was Wally. The second was the pointy haired boss.

[cindybubbles]

Probably food sabotage, would be my guess.

You are correct. Those strips involve food sabotage and lying about food sabotage.

[Tama]

The food sabotage one with Wally as the thief...that was...uh, interesting..

I think it was Dilbert's lunch that time though.

[cindybubbles]

How typical.

Can you post links to the other two?

No, because those comics concern food sabotage, and we at CS.com are against that.

[gremcint]

Yeah I think the only time we've even come close to being in favor to something like that was someone kept stealing someone's pops so they hid some mentos in some diet coke so that when they opened the bottle it just made a mess and would not have been harmful to anyone especially considering it would not have even gotten drank at that point probably.

[eltf177]

Yeah I think the only time we've even come close to being in favor to something like that was someone kept stealing someone's pops so they hid some mentos in some diet coke so that when they opened the bottle it just made a mess and would not have been harmful to anyone especially considering it would not have even gotten drank at that point probably.

That was Kusanagi, and I too approve!

[wolfie]

Another one where I recall people being close to being in favour was a guy who had a reputation as a "chili fiend", and of being honest about it if people asked him how spicy something was. He bought a bag of "hot pepper" flavoured jelly beans, and left it at his desk. After all, you'd expect someone who enjoys spicy food to eat something spicy.

[eltf177]

My father was one of those people for whom the term "it's too hot" simply didn't compute. Even my mother and brother, who liked it hot, found his tastes too exreme. We all learned early on that, not matter how desparate you were, his leftovers were nothing less than a suicide mission. I myself learned that the hard way, and once proved enough.

One day at work a coworker stole his lunch. It was said the screams could be heard all over the building. And since the lunch was in a clearly labeled paper bag which was also _stapled_ co-worker's claim he'd "taken the wrong lunch" carried no weight. He wasn't fired but was ripped a new one...

[cindybubbles]

Back when I worked in an office, we had a casual talk about food theft in the lunchroom. Not that it happened to us, though.

I once suggested that if you put a drink into the fridge, you label it as yours and put in the words "TOUCH IT AND DIE!!!!!!!"

Good thing my company was the casual kind. We got a good laugh out of that.

Why do people steal food? Because their own lunch is BORING! Or maybe they're too lazy to pack their own lunches.

Now for something a little off-topic, but will hopefully tell you more about why people steal food. I never stole food, but back then, I resented my coworkers' "salad clubs" where you could only eat their salads if you contributed to them. This was because I felt left out whenever they brought their ingredients over to prepare and eat while the rest of us were stuck with our own boring lunches.

Now, in hindsight, I think that the contribution requirement was only fair. After all, you can only go so far before they call you a mooch.

I admit, I gorged on foods that I didn't bring into the office, but those were foods that were offered to the whole company to share. However, eat too much from the office food plate and you may be seen as only slightly better than the food thief. The Christmas party from 2012 comes into mind.

Now that I'm freelancing from home, I'm not doing any gorging from office food plates anymore, though!