Bad Manners and Brimstone

In the same theme, I saw on one of those “r/“ YouTube videos that someone, who liked spicy food, got tired of having his lunch stolen.  So he put a lot of ghost peppers in chili, and took it to work.  The thief ate it, got sick and went to HR, who then scheduled a meeting with OP for the next day.  OP brought the chili to the meeting and invited everyone there to taste it while eating it himself, thus proving that he didn’t spike the chili deliberately.  End result was thief eventually got fired for the theft(s).

In a previous workplace I found that someone was helping themself to my breakfast cereal (I've never been able to force down breakfast at 6 am, and used to keep the makings of breakfast in the office to eat when I arrived). Of course in the normal way of things you can't easily be 100% sure that someone has been freeloading out of a box of cereal - you think maybe you've just been giving yourself larger helpings and that's why it's going down so fast. But when the thief actually unsealed an unopened box for him- or herself, that was kind of a dead giveaway. I stuck up a sign in the kitchen saying 'Whoever is stealing my cereal, please stop it' - and was pulled up by the office manager for using a nasty judgemental word like 'stealing'. I toyed with the idea of amending it to 'pilfering', decided it wasn't worth the hassle of being pulled up again, and reluctantly settled for 'taking'. Grrr!

In a previous workplace I found that someone was helping themself to my breakfast cereal (I've never been able to force down breakfast at 6 am, and used to keep the makings of breakfast in the office to eat when I arrived). Of course in the normal way of things you can't easily be 100% sure that someone has been freeloading out of a box of cereal - you think maybe you've just been giving yourself larger helpings and that's why it's going down so fast. But when the thief actually unsealed an unopened box for him- or herself, that was kind of a dead giveaway. I stuck up a sign in the kitchen saying 'Whoever is stealing my cereal, please stop it' - and was pulled up by the office manager for using a nasty judgemental word like 'stealing'. I toyed with the idea of amending it to 'pilfering', decided it wasn't worth the hassle of being pulled up again, and reluctantly settled for 'taking'. Grrr!

Yet, if you were "taking" the office supplies, there would be disciplinary action taken... oh... and they would call it "stealing".

Though I guess "having the person's email and sometimes emailing them" is "a lot more rigorous" than Not Always Right. ANYTHING is more rigorous than Not Always Right.

Ha! True. Off-topic, but once on NAR someone submitted the old chestnut that he was lounging around and the owner of the company happened upon him and gave him a days pay and told him he's fired for laziness and wasting company time. That joke's older than the hills but NAR posts everything as fact.

I reckon someone needs to invent some kind of mini-alarm for lunchboxes or lunch bags... Like in that kid's book "Dear Mr Henshaw"...

And my personal favorite... I've had the guy who said I tried to kill him because he stole my lunch and had an anaphylactic reaction to the peanuts in it (this was pre peanut allergy for me). I still to this day don't understand why the hell you'd steal and eat random food when you KNOW you have an anaphylactic food allergy. Oh, and the jackhole didn't even carry an EpiPen, I used one of my own on him, but he still insist to this day that I tried to kill him with my lunch.   

To which I suppose the only answer would be, 'Listen, sunshine, if I had really been trying to kill you, I would'nt have wasted a perfectly good EpiPen saving you, and you'd be dead. You be more careful from now on, I might not want to waste another.'

I bring a grocery store pre-packed bag of small apples to work. There's a dozen apples in the bag, so the bag stays in the work fridge for a few weeks. If someone else is in the kitchen when I'm getting my apple I'll ask if they would like one as well. I can share, no problem.

One day when I went to get my apple (in the morning) I found the bag missing from the fridge. Shock! There were 5 apples left!

Disappointed, I turned my head and saw my bag of apples in the garbage. I picked up the bag and the apples were still a bit cold, so someone threw the apples away earlier that morning. (Maintenance comes around in the evening to empty the trash bins so there was nothing in there except for my bag of apples). I took my bag of apples out of the trash and put it back into the fridge. I took an apple back to my desk, not as cold as I normally like them but still crunchy an delicious.

Then I put a note on the fridge "To whoever threw my apples away, please don't do that again."

I mean, I can police my apples. If they're going bad I know well enough when to toss them!



Here's the funny: A few weeks later admin sent an email about cleaning out the fridge basically saying "if you don't have a name on it then it will be tossed."

Good for her! and I thanked her for taking care of us.

I happened to be in the kitchen when admin was tossing stuff from the fridge. Admin said "oh, I don't know what to do!" I asked her what the problem was and she was pointing to a bagged single apple (not mine!) I said "It doesn't have a name on it, so toss it." She said "yes, but it's an apple."

I think that my note about not tossing apples influenced her a bit.

That single apple in a baggie still sits in the fridge, many months later. I wonder how long it will stay there.

Quote from: Rose Red on October 11, 2019, 09:56:01 am

Ha! True. Off-topic, but once on NAR someone submitted the old chestnut that he was lounging around and the owner of the company happened upon him and gave him a days pay and told him he's fired for laziness and wasting company time. That joke's older than the hills but NAR posts everything as fact.

OK, now I feel thick-headed...what's the joke?

Sorry, I left out the part that the guy doesn't work for the company.

The owner saw some kid hanging around and thought the kid worked for him. He thought the kid was goofing off on company time, paid him for the day, and "fired"him. Turns out the kid is not an employee at all but got away with money. Usually the punch line is another worker arrives and ask the owner where the messenger guy/pizza guy/etc. went.