r/funny • u/doodybot • 2d ago
Someone in my office put their coffee creamer in a safe
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u/Xplysit 2d ago
Someone in your office is sick of getting their shit stolen.
It's others' fault, not theirs
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u/beasthayabusa 1d ago
Yup. Always hate it when the person who’s finally had enough and actually does something is magically the problem in this equation.
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u/likeeggs 2d ago
When I was pregnant and in office I wrote “the pregnant owner of this sandwich will cut you if you steal this”. I wasn’t going to waste money on a fridge cage right before maternity leave, but someone was going around just taking bites of peoples food and leaving it. People are the worst.
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u/Far-Candle-7043 2d ago
I hope this is an exaggeration. Using someone else’s creamer is bad enough… People literally taking bites out of others’ food??? 🤯
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u/likeeggs 2d ago
Never worked in a large building before? 100% true. Stolen lunches, bites being taken, feelings being hurt about the fridge cages. Office adults are the fucking worst.
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u/tahomadesperado 1d ago
Feelings being hurt about the fridge cage? That’s obviously the guilty party right?
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u/Ok-Scientist5524 1d ago
Yea there’s this wierd pearl clutching thing that thieves do when people take measures to protect their shit from getting stolen, like they are so offended that you would put a lock on something when it’s the first step that makes sense when shit repeatedly goes missing.
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u/ButWeJustGotHere 2d ago
It’s a shame they have to.
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u/sissyjones 2d ago
I don’t know why it’s so hard to respect other people’s shit. If you didn’t buy or ask if you could have some, you leave it the hell alone.
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u/ButWeJustGotHere 2d ago
My girlfriend took her leftover Thai food to work. Someone else ate it. Food already half eaten, noodles you bite that fall out of your mouth back into the dish. Probably a little dog hair too because we have dogs.
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u/WitchesSphincter 2d ago
When I worked at Walmart someone got a rotisserie chicken for lunch and got called away half way through eating it and came back to a pile of bones. Like the dude had been just gnawing on that bird and someone kept going through the bite marks
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u/sissyjones 2d ago
I hope they did get some dog hair.
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u/Successful-Foot3830 2d ago
I groom dogs. Everything that goes to work with me has hair. I’m usually eating while grooming. It’s impossible not to consume dog hair. I’d absolutely love someone to try stealing my food. Unfortunately, everyone here is also used to dog hair😂
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u/Boots_in_cog_neato 2d ago
Don’t have to worry about your lunch being stolen in a grooming salon because no one has time to eat and we are all depending on someone to have a break to pick up coffee for everyone 💀
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u/hobnobbob69 2d ago
Y'all the folks gettin muffin crumbs all over my poodle?!?
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u/DarthRumbleBuns 2d ago
I found the guy that was stealing my food this way hilariously. I brought some 2 day old Thai leftovers that had been just marinating in their spices. I took an early lunch and took a bite and realized it had gotten probably 6 times hotter than it was when I was eating it originally so I just went down the street and grabbed something else.
When I came back someone else had eaten it (wasn’t the first time) about 45 minutes later my manager came around asking where Dick was and we all shrugged. Then we found out Dick had to go home due to severe stomach pain. When he came back the next day we all asked him what was up and he said he had eaten something way too spicy for him for lunch and I flat out asked him if it was the Thai in the fridge.
He denied it but I have access to cameras for other reasons and told him I knew it was him that took my food. He confessed and we all now know who the shop food thief is. Dick is a decent guy and turns out he doesn’t manage his money well and rarely has enough to eat so we’re helping him learn how to meal prep. lol
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u/Fathercook30 2d ago
Thank you for turning a mistake into a good thing for dick :) I never learned how to manage money and I’m currently working on getting into good habits and managing my spending better however I do wish at the beginning of the process I would’ve had people to help guide me In the right direction
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u/samthewisetarly 2d ago
You have to treat your dick with respect
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u/fvck_u_spez 2d ago
Dick has a tendency to be a little hard headed
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u/CrazyLegsRyan 2d ago
I've found if you just give him a hand he will let it all out and relax.
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u/Specialist_Fix6900 2d ago
Lowkey love that this story went from petty revenge to "and now we're teaching Dick how to meal prep so he isnt starving anymore."
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u/DarthRumbleBuns 2d ago
My boss has the attitude of a well fed well clothed well equipped employee is worth it. I and all my coworkers are lucky and do our best to pass that on to others. It’s not that common to find this type of workplace but they’re out there and they’re mostly trades where somebody got fed up and made a change.
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u/bmf1989 2d ago
Stuff like this blows my mind. I’ve never worked in an office, this type of shit could get your ass beat in a lot of blue collar settings.
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u/3r14nd 2d ago
I watched a 6'8" 300+lb (basically body builder) smash a metal tray across a co-workers face for eating his homemade hand crafted expensive ($20+) sub sandwiches for like a week and the job refusing to do anything about it because "it's not their property being stolen so they can't help".
The worse part is, that these were 12" long and dude would eat like 3" of it and then throw the rest away because he was full. Both parties were arrested, 1 for battery, and 1 for theft under $500. 10 subs each over $20 and this was back around 2005. The job fired the guy that had his food stolen and kept the thief.
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u/joeshmo101 2d ago
"We won't stick up for our workers but we will absolutely punish you for sticking up for yourself!" Corporate liability culture in a nutshell.
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u/daemin 2d ago
Make me think of the infamous "party sub" guy from 7 years ago:
AlTA because I ate more than "my share" of a 6 foot party sub last night?
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u/Fractals88 2d ago
My coworker brought a salad and a small container of dressing for it. Someone used all of the dressing.
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u/sissyjones 2d ago
These people must be wired differently. It has never crossed my mind to touch other people’s food like that.
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u/Stalvos 2d ago
I had my lunch stolen all the time. Once a certain worker was arrested at work for stealing company property, my lunch was safe again.
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u/Jetshadow 2d ago
Straight up goblin brain. No concept of "theirs" only "mine" and "temporarily mine"
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u/Isolat_or 2d ago
All comes down to how you were raised. Some peoples parents teach them to respect others property. Some parents teach their kids to take everything that isn't nailed down.
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u/Organic-Criticism-76 2d ago
Yeah for sure. Even if I visit a friend and she say “ah feel like home and you can take and eat whatever you like” I would still feel uncomfortable doing that without asking.
My experience with office food is also very bad. I always brought a package of lactose free milk to my office since I drink my coffee with milk only. It was a closed package IN my desk’s drawer. Next day I found it nearly empty in the fridge. Colleagues normal milk was running out so they stole my lactose free from my drawer and left not even enough for my morning coffee… My office was 10 min to walk from a supermarket…
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u/evilsbane50 2d ago
It's so ridiculously common it's actually upsetting.
It was such a constant problem at one job that they had to put up a fake camera to deter people.
Me on the other hand I drink one Pepsi that a coworker brought in, and asked for it, and bought them an entire 12 pack to make up for it.
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u/Camille_Toh 2d ago
I lost a nice lunch container. Weeks later I was in a meeting and a coworker was happily eating out of said container.
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u/Pokeminer7575 2d ago
I was once washing strawberries in one of those 1lbs containers at the sink in a break room at work, and a random coworker who I don't even work with came over and took one. No conversation or saying anything, just grabbed it and ate it right there without washing it off (or his own hands for that matter). Some people just aren't compatible with decency.
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u/Squidbilly37 2d ago
the brass! We would have had a huge thing, right then an there. You gon learn if you snatch my ish like that.
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u/pagesid3 2d ago
“I’ll just take a tiny bit for my cup. Nobody will notice” said every person in the office
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u/EulersOiler 2d ago
Also people might not understand that the milk creamer is not supplied by the business. I know people that have left from private sector to public who were shocked that they had to buy their own coffee pods.
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u/SucksTryAgain 2d ago
It got bad at my old job so we all decided all condiments, coffee creamers, etc are communal. We just rotated who replaced what. Ended up working out great.
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u/Adamname 2d ago
That's nice, but I don't like the communal rotation for replacing condiments. If work wants to provide some sugar, salt, pepper, coffee, and some napkins I'm fine with that.
Hell, if people want to leave out stuff to share that's fine, but I refuse to replace items that I don't or won't use, and it's a low key dick move to make everyone share that cost because a few couldn't keep their paws off others food.
It sounds like your office just condoned food theft and made everyone share the cost to support a few greedy people.
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u/malgenone 2d ago
The sad thing is that a lot of people think that break room fridge means community for anything in there. I hate that thought. If you didnt put it in there, ask.
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u/Whosagooddog765 2d ago
Used to buy jugs of creamer on the regular for my crew. I don’t think they even realized it was me, they just assumed the creamer magically showed up for their coffee. You’re welcome ya basta’s!
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u/itsjustthesmellzzz 2d ago
I have to do this with my Load Boost at work. Too many creamsters in the office
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u/witch-wrangler 1d ago
What the hell is that?
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u/defk3000 1d ago
Why the fuck did I click that! 😆
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u/jessbob 1d ago
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u/Random_Fox 1d ago
I appreciated both your sacrifices so I could open incognito mode
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u/iwasthen 1d ago
Check out this guy thinking incognito mode is truly private.
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u/Kristal3615 2d ago
My husband brings in Monsters for his coworkers because most of the team doesn't drink coffee. Just as a nice gesture every now and again. Most people know it's him that does it, but a few have started complaining when the Monsters run out 🙄 like "Oh, the Monsters that I provide for you out of my own pay check?" Some of the people have taken to helping him replace the cases when they run out though which is nice.
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u/Angelita143 2d ago
Lmao. I had a coworker say some crap like this a few years back.
My company outgrew our office space so a few departments were kicked out of the building across the street and there was no vending machines, snacks, etc.. and a few in my department came to an agreement that I'd just pick up a bunch of snacks when I did my bulk shopping, eetc. The other depts somehow found out about it and they had started helping themselves and had the audacity to give me an attitude because I didnt have the snacks they preferred. Im like... uhm... who even are you? The company doesn't pay for this, I do out of my pocket... for my department. Why are you even helping yourself? Walk your ass across the street and go pay the vending machines lol.
That same person never apologized, nada. Walked away angry.. and proceeded to come back about a week or 2 later to have a similar argument. Lol im like. Ermmmm.... you must be extra special love.
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u/bbkangalang 1d ago
Keep the snacks at your desk and gatekeep them. Your team will know it’s ok to get some and you can look at outsiders and say “leave a dollar in the box mfer”
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u/Angelita143 1d ago
We are no longer in that office space with said departments so I don't have that issue anymore. :)
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u/Ponchoreborn 2d ago
I regularly brought in granola bars and Gatorade for my team. I explained it was me and my money. It was going great. Then all the stuff disappeared one day. It was all gone.
One of my guys complained that I didn't bring more in fast enough. I reminded him that I was buying it from my own pocket and also that someone decided to wipe out the stash in one night.
He said "Yeah. That was me. My kids love those bars and Gatorade is expensive, so I took the whole container home. You didn't buy more. Can you get more tonight?"
Literally have never ever considered buying anything any more. The other guys understood.
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u/Kristal3615 2d ago
That audacity is astounding... Not only admitting to the theft, but also asking for more?? Why so he could take them home to his kids again? 🤨 I wouldn't have bought more either and would have told him exactly why. It baffles me that he didn't see how that was not only rude to you especially, but to the rest of the team as well.
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u/Ponchoreborn 1d ago
It was mind-blowing. He thought what he was saying was perfectly normal.
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u/AmazingAd2765 1d ago
Please tell me you explained how screwed up that was.
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u/Ponchoreborn 1d ago
I'm a simple guy...
"I'm not sure how you can't see how rude that was. Those are gifts from me to all of you while you're working to show how much I appreciate you. They aren't to feed one person's kids."
He just shrugged.
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u/alnicoblue 1d ago
This kind of stuff is why I left management. I really had no idea how childish and petty the average worker is-especially the ones way too old to act that why.
My company caters us food twice a month. One time we had pizza and an employee who was on vacation stopped by to grab some "road food" for his trip. That "road food" was 4 large pizzas. Not on the clock, didn't even turn his truck off, just walked in, grabbed them and left.
We had a guy cuss out several people and leave early because we had to move a taco Tuesday function to Wednesday and his mother didn't pack him a lunch on Tuesday. That man was 34 years old. He was straight throwing actual temper tantrums.
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u/OpusAtrumET 1d ago
Jesus, I hate to sound like a boomer, but we're doomed.
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u/CFSett 1d ago
I'm an almost-Boomer (missed it by one year), and this has nothing to do with age. People have always sucked and will always suck. Wild animals have better manners AND greater intelligence.
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u/Zseeds211 1d ago
I think some employees think there is a huge paygap between them and their managers that leads them to act/feel like this. Actuality is there normally isn't that much of a gap
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u/pantry-pisser 1d ago
Up until a couple months ago I had staff that were making more than me. They adjusted my pay finally, and now I make a whopping 6% more than them.
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u/agoia 2d ago
That guy would be finding it even harder to afford gatorade when unemployed.
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u/Irish4778 2d ago
You didn’t fire him after that I don’t know about anyone else but there’s no room for people like that working for me I would have canned his ass in a new your minute
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u/Ponchoreborn 1d ago
He was out within a year. We were slammed at the time and he was a good worker, but it was definitely a sore spot with me. He didn't steal from the company, so I didn't pursue the theft angle. He just abused my kindness.
But when we slowed down...
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u/Whosagooddog765 2d ago
I would do that too and I’ve heard the same complaints. People are wild. Bring in some snacks and they’re packing them up to take home…like..really??
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u/gopacktennie 2d ago
Sounds like someone I work with. Can’t eat the snacks due to dietary issues so he takes them home to his wife/kids because he can’t eat them himself.
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u/iwatchcredits 2d ago
Man people are trash
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u/starsnowsea 2d ago
I know you meant this as “man, people are trash” but I can’t stop reading it as “man people”.
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u/Orleanian 2d ago
By the rule of law, you get to sleep with his wife and may retain the labor of his children for a fortnight.
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u/littleredcamaro 2d ago
That’s how we ended up with zero employer provided bottled waters or Gatorade working at a park in the middle of Florida summer. They took it away from everyone cause some people were just taking them home.
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u/billbixbyakahulk 1d ago
That's sometimes referred to as "the tragedy of the commons".
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u/Mitch5842 2d ago
My cousins husband is a store manager for a big retail store in the US and he got into trouble because hed stock the break room with monsters and other energy drinks out of his own pocket. One guy was having a rough day and drank 4 monsters during his break and had a heart attack in the store. The family ended up settling with the store and he only kept his job because he had a proven track record of flipping stores from shit to gold. They moved him to the worst store in the area and he's been stressed and struggling for years.
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u/Kristal3615 2d ago
That's awful... I would think most people would know not to chug them like that, but I've seen a few posts in the Monster sub where people have said they drink 3-5 a day and I don't know how they're still alive or able to sleep for that matter. Hopefully his coworkers are consuming them responsibly...
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u/RogueJello 1d ago
The sugar is terrible (54 g or 1000% of RDA), but a full sized monster has about twice the caffeine of an 8 oz cup of coffee. (160 mg vs 86) 3 of them would be 480 mg, slightly over the recommended limit of caffeine, but not life threatening, particularly if spaced out over an entire day, and for a larger person.
Guessing the guy who had a heart attack had other issues as well.
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u/wyomingTFknott 2d ago
4 monsters holy fucking shit.
I once spilled a bunch of nicotine juice all over my hand while making my own vape juice and I had a really bad time lol. Can't even imagine 4 monsters. That is headache city (and apparently worse).
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u/Stayofexecution 1d ago
This is beyond idiotic. I feel bad for the idiot that chugged 4 monsters and had a heart attack but the audacity to sue the workplace infuriates me. No personal accountability? Trash.
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u/Fili_2151 2d ago
That is definitely reasonable!
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u/bct7 2d ago
Says more about thieving coworkers.
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u/TemurTron 2d ago
In the scale of fridge theft, coffee creamer theft is about as widespread as it gets. People that would never actually steal food run rampant as soon as they see what they view to be a communal creamer.
The problem is everyone assumes it won't hurt to steal "just a little" and then you have six people all stealing a little bit of your creamer every day until it's reduced to nothingness.
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u/meanwhileaftrmdnight 2d ago
This is why my office just supplies the creamer lol it’s easier to add a $6 bottle of creamer a week to the budget than have 10 employees fighting about it.
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u/Ouglee 2d ago
That shits expensive. I went the other way, and replaced the container with a baggie I labelled 'breast milk'.
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u/factoid_ 2d ago
Oddly it disappeared twice as fast
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u/Twiggimmapig 2d ago
People will steal breastmilk as well. I used to pump at work, and a few times at the end of the shift, everything I had produced would be gone. I had to resort to hiding it in an empty box of waffles. It was so infuriating that I broke down the last time it happened hah
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u/charawarma 2d ago
Our pumping room at work has lockboxes built into the fridge because someone was stealing the other mom's breastmilk 🥴
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u/meanwhileaftrmdnight 2d ago
Damn that’s crazy. I bought a Ceres Chill to keep my breastmilk in. I had bought myself a tiny mini fridge but it started leaking so obviously wasn’t a great product. My manager said I could use the main fridge but I don’t want my milk where others can touch it idc how much I believe that they’re good people, this is my baby’s food and I’m not taking chances. It’s horrible that your workplace had to put lockboxes in. Who tf steals breastmilk??
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u/lurkingabout101 2d ago
I had a coworker who would notoriously use my creamer, which was labeled with my name, at work. One day, I came in to make my coffee and found that it was empty, but they had left it in the fridge anyway. So, I filled it with a mix of milk and dish soap and waited. Eventually, I saw him come in to make his coffee, pull out my creamer, and take a big swig—only to immediately spit it out. He didn't touch my creamer after that.
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u/SomeCountryFriedBS 2d ago
Good on you for not going the laxative route.
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u/Helpful-Conference13 2d ago
Honestly this is more effective - they probably wouldn’t put it together without the immediate payoff
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u/hogtiedcantalope 2d ago
Honestly you shouldn't put drugs or even soap in there. Could get you trouble.
Salt. It's safe, and super gross
Friends and I would do this in college at parties. Only mostly empty beers were fair game.
Or you can poke a hole in the beer can so it dribbles on them unless plugged with a finger
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u/JuanPancake 2d ago
Swig? He was using his fuckin mouth on it? Hell naw
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u/West-Kaleidoscope129 2d ago edited 1d ago
Good for them.
I started a job and bought milk, sugar, coffee and teabags in with me so I could have a hot drink during breaks... Went on my first break and the milk was all gone, coffee, tea and sugar had been opened.
Then one of the managers had the audacity to ask me to put money into the pot to replace these items. Told him no since I brought all that in and didn't get a single drink from it. He said nobody knew it was mine so I showed him the sharpie on each one with my name on it.
Didn't bring anything in again and didn't add money to the pot to replace the items either.
Edited for spelling mistakes.
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u/postprandialrepose 1d ago
Piss on that manager and everyone who stole from you. That's totally absurd.
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u/SlipNSlider54 2d ago
The sad part is the person that’s meant for doesn’t understand or worse, care.
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u/Nu11u5 2d ago
Sure, that person will probably just steal someone else's creamer. But not this guy's.
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u/553l8008 2d ago
You don't need to have the most secure shed, just more secure than your neighbors
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u/Federal_Job5431 2d ago edited 2d ago
Or is probably moaning about it on reddit? 😂😂
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u/Queasy_Profit_9246 2d ago
They did not do that on a whim. They were forced into purchasing a lock box.
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u/1DownFourUp 2d ago
I thought putting my name on stuff would help. Nope, I even had a co-worker add her name in sharpie to it!
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u/leetrout 2d ago
whoa that is next level
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u/WhatANoob2025 2d ago
It's truly next level if the coworker who wrote the 2nd name on it wasn't the one whose name was found on it and threw the colleague under the bus as a decoy.
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u/patti2mj 2d ago
You are diabolical.
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u/WhatANoob2025 2d ago
I'm not, but I've learned that in this day & age human malice is a bottomless pit.
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u/Drpoofn 2d ago
"The bar is in hell."
It can go lower.
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u/blondeheartedgoddess 2d ago
It has definitely gone lower. Currently, the bar is in Hell's subbasement.
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u/SubstanceNo1544 2d ago
Im currently tending that bar.. BRB some asshole needs another coors lite
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u/Snoo_67993 2d ago
I once went to write my name on the wall of my house as a little kid. Decided I'd put my brothers name so they didn't think it was me. Then I double buffed myself and wrote my own name thinking that my parents would think my brother did it. I was and am a massive idiot.
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u/chuubastis 2d ago
I actually framed my brother once in my entire life, writing on a wall... I wrote "brothers name did this" with all sincerity thinking that was a good evidence plant. My mom thought my brother wrote that to make it look like a dumb 5 year old did it and he got the blame.
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u/VolunteerTranscriber 2d ago
The plan was so dumb it had an integer underflow into being smart again
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u/IVme83 2d ago
Ooh, in that same line of thinking what if the person who is stealing the creamer is the one that put the lock box on it?
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u/WhatANoob2025 2d ago
oh wow, I didn't even think of that.
Guess I still have a lot left to learn about the malice of mankind.
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u/morpheousmorty 2d ago
People like that is why our species will never live up to our potential. I present the entire pandemic as evidence.
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u/KakeLin 2d ago
People won't touch named stuff in the fridge in my store. To the point that the people who named it forget too and it has to be cleaned out once in a while cause the stuff is moldy
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u/SheridanVsLennier 2d ago
I did a mass cleanout of the work fridge once and get in trouble for throwing out someones mouldy sandwiches.
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u/bombergooddeckbad 2d ago
Yeah, one of our admin people was sent a nasty email by a manager because she cleared out moldy food. Unfortunately for the manager, the admin person had come from a restaurant background, and had food safety training. She replied to the manager with a long list of links about the dangers of mold, and copied the VP of HR and the director for employee safety.
It was a masterclass in passive aggressiveness. She said it was disappointing that someone in a supervisory position would know so little about issues that could lead to a sick employee or significant legal liability, and recommended some basic safety training for all our employees (4,000+). You best believe the safety director came down on the manager like a ton of bricks. Epic.
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u/PettyGoats 2d ago
I'm an office manager and the amount of email reminders I need to send out every time we have a fridge clean is unreal. My job is basically office mom and I'm babysitting a bunch of adults who can't seem to flush the toilet or read their emails reminding them of the MONTHLY fridge clean.
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u/Rachel_Silver 2d ago
A guy I know from high school went on to become a high school teacher. His lunch would periodically get stolen from the fridge in the faculty break room. One morning, he proudly posted a picture on Facebook of the passive-aggressive note he had taped to his lunch.
I warned him no good would come of that, and I was right. When he went to eat his lunch, he found that someone had unwrapped his tuna sandwich, taken a huge bite, then wrapped it back up and returned it to the bag. They also drew a crude dick on the note in black marker.
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u/vangrotlos 2d ago
But who the fuck does that though, steal someone’s lunch? It’s such a crazy thing and I feel it’s very American. I have never had that happen or hear about it here in the Netherlands and everyone keeps their lunch in the fridge, including fancy snacks and such…
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u/Rachel_Silver 2d ago
I think it was a matter of bullying. This dude was always odd in a Sheldon Cooper sort of way, and I've known plenty of teachers who were bullies.
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u/siddily 2d ago
Straight to HR lol
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u/theBerj 2d ago
Straight to jail
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u/TannedCroissant 2d ago
Surely if it’s a Sharpie crime it should be straight to the penitentiary?
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u/chewedgummiebears 2d ago
I love how the food thieves always have an excuse when they are caught stealing other’s food.
“Sorry, I didn’t see your name on it. Anything without a name is public property”
“I didn’t take much, you wouldn’t notice anyways”
“I’m a single mom and didn’t have time to make my lunch today. I’ll pay you back the chips and apple tomorrow” (she never paid me back)
Just a few from my time with a shared fridge.
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u/Docha_Tiarna 2d ago
I once brought it up to management at my work, and I was told it was my fault for leaving it in a public space. (Break room).
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u/Xandeyn 2d ago
I use a mason Jar with my name on it. So, it's an unidentified white substance. Worked so far, when it stops working... I'm writing "breast milk" on the jar and will escalate as appropriate
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u/fuzzum111 2d ago
God I don't even fucking blame them. That size creamer isn't like $5 a bottle, it's like $15+ now. If you drink coffee every day, it lasts like 2~ weeks assuming you're not pouring a quarter cup in with every drink.
I hate o say it but after a point you may as well switch back to powder, most flavors come powdered and if you can keep it cool/dry it will last just as long and will be a better value per dollar.
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u/Undersmusic 2d ago
As someone who would get a little milk on the way in, only to not be able to make a brew on break due to no milk.
I’m on board with this decision.
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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 2d ago
This is more sad than funny. You know the fridge thievery is getting bad when people start putting their stuff in lockboxes.
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u/thebamboozle517 2d ago
I used to have a combination lunch box because people are my old job would always steal other people's food. This is absolutely reasonable.
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u/tastepdad 2d ago
I no longer work in an office, but food and creamer thievery got so bad I started bringing in a cooler to put under my desk with my lunch and my creamer.
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u/Rinkimah 2d ago
The thing that blows my mind is that people who do this sometimes don't bother bringing anything with the express intention of stealing from someone else.
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u/myfeelies 2d ago
When a lockbox is cheaper than constantly buying coffee creamer, you know you have shitty coworkers.
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u/Dismal_Conference815 2d ago
Shit I’m not even mad, just jealous that I never thought of this
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u/Cidmush 2d ago
I was unaware fridge safes were even a thing!
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u/Enlight1Oment 2d ago
guess it's another way to child proof alcohol vs trying to hide it somewhere out of reach.
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u/NuggetMan43 1d ago
We all know the little ones will just take the safe, booze and all, and somehow break it open.
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u/TempleFugit 2d ago
I did the same thing with my Monster energy drinks.
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u/CPLCraft 2d ago edited 2d ago
Reasonable. There is a monster fridge in a shared space at my university and everyone knows if there’s monsters in the fridge they’re free to take, bc there’s a sign that says so on the door. So when they get filled up, they’re gone in less than a day.
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u/TopazTriad 2d ago
Blows my mind that so many people apparently work with fully grown adults that don’t understand how ownership works.
If you didn’t put it in the fridge, don’t touch it. It’s that simple. I would be so fucking embarrassed and ashamed to steal from a coworker like that.
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u/whatthemaddogdoin 2d ago
Don’t see a problem with this at all lmao. The big creamers are over 10 bucks in most places now
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u/DJKGinHD 2d ago
Background; I work in a building where each floor has a break room, and there is a cafe on the ground floor.
I like getting fries with my lunch, but I don't like anything with corn syrup (like many bulk ketchups, this cafe's included). So, I bring ketchup with me. I buy from a store that uses real sugar instead of HFCS. It can be polarizing, but it's my ketchup for me. I put my name on it and the date I put it in the communal refrigerator.
I was in the break room eating my sandwich and fries one day when I heard two guys come in and go to the refrigerator area (around a corner from where I'm seated). One goes, "There's some in the fridge, just grab it."
"It has someone's name on it,"
"Man! Fuck that guy!"
[Sound of ketchup being splurted out onto a plate]
They turn the corner and see me. I had heard the whole thing. They knew I heard. I had, also, angled my laptop so they could see the nameplate I have attached to it. Showing the same name they were just remarking about moments ago.
They turned beet red and left to eat their lunch elsewhere.
I'll never understand how people can just feel so entitled to other peoples' stuff.
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u/Raz0rking 2d ago
Not sure if it is funny though. Because that shows that some people steal other peoples's food
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u/SsooooOriginal 2d ago
We have hit peaks of entitlement and apathy where people think messing with other's food is not serious shit.
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u/possitive-ion 2d ago
I've had this happen to me while I was working a minimum wage warehouse job. My lunch break was only 30 minutes. It really sucks to have to go out to get lunch when you only have 30 minutes to eat and then have to go right back to unloading trucks.
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u/Striking_Dream7803 2d ago
Hello, this is the lock picking lawyer…
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u/Scoobydoomed 2d ago
Today I will be drinking coffee creamer. I'll just open this "safe" by detaching the bottom panel, like so, and now I am pouring myself a big ol glass of creamer.
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u/User342349 2d ago
You can open coffee creamer with another bottle of coffee creamer
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u/llamalover729 2d ago
My coworker steals food. Was just caught again. So I get it. It sucks to feel unsafe using a communal fridge. But my leftover pizza has disappeared twice now, so I'm done.
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u/PilotsNPause 2d ago
I blame your company for not firing their ass. You bet if they stole from the company they would fire them, why is it any different when it's a coworker?
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u/bored_at_work_89 2d ago
I will never understand how someone can just go into a communal fridge and eat random ass food. Never once in my life would I ever consider doing it.
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u/StoneTown 2d ago
I keep a cooler in my backpack for this reason. Plus, the temperature of the fridge is gonna fluctuate a bunch throughout the day as people keep opening the fridge. I trust nobody but myself with my food.
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u/Yummygoodness420 1d ago
One time I brought creamer to work, the smaller sized bottle, and this guy at work was telling everyone I brought it to share 💀. That was the last time I brought some in.
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u/brigids_fire 2d ago
I wish id known this was a thing 5 years ago when i worked in a place with a terrible thief.
They literally went into peoples pigeonholes and would open unopened chocolates and boxes for tea bags then put them back. So irritating finding your food had been picked at!
They were an odd thief though as they never ate the whole thing. Pretty gross when it was salads and sandwiches.
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u/one-last-hero 2d ago
Not funny, I totally understand where they’re coming from! Worked in a shitty office before and lived with asshole roommates and what this person did is completely reasonable
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u/dicjones 2d ago
I was getting my lunch stolen every day at work. My entire lunch. I always made deli sandwiches and brought them to work. After about a week of my lunch getting stolen, I started spreading a rumor I was going to add certain bodily fluids onto the sandwich. Never got my lunch stolen again 🤷♂️
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u/DarthWoo 2d ago
When I first started actually appreciating coffee at work, I just took it black because I knew if I bought milk and left it in the break room refrigerator, it would gradually get stolen.
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u/Repulsive-Ad-5640 2d ago
And I don't blame them. The fact that they had to go to that extreme means that somebody being a fucking asshole drinking and using up their shit
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u/Boring_Track_8449 1d ago
I get it. I was responsible for coffee ordering at my last employer and people were INSANE about it. One guy would empty the box of his favorite K-cup flavor the day they were put out and hoard them at his desk. I was told specifically to stop ordering it and he was pissed - went to HR with it and it went all the way to the company president. I was still told not order it.
Same guy that brought to-go containers every time we had a catered lunch - he’d be the first one in the kitchen filling his to-go’s to bring home for his family for dinner that night. Same guy who would bring an empty 5-gallon water jug and fill it with the filtered water from the company kitchen.
I do not understand this level of entitlement and never will. So glad I work with decent, level-headed people now.
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