ChatterBank0 min ago
Stop taking my food!
A few weeks ago I bought a tub of flora & put it in the fridge at work. I only used it once & then went on a month long detox. Last week, having completed the detox, I went to the staff kitchen to make my lunch, got my flora & it was half gone. I was a bit annoyed about this and moved it into another compartment but it keeps being used and moved by someone else. There is nothing communal in our fridge so nobody can be thinking its for everyone's use, I think that this is really cheeky. I understand that its only a tub of butter and was inexpensive but its not the point!! I was thinking of sending an email round or putting a label on it but how anal is that? I am probably overreacting, but would this annoy anyone else?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Wow, I posted that just before I left work & in the time my tube journey took I had 7 replies! My work pay for tea, coffee, milk etc, I just make my lunch in work so its not a case of all chipping in together to buy stuff. Might go for Andy's suggestion - i'm just a bit of a coward...my work is quite small (about 15 of us) and I don't want to come across a miser (sp?). I need to toughen up!! Thanks for all your suggestions.
Carol
When does it get used, lunchtime? Can you not hang around the fridge area for a while to see who it is? I work in a department of 15 people and would just casually walk around and try to see what people are having at lunchtime and if they're making their own lunch, which I think is quite rare these days, only one person in our dept. makes her own and thats occasional!! Can it be that the person taking it knows what time you go to lunch etc and just go in after you?
Why dont you just send an email round to everyone and say that you dont wanna come across all anal over a tub of butter but would the person or persons using it please replace it or have the decency to let you know when it has run out (make up some story that you went to use it and there was none left).... after all the person who is using it is not going to argue that there was some left because he or she would be admitting it!
If noone owns up just stop bringing it in, obviously the other person will have to start bringing some in and you can start using that - thats what I would do...
also, a work colleague brings in her knob of butter wrapped in cling film with her lunch in one of those small cool bags and leaves it in her draw at work... no reason you couldnt bring in some?