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People Share Their Sad Office Food Thief Stories That Changed Them Forever
You did your grocery shopping, meal-prepped and managed to plan out your work lunches for the week. You're winning at life. Then Wednesday rolls around, you grab your bento box, packed with last night's pasta, fresh fruit and a whole lot of goodness. Into the office fridge it goes, as wait longingly to dig in... Lunchtime finally arrives. Your box is gone.
Far too many people can relate. That's because the world today is filled with food thieves. They think nothing of taking what's not theirs, and devouring it while your hungry stomach grumbles. A few even leave apology notes behind, or some spare change for you to buy a snack at the vending machine. The sheer audacity!
Bored Panda has put together an infuriating list of posts that prove food thievery should be considered a crime against humanity. Some might have you wanting to lock away tomorrow's lunch in a safe.
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Earthquake903 2 months ago
I'll never understand how people can eat food they did not bring themselves.
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Howl's sleeping castle 2 months ago
One colleague did this during a get-together. Ate all the chicken pieces from fried rice and noodles. And he shamelessly laughed about it. He was never invited again
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Daisydaisy 2 months ago
I'm horrified by these stories, people stealing each other's stuff. Surely that's illegal? I'd be bringing a non-fridge lunch and keeping it at my desk under lock and key. Can these thieves not be named and shamed?
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SandraG_lak 2 months ago
Students at the uni I work at do this. If it isn't locked up, they take it: dish soap, cream & milk, coffee pods, paper towels, etc.
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Cee Cee 2 months ago
Security guy at work has his lunch nicked. Oh my goodness he went off like a rocket and complained about the theft for months. Fast forward about 3 years and the office was moving to another site. The lockers were moved and lo and behold there was L's 'stolen' lunch. How everyone laughed.
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Laura Gillette 2 months ago (edited)
I once lived with roommates, one of whom would eat my food from the fridge/pantry, even though it was labeled, lie about it when directly confronted, and then go buy more of the same brand of stuff I had bought, but in different flavors that she liked, but I didn't like, and put them in her spot in the fridge. Like, you were RIGHT THERE buying those yogurts, why not also replace the ones you stole from me? I would have stolen them back but she got coffee and cherry flavored yogurts and I hate those flavors. She took other stuff too, but that was the most blatant example of A-holery.
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Kristiina Männiste 2 months ago
I once brought a homemade strawberry cheesecake into the office for my birthay. It was delicate, so I just removed the edges of the cake tin and left the bottom under the cake. And my genius coworkers threw out the bottom!! Who throws out the bottom of a cake tin?!! Of course the entire tin got unusable without the bottom and my sister nearly k****d me (it was her favorite tin).
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Damned_Cat 2 months ago
That happened in my old office all of the time. People would even steal the ground coffee. We ended up cancelling the coffee club, buying a Keurig, and telling people to bring their own beverage supplies to keep at their desks.
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Phantom Phoenix 2 months ago
If you weren't there, who'd they ask? The answer is "no", until and unless, you get a "yes" from the rightful owner ffs
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PeachPossum 2 months ago
Well, I did understand the story, but it sounds like you kept those 2 slices in the fridge for 6 years. 🤮
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Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 2 months ago
In case anyone is unaware, "ham" in this case does not mean the food ham, but is an acronym for "hard as a m**********r."
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SlightlyTarnished 2 months ago
Well, I'm not surprised, nor should OP. Work fridges quickly get disgusting, once a week cleaning is pretty normal, if you leave your c**p in the fridge, regardless if food or containers, it gets pitched. Adults not knowing how to adult.
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Stephanie L Thesing 2 months ago
When I first started working days at a family practice clinic, frozen meals and tv dinners would often go missing from the communal break room fridge. Turned out that the evening staff that consisted of several resident physicians presumed that these were meals provided by the clinic as a courtesy gesture for the residents.
troufaki13 2 months ago
At my old job, a coworker ate another coworker's sandwich. When she went to the fridge and found out that her meal was not there she immediately started asking everyone if they took it. One person said "yeah it was me, next time put some tomato in it" 👀
Roberta Surprenant 2 months ago
This is why a thermal bag and frozen blocks took care of lunch in my desk drawer for twenty five years.
Stephanie L Thesing 2 months ago
When I first started working days at a family practice clinic, frozen meals and tv dinners would often go missing from the communal break room fridge. Turned out that the evening staff that consisted of several resident physicians presumed that these were meals provided by the clinic as a courtesy gesture for the residents.
troufaki13 2 months ago
At my old job, a coworker ate another coworker's sandwich. When she went to the fridge and found out that her meal was not there she immediately started asking everyone if they took it. One person said "yeah it was me, next time put some tomato in it" 👀
Roberta Surprenant 2 months ago
This is why a thermal bag and frozen blocks took care of lunch in my desk drawer for twenty five years.
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