Stealing someone else’s food from the office fridge is an act of brazen disregard of basic human decency and societal norms. It’s a crime against humanity that should be condemned and completely outlawed, if possible.
Unfortunately, it is very common. As in, extremely common. Apparently, 18% of office workers admit that they have taken and eaten someone else’s lunch from the fridge. That means that pretty much one in five office dwellers are shameless criminals that somehow manage to keep their jobs while acting completely obscene. No penalty is too harsh for such outrageous disrespect.
The author of this story agrees that a near-death experience is the right punishment for someone who habitually eats what’s not theirs. Scroll down to read the petty revenge story and judge for yourself whether the author went too far or not.
Stealing other people’s lunches from the office fridge is truly despicable behavior
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The person in this story brought out the big guns when hatching a plan to teach a food thief a lesson
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After an onslaught of questions, the author expanded on a few details
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A few more responses were added in the comments
The measures were a little out there but they did achieve the desired result
The situation did get a bit extreme. Those are some drastic measures that could result in serious, long-lasting health issues or even passing. It’s definitely no joke.
But then, the situation was already quite extreme before the uncooked lunch trap. As in, eating the food is one thing, but throwing away someone else’s reusable food container is surely sociopathic behavior, right?
Also, she had been doing it for years and everyone knew. There was no way the HR or the management could have helped (which is the preferred way for dealing with this, apparently) as they had been enabling this behavior for far too long. And as they say, desperate times call for desperate measures.
In the end, the measures did work. The co-worker has stopped stealing lunches. She’s also fearing for her life, but that is what happens when you take someone else’s food. You never know what they put in it, so if you’re taking it, you’re the one accepting the risk that comes with it.
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The easiest way to achieve peace is for people to stop habitually stealing other people’s lunches
The humane solution here is easy: stop taking other people’s lunches. If you’re hungry, bring something to the office yourself. If you forgot, grab something at a store or a café nearby. If you don’t have the time for that, order in. If you don’t have the money, skip lunch altogether. The hunger you experience will remind you to bring something the next day.
But, of course, it’s useless to bank on someone else’s respect and decency. Sometimes, adding laxatives or extremely hot sauce seems like the only option. But we don’t recommend that either. If it seems like there’s no way to avoid it, maybe it’s time to invest in a lunch box with a lock. Sad, but safe.
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Many agreed that something had to be done to stop the food thief
Wow, how can anyone put up with this behaviour? What a roulette not knowing if you were going to have food to eat that day because someone stole it? Food thieves are one of my pet peeves, I would have definitely done something like this.
If it's known who's the Food Goblin, I'd have confronted the woman and berated her in front of everybody, then demanded she'll crawl into the trash and bring me back my Tupperware. However, I don't live in America either, so it's not possible to fire me on the spot if I take action against their favourite pet employee.
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The outcome of this story is so unlikely! How did they make sure to have salmonella infected chicken in their chilli? Also partly cooking it (to a remotely edible stage) should already kill a good deal of the bacteria and most salmonella poisonings just earn you a few days on the loo with a bucket.
Agree. The story doesn't ring true. And if anyone had actually done this, they wouldn't announce it to the world that the woman had been poisoned in case that knowledge got back to the workplace and an investigation was started--an investigation that would easily lead to both criminal charges and a totally winnable lawsuit.
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"She thinks someone tried to end her." She's not wrong. She went to a hospital for a week, and OP is proud of her "petty" revenge. And it's all OK because it features the perfect villain. Frankly, I think this story is pure fantasy. There are some pretty massive holes: OP shows no signs that a week-long hospital stay is foreseeable, but a much more severe revenge than could have been predicted. Who cooks chili in the office for hours? How did she know it would be her turn to be stolen from? How did she know the food thief would knowingly eat raw chili? C-Suite knows about it, but she makes them dinner? Guess who paid for that hospital visit? Your rates just went up! These revenge fantasies stolen from reddit are spiritual poison; leave it be BoredPanda.
Mass downvote these stupid made up stories and the churned out AITA content. Let's see if we can "end them" on the Boredpanda feed.
Load More Replies... Wow, how can anyone put up with this behaviour? What a roulette not knowing if you were going to have food to eat that day because someone stole it? Food thieves are one of my pet peeves, I would have definitely done something like this.
If it's known who's the Food Goblin, I'd have confronted the woman and berated her in front of everybody, then demanded she'll crawl into the trash and bring me back my Tupperware. However, I don't live in America either, so it's not possible to fire me on the spot if I take action against their favourite pet employee.
Load More Replies... The outcome of this story is so unlikely! How did they make sure to have salmonella infected chicken in their chilli? Also partly cooking it (to a remotely edible stage) should already kill a good deal of the bacteria and most salmonella poisonings just earn you a few days on the loo with a bucket.
Agree. The story doesn't ring true. And if anyone had actually done this, they wouldn't announce it to the world that the woman had been poisoned in case that knowledge got back to the workplace and an investigation was started--an investigation that would easily lead to both criminal charges and a totally winnable lawsuit.
Load More Replies... "She thinks someone tried to end her." She's not wrong. She went to a hospital for a week, and OP is proud of her "petty" revenge. And it's all OK because it features the perfect villain. Frankly, I think this story is pure fantasy. There are some pretty massive holes: OP shows no signs that a week-long hospital stay is foreseeable, but a much more severe revenge than could have been predicted. Who cooks chili in the office for hours? How did she know it would be her turn to be stolen from? How did she know the food thief would knowingly eat raw chili? C-Suite knows about it, but she makes them dinner? Guess who paid for that hospital visit? Your rates just went up! These revenge fantasies stolen from reddit are spiritual poison; leave it be BoredPanda.
Mass downvote these stupid made up stories and the churned out AITA content. Let's see if we can "end them" on the Boredpanda feed.
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