Who's eating my lunch????

System

Walk around the office with one of those small UV lights mentioning that your missing food was marked with Smartwater and it will show up on the culprit's hands and mouth

trolleyrun

These could be fun:

http://www.thinkofthe.com/product.php?name=anti-theft-lunch-bags#

Goldiegirl

Any wrote: »

At my work people steal milk. Completely brazenly.
I now take just a daily amount of milk needed and my lunch and leave it in a cooling bag next to my desk
I'll find it on Ebay. It was fiver I think and it is brilliant!! Take food out of the fridge at 7am and it is still little cold when I take it out at 12.
And it is pretty!! I also put cold juice in for long car journeys and took it with few can of beers to a beach when we were holidaying in Spain..

There was a milk theft issue at my previous workplace.

My friend was getting fed up with her milk being pilfered from the fridge, so she put a label on her bottle 'breast milk'

No one ever nicked her milk again !

PenguinOfDeath

tyllwyd wrote: »

Also bear in mind that many people in your office might be on medication - birth control, heart medication, insulin for diabetes - if they unknowingly take laxatives that might potentially have a much more serious effect than an hour on the toilet. Would you want to take that risk?

These people should be aware what they are putting in their bodies in that case, hence they shouldn't steal food!

FatVonD

Fake blood from a joke shop piped into profiteroles?

tyllwyd

PenguinOfDeath wrote: »

These people should be aware what they are putting in their bodies in that case, hence they shouldn't steal food!

Ok, so if the bloke on the next desk to you picked up a bit of your lunch which you'd forgotten and left on your desk and popped it in his mouth, and ended up in hospital as a result you'd say that was a fair punishment? Bringing deliberately contaminated food into the office is just stupid.


And the police officer mentioned earlier who put screenwash in a bottle in a communal fridge - although he was acquitted in the end, if you look at the dates it spent a year going through the courts which can't exactly have been an enjoyable experience.

rosie_78

Some years ago now, we had a similar issue at our workplace.


Big open plan office, around 60 people working there. Parts of peoples lunches would disappear. Not the whole thing, but the "main" parts.


It turned out the person doing this was bulimic...


So please do show caution. I would personally speak to HR and ask if they can look into it. They may be aware of Welfare issues in the office.

ifonlyitwaseasier

tyllwyd wrote: »

Ok, so if the bloke on the next desk to you picked up a bit of your lunch which you'd forgotten and left on your desk and popped it in his mouth, and ended up in hospital as a result you'd say that was a fair punishment? Bringing deliberately contaminated food into the office is just stupid.


And the police officer mentioned earlier who put screenwash in a bottle in a communal fridge - although he was acquitted in the end, if you look at the dates it spent a year going through the courts which can't exactly have been an enjoyable experience.

if "you" take food from a colleagues desk without asking its theft. therefore if the colleague happens to like prune and chilli brownies and it causes "you" to have an upset stomach, its all "your" own fault!

Top_Girl

tyllwyd wrote: »

Ok, so if the bloke on the next desk to you picked up a bit of your lunch which you'd forgotten and left on your desk and popped it in his mouth, and ended up in hospital as a result you'd say that was a fair punishment? Bringing deliberately contaminated food into the office is just stupid.

1. This isn't what is happening. The OP's food is being repeatedly stolen.

2. Who would do that? I would never take food that wasn't mine unless it was offered to me.

Bogof_Babe

It seems to be the meat item that is repeatedly stolen. Are any of your colleagues omnivores married to a vegetarian who makes their lunch pack up? You get my drift with this.... .