Who's eating my lunch????

yvonne13_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

How often do you go to get your food? Do you put it in, then take it out at lunchtime and eat it? Or are you a serial dipper?

If you're a "once only" then use cheap cable ties to keep it shut until you want to open it (then cut it off)..... if you're a serial dipper then I'd keep it with an ice-pack block under the desk or get some small bag with a small padlock/combination lock to keep the box in.

I put my lunch in the fridge before 7:30am and I don't go back to the fridge until 10:30am to get my yogurt and fruit then again at 2:00pm (Late lunch due to me being hungry at that time) to get my lunch.

I don't have cable ties and I wouldn't want to use them to be honest as it seems a bit extreme. I will however put my food under the desk with an ice pack tomorrow and if nothing happens then this is the route I need to take.
Other than that all I can do is go to HR and let them know whats been going on and how it's making me feel. I don't know if there's anything they can do but I will be asking HR if I can send a group email (Emails are for company business only) asking for the person to leave the money they owe me as per the food they have stolen from me.

Like I said before no-one needs to steal food in work as we all get paid monthly. What I don't get is I have on the odd occasion forgotton my purse/money on my desk in full view and no-one touches it.

growler834

I don't see anything weird in them only taking the 'protein' part of the lunch - they just don't like salad!

amiaspden

Personally I'd just go with the cool-bag solution. I gave up using the fridge at work years ago, not because of theft but because there was never any space due to the inappropriate things other people put in there:
bags of apples (do not need refrigerating ever!)
twelve-packs of soft drinks
and on one occasion, a giant thermos flask!
My insulated lunch bag with one small ice pack keeps my food perfectly chilled until noon, having been prepared before 7am.

building_with_lego

This is an interesting article.
Could you put a photo (of yourself or someone else) onto your lunchbox? Maybe one on the fridge too.

PenguinOfDeath

building_with_lego wrote: »

This is an interesting article.
Could you put a photo (of yourself or someone else) onto your lunchbox? Maybe one on the fridge too.

Get one of those life size cardboard cut outs of a uniformed police officer (don't steal it, obviously) and stand it in the kitchen

Yorkie1

yvonne13 wrote: »

Other than that all I can do is go to HR and let them know whats been going on and how it's making me feel. I don't know if there's anything they can do but I will be asking HR if I can send a group email (Emails are for company business only) asking for the person to leave the money they owe me as per the food they have stolen from me.

I am not convinced this would be a good idea. An email from HR makes it far less personal and doesn't raise your head above the parapet as much.

hazyjo

We've had the same thing - someone nicked a yoghurt off me a short while back. I stuck a stroppy post-it on the remaining yoghurts saying something like 'appreciate you might be working late and hungry, but it might have been polite to add a note apologising and saying you'll buy me a replacement'.

It's just rude. But then we have lawyers (on £100k+) who stuff their faces full of birthday cake/s an admin person buys (earning the least amount of money) and never bother buying it themselves - OR, as a lawyer I work for did last month, buy cakes for 'a select few' other lawyers and nobody else (including me, her f-ing secretary) - and still stuff her bloody face full of everyone else's cakes.

Jeez... rude rude rude. I try to remind myself that as a post-room employee said, the only person it reflects bad on is HER (everyone here now knows the story).

Jx

moneysaymoneydo

Some chilli pepper smeared round the rim always used to do the trick in my office and you knew the culprit by end of day with swollen lips and carrying a litre bottle of water!

lostinrates

hazyjo wrote: »

We've had the same thing - someone nicked a yoghurt off me a short while back. I stuck a stroppy post-it on the remaining yoghurts saying something like 'appreciate you might be working late and hungry, but it might have been polite to add a note apologising and saying you'll buy me a replacement'.

It's just rude. But then we have lawyers (on £100k+) who stuff their faces full of birthday cake/s an admin person buys (earning the least amount of money) and never bother buying it themselves - OR, as a lawyer I work for did last month, buy cakes for 'a select few' other lawyers and nobody else (including me, her f-ing secretary) - and still stuff her bloody face full of everyone else's cakes.

Jeez... rude rude rude. I try to remind myself that as a post-room employee said, the only person it reflects bad on is HER (everyone here now knows the story).

Jx

That solicitor is horrid.


DH doesn't take cakes in for b'days either. He takes nice things in sometimes, but his lovely secretary gets some, definitely. She's hugely valued by him and on the very few occasions I have spoken to her she sounds fabulous, and from what he tells me she manages him BRILLIANTLY so i like her.

What I would say is while she works as long a working day as most people do , he also works before she gets there, after she is gone and at weekends....so deals with duty secretaries, early morning and evening ones too. He'd just never have time to make a cake for his birthday and his earnings don't necessarily mean we have more at the end of the day.....e.g. I have no job at all because of my health, so though his salary is considerable, our household income is half that of many of his peers, with bigger proportionate liabilities IYSWIM. ( our bupa excess this year for example is going to be scarily big:()

thorsoak

Reading these last two posts reminded me of a City firm of solicitors that I worked for in the early 90s.... one of the senior partners (a chap in his mid-late 50s, I seem to recall) considered it his "droight de seigneur" to wander in and out of the offices if he was "working late" in the evenings and look in drawers for biscuits/cakes/sweets!

The firm had a policy of ensuring that there were frozen meals in an accessible freezer plus microwave available for the use of anyone who worked late - so there was certainly no excuse for his behaviour. I wonder if he'd get away with it today?