I remember a particular incident where I had brough a box containing two frozen pocket sandwiches to work. I ate one for lunch, and I wrote my name on the box in several locations and placed the uneaten one back into the freezer in the box. The next day I opened the freezer to retreive the remaining sandwich, and the box was there...with my name on it...and it was empty. The food thief had the nerve to steal the sandwich, but leave his/her trash behind. Most of my co-workers were in the lunch room when I made the discovery, so in a mildly joking, but serious manner I made a public proclomation: "I'd like to point out that not only is the person who stole my lunch today a greedy fool, but he/she is a lazy one at that! Next time, throw the evidence away! Or, just ask, for I am apt to share."
The next day I brought in my lunch, took a bite out of everything I had brought, and wrote a note on my lunch bag saying "Feel free to take, but be warned: I have swine flu." No one messed with my lunch again.
Kevin - 14 years ago
As someone who loves food and is ready to eat his own arm by lunchtime, I think stealing someone else's lunch is the ultimate dick move. Not to mention, it's pretty pathetic and lazy. Most workplaces are within a short walk or drive from some place you can buy food for a few bucks. The kind of people who steal lunches are the same kind of people who steal from the collection plate at church or from the donation jar that goes to little kids with cancer. They're the kind of empty, soulless husks of human beings that are incapable of feeling even a crumb of a shred of a morsel of emotion for another human being. I have more respect for people who knock off liquor stores. At least they probably need the money or they wouldn't do something so desperate and risky.
I remember a particular incident where I had brough a box containing two frozen pocket sandwiches to work. I ate one for lunch, and I wrote my name on the box in several locations and placed the uneaten one back into the freezer in the box. The next day I opened the freezer to retreive the remaining sandwich, and the box was there...with my name on it...and it was empty. The food thief had the nerve to steal the sandwich, but leave his/her trash behind. Most of my co-workers were in the lunch room when I made the discovery, so in a mildly joking, but serious manner I made a public proclomation: "I'd like to point out that not only is the person who stole my lunch today a greedy fool, but he/she is a lazy one at that! Next time, throw the evidence away! Or, just ask, for I am apt to share."
The next day I brought in my lunch, took a bite out of everything I had brought, and wrote a note on my lunch bag saying "Feel free to take, but be warned: I have swine flu." No one messed with my lunch again.
As someone who loves food and is ready to eat his own arm by lunchtime, I think stealing someone else's lunch is the ultimate dick move. Not to mention, it's pretty pathetic and lazy. Most workplaces are within a short walk or drive from some place you can buy food for a few bucks. The kind of people who steal lunches are the same kind of people who steal from the collection plate at church or from the donation jar that goes to little kids with cancer. They're the kind of empty, soulless husks of human beings that are incapable of feeling even a crumb of a shred of a morsel of emotion for another human being. I have more respect for people who knock off liquor stores. At least they probably need the money or they wouldn't do something so desperate and risky.