Have you ever eaten a coworker's food without asking their permission?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I caught a food thief holding my sandwich. He clearly didn't know it was mine, so I started to fake-almost cry. He asked what was wrong. I said "I'm working the late shift tonight and someone stole my dinner from the fridge and I can't go back out to get anything!" He shook his head and said "that's terrible" while putting his newspaper over the sandwich. I was like 22 and he was a powerful person (locally very famous at the time), so that's as much as I felt like I could call him out, but he was always extra nice to from from that point forward.

Omg!

[Anonymous]

No, and never been tempted, because other people's food usually looks grody to me.

[Anonymous]

Last week I may have ate someone else's frozen meal. I couldn't remember if it was mine and it had been in the freezer a long ass time.

Not sure if that counts, but I felt guilty.

[Anonymous]

No, but I was a victim when I worked at a local high school. I'd bring a week's worth of frozen dinners and every other week, I was 1-2 short. So I stopped. Then another co-worker noticed his yogurts were disappearing. He set up a camera and caught a building service worker chowing down from our fridge.

[Anonymous]

No, though we had one in my office. People were complaining about it, but it never affected me since I brought my lunch in one of those tupperware containers that has the ice pack insert. I kept it at my desk all day.

Now what I will cop to is being the occasional group food glutton. Someone brings in a bunch of cookies or something, and I'll have one or two. Then I'll go to the break room for water a few hours later, and they're still there, and I take another. The rest of it is kind of a hazy blur, but suffice it to say, I usually wind up eating way more cookies, cupcakes, or whatever than I want or need, but I have precious little self control. Thank God I work out plenty or I would be a blimp.

So yeah, I suppose this could be a guilt thing, though I do space my trips out far enough that everyone else has more than enough chances to get something. I just wind up eating way more than my share.

[Anonymous]

No way, but i have seen it so many times.
College suite mates who would eat other people's leftover pizza in the middle of the night.
Missing lunches and yogurts from the work fridge. One egregious example of somebody's sausage and biscuits stolen outright. Nibbling off the cheese etc.
Btw, I hate it when somebody nibbles the edges of a cake, doughnut or muffin like a mouse. Nasty. Just take a piece. Get it over with. Who wants your nibbled, picked at remains?

[Anonymous]

I put a yogurt with my initials on it in the office frig once, and some guy with the same initials ate it, thinking it must be his. D'oh!

[Anonymous]

One of our roommates secretly ate the food from the emergency kit. Glad we found out before an emergency.

[Anonymous]

I've never done it and have no desire to. I work for a large federal agency and all the fridges have stickers telling people to notify security if food has been stolen as it's theft.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, but I was a victim when I worked at a local high school. I'd bring a week's worth of frozen dinners and every other week, I was 1-2 short. So I stopped. Then another co-worker noticed his yogurts were disappearing. He set up a camera and caught a building service worker chowing down from our fridge.

Wow, that never occurred to me, I was sure it was another teacher at my school, I lost some meals like you, and yogurt like your colleague. We did catch students in the fridge after hours one year, had to keep the office locked, but maintenance could still get in....

[Anonymous]

There was a weekend secretary at a place I used to work at in DC. She was obese. On the weekends, she would claim to "clean out the fridge" but would actually pull up a chair and sit and eat other people's food with the fridge door open. I caught her eating straight from the containers on more than one occasion and pretended like didn't see it.

At first I was disgusted and later actually felt sorry for her. I can't imagine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, and never been tempted, because other people's food usually looks grody to me.

Heh Heh. "Grody." That takes me back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, but I have heard reports that doctors do it quite often. They'll open a fridge and start eating whatever they want.

I work with a large group of doctors and them stealing food has never happened. They're actually much more likely to put food in the fridge and forget it is there until it goes bad or someone else throws it away...this happens ALL the time. And no, I don't eat their food.