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

[Anonymous]

Please explain how and why this happens.

[Anonymous]

no

[Anonymous]

Let me think a minute. No wait, no need. HELL NO

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Every company I ever worked for had a "food thief" who would simply shop the items in the fridge and take whatever they wanted.

I can't understand this. At. All.

[Anonymous]

No, never, and no one has eaten my food either. Although last week my boss ate my yogurt because she thought it was hers, but that doesn't count.

[Anonymous]

No never. I think it happened at our company once and it was something the other person forgot they already ate last week. (A frozen meal).

[Anonymous]

Yep. My husband packs my lunch. My coworker's wife packs HIS lunch.

We use the same Tupperware. Comedy ensued. It took us about a week and a half.

[Anonymous]

No, but we have a food thief at work at the moment.

I had my lunch stolen once years ago. It was leftovers in a Tupperware container too, no way they mistook it for their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every company I ever worked for had a "food thief" who would simply shop the items in the fridge and take whatever they wanted.

I can't understand this. At. All.

OP here. This! Exactly this! We even had someone taking bites or eating half of other people's meals at one point then placing food back.

[Anonymous]

No. That's really low.

[Anonymous]

Yuk.

[Anonymous]

So freaking gross. I don't know if that person had dirty hands when they made it or if they have a dirty kitchen or ate half of it earlier. etc. Who the fuck does this.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Oh yes. I had someone eat directly from a salad that I was eating WITH MY FORK when I walked away for a minute. I came back and there she was, chowing down saying how good my salad was. I couldn't even speak. And that is definitely a rarity with me!