Co-workers who are pigs when it comes to taking your food.

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I like to buy snacks and drinks and share it with people. Most people take one here and there but nothing that would be bothersome. But there always one guy that is a complete pig when it comes to free food and pretty much takes all the snacks you put out and leaving none for others (including yourself) completely taking advantage of the situation. Its like their parents never taught then manners or something.

Now, I like leaving some snacks and candy out in the open for people to munch on during the work day but with this pig around you can't leaven anything out in the open without having it gone instantly.

Any solutions to this or should I just start hiding my stuff in my drawers.
 
Ha, for a second I hesitated and was like "hey, is this me?" :lol

I have a co-worker who always puts free food out on the break room table and I grab some on my way back to my desk.
 
I find that it is usually a group of people (IE last workplace I was at, the finance people would all basically leave their area of the office and make their way to the kitchen if there was going to be food, and they KNEW) and not a single person.
 
I wondered if I should use the shared fridge at my old work, so I put a bottle of water in the fridge, licked all over the cap and put my name on it. It was gone within 2 hours.
 
If you want to continue sharing, not much you can do but keep the available supply low and replenish it only a little a few times a day. Or of course you can make a comment to the guy next time he does it but I'm guessing you want to avoid that moment. If you happen to work in something like a cubicle, keep the food in your desk area so they have to physically enter your space to take it.
 
rhfb said:
I find that it is usually a group of people (IE last workplace I was at, the finance people would all basically leave their area of the office and make their way to the kitchen if there was going to be food, and they KNEW) and not a single person.
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The crazy thing is that I'm not even talking about leaving it in the break room. I'm talking about leaving it on top of my desk. So I know who takes it. (I got a really big desk in the shape of an L so he could take the food while still be 10+ feet away from me.)
 
I agree, no manners whatsoever.


LakeEarth said:
I wondered if I should use the shared fridge at my old work, so I put a bottle of water in the fridge, licked all over the cap and put my name on it. It was gone within 2 hours.
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I did that but pee'd a little in it (it was apple juice) and wiped my cock around the lid. Went after 2 days.
 
Maybe he thinks that he's being polite by eating all the snacks you leave out. If you left all those snacks out there and no one ate them, how would you feel? He's trying to help you out.
 
We had a community candy bin at work where co-workers would donate their spare change in a jar and we'd use the money to buy the candy for everyone. It got to the point where people who didn't donate were taking all the candy and complaining when it was gone. But, those that did donate never got the the bin quick enough to have any candy at all. It turned into a big bitchfest, so we stopped it completely. Unfortunately there is always going to be someone to ruin it for everybody else. I'd say you should either stop leaving the food out, or put it out with the understanding that it will be gone quickly.
 
Stormwatch said:
We had a community candy bin at work where co-workers would donate their spare change in a jar and we'd use the money to buy the candy for everyone. It got to the point where people who didn't donate were taking all the candy and complaining when it was gone. But, those that did donate never got the the bin quick enough to have any candy at all. It turned into a big bitchfest, so we stopped it completely. Unfortunately there is always going to be someone to ruin it for everybody else. I'd say you should either stop leaving the food out, or put it out with the understanding that it will be gone quickly.
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you didn't happen to work with a lot of women, did you?
 
The owner of the previous company I worked for had a fridge he stocked with soda/pop and cabinets filled with snack food such as pretzels and chips. It was free to any employee as a token of his appreciation. Soon he stopped because a few assholes would literally take an entire six pack back to their desks and an entire bag of food. All it took was one or two greedy and inconsiderate people to fuck things up for everyone else.
 
If you dont want people to take your food dont leave it out. Some people just dont give a fuck and will take whatever they can.
 
Leave a polite note that says something like "Please feel free to take some, but leave enough for others."
 
Cedeo said:
I agree, no manners whatsoever.




I did that but pee'd a little in it (it was apple juice) and wiped my cock around the lid. Went after 2 days.
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dude what i did is go around shitting in peoples mouths and barfing everywhere, people keep eating my barf and poop
 
I once temped at an office where the most popular guy was the IT manager who had a big file drawer of snacks for the taking. Pretzels, candy, Twinkies, pudding paks, just a wide range of goodies. Nobody took advantage; you felt like a nosh, you stopped by.

I had fond memories of this when I later found a permanent position elsewhere. I'm going to be the candy guy, I said to myself. So I put out a basket and fill it with Smarties, caramels, assorted Brachs, chocolates, Starburst, etc., a constant varied selection of sweets. What a damn albatross it turned out to be! People constantly complained to my face about the selection (and mind you, these were millionaire commercial real estate brokers; my fellow same-level employees were grateful). I paid for this out of my own pocket, for several years. And it's not like you can really quit doing it, because then you become the mean guy who stopped giving out candy.

Recently, my wife started doing this at her work, despite my warnings, and the same things are happening to her.
 
The girl I work with and I leave a community candy jar at our desk up front and people are almost always grateful. No problems.
 
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you didn't happen to work with a lot of women, did you?
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Actually, the women were the ones who always donated. It was the fat "manly" men who always took too much food. You know, the type that sit around talking about guns, knives, hunting, and fishing.

The women got fed up with donating money so the guys could eat all the candy, so they stopped donating and nobody had candy. The guys never took it upon themselves to buy candy for the bin, but complain to this day that we don't have candy anymore.

I will bring in a special "treat" every now and then for the holidays with the expectation that it will last a day at the most. But I don't think we will have a full blown candy basket ever again.
 
You think that's bad? We have a bunch of cupboards in the break area where I had tucked away some snacks to have with my lunches. There was a whole box of Cheez-its and one of those snack sized chip variety bags (w/ Doritos, Ruffles, etc.). Well maybe a little more than a week later, the Cheez-its were gone and the 24 bags of chips were down to like 4 or 5. It finally came out that the new guy had basically been raiding it thinking it was community food. It was in a fucking CLOSED cabinet and he just helped himself.

...dick still owes me a new box of Cheez-its. :lol
 
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