Has your Thanksgiving leftovers disappeared from the workplace fridge? If so, you may not be the only one.
In a recent Monster poll, workers were asked, “Have you ever ‘borrowed’ someone else’s food from the shared refrigerator at work?” While a majority (82 percent) is innocent, others are frank about their thievery.
Twelve percent admitted to sometimes taking food, but only things like salad dressing and condiments.
Another 2 percent frequently steal from the fridge but try to take meals they’re sure no one will miss. (Then why do they bring them?)
Finally, 4 percent cop to pilfering the fridge all the time, holding the belief that the shared refrigerator is their own private buffet.
A word to the wise: You may want to avoid looting food altogether. Just last year, a man was terminated—and had to fight for unemployment benefits—after taking two leftover hot dogs from the office fridge. They were leftovers from the company picnic.
I would bring lunch everyday and sometimes not eat it until the next day. On several occasions, someone took part of it (yes and left the rest). We found out later it was the night shift climbing through the ceiling into the offices and our breakroom. Compliment on my cooking, I suppose?
Someone stole the inside of my Subway sandwich and put the rest – rewapped – back. They’d hit a lot of others’ food too, too. So I brought in Ex-Lax loaded brownies and left them in the fridge in a Tupperware container wiht my name on it. Seems it was the guy working solo at the radio station in the building. The bathrooms were across the building from the studios. Easy to figure out who it was…