thief

Sep. 1st, 2010 07:46 am
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Someone's stealing the sweet stuff I bring in to work for personal consumption.

Chocolate blocks are messily broken off (I break them off by neat squares); packet sweets are suspiciously lower the next day; yesterday, I chopped up a chocolate bar into thirds and ate one: this morning there's only one third left.

My suspicions are on Smarmy Bastard. Mostly because he's one of the few people who wouldn't have a care for my personal space (I don't mind, right?) and who would repeatedly do something like this and think it's perfectly okay.

My alternative is Mister Knows Best (who always talks like I'm too stupid to fix the problem myself), who would probably think it a lark to steal from me.

I have thought about replacing the sweets with my cat's poo. That would be rather fun, I think. At least until they smeared it all over my desk. My boss is pretty indignant that someone's been stealing from me, but working out who's the thief will be the trick.

Now I'm wondering if they're going to nick off with the fundraising chocolates sitting on my desk.

Date: 2010-08-31 10:39 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-08-31 10:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] jo-siris.livejournal.com
That really sucks.

Do you not have joke shops there? they usually have sweets the burn the shit out of your mouth. try putting a few of those in. I thi9nk that might expose the culprit

Date: 2010-09-01 12:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] b36.livejournal.com
That truly sucks. Being a stock-piler of essential office supplies myself, I've suffered from theft as well - a whole 12-pack of Pepsi I once bought vanished, and my blocks of chocolate in the fridge have also been popular targets.

Several years ago in the office I was working at then, charity organisations stopped leaving fund-raising goodies because they were sick and tired of people taking and not paying

Cat's poo is a good idea - OH HAI! SUCKZ TO U, FEEVING BASTARD! - but as you said, you'd have to live with the consequences. How about injecting your stuff with a powerful laxative instead? Of course, have safe ones for yourself set aside :)

On a much more serious note, I hope you soon find out who's responsible. At the very least, have any signs been put up warning against theft? It may not seem like much, but sometimes it can have a powerful effect - some shits get guilty and stop stealing, while honest folks who are genuinely concerned become more vigilant.

Date: 2010-09-01 12:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imaginary-iby.livejournal.com
Argh, that is so frustrating. We have quite a few blokes at work who just stroll into the tea-room, in front of people, and start drinking/gobbling whatever they want. Someone once put something questionable into their soft drink for the culprit to stumble upon.

Might I suggest mthruf?

Date: 2010-09-01 01:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skydiver119.livejournal.com
that's when you buy something like chocolate covered ants or the such, get them out of the wrapper and leave them around...then when they get stolen, let folks know that they just ate bugs :)

that or lock up your sweets, cause you know, it could just as easily be the cleaning crew.

Date: 2010-09-01 07:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seldearslj.livejournal.com
Ooh, I like that idea a lot!

Date: 2010-09-01 08:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seldearslj.livejournal.com
Yeah, there are joke shops around. It just seems like it's more trouble than it's worth.

Although I don't know, I'm liking the purple powder idea above...

Date: 2010-09-01 08:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seldearslj.livejournal.com
I'm going to mention it to one of the people at work who stays late. She might know or notice who's been snooping around my desk: thing is, if she's there and she's seen him stealing, she hasn't said anything, which makes her an accomplice.

My personal feeling is that it's more likely to be a guy than a girl, though.

Date: 2010-09-01 08:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seldearslj.livejournal.com
Seriously? Ugh. Things aren't that bad here. It's just annoying to buy stuff and have it keep disappearing.

What happened to the culprit with the thing-in-the-soft-drink?

That site looks like an excellent timewaster...

Date: 2010-09-01 08:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seldearslj.livejournal.com
I've taken to taking sweets home. Thing is, right now I have a box of fundraising chocolates on my desk, and I can just see someone nicking off with one or two of them...

Date: 2010-09-01 08:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imaginary-iby.livejournal.com
Oh, nothing - nothing ever really happens, where I work. Luckily, two of the main culprits moved to different stores.

Oh, it is an excellent time-waster. It's part of the cheezburger world, which is generally bad for uni students and people who have Go-Live dates on the horizon. But it's very funny.

Date: 2010-09-01 08:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seldearslj.livejournal.com
If it's part of the Chezeburgur network, then it won't be available from the work servers...

Date: 2010-09-01 08:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imaginary-iby.livejournal.com
You're still at work? :( Deepest sympathies.

Date: 2010-09-01 08:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seldearslj.livejournal.com
Gosh, no. Got out as soon as I could to come home. *sighs*

But work has chezeburger blocked. It stands to reason that anything along those lines is blocked, too.

Date: 2010-09-01 11:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] audrich.livejournal.com
Laxatives are cheap and easy to come by...

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