Office Food Thieves
Apparently we have a thief among us. Last night in the wee hours as I went to put away my leftover cold pizza and grab another diet Coke, I was shocked to see notes all over the tupperware and takeout containers in the fridge. They said things like "If you eat this I hope you get sick!" and "I am broke and have to bring this food to be able to eat. Please don't take it." What the hell is going on?
So today, I asked my secretary and she said that some unidentified culprit has been eating food out of the refrigerator on our floor, often eating only part and putting the rest back. I am seriously confused about this. I have often been stuck here late at night, hungry, when nobody in the world would know if I went into the fridge and ate someone's leftovers. And yet the thought has never even crossed my mind because it's just so disgusting. Who in the world would do such a thing?
If not for the tales of half-eaten leftovers, I would suspect that what is actually occurring is people are throwing away leftovers to make room for their own in our often-cramped refrigerator. But apparently multiple people have come back the next day to find half a fruit salad or half a bowl of soup is suddenly missing. That just ain't right.
My friend Samantha's office in Boston had a food thief, but that turned out to be a girl in the office who was anorexic but who would suddenly when working late at night have an irresistible impulse to eat everything in sight. So, apparently, she would go on a smorgasbord through the office kitchen. Now I'm wondering if we have someone similarly screwed up working here. The other options are that we have someone crazy, or someone so incredibly broke that they need to steal leftovers in the middle of the night to keep from going hungry. I don't like to consider either of those as viable options.
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We had a food thief in my office or, perhaps more accurately, I should say that we had a food thief that had a key to my office. (The only offices in this building are mine and my staff's). By nature of my volunteer management responsibilities I am often the last one here, usually leaving between 9 and 10pm. The food thief would strike after I left and before my admin got in at 8am. The thief typically went for sweets, desserts and the like, although he/she did like fruit, pizza and an occasional yogurt. We never did determine who it was although we only had two possible groups of suspects, the campus police officers and the overnight janitorial staff, both of which had keys to the building and our offices. Whoever it was felt very secure, often leaving crumbs on our conference room table.
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