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cartmen34 · 06-25-2004, 06:01 AM

Here's the deal. I've got a thing for OJ in the morning. It helps wake me up and I just plain like the stuff. My office has a community fridge where people keep their sack lunches, cold snacks, etc. I buy a 6-pack of single serve orange juice about once a week or so and keep it in the fridge at work so I can have one in the morning with my breakfast. (I usually eat and work at my desk.)

As of lately, someone in the office has taken to assuming that my OJs are for everybody. The last 2 packs I've bought have wound up with 1 or 2 OJs gone before I get a chance to drink them. This pisses me off. You didn't buy them, what makes you think they are yours to drink?!?

Now, instead of flying off the handle like I'd love to do at the guily party, I know that won't get me anywhere. Plus, I have no idea who it is. A little investigation would help, but that's not possible while everybody is here.

I also want to make sure I handle the situation correctly. I KNOW that if I send out an email saying please stop drinking my OJ, then everybody will turn on me and start saying "Don't touch his OJ! He'll get mad at you!" I'll turn into the standard kitchen office joke. (Yes, I know, how childish of my co-workers, but I promise it'll happen.) Also, what if its one of the execs taking my OJ? Offending them isn't good, as I value my job more than offending an exec just to keep someone from stealing my OJ.

So how do I handle this? Should I send an email? If so, how should I word it? Talk to my manager? Or just go desk to desk looking for an empty OJ bottle and confront the person right then and there?

Thanks for your help fellow TFP'ers!

06-25-2004, 06:01 AM	#1 (permalink)
cartmen34 Psycho Location: the hills of aquafina.	How to stop food stealing at work? Here's the deal. I've got a thing for OJ in the morning. It helps wake me up and I just plain like the stuff. My office has a community fridge where people keep their sack lunches, cold snacks, etc. I buy a 6-pack of single serve orange juice about once a week or so and keep it in the fridge at work so I can have one in the morning with my breakfast. (I usually eat and work at my desk.) As of lately, someone in the office has taken to assuming that my OJs are for everybody. The last 2 packs I've bought have wound up with 1 or 2 OJs gone before I get a chance to drink them. This pisses me off. You didn't buy them, what makes you think they are yours to drink?!? Now, instead of flying off the handle like I'd love to do at the guily party, I know that won't get me anywhere. Plus, I have no idea who it is. A little investigation would help, but that's not possible while everybody is here. I also want to make sure I handle the situation correctly. I KNOW that if I send out an email saying please stop drinking my OJ, then everybody will turn on me and start saying "Don't touch his OJ! He'll get mad at you!" I'll turn into the standard kitchen office joke. (Yes, I know, how childish of my co-workers, but I promise it'll happen.) Also, what if its one of the execs taking my OJ? Offending them isn't good, as I value my job more than offending an exec just to keep someone from stealing my OJ. So how do I handle this? Should I send an email? If so, how should I word it? Talk to my manager? Or just go desk to desk looking for an empty OJ bottle and confront the person right then and there? Thanks for your help fellow TFP'ers! __________________ "The problem with quick and dirty, as some people have said, is that the dirty remains long after the quick has been forgotten" - Steve McConnell Last edited by cartmen34; 06-25-2004 at 06:04 AM..