A more pertinent concern is having to work with the person whose behavior precipitated this reaction.
One person locking their milk makes them a weirdo. Three means someone else is.
Might be time to find another job
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Comments
wizzor@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Plot twist: one guy brought in 3 locked milks.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or: one guy keeps brining in milk, and another guy keeps locking that guy’s milk.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Whenever his milk starts going off at home, he locks it up and brings it to the office to see how long people will respect the locks before throwing away rotten milk.
0ops@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I think that’s the point if you read between the lines. I don’t think this shit post is arguing that those who lock their milk aren’t the victims here.
First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
“This is the lockpicking lawyer and what I have for you today is”
balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
The really offensive part is having >2 liters of milk, per person, in a work fridge. What the fuck do you need so much for? I bet that fridge smells like a mix of spoiled milk and utter distrust for other human beings.
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
udder distrust. it was right there
Codpiece@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Just because it’s there, doesn’t mean you have to milk it for all it’s worth.
balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Sorry, I’ve been a vegan for long enough that I don’t remember the names for all the animal bits, even in my native tongue let alone english :)
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It is British milk. Even as a Brit myself it astonishes me how much tea some people drink in a day. That shit must literally ooze from the pores of some people.
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
Huh. Here in NZ tea, (instant) coffee, milk (and usually Milo as well) are virtually always provided by an employer (only by social convention, as far as I can tell, not a legal requirement). I kinda assumed Britain would be the same since we must have got the custom from somewhere.
lobut@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I used to drink ten to eleven cups of tea in the UK per day. I quit caffeine for a while because of the headaches. I somehow never put it together that this drug I keep putting into my system would affect my brain …
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
so I’ve had tea in Ireland and the UK, and my observation is that most people just use an ounce of milk for a cuppa, right?
how much tea is this type of freak, that needs this much milk at work, drinking?
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
This picture makes my tummy hurt just looking at it. I have a bit of lactose intolerance, but even with lactose free milk…I couldn’t imagine just pounding down a tall glass of milk.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Try A2 milk. It’s from cows that produce milk without a specific hormone that tends to bother lactose intolerant people.
Lactose free still bothers me to some degree, but A2 is much better. The biggest issue ot has is the sky high price.
Jerb322@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Now I want a tall glass of milk and there is none to have:(
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe they would have to do that if you’d stop stealing the milk, Brenda
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
LOL, so I’m pretty sure her name really is Brenda. Years ago, we did a Pi(e) day thing. And one of the ladies, who complained to management about an optional employee lead event (myself and some other people just threw it together) where we offered food to people who didn’t participate, went to the fridge and was overheard saying how her husband and kid would like the pie and just stole a whole goddamn pie as she left.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
New interview question: “please show me the inside of the common refrigerator.”
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Empty?
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stop stealing their stuff, scumbag.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Exactly. This is a reaction to people being antisocial to begin with.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
No
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Someone emptied my lunchbox and left it on the counter, i’ve had a padlock on it ever since.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
What’s the point though if it’s empty?
bier@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
My job has the opposite problem. We have four refrigerators full of food that no one wants to eat. People bring in homemade meals in glass containers that end up rotting and growing mold. Every so often someone gets the courage to clean all the refrigerators out, but it doesn’t take long before they turn back into giant trash cans again.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Where is your workplace and where are the security camera blindspots.
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Its in a hospital and as far as I am aware there’s no cameras in the break room.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why does one of the jugs have an infection warning on it? Are these bio samples at a lab and the locks are a safety measure?
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
I worked at a hospital, and sometimes the Emergency Dept nurses would be cheeky and use the biohazard bags and stickers from their food items. nobody is going to eat my cookies if they have to blindly trust someone being a joker lol
Naich@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
How about fixing the problem by having the management provide free milk? It’s about a pound a day for them and everyone is happier.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Trent the milk guzzler arrives at 6 and drinks it all.
Fuck you Trent!
systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Then you run into the problem of people using excessive amounts of free milk leaving others without the chance to even get any. Better and safer to bring your own if you rely on it.
Almacca@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
The tragedy of the commons.
Naich@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
It works here. Every morning they go round the fridges (it’s a big place) and bung another 4 pints in if it’s getting low. The only time it didn’t work was after a long weekend, when the bottle looked too full to replace but it was starting to go manky because it had been sitting too long after it was opened. I just went to another fridge with good milk.
MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My office provides free milk, but they some times don’t refill it for days, so whether you’ll have milk for your coffee becomes a gamble and then people get pissed when it’s not there. My solution is to just buy or bring my coffee with milk before work and drink tea at work (don’t take milk).
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I kind of do. One of the managers hides supplies we need because we “use too much of it” or something and it affects the budget. We need to ask her for the supplies if we need it. So, I just stopped doing the work that requires those supplies. Her precious budget is safe.
musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
This woman is a nightmare, her name is Susan, and Susan recently started swallowing the supplies and we have to wait for her to poop them out if we want to use them. And as if that wasn’t bad enough she makes us talk her out for a walk whenever we want anything. Yesterday I took Susan for a walk and had to wait ten minutes for her to shit out a stapler.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Totally agree. My guide is always if they don’t care then I don’t care. Want to make me jump through hoops to do my job. Fuck you.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nasan@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Ass crack bandit!
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Troy Barnes: So please, approve the Dean’s new security measure called “Troy’s law.”, because a camera in the bathroom…
[He chokes up]
Troy Barnes: is better than a quarter in your butt.
Dean Pelton: As we’ve seen, the Ass Crack Bandit can be defeated by using the three "B"s: Belts, briefs, and buddies. Good. The bandit always gets his victims when they’re alone. Bend over with friends over.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Fr.
If you’re gonna drink skim, save money and use water.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Look here, we took this water, put it through the cows, now it’s better!
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ah, yes, the cow filter!
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
It’s semi-skimmed and it’s the best milk.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I work at a place that went from having bbq’s and get togethers to… well, nothing in about five years. Yesterday we got a company wide e-mail to tell us the CEO is GTFO’ing and being replaced by an external hire. I’m not worried at all though. In fact, I’m kinda hoping to be fired for the severance. Fuck this job :D
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 weeks ago
My story exactly. Company still has summer parties but they cut a lot of benefits, started firing people and the level of gaslighting went up dramatically. I was looking for something else but fortunately stayed long enough to get fired and cash out. Found new job in 1.5 months. I’m almost grateful to them for being such assholes.
brokenlcd@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
I remember solving something similar using an opaque bottle with “GI supplements, don’t drink” written in sharpie. Especially since the first time it was actually true and they didn’t believe the warning.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I used to live in a shared house and made some hot honey. Bunch of chillis chopped and simmered in honey.
I found a tiny amount on a pizza was good to add a hint of sweet and made it pretty spicy. Can’t imagine having it concentrated on toast goes down too well but that is what someone did when they stole it.
brokenlcd@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Don’t give me ideas… I love spicy stuff, and it has been a pretty good deterrent in of itself from having my foodstuffs stolen. So two birds with one stone…
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just poke a hole in the side, steal what you need, and tape it shut.
stormeuh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah or use one of those drill-taps they use to tap maple syrup.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I don’t even want to fuck with other people’s food generally, but id do this.
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
Just leave a decoy bottle laced with large amounts of sleep medication and laxatives. Sit back. Watch the shitshow unfold.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lol a guy at a shop I worked at did this. He had already given his two weeks notice, but he got fired anyways. People were sooo pissed. Lol there weren’t enough toilets for everyone who got it to use at once. I thought it was hilarious and well deserved, they actually gave me a talking to for laughing out loud about it.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah, people who drink milk at work are super weird
Jerb322@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Turn it upside down and poke a hole in the bottom.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Who can be bothered to steal someone else’s semi-skimmed milk anyway‽ Full cream or bust.
orris@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Couldn’t stand working with people who shop at Asda!
DarthFrodo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s crazy how many people have never been weaned
RBWells@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The wasted space bothers me more. If I am bringing milk for my own coffee, I decant it into a small container. If bringing lunch that needs refrigerated, I take it out of the insulated lunch bag before putting it in the refrigerator! I see huge insulated lunch bags in there, are you literally insulating it against refrigeration, and do you need to take up a cubic foot for your sandwich and apple?
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
If it’s your own milk, fair enough.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Come in with some bolt cutters. Free the milk.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I bet each of those cheap ass locks could easily be shimmed open with a piece of a soda can in a few seconds. I would open each one and just leave it on the shelf next to each bottle. I don’t even drink milk. Just to let them know their obnoxious system is pointless
Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Yet another reason why I work remotely.
shiftymccool@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Imagine working in an office where you need to do that? Who says to themselves, “gee, i didn’t bring that thing so it must be OK for me to have some”? These kinds of tactics don’t come from nowhere
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I literally had this argument with the coworker who would eat other people’s food:
“ did you eat my fucking sandwich??”
“Oh. It was yours?”
“Why the fuck would you do that??”
“Well i didn’t know it was yours”
“But you knew for certain it wasn’t YOURS, since you didn’t make and bring it!”
“People should label stuff if they don’t want it to get eaten”
Most frustrating person i ever met. Laziest fuck ever too. This guy couldn’t walk without dragging his feet
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When I was in the Navy, a dude kept eating my fucking chips and salsa. It was a small work center, we all knew whose shit was whose in our tiny fridge. So one day I put really fucking hot hot sauce in my salsa and left it in the fridge. Motherfucker has the gall to get pissed at me like I’m the asshole. He didn’t eat my salsa again after that.
y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I had a roommate burn a bunch of shit from our garage because he didn’t know who owned it.
He’s like, “I asked the other roommate and he said it wasn’t his so I figured it was just here with the apartment.”
“Motherfucker there are 3 people that live here. If it’s not yours, and it’s not the other guy’s, it’s probably fucking mine and you should ask before you just light shit on fire.”
Normally I’d think it was because he just didn’t like me, but after knowing the guy, he was just an actual idiot.
tamman2000@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t like violence.
But some people need to get punched in the mouth
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That fucking drives me up the wall. How did your parents fail so badly that they couldn’t teach you to pick up your feet?
lihmalahmalehma@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
Duh, a sandwich is the kind of thing one would never expect being left around with the purpose of being someone’s personal lunch. You’re obviously in the wrong here complaining. Asshole.
PapstJL4U@lemmy.world [bot] 2 weeks ago
We have to label things so they can gwt eaten. We literally have a “this is communist milk, it’s for everyone”.
Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Put rocks in it and if they complain about their broken teeth you tell that you’re trying to fix your mineral deficiency.
adhocfungus@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
At one of my previous jobs it was the head of HR stealing people’s food. Every time somebody complained he’d put up a sign and start “investigating”, but nothing ever came of it despite having cameras pointed at the fridge. Eventually someone got tired of it, put up their own camera, and caught the head of HR on camera a couple times. Apparently the president of the company didn’t care and brushed it off. I only found out because the guy with evidence blanket emailed the videos to the whole company. Of course he got written up for doing that.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’m surprised the HR guy didn’t get the shit kicked out of him
lihmalahmalehma@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
I don’t get how the people here are offended by this. Entitlement? It’s so fun to bring something in to just to find out it’s gone before you even opened it. Even with a god damn name label. If I bought a carton of milk, I wouldn’t mind sharing some, but not the entire thing for one person to make porridge from. At that point you cunts can just buy your own shit.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, can you believe how some people are so entitled they check notes expect to be able to use the food they bought
faktotum@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
I’m offended because this is indicative of a much larger problem(distrust amongst coworkers) and I don’t think people should be so satisfied with this band-aid solution.
This feels like a microcosm of society as a whole right now. 3 individuals taking individual action that won’t solve the root problem.
And I can easily imagine the boss(or anyone with actual authority) having their own personal fridge and just ignoring the situation entirely no matter how often it’s brought up.
You can feel fully justified in doing something and still hate having to do it.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
i don’t understand how companies don’t just… provide milk tbh… milk, cheap coffee and tea… it’s such an incredibly cheap way to make people feel slightly less like garbage
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So I have to cook for my clients every day. Leftovers from most meals are kept in our staff fridge because the guys will absolutely gorge themselves on them if left alone.
Every fucking morning, our old nurse would come in and head straight for the fridge to make a plate of those leftovers. Never once brought in her own breakfast or lunch. If the behaviorist didn’t cook something for her for lunch when she was serving the guys, she’d go right back in the fridge.
Say there was enough for a whole other meal and we planned to use it again, put a big label like “FOR FRIDAY’S DINNER.” It didn’t matter… You’d go in and there’d be a huge chunk missing. One day, she actually ate a half of a half-serving tray worth of meat. I went in the next day and flipped. “Oh, I didn’t know it was for today.” “IT HAS A LABEL ON IT THAT SAYS IT’S FOR DINNER! I HAVE NOTHING TO GIVE THEM NOW! YOU ATE HALF THE MEAT MEANT FOR 8 PEOPLE!” “Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t know…”
It didn’t stop her, either… The worse part is that she was skinny as a twig.
Almacca@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Just start calling her The Food Thief in front of people at every opportunity. Public shaming can be powerful.
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Likely that was her only food source.
Dicska@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You know what, I wouldn’t even bother if it happened once. I wouldn’t like to be in the same situation, and while I would ask first, I understand we’re not the same. The moment it happens the second time, though… Pure laxative with white food colouring.