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dept rivals

Zurita1123Zurita1123
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Our dept/group usualy brings in bagels, donuts, or some form of food or such. The accounting dept comes over and of course joins in. But the moment they have a bday or a snack, they share amoungst themselves and then proceed to complain if anyone of us comes near "their stuff"....

This has apparently turned into an "issue" of some sort b/c now instead of putting out the bagels this morning to share with this side of the office, I get an email "so and so brought bagels their at my desk if you want one, we're not sharing w/ the freeloaders"

I just giggled for a minute, I thought we were back in kindergarden not willing to share our crayons.

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  • Meg41208Meg41208
    We have issues like that too.  For example, if you reserve a conference room, there's another department that doesn't care that there's a schedule and will take it without looking to see if it's reserved and give a weak apology, but if you are in there when they have it scheduled, they will pitch a fit and the other dept heads will get reprimanded.
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  • katydid2007katydid2007
    My favorites are the people that load up for the next few days. Instead of taking one pastry or bagel they take 4 and keep them at their desk. 
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  • bumpuser511563bumpuser511563 member
    When there is plenty we invite our neighboring departments to join in with emails. When there is not enough we do not tell anybody but only our department. Everybody is invited to the office birthdays.
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  • Meg41208Meg41208

    imagekatydid2007:
    My favorites are the people that load up for the next few days. Instead of taking one pastry or bagel they take 4 and keep them at their desk. 

    I have catered meetings more than anyone else in my office and sometimes people don't even wait until the meeting is over to help themselves to the food (we sometimes set it up outside the conf. room), which totally irks me because the attendees might want more.  Sometimes the people that help themselves are making plates to take home because they already ate lunch!

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  • Kasi80Kasi80 member
    We have vendors market us and bring in food a lot of the time for the office.  My boss will take the food and save it for a "rainy day".  One time one of the employees brought a box of Snickers for the entire shop and left it in the break room for anyone to take one.  My boss took the box and put it in her desk, yup the ENTIRE box.  I found it and distributed the candy as it was meant to be.  Pisses me off that she is so greedy.
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  • FloF9FloF9 member

    Our breakroom is stocked with snacks on a weekly basis. We get a nice mix of: sodas, mini chocolates, oatmeal single packets, breakfast bars, Cheese its, mini pretzels, bananas, peanut butter and jelly cheese crackers, etc...

    There are two guys here who take a 12oz cup and fill them up with snacks and repeat this process at least 3 times a day.  Needless to say the weekly snacks don't last until Wednesday.  The snacks are not meals and it irks me that they think it's just for them.

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  • shouldbworkinshouldbworkin
    Makes me glad to work in a small office now.  I worked in a bigger firm where we didn't quite have issues that bad, but I would get SO ticked off when one dept would have breakfast every Friday AM for an hour and a half.  First of all, it smelled so damn good!  Second, I was waiting on work from them while they ate the morning away.  WTH?!
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  • sjusju
    A co-worker of mine told me that he will never bring anything for our pot luck lunches because there is always too much food.  He waits until everybody eats and leaves and then he comes and eat. Another day my boss bought pizza for our team and he (from another team) came uninvited, grabbed food and left.  My boss was pissed. 
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  • kgb1411kgb1411 member
    imageMeg41208:

    I have catered meetings more than anyone else in my office and sometimes people don't even wait until the meeting is over to help themselves to the food (we sometimes set it up outside the conf. room), which totally irks me because the attendees might want more.  Sometimes the people that help themselves are making plates to take home because they already ate lunch!

    This is ridiculous.  Dude, wait until the meeting is over before you start mooching!

    Also, this whole thread cracks me up.

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  • duchess0727duchess0727
    This post makes me laugh, too.  So funny what goes on in offices.  At my last job, one of my coworkers brought a bologna sandwich to work and someone stole it out of the fridge.  I swear not a week went by that he didn't bring this up.  When he left, we bought him a bologna sandwich as a going away present.  Who steals bologna?
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  • shouldbworkinshouldbworkin

    imageduchess0727:
    This post makes me laugh, too.  So funny what goes on in offices.  At my last job, one of my coworkers brought a bologna sandwich to work and someone stole it out of the fridge.  I swear not a week went by that he didn't bring this up.  When he left, we bought him a bologna sandwich as a going away present.  Who steals bologna?

    That reminds me of someone who kept stealing lunches out of one of the fridges at work.  It took HR threatening to fire the person for it to stop.  OTOH, who steals someone's lunch?!  OTOH, I kind of felt bad that someone might need food so badlly that they had to steal. 

    DS1 age 7, DD age 5 and DS2 born 4/3/12
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  • Zurita1123Zurita1123
    I just got the funniest email about stealing ppl's food, and heating up stuff in the microwave lol
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