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October 2011 Moms
morsey2011
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Food issues at work
morsey2011
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This is sort of a vent and may seem petty.
I bring my lunch to work everyday. I've started putting my frozen meals in freezer part of the fridge with my name on them. I also bring some crackers to eat with my meal. I started out just bringing the box to the lunch table (I eat in the teacher's lounge) with me and eating a few and put the box in my mailbox in the lounge after I eat. Well, every day a different co-worker will ask if they can have a few. Some days several of them ask. I got tired of it because I was going through way too many boxes of crackers and i only eat like 3-4 a day. So I started getting the crackers out and putting them on a napkin and immediately putting them back in my box before anyone could ask for some. But now I've even caught one co-worker getting the crackers out of my mailbox and eating them in between classes. And today after school I was in the lounge and noticed my cracker box in the trash. Someone had got them out of my mailbox and eaten the rest of them. I'm really non-confrontational so I haven't said anything yet, but I'm getting super annoyed. How would you handle this situation? I feel petty because it's just food, but at the same time food costs money and people can get their own dang food!
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Re: Food issues at work
People are so strange! I would never eat someones food without asking, let alone the last of it and then throw it away!
Can you portion out your crackers in baggies? Then only bring in a baggie a day? MH has to do this with his pretzels for very similar reasons.
Seriously though, what lopes said.
And you can get reusable sandwich bags on Etsy for not too much. They're even cheaper if you don't mind using a small binder clip or similar to close them. With seals they're like 6 bucks and pay for theselves soon enough. This cute one is only a dollar and it has velcro.
https://tinyurl.com/9woczzmTarget has some cute reusable baggies that have Velcro closures.
thanks! I will see if I can find some when I go to Target Friday!
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Here's a story you'll appreciate since you are a teacher. A couple if years ago one teacher bought Popsicles for her class and put them in the freezer. Another teacher came and stole them, and gave them to her class! They were labeled and everything!
Seriously? I would be beyond mad! I keep everything labeled in our fridge, but had assumed my mailbox slot would be safe for other things. I was clearly wrong!
I seriously don't understand people. How on earth would anyone think it's okay to take someone's stuff - food or otherwise?
I second the reuseable bags. I have a couple I use for LBB's snacks. But I'd also start a rumor about the terribly contagious ebola I have.
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When I was pregnant with DD someone stole one of my frozen meals from the freezer at work. I left a very nasty note saying something like "To the jerk who stole the pregnant lady's lunch - there's a special place for you somewhere it gets really hot"
I couldn't exactly tell them they were going to hell - but that's what I was getting at. I'm pretty sure it was a member of the cleaning staff, but it never happened again because I labelled everything with "Crazy pregnant lady".
Good luck.