A woman has been praised for dishing up 'petty revenge' after her colleague kept stealing her lunch from the office fridge. She explained how her dinner started to go missing "mysteriously" from the work kitchen, leaving her with nothing to eat at midday.
Fed up and hungry, she decided to teach the lunch thief a lesson once and for all. She said on Reddit: "I tried labelling my food, hiding it in the back of the fridge, even bringing super spicy food to deter them, but nothing worked. "Finally, I had enough. I started bringing in containers filled with random, disgusting stuff to mess with them." One day, she emptied out a can of dog food into a container and marked it up as chili leftovers. The following day, she boxed up mashed cauliflower before dying it bright green.".
However, wondering whether she took things too far, she added: "My masterpiece was a container of jello mixed with tuna. I labelled everything as usual and waited. Sure enough, the thefts stopped within a week. No one confessed, but I overheard someone complaining about feeling 'sick all day' after lunch. I couldn’t help but smile. Am I the petty one here, or did they deserve it?".
Commenting on her post, one user said: "One thing I learned way back is never complain or tell anyone that your food is being taken. The company won’t do anything and you will be the bad guy complainer. Plus you could get into trouble for [knowingly] trying to make someone sick. The sick person can’t complain without admitting theft and even if they do, you had plausible deniability for not knowing as you never said you knew.".
