Breakroom refrigerator theft

[Emergent]

Both of my jobs have signs on the fridge from exasperated coworkers telling people to stop stealing the food of others.

Seriously? If it's not yours, don't take it folks. If you forgot your food, do not, I repeat, DO NOT steal the food of others.

And on a related topic, please take your rotting leftovers out of the fridge after a month or two, ok?

[Conqueror+, BSN, RN]

We had an unknown food thief. A big gorgeous bowl of beef stew with a stack of ritz crackers and 60mls of senna lax added. Identified a few hours into shift. The so and so actually DEMANDED to know who the guilty party was. Really ?

[Conqueror+, BSN, RN]

Thought somebody had stolen the fridge!

Yup, usually it's the Residents who are the thieves.

We had a 52 inch flat screen disappear from the day room wall if that helps. Still a mystery

[madricka, BSN, RN]

I bring my lunch in an insulated bag with ice packs and I don't even work in a high theft facility

I do this also, leftover habit from student days -- and I have never had anyone steal my food. Community fridge somehow implies everything in there is fair game. Something about a personal lunch bag is more theft-like maybe since it resembles a purse? I don't know the psychology behind food thieves but it seems to be a deterrent (though I wonder with those people who put their insulated bags in the fridge, do people dig through those?).

[ponymom]

I put a mouse trap inside an open bag of doritos once. I sure heard about it the next day but boy was it funny. Theiving stopped BTW.

[Extra Pickles]

by the time I became a nurse I knew to not put anything into the fridge I planned to eat later lol! student days taught me that people will take anything and everything out of a communal fridge, labeled with names and dates or not.

I was living in a dorm and liked to bake on my rare time off so I was so upset to have my carefully planned ingredients stolen out of the fridge. Told a friend about it and she said I should poison the food so whoever took it would really pay. I didn't really poison it lol but I did put chopped up chocolate laxative squares in with some chopped up milk chocolate squares, into a Ziploc bag labeled Milk Chocolate Bits for Cookies. Also label said Do Not Touch! Bag disappeared. Friend told me she just about died laughing when her roommate was in the toilet for an entire day, some kind of GI Trouble rofl! didn't feel guilty not a smidge. she deserved that!

[Extra Pickles]

I have never seen a Fridge Locker! awesome! then again I can see someone stealing the whole thing out of the fridge to bust apart later. people suck.

[Slipping CMA]

I knew I girl who kept getting her food stolen so she made a batch of muffins with hot sauce in it. I believe that stopped the thief.

[compassionresearcher]

I've heard of people setting up a decoy lunch filled with a lot of hot sauce.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

I do this also, leftover habit from student days -- and I have never had anyone steal my food. Community fridge somehow implies everything in there is fair game. Something about a personal lunch bag is more theft-like maybe since it resembles a purse? I don't know the psychology behind food thieves but it seems to be a deterrent (though I wonder with those people who put their insulated bags in the fridge, do people dig through those?).

Yes, people dig through those and steal the contents. It's happened to me more than once. A friend of mine went to the trouble of baking ex-lax brownies and leaving them in her insulated lunch bag. The next day, all six brownies were gone and someone had to leave in the middle of his shift. (It's almost always a "him."). The thefts stopped for awhile, but resumed. Another friend left a container of wonton soup with about 80 mg. of Lasix in it. Once again the culprit self identified within a few hours. This time, he demanded to know who poisoned him, called HR to complain of being poisoned and make a terrible stink. HR's decision -- remove the fridge.

[Chisca, RN]

[Extra Pickles]

Another friend left a container of wonton soup with about 80 mg. of Lasix in it. Once again the culprit self identified within a few hours. This time, he demanded to know who poisoned him, called HR to complain of being poisoned and make a terrible stink. HR's decision -- remove the fridge.

so the answer to the thief wasn't to tell him he should be thankful he isn't being fired for theft of private property, but instead to tell everyone who used the fridge appropriately that they can't have it any more?!?!

Who else thinks this was a decision made by an administrator with his or her head up his or her buttocks?

[Caroline123]

I've had labeled food stolen before made me so hopping mad. I ended up spending 3x as much buying a substandard meal from one of the cafes. Now if I don't eat my frozen meal that day I take it home and bring it back in.[/quote']

Solution, put a box of exlax in the food!

this will put an end to the crime spree.