Co-worker KEEPS STEALING my lunch, So I SWAP My Lunch with the BOSS's LUNCH - Reddit Podcast

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[@harvnads810]

Love the content

[@ruskiana82]

2nd

[@Juan-bu5bl]

Why does it say two days ago

[@Mistfall254]

Last story Ezra is biblical so...

[@tarnthamuaapithorn9161]

Kk

[@quintonfloyd7862]

In that first story, when HR tells you "HR is not responsible for personal property" you respond "I'm not asking you to be responsible for personal property, but you're responsible for the fact an employee is committing theft on company property".

[@Milkdudsman]

True

[@cyberaxels2755]

458 likes and only 1 comment? Lemme fix that

[@ChiIlNoob]

Or you tell them how it can effect the company

[@SkullieTheBillFan]

436 likes and 3 comments? Dang

[@Torger726]

​@@SkullieTheBillFan 541 likes and 4 comments? Shut up to those saying that crap

[@amandacockerham6387]

I’m a software engineer and early in my career I worked for one of the top 5 military contractor companies. Their policy on food theft is that it is a firing offense. If you weren’t trust worthy enough to leave the lunches in the office fridge alone, you weren’t trust worthy enough to handle military secrets.

[@madelinestraumanis219]

Makes sense honestly.

[@richardcrooks6713]

Everywhere I've worked it's automatic dismissal too. In some professions it's potentially getting struck off as well since it's a character defect that's incompatible with the character expected of licensed professionals.

[@dredthizz87]

The thing that is wild to me is the fact that HR basically didn't care until it directly affected them.

[@missamanda2703]

Very good reasoning. Dr's are very entitled to nurses lunches and they LOVE potlucks that we bring all the food to.

[@NessieNice]

At my place too, and also cheating. If you can cheat your own family, you can cheat the company. It was an international corporate bank, honesty is paramount.

[@RageArmor]

Food Theft is exactly why i built up my spice tolerance. I eat generally spicy but good food, when my food started going missing, i kicked the heat right up to the highest i could tolerate without sweating, tearing up, etc... The next day HR called me in threatening to press charges for poisoning a co-worker to prove a point, i just told them that i was simply on a high spice kick lately and this wouldn't have happened if the "victims" didn't steal.

[@cdeer17]

Ya and somehow making a co worker starve isn't as harmful I just think HR just were douches

[@jamiekuijper7378]

You can also complain to a doctor about how constipated you are. They dont realy care. he would probably Just give you a recipe for laxitives. I know you can Just buy them without an recipe but here is the chatch. If you drug your own food with the intension to hurt someone else that wil get you in trouble. But if you do it with the intension to treat a problem you have you can proof this with the doctors recipe. The person that is stealing your food wil not only shit his pants but he is also stealing your medicines. And this is a serious felony you can sue the motherfucker for. And get a lot of money out of it

[@Lustful081491Lycan]

I have chronic constipation I put my prescription laxatives in my lunches. People learn to not eat my lunches.

[@wendigos_eat_people7177]

Ya, I think it's funny they can call a spice ( a culinary ingredient ) a poison when it is not. HR's aren't so bright. It looks like they are more interested in protecting criminal behavior.

[@scottlemiere2024]

​@@cdeer17HR people were the ones stealing it.

[@cygnisdragon3485]

That swapped lunch story was wonderful. Kyle deserved to be found out. Now he's probably going to be too embarrassed to return to work so he'll probably quit out of embarrasment

[@thePsiMatrix]

And honestly; OP should've pointed out that 'per previous comment by [H.R.]; lunches are personal property, etc.'. They can't have it both ways, micro-managing what you can and can't do with them and shirk responsibility for their loss when it suits them.

[@hereforonereason]

Someone losing their job isnt funny whatsoever,even if they were a joke

[@ilaeoa]

@@hereforonereason He is a criminal who steals from his co-workers. Criminal, not "a joke". He should never have office job ever again.

[@hereforonereason]

@@ilaeoa Okay???

[@ilaeoa]

@@hereforonereason okay.

[@mm4894]

The lunch stealing happened at a place I used to work at. Someone in our office was a diabetic who had to carefully plan his meals. Even his email plea to please consider his health requirements didn't stop our thief. Some people really don't care.

[@berrymint6384]

some people do NOT deserve any company with living beings

[@dragonfirerich]

Fun fact: if you have a security clearance, getting caught stealing somebody's lunch can be grounds for losing it.

[@JaBaiter]

When I was younger I had to deal with an office lunch thief. They'd routinely raid the fridge of people's private snack stuff (string cheeses, yogurts, etc.) and full on lunch bags. For those who've worked in an office, it will probably surprise nobody that the thief was a senior manager, it's usually the people who can most afford lunches who steal from those who can least afford it (plus being able to hide in their private office while consuming the evidence instead of being at risk of being caught on the open floor helped). This was on a floor with 100+ people, many of whom were fresh out of college earning barely anything. To make it worse, the office was in the middle of nowhere in a town. If your lunch got stolen you had 3 choices; drive 30+ minutes roundtrip to a nearby sub shop or grocery store to get something, eat at the overpriced corporate cafeteria onsite (minimum of like 2 hours of your wage for lunch for us new hires), or go hungry. This jerk made at least 5x what us first jobbers did and was stealing from us. It got so bad most of my coworkers on my team talked about having to keep backup snacks in their desk in case their whole lunch was stolen. I figured out who it was by buying a specific type of string cheese you couldn't find locally and putting it in the fridge, waited until one went missing, then stayed late at the office and dug through all the desk trash cans to find the wrapper and figure out who ate it. I checked their Outlook calendar to find a day they were out of office, and then scheduled an offsite meeting for myself for the 1st half of that day. Day of I came in super early before anyone and set up a cardboard box in front of their office, sign attached "Hi All, things have been rough for me financially and I'm having trouble affording lunches. Instead of continuing to take things from the office fridge, I was hoping people could contribute voluntarily to my personal food drive. Anything helps, God Bless." Then added a few canned vegetables and a box of easy mac, before taking off for my meeting. By the afternoon when I came back the box was about half filled, laughter and gossip ensued, and people were sharing stories of the stuff that had been stolen and saying it was great they finally figured out who it was. Needless to say the next day when the manager came back, they were angry, embarrassed, and got a talking to by other senior managers saying the thieving behavior was unacceptable. They tried figuring out who set the gag up, but we had no security cameras, and I wasn't even suspected as everyone knew I was off at a meeting until mid-day. 10/10 would humiliate a thieving douche-bag again. Never had my lunch or snacks go missing at that office again.

[@Capn_Jack]

Smart thinking. Screw that dbag

[@freedomlindsay3084]

Regarding the vegetarian kid who destroyed all the meat, that kid was a brat. I'm a 61-year-old lifelong vegetarian, and you can't force someone to become a vegetarian just like no one can force me to eat meat. Way to go kid, you just made your entire family hostile against vegetarianism.

[@GenocidalSquid]

Respect thy elders. Agreed!

[@Demonic_Culture_Nut]

And ensured þe animals died for noþing.

[@M1N1molo]

​@@Demonic_Culture_Nutbros speaking the ancient language

[@Charles-7]

if he's one of these veggies who think that "meat is murder" then he should learn that eating plants is the same thing, cause that kingdom is too alive, so these shouldn't feel special because of that.

[@ClaudiaStarfish2000]

@@Demonic_Culture_Nut Huh?

[@LemonChick]

How is stealing from another employee not gross misconduct and a firing offence ?? What country was this story from ??

[@ashearvus8112]

My money is on US. No one else in the world values money so high up over people.

[@karensiegel6669]

Had it happen at our school in the US. The music/band teacher was stealing food out of everyone's lunches then would belly ache on how hard it was to lose weight! After he left, no more stolen lunches!

[@Voxdenable]

I was a Janitor in an Office for half a year, and during holidays the office had someone stealing my food. My delicious Eggnog and Cookies. Three days in a row of thievery, i just got pissed off, and baked up cookies that only looked like chocolate cookies... but were in fact, made with a lotta spicy ingredients inside to burn the culprits mouth with. I also had put a hidden cam near the fridge, for extra measure. Next day, i heard someone gasp in pain, but didn't see them. it's a quiet office, but still spacious enough that i never found the culprit the rest of the day, but later in the evening when i reviewed the film after work... found out the culprit was my boss, taking samples of people's lunches. Knowing confronting them would be a death sentence, i just anonymously emailed everyone in the office the clip of the boss taking the food, and quit afterwards. In hindsight, i wish i used laxatives in those cookies. damn dirtbag, stealing lunch from the people that don't make nearly as much as him.

[@flamephoenix8413]

You should of laxatives and spice

[@johntracy72]

Or you could have baked cookies using salt instead of sugar. They're not gonna expect cookies to be salty.

[@berrymint6384]

onfronting them is THE ONYL right thing to do like WTF? They are POWERLESS against someone whi the TRUTH. Grow a spine! They can not harm you for another reason to. You can SUE

[@teddychu1177]

@@berrymint6384 All the confrontation with a shiny spine against someone with the power to fire you is useless when it comes time to pay rent... especially if HR is useless or non-existent. Lawsuits take time to process too...

[@scottlemiere2024]

Using spices can be explained away, using laxatives is a felony.

[@scazermazz]

We had a problem of missing lunches. We hired temps for the summer, at least a dozen, so it was a mystery to who did it. The next day, I had a ziplock bag full of chocolate chip cookies. I made sure they ended up in the fridge without anyone see me do it. Sure enough they went missing. About two hours later one of the temps was in the bathroom screaming his ass off as he was blowing the place up. When he finally came out crying his eyes out, he was fired.

[@ashleyyoung796]

Lol! I'm sorry, but I had to laugh because that is funny.😂

[@AmethystEyes]

Was he fired for the screaming or stealing?

[@scazermazz]

@@AmethystEyes Stealing. The screaming gave him away

[@scottlemiere2024]

​@@scazermazzyou're lucky you weren't fired and escorted out by police: that was a couple felonies. Setting boobie traps. Misuse of regulated substances. Altering food. Assault with intent.

[@scazermazz]

@@scottlemiere2024 You can save your boo boo face and your infantile foot stomp. This was over 40 years ago at a navy yard. They didn't pit up with any crap there. If there was anything to be dealt with the MPs would have handled it. And they thought it was funny

[@jamesszalla4274]

You’d think that stealing from other employee’s would be grounds for termination. I mean, why would a company want a thief working for them?

[@apensalesman]

Kyle's lucky that he didn't get 90% ex-lax brownie, ex-lax chip muffin, and anything else a plotter could cook into a lunch bag

[@Subangelis]

Hiring a thief absolutely IS the company's problem.

[@damegataco]

The most ignorant thing about the vegetarian kid who unplugged the freezer didn't just mess with their families' finances, but he made the sacrifice of the animals' lives that went into producing the meat that was in the freezer going to waste essentially going against whatever "animal life should not be taken for granted" message he is trying to live by choosing to be vegetarian. He's the type of person who is going to grow up and end up eating burgers and steaks on a regular basis.

[@d.phantomfan1216]

Story 1: you totally should have thrown their words back at them. Where they going to do report you for catching the office lunch beef after they ignored it for several months? That douchebag deserve everything he's getting, stealing lunch is tacky and cheap, and he is not going to live this down. For as long as it was going on he might be better off looking for a new job all together.

[@kristigarrigan7046]

Lol office lunch beff. Lol😂

[@agenti4734]

Honestly, I would first ask for the HR to show me said policy beforw printing it out and then showing it in front of HR or someone higher up since if they do punish me for such shit, I would have proof that what I had been complaining about was not followed by company policy or that HR could not punish me for said policy since their lunch is also personal property.

[@minmo2288]

My co worker had a lunch thief at his previous job, made a big show over several weeks of ordering California reaper powered coated snacks like peanuts and pork rinds and such and having them delivered to the office, after a while did brought a sandwich in with a big blob of a super hot sauce in and the women stealing his lunch ended up screaming and throwing up in the break room 😂 Just claimed “you all know I love super spicy stuff why would she steal my lunch if she can’t handle spice?”

[@amandagardiner6065]

Laxatives would have been my best friend 🤣 chocolates with lunch you say? You sure about that Terry? 😏🙃 Have fun on the toilet for the next 24-48hrs buddy hope you have some butt cream on hand 👌👍✌️

[@scottlemiere2024]

​@@amandagardiner6065prison you say? Multiple felonies!?

[@joosyjulie]

First story, this goes way back to the 1990's. My dad worked shifts, so every third week he was sleeping until about 2pm. The neighbors always turned their music on as soon as the kids went to school, loud enough to be heard two streets away, no amount of polite conversation would get them to turn it down. Sadly my dad was next door. Another piece to this story is that they lived on a steep hill, in semi-detached houses, British speak for having a party wall, my dads house up the hill from the neighbors. One night, when he was on early shift, he woke up early, around 3am, put all the house speakers against the party wall, which meant they were blasting unto their upper floor bedroom. My dad then put Mars the god of war, orchestral piece, on as loud as the speakers could take, and blasted them awake. It only took tnree days for the neighbors to storm around and demand that he stops it. He told them he would, as long as they turned their day time music down. He had peaceful days from then on.

[@Lula5YL]

Its funny how employee lunch getting repetitively stolen is fine but when HR lunch gets stolen it’s suddenly a criminal offense to both OP & Kyle

[@wendigos_eat_people7177]

Quite a few HR's are very corrupt . They can be a bunch of bullies when they want to be. Remember they are created to look after the best interest of the company, the employee much less.

[@alpha-sama]

Story 1: Great revenge! Kyle is such a massive jerk, stealing people's luches for MONTHS. Also, what a useless HR. They clearly don't really care about any problem unless it directly affects them smh. Story 2: Okay, this is weird. Lady gets kicked off the flight because she wanted people to move when they were in HER seats? Either she overreacted into the next dimension, or OP and the airline were completely unreasonable, one of the two. Story 3: I'm sorry about the living situation you were in. The neighbors were crap and the police was absolutely useless. Good job in making sure an actually competent officer got your house 👍 Story 4: The kid was being a rotten brat. No one has the right to enforce anything on other people based on their own beliefs. The punishment was completely justified, you reap what you sow. Story 5: The grandparents are old-fadhioned jerks. They clearly can't handle that OP and his wife picked names for their twins they don't like and now they're trying to implant new names that they do like because they're incapable of being mature.

[@solomonkane6442]

I worked in an office back in the 90s We had a lunch thief that stole everyone's lunch ( including mine) So in revenge I laced my lunch with Carolina reapers and laxatives We soon found out that Simon was the lunch thief ( he was the bosses nephew) 😅 Bonus points for Simon being lactose intolerant 😂 I get called in to the bosses office later thinking I'm going to get fired and Simon is giving me hell for poisoning him Demanding his uncle fires me and his uncle actually started laughing 😂 Actions have consequences Simon and moved him elsewhere 😂

[@Droobie03]

DId Carolina Reapers exist in the 90's?

[@solomonkane6442]

@@Droobie03 I'm talking about the late 90s or maybe I got it wrong I was doing a lot of different drugs at the time and I can't remember much of the 90s I remember lacing my food with a very very hot pepper Put it this way Simon didn't enjoy the experience

[@scottlemiere2024]

​@@Droobie03the Carolina Reaper became publicly available in 2011.

[@kylestanley4734]

The proper response to HR should have been. "I understand that, however you are responsible for hiring the criminal."

[@jeanglendinning1860]

years ago my uncle told the story of missing lunches where he worked. so what one person whose pie was often stolen did was carefully remove the contents of the pie and filled it wih crap. After that the lunches were never stolen again, but still never knew who the thief was

[@Absaalookemensch]

The difference between deliberately taking someone's lunch and taking their money is the value. If HR refuses to do anything, set-up a camera, then file a police report with evidence of a few instances of the thief stealing your labeled food. Additionally, a lunch thief won't hesitate stealing other things from employees or the company either. A thief is a thief.

[@BaoHadir]

When I was first hired at my current job, I'd been unemployed for weeks. After paying rent and bills, I didn't have ANY money for food, and wouldn't until the upcoming Friday, 4 days away. So I wound up devouring my desk neighbor's candy. They had a candy dish on their desk that was up for grabs to grab a piece every now and again. Pretty much anytime she wasn't around I'd snitch a few pieces of candy and eat them. Those candies kept me going until Friday, where I then got paid, got groceries, and bought two big bags of candy to replace what I had taken (which I left on her desk anonymously because I was ashamed).

[@karensiegel6669]

If she had known your problem, she probably would have brought in a sandwich for you. It was great to hear you more than paid her back.

[@princessmarlena1359]

I keep my lunch in a mini hard side cooler with an ice pack, hidden at my workspace. Sometimes I have to chain and padlock it closed if I can’t hide it or don’t have a locker. It works for me. Never been robbed.

[@JamesDavy2009]

In my country they're called Eskys.

[@downhomesunset]

Doesn’t just happen in offices. I was in the hospital for a few weeks and there was a room where the nurses would store snacks and food brought by patient’s family members. Nurses had their own fridge in their break room. Someone was taking patients’ food. They would go in to get it and it would be gone. The room wasn’t far from the nurses station so they had a general idea who it was. The nurses started allowing people with home brought food to put it in their fridge. One day the thief had the nerve to go into the nurses’ fridge and got caught red handed. It was my roommate! He was kicked out of the hospital!

[@berrymint6384]

good What a prick

[@sandrasausville9103]

That's just some petty stuff. Stealing lunches and the company not doing anything about it. And I don't blame you for what you did

[@BROUBoomer]

First story... Lunch theft happened at an old job of mine. I tried to talk a few people into making horrible things on the same day. I wanted to bring a cat poop sandwich. One of my coworkers was worried that would open me up to a lawsuit from the thief. Ok, what about melting Exlax into some casserole, like a couple of packages. I didn't, I just started eating from the restaurant. Somebody else did though. And then we all found out who had been stealing lunches. They spent the afternoon in the restroom. They had to call in the next day too. 🤣😂😆😁 Don't forget sugar free gummy bears will give you the bathroom screams, if you eat more than a couple. 😏 *Don't steal lunches; you never know what kind special treat someone may have packed for you.* 🥡🥪🍱🥡🥪🍱🥡🥪🍱🥡🥪🍱 👵☮️🖖

[@BROUBoomer]

@@darkwizard6574 Hi, Thanks for the story! That's genius! Wasabi hidden by guacamole! ROTFLMAO! 🤣😂😆😁 Wish I would have thought of that. 🤣 Thank you for the laughs. Take care, stay safe, have a nice day. 👵☮️🖖

[@MarsJenkar]

The coworker who warned about bringing something inedible or doctored for a trap lunch was probably right though. Anti-poisoning laws are very strict on what you can and can't do to food, and unless you can convince a judge and/or jury that you actually intended to eat the meal yourself, you're facing not just civil damages but potentially criminal charges as well. (If you really are gonna doctor a meal to be super-spicy, you'd better be able to stand to eat it yourself.) It does suck, but the laws weren't written with lunch thieves in mind... and what they _were_ intended to do was to make sure that if someone poisoned someone else's meal with deadly/dangerous intent, that there were as few loopholes as possible for the poisoner to escape from the law.

[@BROUBoomer]

@@MarsJenkar Hi, The lunch thief problem was back in 1987. It's been awhile. Not sure when those laws were written. But I did play it “better safe than sorry”. Exlax casserole did not. But technically they could say they intended to eat it, they're constipated. By the time it goes to court, can't prove they weren't. Thank you for the information. Take care, stay safe, have a nice day. 👵☮️🖖 Happy 4th of July too. 🇺🇲🧨💥🧨🎇🧨🎆

[@lazyryan3766]

Surely they can't prove intent of long term damage from some jalapeño seeds in your sandwich, right?

[@lindashield9776]

I resorted to putting a lock on my lunch box as I was sick of people taking stuff out of it.

[@thesixthkid7689]

Sorry HR rep, your lunch is stolen property, therefore it is not the company's responsibility to retrieve it and since you're HR that means YOU. Probably shouldn't have blown off all the people who were complaining.

[@scottlemiere2024]

The HR person knew all along who was stealing the lunches, regularly ate lunch with them, and likely hung out with them outside of work. HR was covering for the thief.

[@trendasmith-johnston5961]

Lunch thief was great and I know how he feels: while working at a dollar general store in Ohio I had one girl that always took my lunch and a couple of Pepsi's with me when I would stop for a bread bowl salad it would be half eaten and my Pepsi gone when I found out who it was I loaded it with hot sauce and needless to say it never happened again.

[@berrymint6384]

??? it is acting like a scum Better wording next time

[@bryonthomas9213]

I'm currently having this issue with people stealing my lunch what makes this even worse is I'm a private security officer and working with state troops and other security officers are the only other people who have access to the fridge so I've decided to put some epicack in one of my lunches and wait for the chaos to ensue.

[@JamesDavy2009]

Do you mean (syrup of) ipecac?

[@bryonthomas9213]

@@JamesDavy2009 yes

[@heroslippy6666]

How did it go?

[@bryonthomas9213]

They haven't taken the bate yet.

[@desaug]

@@bryonthomas9213 maybe they saw the comment

[@jdorseyjr64]

We had a person stealing lunches in a plant I worked at. People had there lunches stolen daily. I had my lunch stolen several times. My wife baked and always put cake or cookies in lunch for desert. So when this happened several times I had her make some exlax brownies. Not regular exlax but hospital grade before surgery exlax. We found who was stealing the lunches when they craped their self on the production floor it was my supervisor. He quit the next week when was able to come back to work after getting his crap together.😂

[@ashleyyoung796]

Lol! I would love to pay good money to see that happening.😂 I could never understand why people thought that it would be okay to steal other people's lunches instead of making their own lunch.🤷‍♀️

[@emilynelson5646]

@@ashleyyoung796 It's free and they get to annoy someone.

[@cdeer17]

​@@emilynelson5646you mean starve someone how would you like it if someone forcebly starved you

[@emilynelson5646]

They can buy their own food.@@cdeer17

[@MonicaCGruber]

@@cdeer17stop defending thieves. Thieves don’t deserve protection.

[@MikinessAnalog]

Story 1 was solved at my work by bringing in pizza sliced laced with fire hot pepper.

[@cdeer17]

Love hearing these because it's 100% legal 😂

[@jamesrippy1161]

That vegetarian militant 15-year-old from story 4 deserves far worse than only being made to clean out the rancid freezer first and foremost he deserves a whooping of a lifetime second he deserve to have part of his savings confiscated to replace the freezer and third he deserves to be grounded until he’s 18

[@DanielGonzalez-qk6sd]

Honestly, I have a better punishment, he goes clean the freezer/purchases another one *and* then he goes hunting with OP..

[@joosyjulie]

Nah, just pays the families meat bill for a year, every week. On top of cleaning our the freezer, trying to get the stench out of the freezer and maybe having to buy a new one if the stench doesn't dispute. Making him go hunting is not really fair. I'm a meat eater and you couldn't get me to shoot an animal for food, unless it was the zombie apocalypse, then anything goes.

[@DanielGonzalez-qk6sd]

@@joosyjulie I think the hunting is fair because he did not just waste money and food but also the father’s time. I am not saying he goes hunting for a whole year. But one or two sessions so he understands the gravity of what he did is something I would consider. After all, if all he has to do is clean the smell/replace the frig it only shows that he has to put money to solve a problem. Which is meh imo.

[@kubiz4]

@@DanielGonzalez-qk6sd Hunting is not fair. Forcing someone to do something he really doesn't want to do is unreasonable. Fixing the mess he made is totally reasonable though. Clean up and clean or replace the freezer is one punishment. Second punishment should be paying for the meat. You could give him the option of going to hunt it, but never force him. That just creates hate. After that, there should be a long talk how they want to live together in the future.

[@DanielGonzalez-qk6sd]

@@kubiz4 I think if he wanted the choice to go hunting or not he should not have messed with the fridge. All allowing him to pay for meat will do is, imo, show him he can solve his issues with money. It also devalues the work the father goes through. I recognize it is something may not like but me personally it is a big consideration. He ruined food but also wasted and disrespected the time and energy his father puts into putting food on the table. If that is how he wants to go than he can do hunting. Way I see it is the intensity is different when comparing it to having a child have additional chores to “work off” the dollar amount of an item. Just difference here is one is hunting vs maybe an extra night or two of dishes.

[@maurernorbert7031]

happened to me at my first workplace. After a few times my 'lunch' was spiked with laxatives, a LOT of laxatives. Disappeared as the others. No idea what happened to the thief, but probably wasn't nice. It was never stolen again.

[@shockdiesel3470]

A little comment I made while listening to the story. Parents renaming their grandchildren Dad: "It's well documented by my face over the last 20 plus years that I hate my name and it's literally your fault that my maiden name is Franklin Douglas Blankenooper"

[@blueheartless36]

The second story's situation sucks. Like, yes. She should have gone about it nicer, but the woman HAD bought a ticket for that seat. (It didn’t mention if she bought a ticket for her kid though?) Her getting kicked off kinda sucks. I hate when flights are overbooked so the airport can get more money while expecting someone not to show up- then punish people for showing up to the flight they paid for??? :(

[@kaylahowe2251]

I thought I was the only one going “I understand why she’s upset, it’s HER seat that she paid for?”

[@CajunReaper95]

@@kaylahowe2251haven’t you ever thought it may have been a misprint? That happens from time to time.

[@dredthizz87]

​@@CajunReaper95it was definitely not a misprint airlines overbook all the time relying on no-show costumers... Most if not all airlines have reimbursement policies because of this. However the airline should have not let the woman and her kid on the plane... There is no excuse here the airline is at fault.

[@sararoby2566]

It may have also not been her seat. She may have been mistaken herself being sleep deprived as well.

[@ravendelune3056]

Right?? It’s so strange to me how the immediate reaction was that she was 100% in the wrong.. did she make a scene? Absolutely. But was she wrong? Heck no! Not that it was OPs fault either but it felt like he thought HE was more important because of the uniform.. (I love our service members, btw) so it’s just unfortunate. No airline should be able to sell more seats than they have available 😢

[@svpracer98]

Never had someone steal my lunch, but it took me a solid year to get people to stop bothering me on my hour lunch break.

[@ryanmcewen415]

I worked a warehouse job years ago. We had a lunch thief as well Again, management wouldn't do anything. So one of my coworkers who was a regular victim set up a webcam in the lunch room connected to an old laptop. Found out it was a receiving supervisor. Management, once shown proof still refused to do anything. Two days later the supervisor didn't show up to work. Turns out three of the employees who were common victims had followed him home and beat him so badly he ended up in hospital for two weeks. He never snitched on who it was. But everyone knew. Before he got out of the hospital, he submitted his notice. We never saw him again.

[@nyx_291]

“Im just hungry you jerk” I’ve never heard better words 😭😭😭✋✋

[@luisbarboza2042]

ah the freezer Story, NTA, the son screwed up by: 1- wasting food 2- forcing his ideas onto others 3- affect others by wasting food

[@annettegustafson1435]

I've worked in multiple locations where food would be stolen on a regular basis. Cat food sandwiches, ex-lax frosted brownies, etc seemed to work occasionally. Even red-hot spicy food only help for so long. A thief will be a thief

[@Stanley.77]

An "X-Lax special" would be well-warranted at this point.

[@DragonKingRaiguy]

I think the person who made his vegetarian kid clean their freezer Was not a jerk

[@makaylawhittum2573]

Just don't touch other people's food. My coworkers know not to mess with my food. Though that was due to a piece of sharp metal, table, and narrowly missing a hand. I am food possessive. No problems since that day 7 years ago.

[@jam1494]

That first story makes me despise HR as much as the food thief.

[@bluesman99999]

Story 3: Eviction moratorium was in place by the time OP's and neighbor's complaints were rolling into the police. Landlord couldn't get rid of them for being a nuisance to the neighborhood, and the police couldn't do anything to remove them. The police probably could've written citations for breaking lockdown, but were probably directed not to, since the courts were already far behind on regular business, and didn't have the capacity to handle additional workload.

[@thesixthkid7689]

Ask for help, nothing happens. Have connections though, oh they are FUCKED. Owner, not OP: Guys, the neighbors won't stop partying. Cops: We told you to stop calling us. Owner: But I AM a cop like you. Cops: Gather all the weapons and ammunition we have, time to backup a brother in arms.

[@ChaosPod]

Since it was COVID-19, the police could have issued heavy fines for violating quarantine and lockdown laws. Not just for the party hosts, but all the party attendees as well.

[@cdeer17]

​@@ChaosPodwhat I was thinking also in most places large loud parties without permits aren't allowed and actually illegal because of noise pollution laws

[@CidVeldoril]

I own a leftover container with a key. At one place I worked, the lunch thief even confronted me about it. xD I would like to know if the woman was German though. If so: She owes you murican uniform guys nothing and she'd be correct in wanting to have a seat thief kicked out, especially if wearing that thing.

[@GenGamesUniverse]

Ross: YOU ate m...my sandwich?! My sandwich?! MYYYYYY SANNNNDDDWWWIIICCHHH!!!!

[@antares8476]

We have the fridges on the corridors in our dorms. Food disappears regularly. And not the brightest idea to put something in your food as a laxative since you can be kicked out for that. Endangering others. We don't really get it. So we usually mix some spice or hot sauce in it. One time someone wrote a warning it contained allergies. Guess what. The thief had and allergic reaction. That's how we coughed them. They got kicked out.

[@TheLimitsOfMySanity]

I once put antifreeze in my soup after someone had been eating my lunch for about two weeks straight. I drove the lunch thief to the hospital, and on the way there I told him point-blank “do you have a death wish? Steal my lunch one more time and antifreeze will be the last of your worries”. I also had prescription painkillers mixed in my homemade yogurt freezie which turned lunch theft into Prescription drug theft. (I would suggest that if you don’t already take medication, talk to your doctor about getting prescription grade laxatives to spike your lunches with in order to get the same results with stronger effects) After she was released from the hospital, she got fired and was generously gifted with court fines, incarceration, and life-long criminal history from the state of Missouri.

[@ShadowGuardian_32]

A lot of your guys a story is a lot tamer than mine Some doofus decided to try to steal one of my sandwiches one time during lunch and due to the fact that we grow jalapeño peppers around our house I decided to have some jalapeño jelly spread as if it was normal jelly on my sandwich Due to the fact that the idiot didn’t realize I was very angry about the fact that I knew who it was stealing my sandwiches and he was more than happy to deny it - I gave the teachers full on 100% proof of him stealing it by making sure that not only did I overhear about how he cannot stand spicy things but by the time he was done taking the first bite of MY sandwich his face was bright red The teachers tried to ask him if he was all right but his mouth was burning so badly that he couldn’t say a thing. I stood up from my seat walked over to the teachers and told them - This is what happens to idiots that touch my sandwich The teacher glared at me and asked if I was responsible for this I said yes because it never would’ve happened if you wouldn’t have stolen one of MY sandwiches that MY MOTHER took her time to make for me and this stupid kid thought that he had a right to my sandwich this was a lesson to teach him and anyone else that touches my sandwich that I am not nice when I am hungry and I’m overly protective of my stuff If some idiot thinks that they have a right to my sandwich this is a lesson to show them that that is not True If one of your parents makes you food then THAT food is meant for you not someone else You don’t see me going over to your food and eating it in front of you so don’t do it to me 🌟Do unto others as you would have them do unto you🌟

[@SarveshManojkumar-q9w]

I ❤ Am I The Jerk.

[@thelearningmethod]

Yep, me too!

[@brittanycoleman878]

Me too

[@spubermanwithgun3772]

Same

[@badomenart]

So the meat store is what made me the most mad, due to me living in a family of hunters, and my dad having two freezers full of meat (elk and deer) and if someone did that, may what ever being the believe in have mercy on them, because my dad would not. Edit: I don’t have any problems with vegans, my best friend is vegan-ish. Just don’t force it onto people and we don’t have a problem (I’m mainly talking about the vegan teacher or people like that)

[@sirprize275]

Plane Story: If it was the woman's seat why was OP and another soldier already there, and why was she the one kick off the plane instead of the two "sitting in her seat"? It's seriously getting frustrating listening to you trying to defend entailed parents and try to let them off the hook when they are clearly in the wrong.

[@Demonic_Culture_Nut]

Airlines overbook flights expecting people to miss þem. It's a scummy, but common practice.

[@viviennemorgan7217]

how are they in the wrong when they didn't know it was hers and if that was her seat than they would have let her sit in the middle seat ?

[@kavo1460]

⁠​​⁠​⁠They were acting entitled themself because they are army. Army that isn’t mandatory like in other countries. They sent a mother and her baby away to wait at the airport for probably HOURS. The airport double booking seets is the bigger asshole of course but EVERYONE would be furious to muss their flight because someone else is sitting in their seat that probably doesn’t even have a seat number to them. Especially because she’s flying alone with her baby that she has to protect and care for, so if course she’s probably also sleepdebrived. They also did nothing to react and called her a jerk in the post while also sounding awfully entitled to a seat because they’re military. Of course they are less if a jerk but pisting this story online and wording it this way, like EVERYONE has to respect them now because they’re military is just such a scummy move

[@Demonic_Culture_Nut]

@@kavo1460 Unless þe seat was only reserved for her (unlikely due to how airlines operate), she has no claim to it since OP also got þe seat got þere at an earlier airport. If she had been more respectable, everyone on þe plane would've been asked to volunteer for a later flight in exchange for points þey could use for anoþer trip at no additional cost or a refund.

[@viviennemorgan7217]

@@kavo1460 dude how are they entitled if they think that the seats Belonged to the woman and the baby than they would have given up their seats or let her sit in between them.

[@lianabaddley8217]

I've had a plain dry sandwich taken. They left the mayo, and the veggies. Someone also has taken an open 3/4 full drink. At my job if you get caught stealing anything you're fired. Too bad we're open 24/7-365 with close to/over 1000 people.

[@AlucardHellsing-ct4ej]

If my son would have ruined all that venison, I’d force him to eat meat or starve. You don’t respect my choice to eat meat, I won’t respect your wish to be vegetarian.

[@mischelepentz3613]

Not only should that vegetarian kid be cleaning up his own mess but he should be made to pay for the family’s grocery bill for the rest of the year - meat and all. When we were children, we learned that any time we ruined something of someone else’s our parents would make us purchase a replacement of equal or greater value. Well, he just ruined their meals for the rest of the year. Now he needs to buy meat of equal or greater value for the rest of the year, in addition to cleaning out the freezer and replacing it if needed. Got to clean up your own messes.

[@TheChitowngirl23]

That is alot of trouble for lunch I would have brought in Exlax brownies

[@eldergeek6077]

Theft is theft and should be taken seriously. This is one reason I don't want an office job.

[@NA-qo7xm]

I was working sommer job in warehouse of Big company as night shift dispacher. I would bring with me 500g penuts as energy boost. I would put them in a fridge in cafeteria. After a week I started to notice that a lot would be missing at the end of the shift. I got angry one day when someone took all. So next day before work I had a small bag penuts mixed with a lot of strong chili. Came to work and put that bag in fridge. On my brake I went in to check. The floor was coverd with peannutts and womet. After that my bag was never messed with. Best revenge ever.

[@tomeu9872]

S1. Nobody makes a move on my food. It's way too spicy.

[@nyotamwuaji6484]

The stealing of lunches isnt about if a person CAN afford their own lunches, why should they bother if they can get free food with no consequences

[@ShadowGuardian_32]

If you get the wrong person angry about stealing food and having supposedly no consequences be aware there are people that like to play with very spicy stuff that are sometimes even hotter and a lot more dangerous than Carolina reaper peppers - just to forewarn you

[@nyotamwuaji6484]

@@ShadowGuardian_32 you have to be careful with that too. they can sue you for booby trapping it and win. you would have to make it where you could eat it and no one else could.

[@brodielarson9096]

Thankfully I've never had to deal with a lunch their because I'm in high school, and my dad doesn't have to either because there is a restaurant in his work office, so all he has to do is order it and go pick it up a few minutes later.

[@rachel1248]

The one with the vegetarian son is even worse when you think about all the meat they would have to buy or all the other animals that had to be killed to restock, so the only thing he accomplished is make everything worse for everyone, animals included.

[@charlenevarada--Stargazer]

I solved a lunch problem when I was working. I would leave my workplace & go eat somewhere else.😊

[@Lord_Cointoss]

Our lunch problem was easily solved. we put a video camera in such a way that it could be seen not only who takes the food, but also Whose food he takes. The thief was found and fired in disgrace. and in his "Reason for dismissal" they wrote so. "as a specialist he is good, but he prone to stealing other people's meals. It took him a long time to find a job. in the end, he demanded through the court that this "paragraph." be removed from his "Personal file". that was the last I heard of him. so don't worry. lunch Thieves Problem. Is an international problem. 😄👍

[@sardonically-inclined7645]

Fro the lunch story, well done. For the vegetarian story, kid should be grateful he made to clean it up with no gloves.

[@notsuperhumain]

They were too nice to kyle. I d make my lunch so spicy, it ll cause immense pain. I love extra extra spicy food. So it's a win for me.

[@SuperRandomNinja1]

The thing is yes the company is not responsible for personal items. But in many states they are responsible for providing a safe and secure place to store personal items

[@izukukageyama7552]

That meat freezer one kind of hits close to home, my sister lives in Arkansas with her husband and 4 kids (which is like a 16 hr drive from where I live so I don't see them much). They also *had* an outside freezer full of at least $1k worth of meat from the grocery store, before her youngest son apparently unplugged the freezer for absolutely no reason other than to plug in something else. They also didn't notice that it was unplugged until it was so disgusting that they literally threw the freezer itself away because it was beyond cleanable. I had no financial stake (haha get it steak?) in that freezer, but that kid was lucky I live 16 hours away, because I would have beat his ass.

[@ShadowC14]

I use to work at a clinic that had a notorious lunch thief, and the biggest problem was everyone knew full well who it was but they practically were untouchable since they were the personal scribe to the main doctor. That person is exactly why I started eating spicy food, since that guaranteed my would never get touched nor could I barely afford to feed myself let alone a thief. More than a decade later I've gone so deep into the rabbit hole that nearly anything I eat noe has cayenne pepper or something hotter even tho I am far, far pass the point of having to deal with a food thief.

[@luisbarradas5948]

Ez solution: put a ridiculous amount of laxatives on it. Then wait to see who goes missing the next days

[@Tubb2581]

Story 1: HR is to protect the Company. Personal is for the employees. The lunch thing, 100% yes. Especially if u get something like from subway or McD. That shits GONE.

[@aniE1869]

When a person doesn't eat meat for an extended period already smells bad. Rotten would be so much worse. Kid deserves it though.

[@Thundarr100]

When I make chili, I like to make it really REALLY spicy. Like, you absolutely must eat it with shredded cheese and sour cream or you will destroy your mouth. If someone were to start stealing my lunches on the daily, I would cook up a huge batch of chili to last me the week, and bring a Tupperware container of it to work for my lunch ("forgetting" to bring along the cheese and sour cream). Even if Kyle doesn't complain to HR about me making my chili so spicy, the fact that everyone will witness his mad dash to the bathroom once the spices kick in will let everyone know exactly who the thief is. And on the off chance that Kyle likes spicy chili even more than I do, I'd also bake some homemade brownies with chopped up chocolate flavored laxatives baked in and pack a couple "for dessert". This one might get me in trouble with HR, but I'd just tell them that I made those brownies for ME. That I'd been suffering from constipation lately and needed those brownies to poop.

[@pokefan213]

ok hear me out on the Lunch Thief one- Ghost Peppers/Ghost Pepper hot sauce in the food, or chocolate laxative in a dessert. that's just how I personally would have done it~ maybe even BOTH

[@drukerus]

A fiesta that burns on both ends

[@pokefan213]

@@drukerus YOU GET ME, YES.

[@MMM_toasty]

For the first story I would find out the thief and then find out what they are allergic to and pack my lunch with a lot of what they are allergic to. Okay maybe not😐

[@isabellebise8440]

That vegetarian guy pissed me off. Ive been veg for 8 years now and i don't force it on anyone, its not my place. If i think food is good guess what , i recommend for people to try it, thats it. And with his statement about interacting with meat, that was such a jerk statement. I worked for a year as a kitchen manager and prepared more chicken than i think i would have eaten in the past 8 years. I think OP was valid and the punishment or what we saw of the punishment fit the crime.

[@johnnymcneal5914]

I work in retail and various jobs for almost 40 years and not once not once has anyone ever stolen my lunch

[@susiq58]

I had a friend that refused to remember my grandson's name. She came to visit for what was planned as a weekend Friday thru Sunday. We were eating breakfast Saturday, me, my friend and grandson. Friend kept calling my grandson little boy, he never responded, 3 yr old, only responded to his name. Then she had the nerve to tell me he was disrespectful. That ended that visit early and the friendship.

[@crystalratclffe3258]

Loud neighbors renting.... I would call owner/landlord every 15 min after 10pm....

[@masterofinfinity479]

i can relate to the neighbors partying, for about two years this happened, eventually three cops moved in near by

[@Idk_and_idc..]

Pov: you steal someones lunch one too many times *spot holes 2 starts playing* 💀

[@AlexCren1]

In college we had someone stealing leftovers and deserts out of the community fridge. I got my quart of ice cream stolen numerous times and most of a pizza. Well me and another friend who also had ice cream go missing decided that it was time for the person to pay. We bought chocolate chip ice cream and vanilla ice cream. We happily emptied the chocolate chip ice cream container into our bowls and chowed down. Then we took the softened vanilla and a couple of boxes of chocolate ex-lax we broke up and mixed the two. The results went into the empty chocolate chip container. We even put the plastic seal back in place. The rigged carton was placed in the community fridge and we waited. Sure enough it disappeared that night! The culprit was never caught technically, but a resident was heard blowing up the bathroom and crying in there most of the next day. Suddenly nothing went missing in that fridge! I was worried we would get in trouble, but since no one could prove who got sick and who doctored the ice cream it just went down as a warning passed through the dorms to leave anything alone that wasn’t yours…

[@viviennemorgan7217]

i'm glad that op switched his lunch with his boss and the lunch thief has been caught but maybe not time someone should write a note and post it on the the fridge saying don't steal or don't take lunches from coworkers.

[@viviennemorgan7217]

that's what my store manager did.

[@Leosloth2011]

Yk people ignore those

[@annettegustafson1435]

Oh for gosh sake! Pack your lunch in a mini cooler with a cooling brick inside. Some of the coolers even come with lockable zippers

[@geraldmaschmann5576]

Or, don’t steal.

[@monroerobbins7551]

13:42 yeah, if I were the OP, I’d give em a lemon pie once a month, lol. I hate noisy neighbors, and that family, whether they knew it or not, has saved a lot of people a massive headache.

[@Mayhem001]

2 dose of Laxative mixed in your food and wait.. Wait at the toilets area, camera's on.. check✅🤣🤣🤣

[@jasonhoward1308]

I had someone stealing my lunch at an old job so I loaded it up with ex-lax 😂😂

[@dootfan1]

Last story response:I am just suprised like,RENAMING THEM?oh cmon yeah that's what you deserve no more contact with em and the other siblings thinking she was crazy:perfect👍

[@Droobie03]

Should dumped a bottle of flavorless laxatives into your lunch and just wait.

[@dashdash3615]

Kyle should have been fired

[@susandevlin5981]

I broke someone of stealing my lunch. I put dog shit in the middle of my sandwich and announced what I did after the guy is finishing it and to.d everyone in the breakroom what I did. The maintenance guy started gagging and ran to the arhroom, I followed and told him to never take my lunch again or dog shit may turn into rat poison. That idiot never looked at me again

[@IgrisBloodRed91]

Even crazier is that OP is like too many other people. (They don’t care until it happens to them!)

[@PixieTheRabbit]

LOL! I have experience several lunch thieves. My favorite was my roommate, who kept losing her chocolate cake in a shared hallway fridge. She finally put Ex-Lax in the cake. We figured out who the thief was!