I love my colleagues...

mrbios

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mrbios

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Last week i fixed a teachers personal PC at work, he was very grateful as it was packed with malware and spyware, and he was pretty worried as he runs an ebay shop, he kindly said he would get me a treat for doing it seeing as it was done at work but during my lunch, i was off on friday and that was the day he dropped off my treat....

2 bottles of dark ale + a box of heroes, wonderful, or so i thought.... I came in today to find my 2 bottles of ale on my desk, lovely but what's this small pile of fudge and caramel chocolates? a short hunt around the office reveals my box of chocolates by my managers chair, with all of the bournville,twirls and dairy milks gone. I'm left with fudges and caramels.....neither of which i like.

Charming. Neither he nor the other technician did any of the work, and deserved none of the credit or rewards. I would have gladly shared my reward with them today, but never again, in the future if i ever do a job for anyone out of kindness and they say "oh i'll get you a little something" i'll make 100% sure that i speak to them privately to give it to me when neither of my "colleagues" are around. AGGGHHH

I ****ing hate my colleagues. This isn't an isolated incident either, it's a regular yearly occourance that certain members of the "team" are incredibly selfish and don't share, but this is the first time i've had my rewards basically stolen :mad:. Am i alone in working with ******* or do many of us put up with this crap?
 
Luckily my team are really good and we always share - did work for someone before where that kind of thing happened.

I was tempted to lace some beer with a laxative and give them out as a thank you! :)
 
That is well out of order.
Next time.....
Buy a box of Heroes and open the box at home and carefully open a few and put them in your pants for a couple of seconds. Then carefully wrap them up and put back in the box and reseal it.
Take to work and leave on your desk just before you have another day off.
Simples.
 
id ask why they stole your chocolates and get all serious about it. Then do one of them pretend to throw a punch moves and see if he flinches then do it again, then 3rd time smack him right in the face. Then id get his home address go round there and burn it down.
 
simulatorman said:
Just leave out a box laced with laxatives.
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This is always mentioned and is always the best revenge :D

if they say you purposely did it then just say your constipated and thought it would have been nice way to releive your situation and take away the yucky tast of Medicine and it was his own fault for not asking before taking your sweets :D
 
Sp00n said:
So it's ok to take your stuff, as long as it's only a few things?
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The other guy wouldn't have taken them, he'd have been given them by my manager, the theft wasn't directly from him and i would have given him some anyway.

I obviously don't know that for certain, but knowing what i know it's the most likely circumstance, i'll definitely mention it tomorrow and see what the excuse is.
 
Personally I wouldn't mention it. If it causes a massive row, it's just not worth the tension in the office for a couple of chocolates. Chocs make you fat anyway, you should be thanking them :p.

Do something back but under the radar, like keep moving your manager's stationery to your colleague's desk :p.
 
Smash their pasties!

And I mean literally smash their pasties before they take it out of their lunch packs!
 
It's not like they've eaten a £20 box of chocolates? They're just some heroes. And you'll look like a right di*k making a fuss over them. Totally not worth creating a hostile enviroment. Just joke about it to your manager. And say next time you'll lace them with laxatives. He'll feel bad about it if you act appropriately.

Enjoy your ale and lighten up!
 
Agreed with Snooble. In this situation I wouldn't kick off over a small box of chocolates that have been opened, although I would be annoyed.

I would make a joke about it if it happened to me, something like "ahh I woulda had a XYZ sweet but there is none left thanks to you greedy vultures, next time I'll lace them with laxatives, reeeey, banter, etc".

If it persists, lace them laxatives, at least you can say you warned them :D
 
Snooble said:
It's not like they've eaten a £20 box of chocolates? They're just some heroes. And you'll look like a right di*k making a fuss over them. Totally not worth creating a hostile enviroment. Just joke about it to your manager. And say next time you'll lace them with laxatives. He'll feel bad about it if you act appropriately.

Enjoy your ale and lighten up!
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So you honestly wouldn't be annoyed if someone ate what is to me effectivly an entire box of chocolates that was given to you from work you had done?

Robbie G - im a skinny git, i need that fat! :D

I'm seeing this as more of an issue because things like this are a regular occourance, not just a one off, there's also the problem where i'm the only one that knows how to do my job, and i don't mean tha in the cocky sense, they really don't know how to do their jobs! These are people who work in IT and struggle to setup a network printer for gods sake!!

I just feel when i get rewarded for my hard work i want to enjoy those rewards, not have someone steal them from me.
 
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