I love my colleagues...

wait till xmas time, get a tin of quality street and open them all up (especially purple) and put in some laxatives... give em the s**** over christmas. greedy b*******.
 
Well in my workplace nobody just takes chocolates from your desk unless you've asked them to take some.

I guess my workplace is more respectful :p
 
Did they know who gave you them? If they didnt you should have said who stole my (insert friend or family whos ill) gift. See what he says then and make them pay for them.
 
Speirs said:
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.
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THIS, but for extra effect video yourself doing it and put it on an SD card at the bottom of the box labelled "play me"

Muahaha! :D
 
Khaaan! said:
Well I'd be calling people something else instead of boring if I came back and my chocolates were eaten, I suspect most decent people would do the same!
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You have obviously never experienced a sharing and friendly workplace that doesn’t give a hoot about the odd chocolate or two or three. :p
 
Next time, get a well used hooker (filled up to the gold teeth with STDs) to unwrap each chocolate and lick each one and them wrap then back up. Take photos of the event as well as a covering note and leave it at the bottom on the box for your boss to eventually get to.
 
Where I work stuff on your desk is clearly yours and is to be left alone unless you have given someone permission to take it. Food left by the kettle is for everyone to share.

I'd be pretty annoyed if someone took chocolates from my desk without asking, its just plain rude.
 
My line-manager at work has taken a few liberties with food I've (and my other colleagues) left between shifts a few times. The first time I had a laugh and a joke about it as I'd forgotton it was there anyway, and hinted that it wasn't really a respectful thing to do and I wouldn't do it to anyone myself. Golden rule and all that. A few weeks later, he did it again, but to someone else's stuff, so we started putting post-it notes over anything we left specifically saying "<name> don't touch!" and "Not for <name>", etc. He got quite offended, but didn't touch anything for quite some time.

A few months down the line and he's back to pinching stuff he thinks he can get away with, so another colleague and myself left some chocolate in the fridge just to taunt him and see how long before he steals it, each telling him it's so and sos and they're saving it. It lasted a week.

Thankfully, life's too short to get too annoyed but if it ever esculated beyond pinching the odd thing I don't really care about anyway, like the odd cake or whatever, to say... trying to use me as a full-on scapegoat or pinching my dinner I'd left for my next shift, I'd be having very strong words. So far, it's just the bog-standard give and take stuff you'd expect from working with familiar people mixed in with some craftiness. As a result though, one of my work-mates and I basically share everything and don't even keep track - only rule is to leave stuff if the other is opening and can't get out to the shops for lunch as it's just the decent thing to do. Other than that, we've just started hiding anything we think the manager will pinch when we're not looking.
 
mrbios do either of your colleagues like apples? I can pretty much guarantee they wont take a thing off of your desk again after biting into one of these bad boys.

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Simple option. Be more like the BOFH

Don't fix peoples personal computers. Try not to fix works computers. Just do enough to keep your job.

That way you won't have to worry about people stealing your "rewards"
 
I've had this happen before. Generally the etiquette is to let the person who earned the reward open the box and have first pick, then they are fair game but on more than one occasion this has failed to happen with my stuff in my absence. Can't say I'm too bothered as I'm not the biggest fan of the stuff I get anyway and they know that to be fair.

Something on a different level of rudeness though was when I left a ready meal in the staffroom fridge with my name on a post it on it (just incase anyone had the same meal!)

Come my lunchtime yes you guessed it I found it half eaten in the bin with the discarded cardboard sleeve and said post it note! did ask the people who were there at the time if someone might have had it by mistake but everyone just shrugged! Livid! Like Ross in friends!
 
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