One of the first rules we learn as children is to not take what doesn’t belong to you. But not everyone adheres to that rule, especially when it’s about food. And when it comes to stealing someone else’s lunch at work, one out of five workers admit that they’ve eaten someone else’s lunch out of the office fridge.
When one netizen was confronted with one such lunch thief, they decided to spice things up. Literally. To out the office glutton, they added some extra spice to their lunch and even labeled it “very spicy.” When the thief got an upset stomach, colleagues reprimanded the netizen. So, they asked the Internet: whose fault was it really?
To get more perspective on this matter, Bored Panda asked Louise Carnachan, an organization development consultant and author of Work Jerks: How to Cope with Difficult Bosses and Colleagues, for her opinion. She kindly agreed to tell us how people can deal with lunch thieves in the office more effectively.
