People who label their little lunch baggy or single diet soft drink and then put it in the communal fridge at work bother the shit out of me. Are you that afraid someone might eat or drink it? Why are you putting it in there? Get a micro fridge if you are that paranoid.
It’s like the kind of roommate who lives in a group house but labels their milk and peanut butter. If you want to act that way live alone, or in this case, work alone. See ya.
Remember Pedro on the Real World (God rest his soul), “Puck…I saw you dipping your fingers in my peanut butter.”
I’m no Puck, I’ve always respected other people’s property, but man, that Pedro was annoying.
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You sir, are a door mat.
At least I’m a good roommate and not the one everyone talks about behind their back for being lame.
so what are you saying? If i want to store stuff in the company refrigerator it should be considered free for the taking by anyone who might like it? Or is it just the labeling that bothers you, and you’re just saying I should remember which of the damn little plain brown bags is mine?
Pedro was annoying, but Puck was a filthy maggot. If he was ever in the same ROOM as my paper bag lunch I would have it burned and disposed of properly, wherever you’re supposed to put batteries when they die.
I think it is the labeling that is the biggest offense. If your roomies are scum bags, they are going to eat your shit no matter if it is labeled or not. All the label does is say, ” I am dying for a passive aggressive way to bitch at you” Who the fuck stores a can of soda? Slam that shit. In addition, the people who leave rancid food in the fridge for 5 weeks…they never label it,so you can’t take it and put it in their desk. Also, leaving it unlabeled makes it less likely to be taken in my opinion. If it is marked by someone in the office I don’t give a shit about, I would almost drink it out of spite. But if it is a mystery soda, I wouldn’t want to offend the coworkers I like. Oh jesus this is so complicated.
PS- if they take the time to make the label out of the little clicky gun plastic label makers, then the tables are turned and they are awesome.
I have to agree with zenpvnk. I don’t think I need to deal with some LAZY ASSHOLE who thinks, for whatever reason, that he/she can take whatever they want in this world without consideration of others.
I don’t label my shit, mostly out of laziness than anything else, but I don’t hold a useless and senseless grudge against those that do. Most likely those people have had something of theirs taken in the past.
It isn’t about storing shit. People strive to save money (yeah, some of us gots to watch the dimes, such is life), so they buy shit to make their lunches with every day, etc, have a hard time with the boss, coworkers throw them under the fucking bus, vendors, clients, whatever, and then they want to have a moment of fucking peace and quiet with their lunch and find out that some bastard with an overblown sense of entitlement took their stuff. So they do what they can.
Please note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
I am familiar with the Tragedy of the Commons, Prisoner’s Dilemma, Collective Good, etc. they are all saying the same thing: invariably some humans will not act morally, whatever that means, and do something for personal gain that screws over the group. This is life.
My point is, don’t meekly carve your name on a can of diet soda and expect it to deter theft, in all likelihood it will not. It only makes you look impotent and paranoid. Rise up, live, and have hope.
i take personal offense to this post because i was the victim of stephen swyberius stealing my diet coke that had my name on it. you know WHY i labeled it? because people like him force me to do so. otherwise it would be a free for all. NOT that the labeling worked, i found the post-it with my name on it lying by itself in the refrigerator when i went to retrieve my diet coke. A bottle, not a can.
in addition, i know it was stephen because he also stole the two skor bars that you, michael, gave me as a gift. guess what? to this day he has not replaced either (nor has he admitted to the diet coke incident, but that’s to be expected).
HEAR HEAR, TAMSIN!
Though I am an offender, I don’t take offense to Michael’s opinion because I happen to hate many different types of people for similar reasons.
But to justify my reasons– I wrote my name all big style on my company-issued lunch SACK (which I store in the communal fridge) in the event that someday, a coworker decides to also use their identical company-issued lunch SACK. It hasn’t happened yet because as far as I know, I’m the only one who hasn’t thrown the SACK away.
Stephen Swyberius also stole Kristin’s ear buds, then pretended to find them for her.
I see that, based on the comments, the public is split. Why not discuss another topic, maybe where there will be a bit more solidarity–perhaps, another case of labeling–hmm, maybe let’s say libel–as in the comment posted by Tamsin?
Honestly, I’ll man up to any theft I commit. I did not, I repeat, did not commit that theft of her labeled soda. Had I taken it, I would have admitted it (and prolly taken the label as a keepsake). So, back to the discussion on libel?
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