October 21, 2005
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[mood | Furious
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[music| Pussy Cat Dolls- Don't Cha]Work Etiquite
Two words: Communial. Refridgerator. (they fucking suck!)
Those of you in the working world probably have had the experience of sharing a lunchroom/lounge with coworkers. As I learned today, this can be a royal pain in the ass.
I’ve worked in 2 different schools before coming to California. I have stored my lunch (on the days I brought it) in the staff longue. Never once was a problem. Not until today.
Money has been tight since my move to Cali. It hasn’t been easy with taking a paycut, paying 2 apartments, adjusting to a higer cost of living, etc. So what do I do when reevaluating my budget? I do what most young people do and decide I’m spending too much on eating, and as a result, vow to pack my lunches from now on. No more $35 week in catering and eating out, just for lunch.
So I stock up at Pavillions for the week and last night I assemble a pretty good lunch: Tomato and Basil Bisque, those little round oyster crackers, wheat thins, devil’s food cookies, a grapefruit bowl, and a red rasperry spritzer and not to mention, a spoon for my soup. Sounds pretty decent, right? Well, I skipped breakfast today and was starving by the time lunch came around and was dying to eat my lunch.
I arrive in the longue at the beginning of lunch. I’m practically salvating becuase I am so hungry and I can’t wait to get in line for the microwave first and eat my soup. However, I open the fridge to find that not only has my lunch bag been opened, but everything has been eaten out of it.
Oh yeah, some malaka enjoyed my soup (they left me about 2 spoonfulls and put it back), with crackers, my wheat thins, my cookies, my grapefruit and washed it all down with my spritzer. It was gone. I just stood there for a moment staring at the open bag that contained just a tiny bit of soup. The fucker even took my Chinese spoon (you know the soup spoons). I hope that bitch chokes on it. lol.
It was the last straw. I just burst into tears out of shock, anger and frustration. Seriously, what kind of person steals someone’s lunch? You know when you open the bag that it’s not your food. Why fucking eat it? You know damn well what you did and didn’t bring to lunch.
There have been several times where I have not been able to eat lunch because I forgot it or was out of money, but not once have I ever thought about stealing and eating someone else’s lunch. It’s just ludacris. Who fucking does that?
Malakies!
So, I guess what I am wanting to hear are your crazy coworker etiquite stories, you know, to make myself feel better
What’s the most henious thing a coworker has done to you? Or that you’ve done to a coworker?
Comments (18)
oh man that’s horrible.
Wow, that’s quite a lunch you packed! I can’t believe someone stole it–especially one of your coworkers. What’s wrong with people?!
Yeah, that sucks. It happened to my aunt–except someone just took a bite out of her sandwich and put it back, just for spite I suppose. It makes me sad when people are such assholes.
By the way, my aunt works at the canning factory fictionalized in my novel, where I also worked summers through high school and part of college. Hehe. And so I think you have a pretty good idea what kind of place that is to work.
if you pee on your food no one will dare fuck with it.
Goodness…working in Taiwan I could write a book!!
That sucks though, and I hope Karma bites or in this case chokes, that person in the ass *mwuah*!
You probably need to bring food in a lunch box with lock on it !
I found some lunch boxes on http://www.target.com. but i couldn’t tell it they have latches for small pad locks. You’ll need to go there in person to see.
http://www.target.com/gp/search.html/ref=sr_bx_1/601-0489978-3568143?field-keywords=lunch+box&url=index%3Dtarget
oh damn, that sucks. i’d bring good food again, but this time with poison. wahahahahaha.
wth. i thought you were done making entries cause everytime i subscribe i dont get anything@@!! So you have a boooyfriend now since you’ve been here huh!! i know exactly where las flores is, by Rancho Santa Margarita!! i was looking at condos down there, eehhh hehe. i might even do mission viejo so thats really close too! well i hope cali is treating you well and im glad you have someone to show you around and make you comfy!!
Hope all is well!
~LIz
in irvine.
it’s on Fu Xing Nan Lu, right across from the Technology Building station. i need to go back too!
u’ve seen -j- before??? how??? did you go to school with him??
that’s crazy…..i cant believe you’ve met -j- before….well come up and introduce urself if you come on saturday…..
–honest male
u know what….i have no idea which field we’re playing at….that be more of a -j- question…..do you have his email address or phone #?
update more!
hey long time no see
i rarely look at protected posts..haha
so that is y i don come here offten!
wow, that’s definitely low. If it’s any consolation, one time a coworker stole 100.00 from me and claimed that it was his and that I just had a faulty memory and wanted to cause a conflict in the workplace…
thanks for the hugs! i need them!