Lunch Thief Gets Outed By Coworker's Pro Revenge

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mattstaff
Oct 23, 2021 4:00 PM EDT

Man, the people in this world that are out there stealing other people's lunches are really swinging low. It sounds like this particular lunch thief wasn't going to stop with their antics until someone literally exposed them. And oh boy, did they get exposed. I would've loved to have seen the look on "Kyle's" face when he got caught. Also though, pretty uncool on the part of the company itself for not getting involved with the lunches being stolen until one of the higher up's had their own lunch jacked. For another pro revenge tale check out the time that a landlord refused to return a deposit, got taken to court, appealed it, and then lost everything.

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    Rectangle - r/ProRevenge + Join u/RogueMisanthrope · 2d 1 W 1 2 15 16 3 21 11 "Employees' lunches are their personal property and the company is not responsible for lost or stolen personal items." Nobody likes a lunch thief, and I had one of the most aggressive at my office. There were rumors for a few months leading up to the inciting incident of someone going around and taking peoples' lunches. Just about every day someone different would complain that their lunch was missing.
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    Font - It even happened to me once or twice, but I figured hey, it's a big office, a few people are probably just careless and grab the wrong lunch and are too embarrassed to bring it back or someone else packs their lunch and they don't know what's in there so it's not obvious they have the wrong one, or whatever. Most people just brought brown bags with their names on it anyways, or identical Rubbermaid Tupperware with a little piece of labeled tape on the side. It was easy enough to mix it up
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    Font - But then it began. My wife enrolled in a French cooking class online and just about every day I was bringing fancy gourmand leftovers in for lunch. You'd think I was picking up a to go bag from a Michelin starred bistro on the way in each morning, she really threw herself into the coursework. There were no problems for about two weeks, maybe three, until one day my lunch went missing. Considering what delicacies I had to look forward to I was pretty miffed, but I did a once over around th
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    Font - Next day I write my name on my lunch in extra bold lettering, jam the bag into the back of the fridge, and feel peace of mind. I get there come break time, nope, it's gone. I was pretty upset, but I figured it was a stroke of bad luck, and left it at that. What else could I do? However, third day, out of an abundance of caution, I kept my lunch at my desk. A pain, because I had to eat it fairly early in the day to avoid spoilage, but at least l'd know where it was. I got up to take care o
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    Font - At that point there was no possibility of the theft being arbitrary, so I approached HR and filed a complaint. Their response, practically verbatim, was, "Employees' lunches are their personal property and the company is not responsible for lost or stolen personal items." The following day my wife packed a cream based soup that really had to be refrigerated. I was passing by the break room to check on my lunch practically every five minutes. Somehow it still managed to disappear. I was ir
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    Font - The only suitable alternative to packing a lunch available in the building are these wretched shrink wrapped ham and cheese sandwiches from a vending machine. They've been marinating in the heat for God knows how long and the bread is as stale as cork board and the meat is rancid and there's gluey mayo smushed into the center. It's a relic of the old office tenants' I'm pretty sure. I vented daily to my wife but her only idea was to start bringing a regular sandwich and apple again to dis
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    Font - I worked remotely for months and months. Then we returned, and after all that had happened globally, this was the last thing on my mind. But I got to the break room the first day back, frustrated from having to wear a button up and tie after months of working in pajamas, sore from my desk chair, and exhausted from small talk, only to find... my lunch was gone. This was a particularly sore point because my wife and I divorced between my last lunch and work and the present one. So I did not
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    Font - So, I came in the following day... with an empty lunch bag. And I checked closely to be sure no one was watching and... I switched the contents of the HR person's lunch bag into my bag. So now their lunch appeared to be my lunch. They'd packed a regular brown bag, so I just discarded that, and I left, and I waited. I knew this was a pretty big gamble because it was contingent on the theory that the thief was avoiding me while having lunch, but not wary of anyone else. So would eat out in
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    Font - So I made a big show of going around the office announcing that I was headed out for a meeting and I wouldn't be back until at least 3:00pm. I even went to the trouble of moving my car out of the lot to a space two streets over. Where I then sat in my car and worked remotely for several hours before sneaking into the building up the back stairway. I then sat in the stairwell just outside the break room, where you can hear chatter can't be seen, and after about 20-30 minutes of waiting, I
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    Font - (HR) Yah, let's head to my office for a chat. The HR rep later called me in as well and said they were "aware of my break room hijinks," but it was obvious that the point still came across loud and clear. They warned me that it was a violation of policy to move another employee's lunch-it took every ounce of self control for me to keep from retorting "I thought our lunches were our personal property and the company was not responsible for them being lost or stolen?" They informed me they'
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    Font - But better than whatever write up they might be able to issue Kyle, his reveal as the lunch thief occurred in front of the whole break room. So word quickly spread as to who had been stealing everyone's lunches earlier last year and he is now the office pariah. He was in line for a promotion. The promotion is indefinitely off the table. And I also earned brownie points for exposing him, though more than I'm satisfied with are being attributed to HR. At the end of the day though, I didn't
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