'Am I wrong for physically taking food away from [my] coworker?': Employee spots their new replacement stealing coworkers' food from the office

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    Font - "Am I wrong for physically taking food away from [my] coworker?" 0.
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    Font - Am I wrong for physically taking food away from coworker who tried to take it all home after a party, and not share with everyone? Am I wrong for physically taking food away from coworker who tried to take it all home after a party, and not share with everyone?
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    Font - Recently quit a job after 4 years. During my last 2 weeks, I trained the new hire. We'll call her Amy. She is 60 years old. I became very close with my coworkers at this job. There's 9 employees, and we all became like family.
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    Font - My boss surprised me by closing the place, inviting some of my family, and catering Panera bread. As a going away party. It was incredibly kind, and I appreciated it.
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    Font - We had tons of salads, sandwiches, bagels, etc. My boss tried to get me to take all of it home. I said the only right thing to do is share with everyone. A lot of the employees are low income. One of the employees is a 18 year old kid who is struggling to pay his bills. I told everyone that my boss and I would package everyone up the leftovers. Amy then chimes in while we're at the dinner table, saying "If not my dog and I would sure love that food". I said I would package her some up.
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    Font - We cleaned the table, and cut the cake. While we were sitting and talking about the past 4 years working together, Amy just disappears. My one coworker and I went in and saw a bag filled with sandwiches, bagels, countless bowls of soup, etc. there were a few bagels left over on the counter. I then take all the out of the bag while she wasn't around, and made 8 individual paper bags full of food. One for every employee excluding myself.
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    Font - She then walks back in and says "Where did my bag go?" And I said "Amy. Everyone is getting an equal amount of food. I told you this already" She then says "Well Tanya (our boss) said I can take the rest". Which was a total lie. Tanya said she never said that.
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    Font - We all leave to go into the main room. We sit for a while, and talk. Amy said she was leaving...and I had a funny feeling what was going to happen next. I go into the back room, and she was trying to leave with FIVE of the brown paper bags I made.
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    Font - I then stopped her, ripped the bags away from her, and she left. She never said another word. That was that. I walk back out to see everyone, and tell them what just happened. My boss said "It's really not a big deal. It's just sandwiches". And I couldn't have disagreed more. We all do our fair share of work at this job. It was my f party, and I wanted all of my coworkers, who I love, to get a share of the food.
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    Font - Amy knows people here aren't made of money. I know she isn't doing too well financially, but stealing isn't a way to fix that. One coworker is 18, and kicked out of his parents house for being gay. Another one is a single mom with 4 kids. Another one is 64 and needs this money to survive.
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    Font - And I'll be if they were going to leave my party empty handed. Especially not by someone who has worked here for 2 weeks. They were getting their food. Am I wrong? I mean I ripped those bags out of her hands like my life depended on it
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    Rectangle - Zealousideal-Job353- No. You're not wrong. Some people are so greedy. 4 707 Reply Share
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    Font - MNConcerto No, she was told twice by you and still tried. She may be struggling but so is everyone else that you mentioned. Just like the coworkers who show up at potlucks with tuperware bowls to take home enough for dinner before everyone has eaten, greedy m
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    Font - kb_run No; you're not wrong. At my old job, we had a rule in place that food brought for the parties had to stay on site. Mainly because of ONE co-worker who always wanted to "take food home for my kids" -- BEFORE the party had even started -- by packing it in their trunk! And then ALSO taking heaps of "leftovers" afterwards!
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    Font - People got angry because they wanted to take their leftovers home for themselves -- since they actually paid for it! And, as they also pointed out, that food could go to their own kids! Also? We had two lunch shifts -- and this person would take party food BEFORE the second lunch shift got any food. People like your co- worker are nightmares, and they make it impossible to have any sympathy for them! 114 Reply Share
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    Rectangle - Mueryk Not wrong. She is a thief and showed a lack of integrity and empathy. Luckily she is no longer your problem but your former boss's.
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    Gesture - ogmatty420. Would be surprised if Amy lasted 2 more weeks there. 61 Reply Share

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