'She got her comeuppance... at the office Christmas potluck': "Susan the Snack Stealer" tries to hoard food at the office holiday potluck, gets confronted by the entire office

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Dec 11, 2023 11:00 AM EST

This woman was a notorious food thief… until there was a showdown at the office potluck.

When someone gains a nickname like "Susan the Snack Stealer," you can quickly figure out what type of person they are. Clearly, this woman had a reputation around her office for being a serial snack snatcher. Due to her entitled attitude, she was completely fine with pilfering her coworker's sodas, granola bars, and chocolate (which they bought with their own money and brought to work to eat). 

When you're hungry, you don't always make the best decisions. I wonder if Susan felt any remorse after stealing those morsels. It's one thing if someone is stealing because they're genuinely hungry. But for others, it's like a game to see what they can get away with. They thrive off of the tension. Will they get caught, or will they get away with it? Every sneaky theft is a thrill to these people. 

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  • Check out this excellent story from u/NotARobotDefACyborg down below. And after that, read about the reason why you should definitely not mess with call center reps during the holiday season. 

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    'Every single person in the office was glaring at her'
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    Susan the Snack Stealer I used to work with a super-entitled woman once upon a time. Her name was Susan. Susan liked to get to the office earlier than everyone else, but I didn't find out why that was until I'd worked there for a few months.
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    She was the sort who liked to help herself to the snacks people had in the communal fridge. She'd also take individual sodas from the case my cubicle neighbor kept under her desk, and had a real thing for stealing either my chocolate or my good granola bars, depending on what I had stashed, right out of my desk drawer.
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    She got her comeuppance one year at the office Christmas potluck. We had a lady who did Greek cooking, and was magnificent at it. This particular year, she'd brought in an enormous tray of mini spanakopita, the spinach and feta cheese in phyllo dough. Each roughly the size of an Oreo cookie. Literally hundreds of these little beauties, stacked two high on the tray, just waiting to be devoured.
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    And then along came Susan, with the Tupperware of Holding. I s*it you not, she scooped fully 1/4 of the contents of that tray into her Tupperware, looking around furtively to make sure no one would try to stop her. She brushed the phyllo crumbs from her fingers, popped the seal on her Y-size Tupperware, and turned smugly away from the buffet table...
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    And every single person in the office was glaring at her, fit to set her permanently ablaze. Our office manager was particularly salty, because she, dear reader, was the Greek chef who had provided these delicious morsels.
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    She spoke, and it was with the voice of a vengeful Goddess. "SUSAN, WHAT IN THE THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" :crickets: DO YOU And then, the foot-tapping began. Tap. Tap. Tap. And the hand on the hip.
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    And finally, the FINGER OF DOOOOOOM did aim at Susan, Thief of Treats, Hoarder of Spanakopita. And Susan did meekly open her Tupperware Y-Bowl, and return unto the tray roughly 90% of the 'pita. Thus was the Office Manager appeased, and thus was Susan forever sneak-shamed.
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    blackav3nger You have my upvote and my glee. Some places even fire you for such behavior, I have only seen visual proof of it twice in my middle age life, but yes it does happen.
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    NotARobotDefACyborg OP. Susan didn't get fired, but she was watched like a hawk from then on. I don't think she stole anything else during the rest of the time I worked with her - she transferred to another office about a year and a half following the Potluck Caper.
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    + [deleted] All of my coworkers do this. If someone brings cake for 15 people, it's get eaten by 2 or 3 people in a matter of hours. We all work in pairs of 3/4 in different shifts. If someone brings candy or something else, they bring enough so every shift can eat it. But nope. By the time my shift starts, it's all gone, or a tiny scrap is left.
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    NotARobotDefACyborg OP. I've run into that, too. One tiny scrap of edge frosting, with a thick smear of cake crumbs attached, usually.
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    Brilliant_Jewel1924 I worked with a woman who never contributed to our potlucks. (And this wasn't a financial issue because she would voluntarily tell you that she worked because she needed something to do. When she would contribute, which was as rare as a solar eclipse, it would be something like generic store-bought cupcakes or a bag of chips.) She sure would always be first in line, though, usually before we were even finished setting up.
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    Flighterdoc I had a classmate in pilot training in the Air Force - he'd come and visit and eat up all our snacks (never mind drink our beer)... We got him....put dog biscuits in cookie bags and left them out. It took him a few hours to figure out that he wasn't enjoying an oreo
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    JessiCat0520 Thankfully I've never personally witnessed any Susans, but I've heard a few stories from our office manager. One woman we worked with would buy a giant stash of snacks for the office that she paid for out of pocket. She would refresh around once a month. So obviously chips and stuff lasted longer, but fruit was gone pretty quickly. Our office
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    manager witnessed someone taking a whole bunch of bananas back to their own desk so they could have one every day. Another person left a sticky note complaining that the apples were too big. Nothing too egregious, but annoyingly funny.
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    MorgainofAvalon Tap tap tap ... the sound she heard before the flames of embarrassment licked from her toes to her forehead. Great story. ;) 34 Reply Share NotARobotDefACyborg OP. Hee! The tell-tale taps of imminent mortification! thanks for the upvote!
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