'Steal my lunch? Lose your job': Hangry senior manager catches lunch thieves on camera stealing his meal and fires them immediately

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Oct 20, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

This senior manager got payback against the local lunch thieves in the office by giving them a salty taste of justice.

If you make your lunch before work, you know a lot of time and effort goes into crafting a nutritious meal. Although you'll inevitably eat half of your lunch before your 10 AM meeting, the allure of taking your lunch break with the delicious snack you put together this morning is what gets a lot of workers through the first half of the workday. So when u/NowareNearbySomewear found out that some of his coworkers were stealing lunches, he took matters into his own hands. 

Those lunch thieves stole the wrong lunch that day, and after eating their senior manager's homemade chicken piccata, they were in for a whole lot of trouble. Keep scrolling to read the satisfying story where justice at work takes the form of a vindicated, hangry senior manager. 

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    Steal My lunch? Lose your job. X2 This is the story how I got two different people fired from a good job. I work for a tech company and we have LOTS of cameras
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    in our building. We have a lunch room which also has cameras. Not hidden. They are litterally clearly there. After a particularly long and busy day (one where I didnt have time to eat lunch) I finally had a
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    few minutes to sit down and eat. I go to the communal fridge and my food is gone. So I am starving and exhausted. No food. Im . What the thief didnt bank on,
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    was that the one meal that he shouldnt have stolen was mine, A Senior Manager who had access to more cameras at my finger tips than people
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    know about. Same thing happened a few months later. Both fired within a few days. Dont steal food from work. You never know who you could be stealing from.
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    SM1955 When I worked the only corporate job I ever had, the lunch thief was OUR GENERAL MANAGER. Man made 3X our salaries and still stole our food! He'd also have "team meetings" at his house and order pizzas-but he'd invariably order two or three times the number of pizzas we'd need and freeze the rest. Yeah, Martin, I'm talking about you!
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    NowareNearby Somewear OP Some people have no business being managers. Some people have no business being entry level and should be replacing the managers who should be entry level workers. lol
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    LindonLilBlue How are there so many stories about people eating coworkers food?!? I am in my 40's and have never looked over at a coworkers meal and thought it was better than my food.
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    Brief-History-6838 I mean im 38 and over the years ive seen a few meals in the fridge that looked better than what id bought for lunch that day. Still never once thought about taking someone elses food.
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    not-rasta-8913 Imho this should be a default fireable offense. If you're willing to steal someone's lunch who knows what else you're doing to the company. Idc if you're hungry and steal food from a supermarket, but these are your coworkers who probably make roughly as much as you do.
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    booboo773 Agreed. Theft is theft no matter what. If someone lacks the morals to keep them from stealing food then they're likely to feel entitled to take whatever they want whenever they want.
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    NowareNearby Somewear OP I agree, and in many organizations I know it is treated as theft. But Ive also had my lunch stolen many years ago and they said it was my responsibility. The LP I dealt with offered me
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    delivery food out of compassion and admitted it sucked the way the company handles personal belonging theft. He ended up being a good friend and has helped been a part of my career progression within that company.
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    Careless-Image-885 Happened a lot where I worked. One night, the clerk (lowest paid on the unit) brought a fried shrimp po- boy in for her dinner. By the time she could take a break, she was starving. Bit into her sandwich and....nothing. Someone had taken out all the shrimp and left the bread in its wrapper like it had not been touched.
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    Initial-Shop-8863 Behold the corporate double standard. When a senior manager's lunch gets stolen, HR is on it and people get fired. When a lowly peon employee's lunch gets stolen HR couldn't care less and, "No, we can't access
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    cameras for this petty issue. It's not a company problem, it's a you problem." So why are there no consequences when one peon employee steals from another peon employee, but people get fired when a peon employee steals from a senior manager?
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    NowareNearby Somewear OP I will be completely frank. You are not wrong. But I have also supported an entry level employee in an investigation non food related in a local capacity. If it went up the ladder then even my hands would be tied on my own investigations. I will say this
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    though, If people like you and you are genuinely a good person, it doesnt matter how "low" on the totem pole you are. People will respect you eventually. Just keep being good. Even higher ups respect that because good people get harder and harder to find the lower you go AND the higher you go. (in my experience anyways)
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    Scooter1116 I am an admin. I am the one everyone runs to when their food disappears. Happens often. I get security involved every single time. I hate those types of people.
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