Coworker is caught stealing 2 gallons of milk from the office kitchen, uncovering a string of behavior from multiple office thieves: ‘Doing their Costco run at work’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Nov 7, 2025 11:00 PM EST

If you're lucky, you will work or have already worked in an office that provides you with snacks, beverages, and sometimes, meals. The office snack basket is always stacked to the brim with your favorite sweet and savory treats, the fridge can barely be closed because of how many cans of Coca-Cola are stuffed into it, and you feel, at the very least, satiated because of your employer. If it isn't reflected in your salary, at least it's reflected in non-dairy coffee creamer, right? Right…

Though this grub is all for the taking, that is usually exclusive to your time in the office. Employers aren't looking to finance your grocery bill at home, and honestly, this employee greed ruins the snack system for the rest of their coworkers. We all want to see a fruitful array of food and beverages when we clock in at 9 AM sharp, but all it takes is one bad apple to put a stop to that.

The employee in this next story is caught stealing two gallons of milk from the office refrigerator, and higher-ups have a meeting about it. Apparently, this is not the first theft by this employee, but rather one of many, from not only this specific employee, but also from others. Scroll to read.

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    office kitchen with black cabinets
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    This happened a few years ago when I was in FAANG.
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    I went to grab coffee in the microkitchen and it was common for my company at the time to
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    provide snacks and other things for free for their employee's and contractors, however, one of the major issues
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    they kept facing were people, mainly employee's, were filling their backpacks of
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    snacks and other goodies before they headed out for the day.
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    Went to make myself some coffee for the morning before I headed to my desk and there was a employee
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    looking at the gallon of milk. He looked over at me, said "Hi." and went back to staring at the milk. I mean, he was
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    looking at it with the concentration of a freshman kid reading Moby Dick for the first time.
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    After I finished making my coffee, he took off his backpack and put in that gallon of milk and
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    another gallon of milk, and walked towards the exit like nothing happened.
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    a glass container of milk
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    A few days later, I got called in by my boss asking if I ever saw him take anything else from the microkitchen. I told
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    my boss at that time "No, that was the first time I've ever seen someone take two gallons of milk and just
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    walk out." Apparently, security were doing an internal investigation on him and a few others, as employee's were
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    basically doing their Costco run at work and we had a thirty minute meeting with my team at the time about how
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    we're only supposed to "take what we can finish" and not to "take whole gallons of milk for personal consumption off the clock."
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    Last I heard, he was eventually let go from said company because that wasn't the first time he was caught stealing milk and he was known around the office as "Vitamin D taker."
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    Impressive-Ad9436 Dude we had a milk stealer at my work too I don't get it. We were all gainfully employed at a good company and milk is like $3 a gallon in my area, not exactly a huge expense lol
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    Scotty_serial_mom Neither do I - everyone at my old company makes good money and none of us were starving. However, some people really liked to abuse the honor system there. I have a few friends still in my old company and they've told me that they're still having that issue, but they're not restocking as often, as the company are tired of employee's treating the microkitchen's like their own Costco run.
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    tosserandturner Udderly disgusting!!
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    FakeGirlfriend When you say they were giving snacks at the time, are you saying they don't anymore? That was kind of their whole thing of like keeping people on campus for 18h days.
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    Scotty_serial_mom As far as I know of, they still do. Along with breakfast, lunch, and dinner. However, FAANG has been cracking down on their employees by limiting their "social visitors" to a certain amount per year, as I've been told, it's a cost cutting measure and for employee's not to abuse their perk.
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    GoldenTortoiseshell Sounds like a place I worked at as a contractor. They had to post signs saying you could take one snack and a drink for the road but don't bring bags to fill and take home.
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