hungover today, not drunk
but get this. 2 of the pikiest things i have ever witnessed (and i was born in halifax and i went to school in stockport and i have been shopping in macclesfield):

firstly, i bought some of those cadbury's sharer things (caramel nibbles, crunchie rocks etc) for a friend who is leaving work. then went past hotel chocolat and saw his favourite chocolate covered brazilnuts. which meant i had spare cadburys stuff, so my team had some. forgot to lock them up before going to the roof terrace bbq last night. this morning i find that the cleaners have eaten the LOT. apart from 1 sad solitary crunchie rock. because that way i won't notice everything else has disappeared??

secondly, at the leaving party, my friend had ordered platters of food. they arrived at about 7. when i got there at 9ish, there was quite a bit left, but it was looking pretty sad - cold chips, stale sandwiches etc. ebola on a plate, basically. anyway, as people thinned out a bit, these 3 lads sat down by the food. we didn't mind them being in the area because we were all standing up anyway. but then... they started hooning off the food. someone else's party food. someone else's old, rejected party food.

would you ever do either of the above? or am i being a prissy missy in finding both quite shocking?!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:16, 8 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Both are quite pikey

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:19, Reply)

i was really quite disgusted
it's about 3 months since a cleaner stole a lot of designer shampoo from a box in my room. he (i assumed it would be a she, but they caught him eventually and it was a bloke) had gone through the box to take a philip kingsley shampoo, a bumble & bumble conditioner etc, to make sure he had a full haircare set!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:21, Reply)

that's just plain odd

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:25, Reply)

i assumed he was flogging them
not using them. but maybe he just had a fancy shampoo fetish.

the irony is, i buy them in sets, so if he had just swiped a whole set, eg all 3 bits by philip b, i would never have noticed. as it was, i was looking for the matching shampoo/conditioner combo, and his attempt to be subtle tripped him right up. twat.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:27, Reply)

How is the agency you guys use still working for you? I'd have sacked them.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:27, Reply)

to be fair
every city office i've ever worked in, the cleaners have very light fingers when it comes to food. you feel stupid locking chocolates and things in your desk drawer, but if you don't, they really do have the lot away.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:29, Reply)

It's never happened where I've worked.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:30, Reply)

it didn't happen in uxbridge or didsbury
but it has always happened in london
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:32, Reply)

Forrins innit.

( girlinthehole, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:35, Reply)

london scummers more like

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:37, Reply)

It's pretty pikey
but I think you mean E.coli not ebola, dear. Unless you've got a plate full of microscopic stringy African viral hemorrhagic fever
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:19, Reply)

you have just described exactly what it looked like
after 4 hours of lying around the warm pub table
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:22, Reply)

My brother was once ejected from Pizzaland in Winchester
for staggering around, gibbering on LSD, and then sitting down at some family's table and helping himself to their meal.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:20, Reply)

this makes me laugh a lot
not even somewhere classy. PIZZALAND?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:24, Reply)

I think he probably mistook it for fairyland.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:25, Reply)

A stronger case for 'diminished responsibility' would be hard to make.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:26, Reply)

few examples on here
bert, for one
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:29, Reply)

I quite like how you're proud of this.
That's really scummy, like, proper scum, to go to a family place and take a boatload of drugs.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:29, Reply)

in his defence
he took the drugs before he went into the family place
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:37, Reply)

I would suggest that it is necessary
to take a boatload of drugs before entering Pizzaland.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:57, Reply)

Cleaners stealing chocolate is a bit grim. I've done cleaning and would never think of stealing someone elses food off their desks.

( girlinthehole, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:20, Reply)

more importantly though
www.b3tards.com/u/48ca4e4a50b7cad28251/photo_0045.jpg

my phone camera is shit
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:21, Reply)

OH! Love it!
that looks amazing.
(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:21, Reply)

Very nice : )))

( girlinthehole, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:22, Reply)

nice
but i'm reeeeally not sure it's more important than missing chocolate!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:25, Reply)

I know
i just had to shoehorn it in somehow
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:25, Reply)

good effort

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:28, Reply)

You hairy fucking yeti.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:25, Reply)

haha!
He's all man innit.
( girlinthehole, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:26, Reply)

I know
and that's with it shaved for tattooing purposes
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:27, Reply)

Cool.
By the time you're sixty it'll look like the bruise from a pacemaker.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:28, Reply)

it'll match the bruise from my pacemaker

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:29, Reply)

Cunning.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:30, Reply)

I'd be fairly shocked...

(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:21, Reply)

People will bring old food from meetings round our way because they know my colleague will eat it.

( Kroney, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:21, Reply)

we do that
i would always bring down an uneaten fruitbowl or sandwich platter from meetings so it doesn't get wasted. but only within the same hour, and only untouched food, and only by invitation!

and clearly i would never touch such a platter, being the fussy anal twat that i am about eating.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:23, Reply)

You talk about food a lot, I've noticed.

( Kroney, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:37, Reply)

Food is good.
I like food. I'll happily talk to her about food.
(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:39, Reply)

stop paying so much slavering attention to what i write then

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:41, Reply)

Slavering? I'm not the one constantly posting about what I'm eating.
Quite clearly any slobbering maws around here belong to you.
( Kroney, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:42, Reply)

I've eaten several hour old meeting sandwiches
My colleagues are amazed and appalled that I'll quite happily eat / drink stuff after the use-by date. It doesn't go bad instantly you know.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:41, Reply)

anything makes me squeamish
but hard, curled up bread is the worst. or soggy bread. cannot bear it, it makes me retch.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:44, Reply)

see I get worried when things get close to their use-by date.
If something is past it - I won't eat it.
(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:48, Reply)

it's a fact that mars bars are better after their use by date

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:00, Reply)

Fucking hell.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:25, Reply)

i know
shopping in macclesfield, gross.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:27, Reply)

Haha

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:29, Reply)

Am I the only one who doesn't find this shocking?
Cleaners, possibly on minimum wage, see chocolates on the desk of someone they know to be rather wealthy and have no qualms about eating them.
People who have been drinking for a couple of hours eat some leftover food.
There is nothing unusual going on here I'm sure.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:29, Reply)

the first one is theft
regardless of how wealthy they are. i earned £9,000 a year doing inventories etc for a letting agency, and i would never ever have nicked food from the big posh houses!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:31, Reply)

But you helped yourself to the silverware, right?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:32, Reply)

of course not
i restricted myself to sniffing pants and trying out sextoys.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:39, Reply)

I hope you washed them before you put them back
Now if you didn't then THAT would be pikey.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:51, Reply)

Some people see theft in shades of grey.
*shrug*
( Kroney, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:32, Reply)

Visage lolz

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:33, Reply)

yeah, poor people

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:34, Reply)

People with a certain moral flexibility
/into film
( Kroney, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:36, Reply)

it's not shocking
but it is pikey
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:32, Reply)

It doesn't matter what their age is, theft is theft, and it's not the item, it was the trust and inconvinance of expecting something you've bought and left in a place you'd think is safe, would still be there.
The food in the pub thing I semi-agree, it'd only end up in the bin, and after those few hours it doesn't mean it'll be off or manky or anything like that, but I'd have the self-respect not to take left-over food off someone else who I don't know's plate.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:33, Reply)

It's stealing no matter how wealthy the person is.
The second one is fine other than the fact the food is rank by that stage.
( girlinthehole, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:34, Reply)

I doubt it was thieving cleaners.
I reckon it was her colleagues protecting her from becoming even more of a massive fat biffer.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:36, Reply)

I wish my colleagues would do the same.

( girlinthehole, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:37, Reply)

dude
it's far too late for THAT.

unless marty mcfly decides to work here and can go back to, like, 1985 or something for that reason.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:38, Reply)

What, the last time you were thin was at 7 years old?
Intervention time.
( Kroney, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:39, Reply)

+1

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:41, Reply)

Obesity's a national concern.
It's because of people like this that the NHS is introducing minimum waiting times in the hopes that people will die before treatment.
( Kroney, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:43, Reply)

They should make all the doorways narrower while they're at it.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:52, Reply)

Soz. Editized.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:40, Reply)

better
not perfect, but you are improving.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:45, Reply)