If you feel you need more intense discussions in your life, just turn off the classical music channel for a minute and check out places such as Reddit and the like. People can get into brouhahas online over all sorts of things.
I saw one the other day about a particular point of office etiquette concerning the use or theft of food, dairy products, or condiments left in shared office refrigerators. And this round robin didn't even touch on the bugaboo that drives so many people crazy, namely, the habit some have of putting a 1/2-filled carton of milk in the icebox one sunny Monday morning and leaving it there until the next May. Or until it becomes a science project, with green fungi oozing out.
No, this was about whether it's ok to swipe the property of others. Like, if someone leaves their unfinished fried rice in the Kelvinator, is it fair game for anyone else to take it, nuke it, and eat it?
Before you gasp, I'll tell you about a former co-worker named Frank who swore that it was accepted policy that any food in the office Whirlpool was up for grabs. Many people came in to take out their frozen Banquet banquet, only to find an empty bag, and when you have thirty minutes for lunch, there is no time to parade on down to the Sem-Elem and get something else. So you make do with a bag of Andy Capp's Hot Fries from the machine and you seethe. And meanwhile, Frank really enjoyed your lunch.
On this Reddit thread I saw, someone showed bottles of milk - and one of them was padlocked!
"Peak pettiness or justifiable security in the office kitchen,” they captioned the photo. And most commenters said that was a totally justified use of a lock.
“As someone who used to buy 2 pints of milk every week, only for it to be completely empty by Wednesday morning, I totally understand the rationale,” Silver76 said. “I vote not petty.”
“I’m always happy to share my milk in the office, but the amount of times I have found that MY milk which I bought is completely empty with no replacement offered/available makes me feel this is completely justified. Nothing worse than making a cuppa only to find that someone finished the milk and left you high and dry (of milk),” Williamblair shared.
The picture below says all that needs to be said about the way people think of their right to grab anything anywhere that strikes their fancy.
That brass security system is called an Udder Lok.
What a shame, that it's come to this.
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