How can I catch the person who is stealing my lunch at work?

Question

I always bring a frozen dinner to work. They're not even good ones. They're Lean Cuisine. I just want to catch who's taking them. Actually, I want to catch them and embarass them at the same time. Please help.

Answer 1

I would squirt some type of dye in it so it would stain theur hands and mouth

Answer 2

Make a home-made meal...just for them.

It depends just how evil you want to be , use some innocuous smelling but very spicy spices , capsasin drops or something.

Really evil - not recommended but if they are reasonably healthy and well hydrated, you could introduce them to the power of phopho-soda, (69 cents at your local pharmacy - pretty much harmless...at least technically and from a strictly "medical" perspective). It's also a powerful laxative...a teaspoon of that stuff will make them think twice, or three or four times , lunch will be officially OVER about 20 minutes after eating/drinking that stuff, and the bathroom break that doesn't stop for about a 1/2 hour will commence.

Or just be simple and leave a deceptive yet evil note.

Bring your XYZ brand lean cuisine to work in a zip-lock bag or tupperware. Eat something like the pot sirloin beef or beef tips or something. Wait a couple of days after they've eaten some more of your lunches and then post a note that says something like..."To whomever, unfortunately it seems it wasn't REALLY lean cuisine - at least the meat part...after all , but accidentally you wanted to apologize because your wife-girlfriend/boyfriend/husband has "accidentally" been putting your dog's in your container for the last several days, and that oh yeah, there's a small possibility that the dog's worm medication - might have been in there as well."

Best part is, you don't need a dog or even a dog with worms.

Answer 3

Bring two, put your name on one and write THIEF on the other. The problem is you have an idiot in the office that thinks someone has left this in the fridge and no one will mind and it could be the manager, so the above could cost you your job. The best thing is to bring a sandwich or non frozen packaged lunch, like soup that can be microwaved. Keep it at your desk and put a plastic container in the fridge with a sign that says "Place money here for the lunches you bought", remove it at the end of the lunch hour and maybe someone around the office will get the hint.

Answer 4

Get a dinner, and inject it through the plastic with VERY hot pepper sauce; habanero works great (helps if it's Mexican cuisine of some sort so the scent won't be noticeable as it's heated). Then sit back and wait; the person you see making a bee-line for the water fountain is your culprit. It won't actually HURT them, and I'll bet you NEVER get your lunch stolen again ;-)

Answer 5

put a lizard in the box, and then use double sided tape to close it. Make sure you do this on the side that you don't usually open, say there is an easy tear side or something. When you hear someone scream...run... lol... i am sure they will be disgusted anyways lol. i have had this happen to me before, didn't do the whole lizard thing though. We had mics at work, and since our break room is right by the employee bathrooms....everyone is usually in and out of there. So i came over the mic, and kinda embarrassed them...told them they were cheap, and if they were hurting for money let me know. Well, others came to me, and told me they seen so and so eating it and all. I didn't have to confront them after that, they just stopped doing it.

Answer 6

I doubt that superglue would work on a frozen dinner -- but sure would be nice in this situation.

Begin by wrapping plastic wrap around your frozen dinner, and seal well with tape. Take an empty ink cartridge from a printer, or copier and sprinkle the ink carbon around the dinner. Wrap all inside gift wrap, with a note that it's your lunch, do not steal! The person with ink carbon all over their hands will be your thief.

Just a thought.

Answer 7

What a pity the meals are pre-sealed or you could lace the food with laxatives! I reckon you'd just need to stake out the toilet to know who the culprit is!

My dad (as a kid) hated his brother stealing his sweets and so put a wicked mix of mustard and other nasty stuff into the wrapper and his brother ate it and got sick!

What about setting up a small camera (behind a plant) in the kitchen area and just letting it run..... If you catch him in the act, you could email it to everyone in the office! I'd say that would be embarrasing!

Answer 8

Buy a super yummy meal with sauce. Poke a small hole on the side that is not used for venting... and you can use one of those needless-needles used for giving babies medicine... inject a good adult size dose of laxatives in... wait for the fun :)

Next day: Bring the same entree, again laced with a liquid laxative. It is doubtful it will be eaten. If it is, oh well.

Day 3: Bring the same entree, this time not contaminated. Tape a sheet of toilet paper on top of the box that says in marker "you may need this after lunch" That should hopefully stop them. Who knows. :)

If someone is poor and can't afford to buy their own $2 lunch, they need to get on food stamps or seek a food kitchen. There is no excuse for stealing.

Answer 9

Get a red felt tipped marker...not a permanent marker and mark all over the bottom of the package. The red never really dries and will wipe off onto the hands of the culprit. Or you can get one of those coolers/heaters for food (about $50) and put it in your office and no one will be able to get it with you sitting right next to it.

Answer 10

It looks such as you are able to desire to flow by using your receipts on a daily basis. Now may be the ideal time to start doing it, it being the beginning up of the 12 months and all. examine the article bought, priced charged against your inventory database. in case you have no longer have been given a catalogue database, you are able to desire to evaluate setting up one. you additionally can reassign the staff to distinctive different initiatives. this could actual be defined as bypass-training, making for extra appropriate workers. you additionally can require that workers take a holiday each and every 12 months. in case you spot any alterations on your tills in the time of that factor, you have have been given something no longer working suitable. enhance a gadget of assessments and balances to make particular each and every little thing is working the way they could desire to be.

Answer 11

Stake out the microwave - either yourself or someone else will be able to see the culprit. Frozen dinners need to be heated to be eaten.

Good Luck!