Did she leave the candy jar?
Some threads are worth resurrecting. When is it not a good time to rant (and laugh) about clueless office pigs?
My boss, the guy with his name on the door of a huge Ad Agency (and a silver Jag), would raid people’s lunches in the company fridge. So two of us started packing brownies. Made with plenty of chocolate…and laxative.
Just once I’d like to hear the story of someone with a candy jar who actually confronted an office pig on their behavior rather than getting all pissy and removing the jar.
Seriously? Or are you just trying to catch more abuse in this resurrection than I did?
Ummm . . . hide the jar when you’re away from the desk.
I know you curmudgeons. I have one at home, remember? You’re all just big old softies inside and don’t want anyone to know it.
I think there are some topics that are worth reading about, whether they’re five days or five years old: Idiot client demands, idiot student excuses, idiot movie plot holes, and idiots at work. Hmm, I see a theme…
The problem is, as much as I’ve tried to train myself, I just can’t grasp the concept of noticing the date of the posts I’m reading. Someone replied to a post of mine in GQ yesterday with “Good point. Did you know you made the same one four pages ago? Well, it was 577 days ago…”
So, I’m wondering: you zombie-haters, why go to the trouble of opening an old thread? And then spending time typing a response? Just to p00p on a n00b?
Or are you hoping Ed’ll stop in here*, peek at your witty riposte and change the policy? If it’s because you want older threads off limits, or un-indexed-by-Google, wouldn’t emailing a mod or starting an ATMB discussion be more productive?
*Hey, Eddie Boy, if you really read these posts, yer mudder wears army crocs! (See, he’s nowhere near here…)
I’ve never understood the candy jar in the office thing, it seems like it’s mostly just used as a drama manufacturing device. If someone puts a jar of candy on the desk and says “help yourself” then it’s free and no one should be keeping track of who takes how much. If it’s expected that everyone pitch in then that should be explained clearly from the start.
What usually happens instead is that some admin says help yourself but then secretly gets pissed because people don’t pitch in or because Joe from accounting took too much. Then everyone has a reason to hate and gossip about Joe, who probably wouldn’t have had any candy last week if the stupid admin hadn’t put it right there on the desk he has to walk by 14 times a day.
Plus that stuff has to be swimming with germs after everyone wiggles their hands around in there digging out their favorite pieces. Superyuck.
Actually, my comment was in reference to your fucktard move of drugging brownies with laxatives. A very stupid, criminal act.
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My boss, the guy with his name on the door of a huge Ad Agency (and a silver Jag), would raid people’s lunches in the company fridge. So two of us started packing brownies. Made with plenty of chocolate…and laxative.
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I’m guessing the only reason others haven’t jumped your ass for this is that this is a zombie thread and most people (who seem to be capable of noticing dates) just skip over it.
I like to joke around with some of the other posters like,** Inner Stickler**, Chimera, and Drunky Smurf. They can be rude and controversial but still engaging and interesting. You however, are just one big asshole.
Get yourself some mental health help before you harm somebody.
a) How is it criminal?
b) It’s being a fucktard to stop someone from stealing your stuff?
c) Maybe he gets constipated at work.
Huh, what, ribs sleep from eyes, did someone call my name? And stop patting me on the head!
In my experience, the candy jar is just an excuse to visit rather than work and, as moejoe says, an excuse to create drama. I hate those things.
It is considered poisoning/tampering. Legally. As in, it is a prosecutable crime. Not just in Minnesota.
Really now. Just stick to making horrible flavors for him to steal.
“Hey, someone stole my chocolate mint cranberry curry brownies!”
Oh umkay, umkay, umkay!
Well, here’s a story about a cashier confronting a customer pig.
Hey, what’s this empty pair of shoes doing here, with smoking ashes scattered all around? And has anyone seen digs?
I don’t think those cites say what you think they do.
Those are references to tampering with consumer products (items for sale), or to adulterating others’ food, or providing adulterated food to others.
A homemade brownie in one’s own lunchbox or whatever is clearly not a consumer product. Reading “providing to others” to include failing to prevent others from stealing would be an… interesting interpretation. Perhaps such an interpretation has been made somewhere, but you haven’t pointed to it.
Elsewhere inin that thread, there is one case there of a employee’s firing being upheld as “for cause” after his boss stole his adulterated food (but no prosecution, apparently).
Adulterating something with the clear knowledge that it will be taken by, consumed by, and cause harm to another would be a criminal act no matter how you slice it.
Actually, had you pulled up my links, you would have found this:
Minnesota Teen’s Laxative-Laced Brownies Lead to Felony Charge
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Orth has been charged with felony adulteration resulting in bodily harm. That carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a 20-thousand dollar fine.
He also faces a charge of felony adulteration not resulting in bodily harm.
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Setting a trap like that has also been successfully prosecuted if my memory serves. I will see what I can find, if the news stories are still any good.
I would totally eat those.
I will grant you and others in the thread that is is probably a criminal act, but I can’t get behind chastising someone for doing it to a food-stealer at work. Easy way to not get adulterated food - don’t steal other people’s food.