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pdtw
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Posted 12:40 pm, 05/04/2017
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Most companies tell their employees that a desk is their personal space. No one is supposed to get into your desk without your permission. What if you had your handbag in the desk and walked away for a minute and someone's child opened a drawer and started going through your handbag? Same difference. Hands off other folks property. Period.
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alone
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Posted 11:39 am, 05/04/2017
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Bestill | Posted 7:23 am, 05/04/2017 | The op left the snacks to rot. The kid was given snacks out of the drawer in times past. Bring more snacks and do not hoard snacks. |
Gosh Bestill what is your problem on this one? Mommy in essence let little Johnny steal. Is that a correct and proper thing to be teaching her child? If the OP paid for said snack with his/her own money than why should they not be allowed to hoard them?
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Bestill
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Posted 7:23 am, 05/04/2017
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The op left the snacks to rot. The kid was given snacks out of the drawer in times past. Bring more snacks and do not hoard snacks.
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DLM28659
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Posted 6:42 am, 05/04/2017
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MtnDewMan has a great idea, I believe.
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Zombie
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Posted 12:55 am, 05/04/2017
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Okay, maybe I really wouldn't but you can't expect everyone else to stand up to my quality of standards. This is really the OP's fault for leaving food they intended to eat in their desk at work. Who knows, maybe the OP's co-worker felt they were close enough friends that it wouldn't be an issue.
Or maybe the OP's co-worker is an inconsiderate prick.
Either way the OP has no right to raise the issue because a kid pigged out on the desk chocolate. Jesus F'ing Christ! Move on, cure cancer or something.
I say this with peace & love. 
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Zombie
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Posted 12:47 am, 05/04/2017
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Hepsibah (view profile) | Posted 9:06 pm, 05/03/2017 | Zombie, would you let your kid steal snacks from a co-workers desk? |
Let? Psh, I'd encourage it.
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[email protected]
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Posted 9:29 pm, 05/03/2017
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You know it is funny that I actually get the OP's moral ambiguity here.
Yeah it's a kid and they were hungry so they were told a snack was at a place and they ate it. It is what children do.
On the other hand there was a coworker that over stepped bounds. Took something that wasn't theirs and offered nothing in return.
Making a deal of it make you a blank hole, and doing nothing just lets them step all over you.
Sound advice though. You're not going to win in any way doing anything about it. Even if you say "Hey I don't mind your kid eating my stuff, just at least ask first." You are still the jerk in the situation. Let it go, don't be passive aggressive and make off handed remarks or such. Be the bigger person, even stop by the dollar store, pick up a box of buddy bars, donuts, or whatever buy an extra and offer it off to your co-worker for the kid.
Or you could go full tilt, buy all the snacks you lost and maddeningly dump them until they fill up their cubicle with them and scream questioningly if they still want more.
The second I would go halfsies on the snack cost if you film it.
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Hepsibah
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Posted 9:06 pm, 05/03/2017
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Zombie, would you let your kid steal snacks from a co-workers desk?
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Zombie
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Posted 6:38 pm, 05/03/2017
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I think it's petty to sulk over a kid eating your junk food that you left at work. Maybe buy a lunch pack to keep your dirty pleasures in? Problem solved.
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Zombie
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Posted 6:32 pm, 05/03/2017
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The nerve of the OP!!! Taking a week off work. Some people...
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alone
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Posted 6:31 pm, 05/03/2017
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aFicIoNadoS | Posted 11:17 am, 05/03/2017 | That desk is the property of the employer, not the employee. And since it is intended for conducting company business, you have no right to personal privacy in that desk. |
if that be the case than a co-employees child does not have the right to be in any desk since that child is not an employee.
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hangsleft
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Posted 11:30 am, 05/03/2017
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I keep dog treats in my top right-hand drawer and my darn dogs know it and just won't leave them alone.
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chendo
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Posted 11:22 am, 05/03/2017
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While true, in a legal sense, common courtesy should rule
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aFicIoNadoS
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Posted 11:17 am, 05/03/2017
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That desk is the property of the employer, not the employee. And since it is intended for conducting company business, you have no right to personal privacy in that desk.
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chendo
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Posted 11:03 am, 05/03/2017
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#TrumpBestPresidentEver
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Posted 10:07 am, 05/03/2017
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"I would never let my child steal from someone's desk." OMG.... it's multiplied! 
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Hepsibah
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Posted 10:00 am, 05/03/2017
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I don't think it's a person's responsibility to provide snacks for the entire office. If others want snacks, they are most welcome to bring their own.
I would never let my child steal from someone's desk.
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Bestill
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Posted 10:22 pm, 05/02/2017
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If you bring snacks to work, bring enough to share with everybody. Otherwise, it is super rude to pull a ding dong out of your drawer and eat it right in front of everybody.
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TheRodFarva
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Posted 10:11 pm, 05/02/2017
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Maybe im just an A**hole, but to me its not what he took..... It's the principle of the matter. I would have to raise all manner of heck about it. Someonegoing through your desk for without your permission is just wrong period. Nice to know Mom is setting such a good example for the child
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