Customer eats employee lunch

[Chris142]

We have a small refrigerator in our shop. We also have one in the waiting room along with a coffee pot and various snacks.

The one in our shop gets full so we often put our lunches in the one in the waiting room.

Never occurred to us that someone would eat it.

One of our guys put a store bought chicken salad in the refrigerator in the waiting room.

The office girls were busy doing their stuff and didn't notice a customer getting into the refrigerator.
A few minutes later one noticed a customer eating the employees lunch.

Who does that?

 

[SShooterZ]

When I was a sales manager at a large IT provider, we had a community fridge on each floor. Without fail, one of our engineering specialists would go into the fridge from time to time, and grab someone's lunch and eat it. Still blows my mind, but apparently, it's not that rare that it happens.

 

[Chris142]

When I was a sales manager at a large IT provider, we had a community fridge on each floor. Without fail, one of our engineering specialists would go into the fridge from time to time, and grab someone's lunch and eat it. Still blows my mind, but apparently, it's not that rare that it happens.

I was taught not to mess with things that are not mine.

 

[rstsco]

Who does that?

The same person that does (fill in the blank). They're everywhere.

 

[BobsArmory]

Psychopaths!

 

[doitmyself]

LOL, my father-in-law (RIP) always claimed that they cured a co-worker's tendency to eat other's fridge stuff by lacing a "trap" with Exlax laxative.

Or, Urban legend???? But yes, the OP story is mind boggling.

 

[BHopkins]

Everywhere that I worked, knowingly eating someone else's lunch was an offense that could get you fired. It is nothing less than theft, they could get someone fired on the first offense.

That doesn't help a bit when it is a customer. I guess you could fire him as a customer, and ask him to not come back.

 

[Trav]

A little quick repackaging job will fix their wagon.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Just bill him an extra hour of shop time. Seems fair.

 

[BobsArmory]

A little sprinkle of Thai pepper

 

[racer12306]

 

[02SE]

Since it was in the waiting room, where various snacks and drinks are available to the customer, I'd say the customer just made the assumption anything in the refrigerator in the waiting room was fair game. I can think of numerous repair shops and dealerships who do this.

I'd say your shop employees learned a lesson about where to keep their lunch.

 

[4wd]

IIRC,
Terry Tate has dealt with this matter - highly recommended

 

[bdcardinal]

Since it was in the waiting room, where various snacks and drinks are available to the customer, I'd say the customer just made the assumption anything in the refrigerator in the waiting room was fair game. I can think of numerous repair shops and dealerships who do this.

I'd say your shop employees learned a lesson about where to keep their lunch.

Or at the very least label it properly. I know it probably isn't the best for me but I make it a point to leave and go someplace for lunch daily. If anything, that 40-45 minutes of just sitting letting my brain not process part numbers is the real benefit.

 

[CKN]

Was the Chicken Salad "thick or thin"??????

 

[Chris142]

I'd say your shop employees learned a lesson about where to keep their lunch.

As I said the refrigerator in the shop was full.

 

[wander2039]

We put cameras in all new breakrooms for that reason.. Build a Lunch.

 

[Urshurak776]

Someone already mentioned it, but I would bake in another hour of shop time. Expensive lunch.

 

[Zee09]

Sounds like @Pablo

 

[Pablo]

Sounds like @Pablo

He hungry