Woman Humiliates Lunch Thief At New Job, Now She Is Surprised That Coworkers Are Giving Her Silent Treatment

"I asked him where he got the gall to steal someone else's lunch"

Filip

• Published in Interesting
• February 25, 2024

-Starting a new job is always an adventure, but the kind that gives you both excitement and stress. You worry about the tasks, the atmosphere at work, and even your colleagues and the general relations between them.

But of all the worries that could cross someone's mind related to a new job, no one worries that they could end up hangry while at work. It's bizarre, right?

Well, according to a Reddit user, that could also happen. The OP recently started working in a small studio within an open-plan office.

She encountered an unpleasant situation with an unknown man from another studio, he took her lunch. Typically eating lunch at 1 p.m., she decided to eat earlier at noon one day, only to find her Tupperware empty in the sink and her food being eaten by someone she didn't recognize.

Reacting impulsively out of anger, she confronted the man by taking her food back in a direct manner, causing shock among him and the onlookers. The man, caught off guard, attempted to excuse his actions with stuttering responses, ultimately offering a mumbled apology, which the OP sarcastically accepted.

However, the incident led to criticism from some witnesses who believed the OP's response was rude. They said there could have been a nicer way to handle the situation.

Despite the awkwardness that followed at subsequent lunches and feeling that some colleagues were talking negatively about her, the OP believes she wasn't in the wrong.

Here is the original story:

The OP said she started a new job recently:

During lunch break, she noticed someone was eating her food, so she confronted him:

The man pretended not to know what the OP was talking about:

The OP accused him of stealing her lunch, and he got up and left:

But, some people told her she was rude to him and could have been nicer:

She could have been more polite, said a Redditor

No one will ever take her food again

He deserved to be humiliated

She could have been less sarcastic

It wasn't a diplomatic way, but it worked

Stealing someone's lunch is rude

"He knew it wasn’t his, yet he still ate it."

She emasculated her coworker

He deserved the shaming

A Redditor explained it simply

She taught him a lesson

The OP has courage

It is a consequence of theft

He learned the hard way

It is incomprehensible

Redditors agreed that the OP was not in the wrong for the way she confronted her coworker who stole her food. It was her lunch, and he hadn't the right to steal.

He shouldn't have stolen another's food. The OP could have been more polite, but this way, he would never steal her lunch again or anyone else.

Humiliation is just the consequence of his actions. Someone needed to teach him the lesson, and apparently, the OP was the right person to do it.

Filip