Every single time I stock my desk at work with office supplies, somebody comes along and takes everything. It usually stays there for a couple days, I use a little of it, and then one day I come in and and it's absolutely all gone.
My desk is in the corner, semi-secluded. Unless it's the day shift person taking my shit and sticking it in their half of the desk, which they lock, or the day shift person at the desk next to mine doing the same thing, somebody has to make a trip to take my stuff. Wherever they're coming from, it's pretty unlikely that they're saving themselves much time at all by stealing all my stuff, because if they're walking across the department, they may as well go to where the supplies are kept.
I can't even put into words how much this pisses me off. Somebody with absolutely no consideration for other people is wasting my time to save a negligible amount of their own. I don't want to have to lock my fucking desk. I shouldn't have to.
The saddest part of this is that I know whoever this person is does this to everybody, wherever they go, all the time. Fucking scumbag!
Today, when I found all my stuff gone again, instead of restocking the desk in the traditional manner, I wrapped my stuff in plastic and hid it in the dust-bunny infested space between the desk and the wall. Now my desk will be a mystery to the thief; when they come to steal my stuff, they'll wonder how I do any work with no supplies, and then they'll have to go elsewhere.
3 comments:
rub all the stuff on your balls before you put it in the drawer. it won't stop them from doing it, but it will make you feel better.
Don't turn into the poor bastard from Office Space, eventually burning your workplace down because people were stealing paperclips and staples.
I'm the kind of person who would glue the stuff to my desk just to freak the people out. And a couple of coins while I'm there.
one of the reasons I always hated office jobs. That and having to sit still most of the day. Gluing sounds like a good plan to me.
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