His Female Coworker Wound Up In The Hospital After He Put A Laxative In His Lunch To Catch Who Was Stealing His Food At Work, And He Might Lose His Job If He Doesn’t Apologize
This man has always preferred bringing his own lunch to work as opposed to using a snack machine or eating out like the rest of his colleagues. After all, it’s a good way to save some money.
However, around three months ago, he realized that someone kept stealing his food.
It all started off slowly. One day, he noticed that one out of his three slices of pizza was missing at lunchtime. On other afternoons, he’d found some of his soup had been eaten, or a bag of chips was missing.
“I didn’t think much of it and simply decided to attach a ‘please don’t touch’ paper sign on my stuff,” he recalled.
This helped in the beginning, as his lunch was left alone for a while. Yet, after more time passed, someone started taking his meals again.
So, by the third month of this going on, he asked some of his coworkers if they knew who the culprit was. None of them had a clue, either, which he does believe since they all tend to eat separately.
“And I decided to eat McDonald’s or go to 7-11 and stop bringing food,” he detailed.
“But then, it started [messing] with my financial stability; 10 to 12 days a paycheck consistently buying food?”
This pushed him to take matters into his own hands. While talking to a friend, he got the idea to put a laxative in his lunch in order to weed out who was responsible.
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Things took a turn, though, when one of his female coworkers in her 20s ate the food, had an allergic reaction to an ingredient, and wound up getting sent to the hospital!
Following that chaotic workday, he and his colleagues went to visit his coworker, and he owned up to putting the laxative in his own lunch. To his surprise, six out of his eight colleagues, who were all women, were totally disgusted by him.
They thought it was completely wrong to do that, and they all took his coworker’s side.
“One girl was whatever about it, and the last guy said she shouldn’t have been touching my food to begin with,” he explained.
“I told the girl that I hoped she got better and went home, but I didn’t apologize for what I did, and I’m not going to.”
Well, his supervisor wound up calling him later on his day off. For some context, this is the same supervisor he’d previously spoken to about the stolen lunch issue and was no help. At the time, his supervisor claimed that she wasn’t his or his colleagues’ mother and couldn’t control who ate what.
And now, after the laxative incident, his supervisor actually told him that he needed to apologize to the coworker who stole his food. Plus, he was not allowed to come back to work until he did so.
“I’m assuming if I take too many days, I’ll just be fired for not coming to work,” he vented.
Still, he doesn’t know what to do here and isn’t sure if putting the laxative in his own food really does warrant an apology.
Is it his coworker’s fault for eating his lunch? Should he have to say he’s sorry or not? What would you do?
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