Thief at work!

sherbs

Not a major crime but theres some smart barsteward at my work that thinks its funny to steal my tubs of extra chewing gum, he/she had lifted 3 off my desk and the 4th went today, i dont mind giving them out but i dont like the fact they are stealing them!! Any thoughts of how i can find out whos doing it??

sherbs

Brian-Mc

unwrap the pack, place each piece between your bum cheeks and then repack. If that one goes missing, wait a week then place another pack with a post it on, saying what you've done. Whoever takes the next day off sick is a fair bet for the culprit.

guilliano

Inject a piece of gum with black ink?

sherbs

Good idea Brian but dont fancy sticking 50 odd bits of chewing gum between my erse cheeks, i dont actually think he/she is eating them but just doing it to get a reaction from me!!

Percy Vera

Fill a tub with paint and stick it on one side so they have to open it with some force, you'll soon find out who's doing it

sherbs

I was thinking more along the lines of something that would be small enough to fit in the tub and would make a noise if i pressed a remote or something

guilliano

Put superglue on the outside of the tub so the thief can't put it down?

Homer J

Set up a camera and get evidence.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259722/Call-centre-worker-helped-colleagues-biscuits-sentenced-theft.html

andy162

Paint the minty nuggets with Tip-ex.

itboffin

sherbs wrote:

Good idea Brian but dont fancy sticking 50 odd bits of chewing gum between my erse cheeks, i dont actually think he/she is eating them but just doing it to get a reaction from me!!

Splottboy

Inject them with Anthrax, or some depleted Plutonium.

That might put em off...

guilliano

Fart in a tub after eating energy bars for a week?

afx237vi

Homer J wrote:

Set up a camera and get evidence.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259722/Call-centre-worker-helped-colleagues-biscuits-sentenced-theft.html

Blimey, I bet the office parties are a barrel of laughs at that place.

bennett_346

Splottboy wrote:

Inject them with Anthrax, or some depleted Plutonium.

That might put em off...

Why let it put them off?

freehub

Use inc.

I remember I took some like 20p coins from a desk, and I did it again, they had inc on the second time and I got caught.

mattbass789

Leave these lying around... sure they would get the idea

http://www.m-99.co.uk/Toys_Gadgets_and_Gifts/Joke_Chewing_Gum/joke_chewing_gum.html

bennett_346

freehub wrote:

Use inc.

I remember I took some like 20p coins from a desk, and I did it again, they had inc on the second time and I got caught.

You could even use a UV pen

skyd0g

sherbs wrote:

Good idea Brian but dont fancy sticking 50 odd bits of chewing gum between my erse cheeks, i dont actually think he/she is eating them but just doing it to get a reaction from me!!

especially if you can only count 49 when you return them to the tub.

Buckled_Rims

Get a cheap personal alarm from a pound shop, rig it up so 2 wires are under gum touching. when the thief picks it up, the wires would spring apart and set the alarm off.

Or, slightly easier if you're not a electronics genius, get a razor blade. Carefully slice the top off the gum and stick the blade so it's overlapping the edge on the underside of the top. Stick the top back onto the gum. Hopefully they can't see a few mm of blade sticking out. When they pick it up...Ouch! follow the blood trail.... :twisted:

Don't you just love it when you smell blood and spearmint in the morning?

guinea

Meh. I can beat chewing gum.

Two weeks ago my Cannondale F1 was nicked from inside work. Double locked inside a 'secure' cage. Current price £1900. Add to that the locks, the light and gps mounts and it's £2k easy.

Previously I've had my lunch nicked a few times from the fridge and someone lifted an iPod from my desk.

I work for a large corporation who survives on trust with its customers. It's a pity we employ theiving toerags and we can't trust our colleagues.

redvee

Bit convaluted but laxative chocolate and toothpaste to give it the minty tase :twisted:

shockedsoshocked

freehub wrote:

Use inc.

I remember I took some like 20p coins from a desk, and I did it again, they had inc on the second time and I got caught.

Why were you stealing 20 pences?

disgruntledgoat

A woman at our place sent an e-mail round all 12,000 employees enquiring who had nicked her Muller rice from the fridge. Idiot.

DaSy

disgruntledgoat wrote:

A woman at our place sent an e-mail round all 12,000 employees enquiring who had nicked her Muller rice from the fridge. Idiot.

Users never fail to amaze me. I administer the email domain for a large company of around 9000 people, and we had to disable the company-wide groups in the email address book because people in one of the offices in Wales would send round mails to all to inform them that the sandwich van had arrived - this was of minimal interest to those of us in the rest of England and Scotland, and to be fair, a lot of the offices in Wales thought it was a long drive to get a sarnie...

Percy Vera

Let us know when and how you catch the thief, and put his/her photo on here

guinea

Heh, it gets worse when the idiot then does a recall on the email. Argh.

Ben6899

DaSy wrote:

disgruntledgoat wrote:

A woman at our place sent an e-mail round all 12,000 employees enquiring who had nicked her Muller rice from the fridge. Idiot.

Users never fail to amaze me. I administer the email domain for a large company of around 9000 people, and we had to disable the company-wide groups in the email address book because people in one of the offices in Wales would send round mails to all to inform them that the sandwich van had arrived - this was of minimal interest to those of us in the rest of England and Scotland, and to be fair, a lot of the offices in Wales thought it was a long drive to get a sarnie...

It's worse when another person (trying to be clever, smart, but missing the irony), then replies to all highlighting the initial sender's error. And then someone else replies to all again! And then someone else replies to all to explain that we shouldn't reply to all and then someone else...

Seriously, this happened a few years ago for about 5 iterations. ~20000 employees, 5 of whom we now know are complete fuck1ng nutjacks!

As for the OP's problem, I agree with Will :shock: ... so I'm off for a shower, brush my teeth and burn all my clothes.

hopper1

Would one of those key 'finder' fobs fit into the tub?
All you got to do is whistle and the tub will start beeping!...
That way it's all kept relatively light hearted.

Aggieboy

Cut out the bottom of the tub and place on desk. Place a plastic bag in the tub and fill with water, paint wee or liquid of choice, which will be held in the bag by sides of tub. Replace lid and await said thief picking up tub and getting a soaking to id him.

CXXC

Buckled_Rims wrote:

Get a cheap personal alarm from a pound shop, rig it up so 2 wires are under gum touching. when the thief picks it up, the wires would spring apart and set the alarm off.

Or, slightly easier if you're not a electronics genius, get a razor blade. Carefully slice the top off the gum and stick the blade so it's overlapping the edge on the underside of the top. Stick the top back onto the gum. Hopefully they can't see a few mm of blade sticking out. When they pick it up...Ouch! follow the blood trail.... :twisted:

Don't you just love it when you smell blood and spearmint in the morning?

brilliant BR...wetting myself at this

term1te

We had some mars bars disappear a few years back. It was the most exciting thing that had ever happened to our site security guy, who dusted more chocolate with some UV powder. Next day he followed the trail on door handles etc. with a UV light and caught the culprit. He was walking around blowing pretend smoke from a pretend gun, think Magnum PI, but with a beer gut.

In a cruel twist of irony, a while later he spotted someone using poor lifting technique to get computers and monitors into a van and held the door open whilst they pinched several thousand pounds worth of kit.