How Do You Protect Your Food from Being Stolen at work?

[Deactivated] on 17/11/2019 - 21:33
Last edited 18/11/2019 - 11:11

Someone stole my birthday cake and replaced it with a reduced for quick sale mudcake from woolies :(

Context: I've started a tradition where I bring a half 'n half cake to work to celebrate my birthday. This cake is usually made up of my wife's birthday cake and mine as we often have a joint birthday celebration. This year, it was an oreo cookies 'n cream cheesecake and a berry mousse genoise cake, which were imagined , designed and created by my kids, under the supervision of a family friend who is an executive pastry chef. So home-baked, one-of-a-kind, made-with-love-but-looks-completely-amazing cakes.

Left it in the fridge early in the morning. Came back at 2 p.m and the cake was gone.In it's place was a $2.50, stale mudcake from woolies with a note with my name written on it.

How do I prevent this from happening again?

Cheers,
JJB

Edit : The cake thief contacted me today with a heartfelt apology and offered to shout me lunch and/or drinks. All good :)

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Comments

      • WhyAmICommenting on 19/11/2019 - 01:49
        +4

        Write to JLo to complain.

      • 6000SUX on 19/11/2019 - 08:29
        +1

        Dont be fooled by the diet that hes got, hes still cakeman from the block

  • Ononono on 18/11/2019 - 14:13
    +1

    No cake next year then. If people ask why, blame the culprit

  • [Deactivated] on 18/11/2019 - 15:08
    +1

    I just stick a "GF" sticker on the box.

    • cameldownunder on 18/11/2019 - 15:46

      Go F**K ?

    • [Deactivated] on 18/11/2019 - 16:14

      Girlfriend? Why am I getting flashbacks of THAT scene from American pie? 😂

      • cybapete on 18/11/2019 - 16:41

        i still remember when i saw american pie
        going in i saw a poster with a flute and an apple pie on it
        the poster meant something totally different after seeing the movie

        • [Deactivated] on 18/11/2019 - 18:04

          The movie that defined a generation.

          • bobbified on 18/11/2019 - 23:40

            @[Deactivated]: Still one of my favorites that brings back lots of memories (not of apple pie!)

    • Stone Monkey on 18/11/2019 - 16:47

      Gluten Free?

      • [Deactivated] on 18/11/2019 - 16:51
        +1

        Nothing is free. Why would you think that?

  • ar7ist on 18/11/2019 - 16:41

    Cake Security Guard not a thing yet? I'd pay top dollar for that.

    • [Deactivated] on 18/11/2019 - 16:42
      +1

      Who's going to guard the cake from the guard?

      • dny on 18/11/2019 - 22:41
        +3

        The Cake Security Guard Guard

  • ShannonN on 18/11/2019 - 17:13
    +1

    what was the thief's excuse for stealing your cake and eating it? When they knew it was yours?

    I'd refuse to accept the offer of drinks drag them to the boss and have them charged with theft and sacked stealing from the workmates has always been a dismissal offense and they are lowlifes

  • try2bhelpful on 18/11/2019 - 17:31

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkWbEmtYXs

    Thought you might like this from Eddie Izard.

  • tryagain on 18/11/2019 - 17:46
    +1

    Surely most Ozbargainers have got one of those Xiaomi security cameras that were popular a while back, laying around in a box doing nothing.

    • Andard on 19/11/2019 - 16:26
      +1

      laying around in a box

      Drawer

  • Ghost47 on 18/11/2019 - 18:28

    Find out who did it then key their car

  • Bullion78 on 18/11/2019 - 18:35
    +3

    I Got a good story, a mate of mine who was a regular patient in hospital kept having his bottles of coke stolen from the ward fridge by another patient who he suspected, despite plastering his name all over it..fed up he decided to tip half out and top it up with with urine. .. needless to say his drinks never got taken again

  • tessel on 18/11/2019 - 19:09
    +3

    Why the (profanity) did they eat your cake? Seriously, wtf is wrong with people. "Oh, look, some cake that doesn't belong to me. Shit, think I'll just wait it".

    • tessel on 19/11/2019 - 13:38

      Damn auto text.

      • Andard on 19/11/2019 - 16:27
        +1

        Shit, think I'll just wait it out.

  • Mosher on 18/11/2019 - 19:30

    Has anyone suggested bikeis yet???

    • jelko on 18/11/2019 - 23:18
      +3

      I suggest using a dictionary.

      • capslock janitor on 19/11/2019 - 14:15
        +2

        His bikeis friends will pay you a visit.

      • Mosher on 20/11/2019 - 07:56

        I was going to but someone stole it from work and left a thesaurus in it's place :(

  • chk on 18/11/2019 - 19:37

    I was going to ask what if they had accidentally dropped your cake or something and the money was to compensate you?

  • ratoloko on 18/11/2019 - 19:53
    +1

    Bring a delicious and irresistible food mixed with laxative to the office, leave them shitting their intestine out hahahaha
    I would do that for sure :)

  • Lockieasy on 18/11/2019 - 20:33
    -2

    Why did you bring the whole cake? I'd just leave it at home and bring a slice or two in an air tight container every day. Unless you were intending to share it.

  • inittobinit on 18/11/2019 - 20:53
    +3

    I know it goes without saying..but for any of you guilty people out there:

    If you eat other peoples food, you're a piece of shit.

    • capslock janitor on 19/11/2019 - 14:16

      If I eat other people's food, there will be a shit coming too.

  • mini2 on 18/11/2019 - 21:05

    Build yourself a cage to store the cake in there. Some arseclown at work put a cage around their milk so no one steals it but also occupy a fairly significant amount of real estate within a tiny fridge shared by almost 80 people. Actually I don't know who's the bigger arseclown - the milk bandits or the caging idiot.

  • whooah1979 on 18/11/2019 - 21:13

    A few eye drops.

  • Millikano on 18/11/2019 - 21:35

    Blinking red anti-theft light should do the trick.
    Nobody wants to risk the cake-alarm going off.

  • jelko on 18/11/2019 - 23:17

    How many people at your work? Surely, somebody would have seen something? A person doesn't usually eat cake for lunch.

  • cucumber on 19/11/2019 - 01:25

    I spat in this.
    xx HIV survivor

    • cynicalmike on 21/11/2019 - 00:51

      HIV can't be transmitted via saliva (well, bucket loads are needed)

      nice try tho

  • Davo1111 on 19/11/2019 - 04:05
    +1

    Ask your mum to speak to their mum

  • mememe123 on 19/11/2019 - 04:39
    +1

    Put it in an old Amazon bag or courier bag. It's enough to look unappetizing. Even a garbage bag turns people off.

  • [Deactivated] on 19/11/2019 - 06:40
    +6

    I had labelled “ I spat in this drink, do not drink” I order to avoid people drinking my drinks. I came back to see another label “ I spat in it too”.

    • capslock janitor on 19/11/2019 - 14:17

      "I have a contagious disease transmitted by air"

  • CalmLemons on 19/11/2019 - 08:11

    Do like humans have always done. Find a spot, dig a hole, bury your treasures.

  • cheeseburger on 19/11/2019 - 09:14

    Sh*t on it. No one will touch it. Not even you.

  • Chris Topher on 19/11/2019 - 10:37

    Nominated as the Thread Of The Week

  • Ding22 on 19/11/2019 - 14:14
    +1

    Resign

  • vipero on 19/11/2019 - 15:47

    Tell'em you've lick it before… :P

    • Chris Topher on 19/11/2019 - 16:42

      That doesn't help. I've seen a note on food with the owner writing "I spat on this" and someone later added "so did I"

  • TedJ on 19/11/2019 - 17:18
    +1

    I get other people to bring my my lunch to work with their names on it…

  • Mosher on 19/11/2019 - 18:11

    Maybe place a sign on the fridge and say due to a unknown person eating your cake there will be no more birthday cake next year

  • MessyG on 19/11/2019 - 20:38
    +1

    This post gives me faith in humanity that there are still some people out there with the ability to apologise and amend.

  • myusername on 20/11/2019 - 08:29

    spit in it

    karma karma karma

  • MementoMori on 20/11/2019 - 10:48
    +1

    Gotta say that's very surprising!

    What was the thief's excuse? They had some kind of cake emergency?

    I really can't think of any acceptable excuse for this (unless they accidentally dropped it on the floor trying to get something behind it)

    • CheeryCheapskate on 20/11/2019 - 10:55

      I was wondering what the excuse was as well. Or if they thought it was free for anyone.

      Anyway, I've seen some funny methods to deter thieves like ziplock bags with a fly graphics on it or mould drawn on the plastic bag with a marker.

  • WT on 20/11/2019 - 14:22

    brb going to check the fridge for cake

  • Kiro on 20/11/2019 - 19:42

    So a one of a kind created by your kids and family and all they could do is shout you a lunch and drinks. Pffft. Id be making a noose for a public hanging if you ask me.

  • screensaver on 21/11/2019 - 01:10

    Decant the milk into a bottle with a goats milk label, it'll be there unil the cows come home

  • screensaver on 21/11/2019 - 01:14

    I now store my bread and bakery items in an esky so no unwanted furry visitors can get at it and you can use an ice brick too

  • Euphemistic on 21/11/2019 - 20:01
    +1

    executive pastry chef.

    Get your hand off it. You could have said chef and not added the extra tosser factor. What the hell is an executive chef anyway, one who dresses in a suit and brings a briefcase?

    • [Deactivated] on 21/11/2019 - 21:23

      An executive chef doesn't get to spend as much time in the kitchen as they would like to…which is why he is almost as excited as my kids to create those 2 special cakes for us every year :)

  • nakahanap on 23/11/2019 - 22:57

    Pellets of food colouring.

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