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Most companies would quickly have 0 employees if this was a universal policy
Well... at least one... You can't steal your own lunch.
The issue is that the last employee has to have the moral integrity to fire himself.
Reddit's /r/legaladvice subreddit has had a lot of interesting corporate mismanagement stories lately (with the typical take-with-a-grain-of-salt caveat). There was a recent "poisoning" case where instead the OP was the victim ( https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/89wgwm/tricked... ), commenters found out the perpetrator posted in the subreddit before ( https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/8825e8/t…
This link makes them show up again: https://www.removeddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/8825e8/thr...
One mystery that continues to fascinate me is when people at work say things to me that are obviously irrational -- are they sincere or is it some kind of manipulative power play? I've had managers ask me things such as "When will the rebuild of the website be done" and I answer "In two months" and they say "You have two weeks" and I say "Maybe 6 weeks, but not 2" and then they repeat "You've got two weeks." I wonder…
In order to maintain a feeling of control, or of providing value, the manager falls into the mindset that the one input they have into the process is that they nominally get to set deadlines (for each task of a given scope and level of quality), even if those deadlines are repeatedly missed. The temptation is that they think that the shorter the deadline, the faster the development and the better the result.
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Most companies would quickly have 0 employees if this was a universal policy
Really? You think that 100% of employees steal from their co-workers at some point? I guess I must be crazy because I've never done that, nor considered it.
And, while I agree that eating other people's lunch is unethical, we should be very wary of the "broken window" attitude towards lashing out severe punishment for minor things.
Very often it goes together with leniency towards CEOs "giving themselves" huge exit bonuses & so on.
My guess is this falls under the same purview as booby-trapping your house: Yeah, they're committing a felony by breaking into your house, but you're not allowed to setup a "Home Alone" defense system (if nothing else because first responders might need to get into your home). It's dumb in this case because the "booby trap" likely isn't one at all, but at a very cursory glance I could buy that someone would make thei…
Exactly how I read it. Except it wasn't a booby trap. It's like a thief complaining because they crashed the car they stole from you.
To take this further: It's a bit like they crashed the stolen car because you cut the brake lines in anticipation of someone stealing it (a bit extreme obviously, but just bear with me).
Which is interesting: I actually wonder whether you would be found at least civilly liable in that instance.
This feels like a made-up story designed to attract clicks. Even more with the happy ending update. There are more unlikely stories on the same site, like this one: http://www.askamanager.org/2017/05/im-in-a-dominantsubmissiv...
It’s the equivalent of a Penthouse “you’ll never believe what happened next” letter for office drones. I can’t believe so many people are taking it at face value!
One mystery that continues to fascinate me is when people at work say things to me that are obviously irrational -- are they sincere or is it some kind of manipulative power play? I've had managers ask me things such as "When will the rebuild of the website be done" and I answer "In two months" and they say "You have two weeks" and I say "Maybe 6 weeks, but not 2" and then they repeat "You've got two weeks." I wonder…
My guess is this falls under the same purview as booby-trapping your house: Yeah, they're committing a felony by breaking into your house, but you're not allowed to setup a "Home Alone" defense system (if nothing else because first responders might need to get into your home). It's dumb in this case because the "booby trap" likely isn't one at all, but at a very cursory glance I could buy that someone would make thei…
If you think you need a locked lunchbox, then what you really need is a job with better coworkers.
Changing your job in response to someone stealing your lunch seems a little extreme.
There's an update to the original post. What a lovely ending to the story. http://www.askamanager.org/2016/10/update-a-coworker-stole-m...