The gripping office saga centred on a container of shrimp fried rice stolen from a communal fridge. Photo / 123RF
The gripping office saga centred on a container of shrimp fried rice stolen from a communal fridge. Photo / 123RF
One man's amusing office story has captivated thousands of social media users who grabbed their popcorn to catch the latest updates on a lunch thief at his place of work.
Twitter user Zak Toscani took to his page Thursday to share a lengthy thread with all of the details abouta tiff that involved some tasty shrimp fried rice.
Toscani said one of his colleagues became furious after learning someone stole his food from the fridge. The victim, however, was given access to security footage to find out who the culprit was.
Co-worker got his lunch stolen and they’ve agreed to let him watch the security camera tape. This is the most excited I’ve ever been at any job ever. Ever.
"Co-worker got his lunch stolen and they've agreed to let him watch the security camera tape. This is the most excited I've ever been at any job ever. Ever," he first wrote yesterday at 1pm in the thread that continued into Friday.
The first tweet alone received nearly 363,000 likes and 5500 comments within one day.
He followed up with a whopping 23 more tweets afterward, one of which he explained that the thief took the grub within an hour of it being placed inside the fridge.
Toscani was shocked to learn that the lunch thief was a woman who sat right next to him, who he called a 'psychopath (who) DIDNT EVEN EAT THE FOOD' in part.
"She took it out of the fridge and threw and buried it in the trash... Her motives remain completely unknown," he wrote further in the tweets.
"In lieu of what he saw on the tape he has decided to not to press the matter anymore. I can't say I blame him. We don't know what this women's fully capable of.'"
Read the remainder of the riveting tweets below.
The lunch in question was shrimp fried rice which means this escalates from a misdemeanor to felony no doubt
Case facts: Lunch was in fridge for less than an hour before it vanished. No shrimp smell remnants in the microwave or kitchen area. This was a professional hit no doubt
So the man who’s lunch was stolen sits across from me. The person who stole his lunch sits RIGHT NEXT TO ME! She left for the day before the investigation started
Her motives remain completely unknown. In lieu of what he saw on the tape he has decided to not to press the matter anymore. I can’t say I blame him. We don’t know what this women’s fully capable of
Points to clarify: he bought the shrimp fried rice around 11:30am (carry out) and put it in the fridge to chill until he takes lunch at noon. So she had exactly a 30min window of time to do what she did. There was no intention of microwaving the food
Update: Ok so when dude watched the video with HR they asked “what do you want to do about it?” he told them he was solely interested in who did it and that he didn’t want to be responsible for someone getting fired
After charges were dropped, HR sent a company wide email about not stealing people’s lunches. She is scheduled to arrive at work in 20min. My blood is on cocaine
From the moment she walked in, I’ve just been staring at her. Watched her open her email and now she clicked on the goddamn HR email! Holy fuck strap in - here we go!
!!!! After seeing the HR email she says out loud “woah. Someone stole a lunch? Who would do something like that?” !!! I may have to run out of this room
I’ll keep updating if anything else occurs but all I can say is that EVERYONE in the office from the janitor to the founder knows what she did. She now carries an invisible scarlet letter
This is real. This is happening. We know who did it but we don’t know why. It’s a post production company so we’re in fact open today. She’s been sitting 3ft from me this whole time
I wish I could close this up with a neat little bow, but, it appears that we may never know why she did it. Maybe she doesn’t know she did it. Either way I’m now forced to work 40hrs a week next to a cold blooded individual
