There are few places on Earth more intriguing than the office refrigerator. It does not matter where your place of employment is; if you are in a work space with more than 10 employees, a single trip to the refrigerator can be completely mundane, or traumatic enough to ruin your day.
Anyone who has ever had something taken from them in the work refrigerator knows exactly what I mean. I’ve found myself conducting crude investigations and interrogating co-workers ’till their almost at the point of tears. “Those crumbs on your shirt kind of look like croutons. So where did you say you got your lunch again? Oh really? THEN WHY DOES YOUR BREATH SMELL LIKE PAUL NEWMAN RANCH DRESSING?! DON’T LIE TO ME, DAMN IT!!!”
I also find it interesting that it always takes a heroic effort on one person’s part for the work refrigerator to be cleaned. I have worked many places, and it’s almost always the case. I think the group mentality of “they won’t be able to blame this mess on me” coupled with the individual feeling of “this ain’t MY fridge, so I don’t care how it smells” is the main reason most of them eventually resemble science projects gone horribly wrong. I remember one office where I’d look at the bottom shelf, and the food in there looked like something from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I would open the door and say “Did that cantaloupe just wink at me? Dear God! Was that a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at some point in time? It looks paisley! How is that even possible?”
If you are that brave soul who brings about change and cleans the office refrigerator, here’s to you! Your efforts are appreciated and applauded here at ListenToLeon.net. However, if you are the office food thief, I hope you get what’s coming to you. I hope someone leaves a bait lunch in there for you one day, laces it with laxatives & steals your bathroom key. Maybe that’ll learn ‘ya!
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I agree. I buy Skinny Cow freezepops and put them in the freezer at work. I have literally been in the teacher’s cafe and watched someone take one of my freezepops. They are expensive so it’s no laughing matter!
Man, someone left an open tupperware container in the office fridge. I don’t know what it used to be but it was know a kind of a hard green thing. It was either old meat or new cheese. There was this foaming white stuff on the side of it. Kind of looked like soap suds. I was praying that it was just congealed gravy…but I knew it wasn’t.
Man! How about I was JUST sending out a scathing email because someone’s forgotten lunch from 8/17/2011 (they had their name and date they left it there on a post-it) attacked me & when I was googling to get a visual to soften the ether of the evil email I was sending, your website popped up! I resisted the urge to put a link to your blog at the end of the email, don’t need them all up in me commenting about them.
I put my food in there, so I will make sure that there is no mold sitting next to my sandwich!