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Heroic IT Dept Less Likely to Steal... Lunches?
An anonymous reader writes "According to an article in the Houston Chronicle concerning lunch theft, people from IT are least likely to steal lunches because they are a "hero department." The most likely? Accounting and Customer-Support... "
If you want the IT guys to steal lunch, you've got to bait them with something caffeinated and something sugary. Try some Bawls, Mt. Dew, and Skittles.
Also because the higher-ups are used to stealing!
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...are you saying that IT workers are allowed to eat lunches?
That changes everything...
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
I am getting sick of all these incomprehensibly esoteric articles. I like science, but sometimes the posts on slashdot are just too technical for me. This article on stealing lunches is a case in point. The pages and pages of analyses, the incredibly detailed social models that they used to arrive at their conclusions, the dogs eating lunches... it's a bit much for the layperson to grasp in one sitting. Editors: could we please get something a little lighter next time?
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Oh yeah? I have to grow the coffee myself, then pick it. Then I grind it with a stone, put it in a bowl (hewn from stone) with water (reclaimed from the air and heated on servers) and I filter it with old AC filters. Then coworkers usually steal the coffee.
Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.
That's cause a hungry baby has lots of supporters waiting nearby to feed it with their own portion rather than see it go hungry, whereas the CFO has little or no supporters and must fend for himself or die.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
Some jackass kept stealing my tuna sandwich...I mean once in a while would still be annoying, but EVERY damn time was just an open declaration of war. So I made a big fat tuna sandwich with a healthy amount of "FancyFeast". I used chicken and liver flavor to make sure the point got across. So in the fridge it goes and I came back an hour or two later and it was gone. The next morning, I found an anonymous post-it note on the door of the fridge asking people to please discard "old and potentially rancid" food from the refigerator since it was a "health hazard."
:)
Since then, my sandwich has been safe. Nobody ever owned up to the thefts or the note.
Back in my day, we had to smash hydrogen and oxygen atoms together to make our own water. Then some high mucketity-muck would come along and steal it. We tried substituting deuterium and tritium instead of hydrogen but they never did steal enough to self-destruct.
Infuriate left and right
After the last time my lunch was stolen out of the break room fridge, I thought that perhaps next time I would put in a bit of bait food that was laced with blue dye. Food coloring, of course, so it would be harmless. Then for the next couple of days at work we could all easily identify the lunch thief by the blue stains around his mouth. LOL.
Haven't tried it yet, though.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
It's just that IT departments tend to have the highest percentage of employees who remember being beaten up and having their lunch money taken from them!
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
> Unfortunately, I'm certain that if I made a special lunch sandwich with razorblades, and some bastard stole it and hurt himself, the police would come after me.
Yeah, our law enforcement has gone totally insane to prosecute you for something like that.
Before you design for reuse, make sure to design it for use.
We had a problem with stealing food at work, someone was stealing this guys apple, orange, etc. Whatever fruit he had brought for lunch and left in the fridge went missing. So after a few emails asking that the thief stop went unheeded, we simply sent an email informing the last fruit stolen had spent the night before in mens urinal. That stopped the stealing cold.
Use both laxative and Jalapenos,
and replace the toilet paper in the bathroom with rabid gerbils.
Few things are as painful as wiping your burning anus with a rabid gerbil.
maybe they didn't have any change
my password really is 'stinkypants'