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Office kitchens are spaces where employees can relax, eat food and catch up with one another. Sometimes they convert into meeting areas and often they become alternative settings for Christmas or leaving parties. But they can occasionally be spaces for conflict if workers take items, particularly out of fridges, that don’t belong to them.
For years, we’ve known the act of labelling milk with your name in hopes colleagues don’t use it up, but have you ever seen a carton of milk literally put under lock and key? Well, employee has gone to such lengths to stop colleagues from consuming their milk by putting a padlock on it. As a result, an image of the chained carton ended up on Reddit with the caption: “Peak pettiness or justifiable security?”
In response, users shared their thoughts with many agreeing that the padlock was a justifiable move. One user said: “100 percent justifiable. People will drink right out of your milk container, and no one respects other people’s items in the communal fridge. I haven’t used the communal fridge in 20 years.”
