Am I being too niggly?

[Arch]

And I'm only developing a complex because you always speak such sense.

I've just had a thought though - a dynamo powered, side-mounted-on-a-rack, Corby trouser press!

 

[Blackandblue]

I've just had a thought though - a dynamo powered, side-mounted-on-a-rack, Corby trouser press!

I retract my earlier comment about you speaking sense.

 

[Arch]

 

[John the Monkey]

TROUSER PRESS BABY!

 

[fossyant]

£11 a week on shirts....

Easy solution - transport shirt in and out each day, carefully folded. Wash, slow spin, hang up - dry in morning, no need to iron - simple.

 

[Mr Pig]

To be honest, it would piss me off too. It's not the value of the item it's the ignorance involved in taking it without asking you. It does have your name on it, how hard would it be to ask if it was ok to take them?

I came out of church years ago to find that my umbrella was missing from the cupboard. Turned out someone else had borrowed it because it was raining! Very good, why do you think I had it with me!!! :0(

 

[Arch]

To be honest, it would piss me off too. It's not the value of the item it's the ignorance involved in taking it without asking you. It does have your name on it, how hard would it be to ask if it was ok to take them?

True. A colleague of mine used to reuse a water bottle to drink tap water at her desk (we were some way and two flights of stairs away from a drinking water tap, or indeed any tap), and had to write all over it in marker pen to stop the cleaners clearing away the empty bottle, and even then it would sometimes disappear.

 

[Wigsie]

If B&b wants to have a laundry wash his shirts that part of the topic is off limits I say!

Arch don't be matron!

B&b, I know you said that posting this thread is as far as you're going to take the issue but my advice is to lie in wait for the miscreant and give him a good thrashing. That'll sort it.

It's all about standards.

+1 either that or set up a spy cam to catch the thieving gypsy in action! theft is theft... if you worked at my office we would probably hide your hangers or move them around to wind you up but wouldnt take them completly.

 

[Blackandblue]

+1 either that or set up a spy cam to catch the thieving gypsy in action! theft is theft... if you worked at my office we would probably hide your hangers or move them around to wind you up but wouldnt take them completly.

Perhaps there's a cupboard somewhere with all of my hangers and bags in it. Perhaps this explains why so many people point at me and snigger. Although how all the people in the supermarket, on buses, in the street are in on the joke is baffling me.

 

[Kovu]

Perhaps there's a cupboard somewhere with all of my hangers and bags in it. Perhaps this explains why so many people point at me and snigger. Although how all the people in the supermarket, on buses, in the street are in on the joke is baffling me.

Maybe it's an underground operation where they are just trying to rid the world of plastic bags? Maybe there all against you?

 

[bonj2]

I don't think you're being overly anal, it would annoy me as well.
It may just be a case of sticking a sign on the bag saying "please do not nick this bag".
That way, whoever nicks it will know that it's been noticed missing and that the person who left it there (you) doesn't want anyone else to take it. Then, for them to continue to do so, is a deliberate act of defiance, a line they may not cross.

If that fails, then detective work may be called for. It is probably always the same person that does it. This also transpires that it is therefore probably always round about the same time at which they do it. All you then have to do is a binary chop to narrow down the time at which they strike, it should then be elementary to catch them. i.e. check at lunchtime, if still there, it's obviously afternoon. Check at 2:30 - if gone - it's between lunch and 2:30. etc. You can then either catch them redhanded or probably better, work out who it is and then send them an email. If they still do it, nick their clothes when they're in the shower.

 

[eldudino]

Buy a dog (small terrier should do the job), keep it tied to rack upon which you hang your shirt bag, feed every other day (you can afford £2.20 for shirt laundering so 4 x 90p per week on cans of dog food should be a good investment) then spend the remaining weeks check other members of staff's fingers for bite marks.

 

[rich p]

. All you then have to do is a binary chop to narrow down the time at which they strike, it should then be elementary to catch them. i.e. check at lunchtime, if still there, it's obviously afternoon. Check at 2:30 - if gone - it's between lunch and 2:30. etc. .

What if the dastardly sneak-thief eats the binary chop for lunch, though?
You hadn't thought of that Bonjy baby, had you?

 

[Arch]

What if the dastardly sneak-thief eats the binary chop for lunch, though?
You hadn't thought of that Bonjy baby, had you?

And if they don't, the small dog will.

 

[ChrisKH]

£2.20 a shirt? £7.99 for five shirts at my workplace. You are being robbed.