Guarding your goodies in the office fridge….
Did you throw your lunch bag into the office fridge this morning? Will it still be there come lunchtime..or will the Twinkies be missing?
Turns out lunch room theft is on the rise… and now a company is out with a three part alarm system to protect your leftover turkey sandwich..or homemade brownies on the job.
A U-S company called ThinkGeek sells the motion detector for about 40 dollars.
If you’re caught with your hand out.. missiles will be launched..following the lights and alarms.
The maker says it works well in your office cubicle too.. protecting those cute post-it notes or leftover halloween candy from certain co workers.
( You so know who you are!)
The weekend National Post did a story on this, with ways to guard your bag in the communal fridge.
Ideas range from tagging your bag and Tupperware with your name.
Easy enough. But what about “borrowing” a bit of milk from that carton.. or scooping out some jam from that jar that’s been in there forever?
Who is watching for that?
The etiquette police say we should ask before we touch…
and we should be thoughtful.. and remember to dump the old stuff before it changes colour.
Sometimes you can get really lucky. In our 570 News fridge this past summer we had ice cream..even a box of Fudgsicles sitting in the freezer looking for love.
My glow-in-the-dark squash soup was still sitting there after our news run this morning..for some reason nobody touched it.
lisa