Video: Earthquake rocks house, but boy who loves food refuses to give up his noodles
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake hit China on June 23, but that didn't stop a little boy from going back for more. His family was having dinner when the father grabbed the boys and ran for cover. But the older one came back for more noodles.
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A story has emerged online about how one employee faced theft of his lunch and came up with a radical solution that may be familiar to other office workers.
In a viral post on Reddit, an employee revealed that his workplace has a shared kitchen with one refrigerator.
“My lunch has been stolen five times in the last month,” a Reddit user reported. “Not just random snacks. Full home-cooked meals I brought from home have disappeared without a trace.”
He added: “Not only is it annoying, it's expensive and it ruins my mood.”
In an office group chat, a worker asked the unknown lunch thief to stop, but no one admitted to it.
An office worker's solution to the lunch-stealing problem — a locked mini-fridge under his desk (not shown) — has sparked a lot of discussion on Reddit. (iStock)
His solution? The worker bought a mini-fridge and placed it under his desk, equipping it with a lock “for added peace of mind.”
“Not a single stolen lunch since then,” he wrote in his post.
“I said I was tired of people stealing my food.”
However, his decision was not met with approval.
One Reddit user reported that one of his co-workers criticized him and called the fridge “weird and selfish.”
“She said it made me 'look paranoid' and 'not part of the team,'” the original author recalled. “I told her I was tired of stealing my food and this was the only solution that worked.”
He added: “She said if I was that worried I should just bring things I didn't mind losing, like snacks or microwaveable food.”
A colleague said the mini fridge being locked made the original author “look paranoid.” (iStock)
Since then, he said, the employee has been the subject of ridicule for locking up his lunch and “starts to feel weird in the office just because he's protecting his stuff.”
He asked others if he was wrong to “lock up his lunch instead of letting it go on?”
Commenters on the post, which has garnered more than 20,000 likes, were almost unanimous in siding with the frustrated office worker.
“Looks like [the other coworker] is now hungry since she doesn't have a free lunch,” one user commented.
“When you work in an office and you share a kitchen, stealing someone else's food is not only childish and mean, but also completely disrespectful.”
“I would immediately contact HR regarding the theft and bullying,” another user added.
“Just give them the same energy back,” advised a third. “They're taking it as a joke, so let it be a joke. Don't take it seriously.”
Some thought the story was so absurd that it must be made up.
“This can't be true lol,” one user suggested.
“What AI did you use to write this story?” asked another.
Fox News Digital spoke with Texas-based etiquette expert Diane Gottsman to find out if the office worker overreacted to the loss of his lunches.
“When you work in an office and you share a kitchen, stealing someone else's food is not only childish and mean, it's also completely disrespectful,” Gottsman said.
“Take something from the kitchen, from the cupboard, from the shelf or from somewhere
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