Dear Prudie: My coworker stole my dirty underwear.
By: Slate Magazine
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Dear Prudence,
I work in a small office of about a dozen people. We often work late hours, and I usually leave a couple of sets of gym clothing in my desk. Last Friday I wanted to take some of my used clothing home after a busy week and noticed that all my (used) underwear was missing. I know I did not misplace three sets, and lots of people have been working on a big project all week. How do I bring up the subject of the theft? There are several people who have access to my desk and a couple of people who I suspect. What do I do?
Obviously, this calls for a kind of Agatha Christie tribunal in which you gather all the suspects around the conference table and lay out your evidence: "Dick, at a meeting you were about to sneeze and when you reached for a handkerchief, instead you pulled my thong out of your pocket. You want to explain? Gary, I found a copy of a Victoria's Secret catalog in your wastebasket. It was sticky. Want to tell everyone why?"
Yes, you likely have a pervert in your midst, so you're going to be looking at every guy in the office with a queasy feeling. But I'm afraid this is one of those things that you just have to handle in a preventative manner. Unless you catch the thief red-handed, you cannot confront someone about this without evidence. You could go to HR so that at the least there's a notation about this. But I assume they are unlikely to send a memo asking that employees not steal each other's dirty underwear. I think this is one of those things best handled privately by either storing your gym clothes in a secure place, or taking them home with you at the end of each day.—Emily Yoffe
From: Help! Someone at Work Is Stealing My Used Gym Underwear. (May 5, 2014)
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Only twelve people...Ok....
Is it weird that one of my thoughts was, leaving smelly gym clothes in a desk drawer would not be very appealing for the office.
Maybe it was stinking up the place and somebody threw it away because the smell bothered them
Yeah but I would throw away all of it. Not just the undies...Haha
Lol!
How do I bring up the subject of the theft?
Don't say anything to anyone, put some more used underwear in the desk, put up a nanny cam and sit back and wait.
Whoever did it would have to know that she knows now.
I wonder if he would quit or still be tempted.
Don't say anything to anyone.
If they don't know that she cared or that she even really noticed that the underwear were gone, likely they'd do it again.
"He" is still assumed these days.
Still ... Busted !!!
LOL
True. For some weird reason I think of something like this...
LOL