<story><title>A coworker stole my spicy food, got sick, and is blaming me (2016)</title><url>http://www.askamanager.org/2016/07/a-coworker-stole-my-spicy-food-got-sick-and-is-blaming-me.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>Mistakes happen. There are all sorts of ways you could accidentally eat someone else&amp;#x27;s lunch, and having a &amp;#x27;zero tolerance&amp;#x27; policy is a good way to end up firing an innocent person.</text></item><item><author>seattle_spring</author><text>Kind of orthogonal to the story, but anyone who steals lunch or food from a co-worker should be fired immediately. There&amp;#x27;s a 0% chance that someone who steals others&amp;#x27; stuff is a good, honest person in other parts of their life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acdha</author><text>Here’s what that sounds like when an innocent person does it: “I’m so sorry, your bag looked just like mine and I didn’t notice it until I heated it up. Can I buy you lunch?”&lt;p&gt;Someone who has to be confronted is just hoping you’ll believe their excuse because that’s worked in the past.</text></comment>
<story><title>A coworker stole my spicy food, got sick, and is blaming me (2016)</title><url>http://www.askamanager.org/2016/07/a-coworker-stole-my-spicy-food-got-sick-and-is-blaming-me.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>Mistakes happen. There are all sorts of ways you could accidentally eat someone else&amp;#x27;s lunch, and having a &amp;#x27;zero tolerance&amp;#x27; policy is a good way to end up firing an innocent person.</text></item><item><author>seattle_spring</author><text>Kind of orthogonal to the story, but anyone who steals lunch or food from a co-worker should be fired immediately. There&amp;#x27;s a 0% chance that someone who steals others&amp;#x27; stuff is a good, honest person in other parts of their life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FPGAhacker</author><text>Accidentally take, sure. Accidentally consume?  Maybe one bite.  Unless there were some odd circumstances, like mental deficiency, or nearly identical meals, beyond one bite is very difficult to believe.</text></comment>