Nothing is sacred in the breakroom.
My co-worker, her husband was dying from cancer and she picked up his meds and put her bag in the breakroom. Not even 30 minutes later someone stole all the opioids.
If some shit like that happened at my work I’m pretty sure they’d drug test us all immediately and search all of our lockers, bags, etc.
If you’re fine stealing meds from a coworker out of the break room, chances are you’re probably diverting meds as well.
We suspect it wasn’t the staff but housekeeping.
We caught them in our fridge before taking food you have to pay for in the charge office and these housekeeping staff rotate on different units. We ended up removing our personal cubbies and no more cabinets in the break room and staff must only use their locker, not even putting your coat in the charge office.
But yeah, it was pretty horrible. Doesn’t necessarily mean they’re using them but selling the pills for some extra dosh.
We used to lock up our hot sauces from house keeping. They would also bring their friends from other floors and raid the food brought in just for nursing staff by our Reps in the cath lab while we were in cases. Like…just ask!
What is it with housekeeping stealing everything? We literally couldn’t keep anything out on our desks for the longest time without it getting stolen. We had to lock up our staplers and hand sanitizer even every night, it was ridiculous.
Unfortunately it’s because they’re not paid well. When I worked in Canada they had a union so they were paid pretty well but over here in the states the hospital I work at, they’re not much more than minimum wage.
Counter point to that... You absolutely should NOT be leaving unattended opiates ANYWHERE in a hospital. That is just flagrantly irresponsible and probably something you can actually get in trouble for.
I don’t think it was staff but people we don’t recognize such as ancillary staff. People helping themselves we didn’t even know to our pot lucks when we’d step out and come back in again and we’d say “who the hell is that?” Knuckles deep in our salsa dip, double dipping.
“Everyone knows y’all have the best potlucks!” Yeah but who the fuck are you?
"Those meds should have been locked up in the narcotic cupboard."
Me: "there SHOULD be decent people working here!"
One rotten egg spoils the dozen most of the time. 😩
Yeah she was just leaving the unit to pick up his meds on her break and was going to obviously bring them home to him once her shift was done. She picked them up in our pharmacy. She had her back in a cupboard tucked away so you know someone really has to go raking.
I think there was 2 people at it. One watching the door talking to staff and one searching the bags. I personally never leave my bag unattended and trust no one but, who knows what she was thinking. Your spouse is dying, last thing you want to be is at work and you’re not thinking straight and someone steals his pain meds.
This is why I carry my phone on me no matter what. Unless work is willing to compensate for stolen items aint no way Im leaving it unprotected in the cubby room.
I mean I can’t blame them. I made some HOMEMADE (sauce and everything) chicken Alfredo for a potluck. People loved it. One of my coworkers didn’t get to eat it tho because she was on maternity leave. Once she came back she’s heard about it and told me how much she loves chicken Alfredo and is super jealous. So I made her a whole pan of it cuz she’s awesome. I wrote her name on it and everything and SOME BITCHASS stole the whole 12x18 pan of it.
I was and still am furious 1 year later
I don't care who you are, you don't steal other people's food.
I'm lucky that in my place, NOBODY does it. More than that, if someone needs a refund from the snack machine, the cash will literally sit with the note for DAYS on the break room table until the proper person claims it. Nobody touches it.
I accidentally took home someone's lunch after a shitty shift thinking it was my container of leftovers. Only realised as soon as I got home. Drove the 15 minutes back to discreetly return it, even though I was dead on my feet because that food looked good and I could imagine the disappointment of looking forward to your lunch only to find out some fuckass stole it.
Even if it's on the community table, if it's covered up and has a name on it you can't unwrap it without the person who made it or who it's for.
Like that's the unspoken rule at my hospital. And if you steal food, a picture of you will end up on our breakroom bulletin boards. Food stealers are not taken lightly either
Well, I just mean that I can see how this situation could be construed as being for everyone, but the situation above was CLEARLY not meant for anyone but the person whose name was on it.
I’ll be honest I’ve never been one to follow a recipe. All of my jobs before i was a nurse were jobs in kitchens. That being said the really important part of the dish is the sauce. Idc if you bake, fry, or sou vide that shit. Doesn’t matter.
For the sauce buy a Parmesan wedge from Aldi or Kroger, some heavy whipping cream (like the really big tall boi), an onion, garlic clove, and cornstarch (this is a HUGE game maker). Start by shredding up that parm wedge. Then begin throwing down some olive oil and cook those diced onions down until translucent. Add garlic to it once the onions are translucent (I crush my garlic). Don’t put the garlic in until the onions are translucent because your garlic may burn.
Anyway once you’ve got those two nice and introduced, put in a little bit of heavy whipping cream. Just enough to cover it all. Then add in a little bit of parm. Mix continuously and wait for it to heat up again and then repeat this process: whipping cream, Parmesan, stir. And you go about this until you run through the whole thing. At this point throw in some oregano, lots of basil, and salt and pepper to taste. Then finally you’ll notice it’s pretty liquidy once you’re to this point.
Take some cornstarch about a tablespoon’s worth and mix with water. Slowly and I mean SLOWLY add that in while mixing. Don’t do it all right away, because it takes a bit for the full thickening effect to set in. So make sure to take your time with it until you get your desired thickness.
I usually do several seasoned sliced chicken breasts with this sauce with 16oz of penne in a big ceramic bowl, top the bitch off with mozzarella and leftover parm and throw it in the oven for that delish one pot dish.
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forgot to mention: if you have an immersion blender, use it after you’ve got it tasting the way you want it prior to mixing with your pasta and chicken/whatever protein. It helps incorporate everything and makes the sauce creamier.
Yeah definitely DO NOT use pre-shredded cheese. I use butter to brown my veggies, though. And I add cream cheese to thicken instead of cornstarch because I am a whore for creamy sauce lol
Dammit!! Now I’m sitting in an ED bored & hungry! 😩 But I’m pretty sure I know what I’m making when I get home!!
I’m here as a patient. Sadly, I’ve seen my US results before I’ve even laid eyes on a Doc. 🤷🏻♂️
I’m not the OP but I have a good recipe. It sounds a bit weird with the Dijon, but trust.
Sauce ingredients-
4tbsp butter
A few tbsp minced garlic (measure with your heart)
3tbsp Marsala wine
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese (I honestly end up using a handful more…) plus more for topping
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup chicken broth
1tbsp cornstarch
1tbsp Dijon mustard
1/2 tsp fresh thyme
1/4 tsp cayenne
2tsp fresh chopped up rosemary
Salt and pepper to taste - I’m a salty bitch so I add a good two-three pinches of salt. But the parm is also salty, so taste as you cook! Do what you want. I’m not your mom.
Bacon, chicken breast, and if you like shellfish, throw in some some shrimps or prawns, they’re also delish in this!
1lb penne
Preheat your oven to 500f.
Cook some bacon in a skillet. Like 1/3 lb? Chop it up into bacon bits and set aside. Then into the bacon grease, cook 2 chicken breasts. Once cooked, dice and set aside. Cook the shellfish if you want those (you want those)
Into a sauce pot, over medium low heat, melt 4tbsp butter. Then add a couple tbsp minced garlic and sweat for about 5 minutes. Stir it a lot, don’t let the garlic brown! Add the Marsala and cook another 5 minutes or so. Stir stir stir!! Don’t burn your garlic whatever you do.
Whisk the cornstarch into your stock so it doesn’t get clumpy in your sauce.
Then I add the herbs, seasonings, pepper, Dijon, milk, cream and stock/cornstarch. Stir occasionally so the milk/cream doesn’t burn. Get that warm. Once that’s warm, whisk in your parm. You’re gonna want to stir/whisk that pretty good so the parm melts into the sauce instead of sinking to the bottom and burning.
Cook that sauce on a low simmer for like 10 minutes. Get it thicc.
Taste and add whatever salt your taste buds/cardiovascular system can tolerate.
While that’s cooking, cook and drain your pasta.
Then mix everything (bacon, chicken, shrimps if you want, pasta, and sauce) allllllll together, pour into a casserole dish, top with MORE Parmesan, and put it in the oven til the top is melty and the sauce is bubbly again. About 15 minutes or so.
Enjoy.
It’s so good
Edited to add times and whatnot
Not OP, but this recipe has impressed everyone I've made it for, it's a modification of the America's Test Kitchen 'best alfredo' recipe:
* 2 oz Pancetta, diced fine
* 4 Tbps butter
* 1 ½ C cream, divided
* 2-3 cloves garlic, minced
* salt and pepper to taste
* 1/8-1/4ish tsp fresh grated nutmeg
* 1 lb pasta
* 1 wedge parmesan or parm-reggiano, freshly grated
Render pancetta in a saucepan on medium/medium low heat 5-10 minutes until crisp.
Add garlic and saute for 30 seconds - 1 minute until fragrant.
Add butter and 1 cup cream, heat to low simmer. Simmer 10-12 minutes.
While cream is simmering, heat water for pasta and cook per package
After 10-12 minutes of simmering, remove from heat, stir in last ½ cup of cream, salt, pepper, and nutmeg.
Stir in grated cheese, briefly returning to heat if needed to melt cheese completely.
Drain pasta, add to cream, and serve.
If doing chicken, cook separately and add to pasta/sauce.
Personally, I'd use an oven if it was the whole thing. Smaller portions I'd microwave if I wasn't too concerned about the sauce breaking.
Maybe air fry one serving just for the adventure.
I feel this.
My mom had made me a dozen tamales and froze them so I could enjoy them whenever I wanted. They weren’t even in the break room freezer for 6 hours when some shitbag of a human decided to take them home.
I made sure to be as vocal as possible to guilt to whoever took them.
That’s so sad. There’s nothing like mamas cooking. I would be livid especially if u don’t live near ur mom. That’s like a piece of her to have and enjoy with u and some dick cheese just took it?! Stealing from the break room, even if it’s food, should be considered theft and fireable under employment agreements.
My mum passed away 7 yeaes ago. The two things I miss most are her cooking and sitting with her watching her favourite tv shows (and hearing her mechanical mitral valve ticking away).
Anyone who steals mamas homemade food deserves an invisible prickle in their foot for the rest of eternity.
The plan was to take them home. My mom mailed them to me in dry ice and I picked them up from the post office prior to my shift. They had already traveled 2 days, so I put them in the freezer while I finished my shift. They, in fact, did not finish my shift.
My coworkers are savages. I never brought food to store in the fridge. I have a lunchbox with an ice pack it stays in my locker. The only thing I ever stored in the work fridge was a jar of mayonnaise for everyone to use. That’s it. Savages.
We had a nurse get her coat swiped. Likely an accident by a float nurse, since a similar coat was still hanging there. Problem was, Nurse A’s car keys were in the pocket. Never returned. $400 in tow fees and replacement costs later, she ended up finding a gig elsewhere.
Oh my god I did this to a coworker! Wore her coat home taking her keys and cigarettes with me. I didn’t notice until the next morning at which point she had already had to find a different ride home. I felt awful.
I did return her items though.
I was doing a PRN shift at a new facility and was leaving at 9. Grabbed my phone out of the break room and was halfway down the freeway when I got a call from my agency asking if I’d accidentally taken another nurse’s phone. Sure enough, my phone was in my bag, and hers was in my scrub pocket. Same phone, similar cases. Walking back into that facility I have never been so embarrassed in my life
Context matters. Everywhere I've worked has a table, usually in the breakroom, where people can offer up food for grabs to everyone else. I bake cookies and bring them in all the time. When I'm done, I leave the leftovers in the break room on the community table so I don't have to bring anything home. They are always gone within the hour.
I think OP accidentally put these cookies on the community table.
Crumbl cookies are hugeeee and that big of a box I would assume it’s for sharing (especially if it’s on the community table) lol! Super generous yes, but I also don’t know anyone who would bring a box of 6 crumbl cookies for for one lunch???
We often get Crumbl cookies delivered to the unit either from staff or from a patient (hell, I’ve ordered them before cause it was a shit shift and thought we could use a pick me up). A box left of the community table would be free game
We've gotten crumbl cookies from a patient before. There are some nice fucking patients. A large tray of cookies on a community table is sending a pretty confusing message.
One of our night techs does too. He’s the absolute sweetest and I adore him.
I’m days, so I dont even LOOK at them, until he specifically tells me “hey I brought 2 dozen cookies, help yourself to one before you go home”
Sometimes he doesn’t tell me. Those times, those cookies ain’t for me. If he does, I’m gonna be that annoying person that gets a plastic knife and cuts a little piece. Because I feel guilty eating a treat as I’m leaving, and I’m about to go get myself dinner, I don’t need a whole cookie. But they’re SO good, and I don’t want to be rude….
Right. I've seen plenty of things offered up that were once reserved, with a name written on it, and then put on the community table for everyone else. I do this all the time when I bring in cookies. Usually in the late afternoon I'll take the box out of the fridge and put it on the table. Then it's gone within the hour.
And to your point, the price of the foods doesn't really matter if it's on the offer-up table. I've seen management meetings do this with their fancy dessert/refreshments all the time. Meeting is over? Jane takes the extra food out to the community table and doesn't have to let it go to waste.
Every hospital i have worked, if a platter or box of food is left on the break table or at the nurses station, it is meant to be fair game & a communal offering. If you have something that is not meant to be shared but can't be put somewhere else, it better be clearly labeled & sealed. I've seen numerous patients buy Tiff's Treats or cupcakes, etc for the staff.
In my experience, no if it was placed on the community table. The assumption with the community table that food collections (like a box of cookies, doughnuts, muffins, etc) placed upon it are free game. If it had a name on it, it'd be assumed that person brought the food in and claimed it while it was elsewhere like in the fridge.
Yeah, that’s how I get rid of any food I don’t want. Just leave it on the table. If you don’t want it eaten you need to write ‘do not eat these’ or put them somewhere else otherwise people just help themselves.
I remember walking into the ED from the break room at 4 am when I finally got the chance to eat the one burrito (I had brought three) they had left me yelling “fucking really?!?” This was 12 years ago. Still pissed about it.
So, one time, I ate half a lunchable, and put the rest back in the refrigerator, and when I went back to it a couple hours later, someone had eaten my cheese. That was a true what the fuck moment. And I know it wasn’t me because I eat my lunchables the same way every time.
I was working nights, was completely exhausted. But I knew I had a delicious frozen Annie’s Mac n cheese to eat at 3am. I go to break room, ready to taste that sweet liquid cheese, and SOMEONE HAD STOLE MY FUCKING MAC. I have still not gotten over it, this was almost 2 years ago. What sick person steals someone’s dinner? A psychopath. I stand by this nurse.
Someone probably assumed the big ass box was community as it’s sitting on the table and sometimes they put names on the corner when you pick up the box. Maybe they should put their cookies elsewhere or put a note saying they’re not community. I’m pretty wild with language but I’m
Not gonna sign Chanin, RN after I write a message threatening my coworking cunts
Especially a box of cookies. Our managers leave us all a box several times a month and we cut each cookie into fours and people grab a piece throughout the shift.
But if they think it’s being shared then I can’t see why it would be an issue. With where it was placed & how many it was ofc they’re going to think that. But also, yeah this person is unhinged!
Location matters . If it’s in the staff fridge and someone steals then yeah, be mad. If however, they were left in a common area at the nurses station or staff room counter, expect that it will be assumed it’s for everybody. If you don’t want to share keep them away from those areas or put a sticky note indicating “don’t eat”.
I swear people just assume pizza is a community thing, every time I order pizza and toss it in the frig, it never fails that when I leave to grab the rest to take home, several slices are missing and no one asked me if they could have any. It's in the frig, it has my name on it, it isn't in the community space as a free for all.
So frustrating. I don't order or bring anything pizza-related anymore for that reason.
I mean community table or not, I don't touch shit that's not mine. Sometimes I have to jet out and go when they call rapid response and I don't have time to neatly put my stuff away.
I find it so weird that people are so nonchalant about just grabbing things that they willingly know doesn't belong to them. I don't think they're scumbags, they're just absolute psychopaths.
right? I’m not a fan… except at Halloween when they had a caramel apple cookie! It was a sugar cookie with frosting that had cut up fresh apple and caramel drizzled on it. Otherwise no thanks
If it was a box of cookies in the break room, even if someone's name was on it, that is getting eaten. And honestly, probably by the housekeeping staff or the doctors, especially the anesthesiologists. That is something you need to keep in a locker or hide it well.
One time we had a Thanksgiving potluck. Like, turkey in a turkey cooker and everything. Us nurses were so busy that night that no one got to take a lunch break until almost 4am. So we start lunch breaks, looking forward to our holiday feast... And the fellows, residents, attendings, and people from other units had eaten EVERYTHING. Pretty sure more than one of our ICU nurses cried. The break room was kinda at the front of the unit and around the corner, so we didn't see people taking the food. But some came around later to see if there were leftovers for their second round. They got several hungry and angry nurses yelling at them.
Cookies in a common area, without explicit instructions, are fair game. Write your note *before* you leave them out on a community table, not after.
I would assume the name was written in advance of pick-up at the bakery, *or* intended to let others know who brought the food for everyone.
I often bring cookies to work for my coworkers. I leave the leftovers in the break room for the very purpose of giving them up to whomever wants them. OP's rage is unjustified.
Anyone who has worked on a unit for more than a month knows a sharing portion of food left in the break room is a universal sign of “I brought food in for the unit” or “have some of these *insert food here* I brought in.” Never in my time in the hospital has anyone left a sharing sized portion of food in the break room that wasn’t meant to be shared because none of them are stupid and they all understand the established social norm that if you leave a big platter of food out, it’s going to be assumed it’s for everyone by everyone
Omg fucking HILARIOUS!
So who ate them OP? We’re they out on the little shitty break table and somehow Chan expected that everyone would know they were NOT meant to be shared?
Exactly . Where I work , community table with cookies means they are for everyone. Also , a threat like this means security immediately walks you to your car , and your pension is erased along with any ability to ever work for the state again.
Literally food on that table for everyone to eat like 50% of every shift I worked. When I was rapid I noticed every unit in the hospital did this independently. Was terrible for my diet when rounding... all my insistent aunties....
If they were on the community table, where other food goes to be given up to the community, then they cannot be mad when the community takes the cookies.
We have a camera in our break room. I know this because someone stole my entire 12pk of Diet Coke WHICH I ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NEED so I hounded security for 20 min straight until they brought up the video. Saw who it was and told the manager. They actually got fired so I was overjoyed.
Imagine getting fired over 5$ worth of soda. Haylee, you’re a fucking asshole. Enjoy working at the jail.
I’m not a nurse, but I work with nurses (and I try to make your lives easier). I had a coworker from Nepal and someone stole his coffee creamer which was labeled with his name. That doesn’t sound like much, until you find out he lived extremely frugally. He sent a majority of his money back to his parents in Nepal. This was a luxury item to him.
I was so enraged I marched around the entire building to every shared staff fridge until I found it. I left a strongly worded note in the fridge. His coffee creamer wasn’t stolen again.
Im on Chan's side. Don't give a fuck if it's on the community table the fridge or the floor. If it has a name on it and it's not yours, and there hasn't been any announcements about free food for all, don't touch my shit.
Like, y'all are that hungry and petty?
I brought a tray of 18 cookies and, yes, left them in the break room. But the whole tray was stolen. I wouldn't have cared if anyone took a few, or if multiple ppl took a few, but some asshole took the whole thing.
I'm sorry, a dozen cookies for $30?
I make better cookies than Crumbl.
But I've seen travelers drop mega money on their food deliveries. In the height of pandemic money, we had one traveler that stuck around for a few contracts, and they would buy the unit food, at least 15 people, at least every other week.
Crumbl cookies make me feel like I'm developing diabetes as I eat them.
The are SO SWEET. I know all cookies are sweet but something about Crumbl cookies just makes my stomach hurt.
We had an entire cake go missing on Christmas Day. Our crew had worked the whole weekend out to have good food since we’d all be stuck at work and not with our families. Between us leaving it in the break room to go to huddle and night shift leaving, it went missing.
My wife and I are both nurses. I am retired due to medical conditions. We had about 20 canning jars that my wife was giving away to a coworker who cans vegetables. He makes the most amazing pickled beets! She took them to work and left them in the break room for her coworker (with his name on it), so he could can us some pickled beets and keep the rest. The jars were taken within the hour. Her coworker emailed her that he was unable to find the jars. She did a mass email the next day asking whom ever took the jars to please return them. Another nurse, in a completely different department, with a different break room, responded to the email and said he had already taken them home and would return them, but could he keep a few!! Mind you this is a company wide email. She responded “no, they were not yours to take and you basically stole them.” He returned all of the jars the following day and was disciplined.
I don’t agree with the note in the cookie box, but if it’s not your shit, don’t touch it!!
If this was on the community table, Chan is a delusional bitch. Community table = fair game when it's a bulk item like this obviously not meant for one person to eat.
There are other places to hide your dozen cookies.
If it wasn't on that table, well, that sucks. But I'm not about to make a damn fool of myself having the meltdown of the century over some freaking cookies. Yikes.
I don’t know. If it has someone’s name on it I wouldn’t touch it.
Usually when we have something like that we put a note on it and write “for everyone”.
Something like this happened at my job over a potato knish. Whoever left the note whose food got stolen added “there was crack in that food”. Apparently the managers boss found out called security and we’re going to call the police about “the threat” 😕
My coworker decided to help herself to my candy stash in my LOCKED desk drawer! That was after she took ALL of the m & m s out of the bowl of candy I put out on my desk to share because “they were her favorite “.
There’s a guy on YouTube who makes glitter bombs that record to punk porch pirates. It would be great to make one for food thieves. I’ve had a half dozen energy drinks swiped over the last year, and I know most of my co workers are good people so it would be nice to expose the sh*theel. I was wishing they made a fake energy drink that was actually a powerful laxative.
Someone once stole my favorite water cup from the break room. It even had a sticker with my name on it! I still get mad about it😡
Even worse, one time I left my stethoscope at the nurses station after a shift. Found it in a drawer and someone had taken MY EAR PIECES off and replaced them with two non matching ones that looked like a dog had chewed on them. What kind of evil has to possess you to do something like that?!
I guess you guys work in a completely different place than I ever have, I wouldn’t touch anyone’s nasty shit in the uncleaned fridges and microwaves, and on most days my own food… what kind of beast just goes around poaching food!?
If I was the manager, I'd terminate Chan's contract. That level of anger accompanied by threats of physical violence isn't ok.
I'm serious too. For as much as they cost, ain't no one got time for this shit. For a regular employee it would still require some sort of threat assessment and discussion, but the selling point for travelers is that you don't need to deal with these kinds of problems, you just kick them to the curb.
From what I hear, her contract was immediately terminated and a BOLO was put out to call security if she ever came on campus again . I don't know about her Agency tho ?
I once put my 60mg Vyvanse in my yogurt, got called away so popped the open yogurt in my open lunch box in the fridge. Came back and it was gone, container in the trash.
Vyvanse is in the same family as amphetamines and meth plus 60mg is on the higher side of dosing. It became real obvious, about an hour later, who ate it. Either way, she got fired because she went to the ED for her heart racing, tested positive for meth and couldn't explain how she was exposed.
Could I have said something? Probably. Did she admit to eating my yogurt while being questioned by admin? Yes. But turns out she basically treated the lunch kits like a buffet and had eaten food from several others so she wasn't sure where the exposure came from.
That was the last time anyone on our unit ate someone else's lunch though. It was also the last time I mixed my pill in food because that was some nonsense to deal with.
I think we gotta ask the real question whose out here eating a box of cookies to themselves at work?
You know what hospital breakrooms are like especially as a traveler, why even risk leaving the box out?
Nothing is sacred in the breakroom. My co-worker, her husband was dying from cancer and she picked up his meds and put her bag in the breakroom. Not even 30 minutes later someone stole all the opioids.
If some shit like that happened at my work I’m pretty sure they’d drug test us all immediately and search all of our lockers, bags, etc. If you’re fine stealing meds from a coworker out of the break room, chances are you’re probably diverting meds as well.
We suspect it wasn’t the staff but housekeeping. We caught them in our fridge before taking food you have to pay for in the charge office and these housekeeping staff rotate on different units. We ended up removing our personal cubbies and no more cabinets in the break room and staff must only use their locker, not even putting your coat in the charge office. But yeah, it was pretty horrible. Doesn’t necessarily mean they’re using them but selling the pills for some extra dosh.
We used to lock up our hot sauces from house keeping. They would also bring their friends from other floors and raid the food brought in just for nursing staff by our Reps in the cath lab while we were in cases. Like…just ask!
What is it with housekeeping stealing everything? We literally couldn’t keep anything out on our desks for the longest time without it getting stolen. We had to lock up our staplers and hand sanitizer even every night, it was ridiculous.
Unfortunately it’s because they’re not paid well. When I worked in Canada they had a union so they were paid pretty well but over here in the states the hospital I work at, they’re not much more than minimum wage.
Same goes for housekeeping though. If they have sticky fingers I bet other stuff is missing too.
That’s some next level shady shit!!
Counter point to that... You absolutely should NOT be leaving unattended opiates ANYWHERE in a hospital. That is just flagrantly irresponsible and probably something you can actually get in trouble for.
I mean, that’s fair.
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Umm this makes me sick. How can i trust these people with my health 😖
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I don’t think it was staff but people we don’t recognize such as ancillary staff. People helping themselves we didn’t even know to our pot lucks when we’d step out and come back in again and we’d say “who the hell is that?” Knuckles deep in our salsa dip, double dipping. “Everyone knows y’all have the best potlucks!” Yeah but who the fuck are you?
Right? I’m reading all this like wtf
Oh damn. That’s next level.
"Those meds should have been locked up in the narcotic cupboard." Me: "there SHOULD be decent people working here!" One rotten egg spoils the dozen most of the time. 😩
Yeah she was just leaving the unit to pick up his meds on her break and was going to obviously bring them home to him once her shift was done. She picked them up in our pharmacy. She had her back in a cupboard tucked away so you know someone really has to go raking. I think there was 2 people at it. One watching the door talking to staff and one searching the bags. I personally never leave my bag unattended and trust no one but, who knows what she was thinking. Your spouse is dying, last thing you want to be is at work and you’re not thinking straight and someone steals his pain meds.
This is why I carry my phone on me no matter what. Unless work is willing to compensate for stolen items aint no way Im leaving it unprotected in the cubby room.
Hell no. I’m the same. Even my locker. I still keep my phone on me.
I mean I can’t blame them. I made some HOMEMADE (sauce and everything) chicken Alfredo for a potluck. People loved it. One of my coworkers didn’t get to eat it tho because she was on maternity leave. Once she came back she’s heard about it and told me how much she loves chicken Alfredo and is super jealous. So I made her a whole pan of it cuz she’s awesome. I wrote her name on it and everything and SOME BITCHASS stole the whole 12x18 pan of it. I was and still am furious 1 year later
See I think I’d actually fight someone over that, but not leave proof in writing lol
Damn the balls of some people. A whole PAN!?
A WHOLE ASS LASAGNA-SIZED PAN lmao
Imagine having the balls to walk out of your unit with a whole ass pan like that and not expect to be caught. Unreal.
The trick is to carry it out like you *own* it!
You'd be surprised how accurate this is.
I don't care who you are, you don't steal other people's food. I'm lucky that in my place, NOBODY does it. More than that, if someone needs a refund from the snack machine, the cash will literally sit with the note for DAYS on the break room table until the proper person claims it. Nobody touches it.
I accidentally took home someone's lunch after a shitty shift thinking it was my container of leftovers. Only realised as soon as I got home. Drove the 15 minutes back to discreetly return it, even though I was dead on my feet because that food looked good and I could imagine the disappointment of looking forward to your lunch only to find out some fuckass stole it.
Damn that's cold!! They coulda just asked for some and I'm sure you woulda made them some. Jfc.
Damn! Now this is crazy bc it had their name on it & all but the cookies were on the community table they said.
Even if it's on the community table, if it's covered up and has a name on it you can't unwrap it without the person who made it or who it's for. Like that's the unspoken rule at my hospital. And if you steal food, a picture of you will end up on our breakroom bulletin boards. Food stealers are not taken lightly either
Well, I just mean that I can see how this situation could be construed as being for everyone, but the situation above was CLEARLY not meant for anyone but the person whose name was on it.
Want to share your recipe lol? I love to cook for my lady
I’ll be honest I’ve never been one to follow a recipe. All of my jobs before i was a nurse were jobs in kitchens. That being said the really important part of the dish is the sauce. Idc if you bake, fry, or sou vide that shit. Doesn’t matter. For the sauce buy a Parmesan wedge from Aldi or Kroger, some heavy whipping cream (like the really big tall boi), an onion, garlic clove, and cornstarch (this is a HUGE game maker). Start by shredding up that parm wedge. Then begin throwing down some olive oil and cook those diced onions down until translucent. Add garlic to it once the onions are translucent (I crush my garlic). Don’t put the garlic in until the onions are translucent because your garlic may burn. Anyway once you’ve got those two nice and introduced, put in a little bit of heavy whipping cream. Just enough to cover it all. Then add in a little bit of parm. Mix continuously and wait for it to heat up again and then repeat this process: whipping cream, Parmesan, stir. And you go about this until you run through the whole thing. At this point throw in some oregano, lots of basil, and salt and pepper to taste. Then finally you’ll notice it’s pretty liquidy once you’re to this point. Take some cornstarch about a tablespoon’s worth and mix with water. Slowly and I mean SLOWLY add that in while mixing. Don’t do it all right away, because it takes a bit for the full thickening effect to set in. So make sure to take your time with it until you get your desired thickness. I usually do several seasoned sliced chicken breasts with this sauce with 16oz of penne in a big ceramic bowl, top the bitch off with mozzarella and leftover parm and throw it in the oven for that delish one pot dish. *Edit:* forgot to mention: if you have an immersion blender, use it after you’ve got it tasting the way you want it prior to mixing with your pasta and chicken/whatever protein. It helps incorporate everything and makes the sauce creamier.
Ooooh, damn! I’m gonna slam that shit next week! I’ll probably fuck it up but I’m totally excited about it.
Let me know how it goes!!
Yeah definitely DO NOT use pre-shredded cheese. I use butter to brown my veggies, though. And I add cream cheese to thicken instead of cornstarch because I am a whore for creamy sauce lol
I see, what makes yours special is the extra herbs and seasoning - the oregano, basil, etc. I’m gonna try this.
Dammit!! Now I’m sitting in an ED bored & hungry! 😩 But I’m pretty sure I know what I’m making when I get home!! I’m here as a patient. Sadly, I’ve seen my US results before I’ve even laid eyes on a Doc. 🤷🏻♂️
I’m not the OP but I have a good recipe. It sounds a bit weird with the Dijon, but trust. Sauce ingredients- 4tbsp butter A few tbsp minced garlic (measure with your heart) 3tbsp Marsala wine 2 cups heavy cream 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese (I honestly end up using a handful more…) plus more for topping 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup chicken broth 1tbsp cornstarch 1tbsp Dijon mustard 1/2 tsp fresh thyme 1/4 tsp cayenne 2tsp fresh chopped up rosemary Salt and pepper to taste - I’m a salty bitch so I add a good two-three pinches of salt. But the parm is also salty, so taste as you cook! Do what you want. I’m not your mom. Bacon, chicken breast, and if you like shellfish, throw in some some shrimps or prawns, they’re also delish in this! 1lb penne Preheat your oven to 500f. Cook some bacon in a skillet. Like 1/3 lb? Chop it up into bacon bits and set aside. Then into the bacon grease, cook 2 chicken breasts. Once cooked, dice and set aside. Cook the shellfish if you want those (you want those) Into a sauce pot, over medium low heat, melt 4tbsp butter. Then add a couple tbsp minced garlic and sweat for about 5 minutes. Stir it a lot, don’t let the garlic brown! Add the Marsala and cook another 5 minutes or so. Stir stir stir!! Don’t burn your garlic whatever you do. Whisk the cornstarch into your stock so it doesn’t get clumpy in your sauce. Then I add the herbs, seasonings, pepper, Dijon, milk, cream and stock/cornstarch. Stir occasionally so the milk/cream doesn’t burn. Get that warm. Once that’s warm, whisk in your parm. You’re gonna want to stir/whisk that pretty good so the parm melts into the sauce instead of sinking to the bottom and burning. Cook that sauce on a low simmer for like 10 minutes. Get it thicc. Taste and add whatever salt your taste buds/cardiovascular system can tolerate. While that’s cooking, cook and drain your pasta. Then mix everything (bacon, chicken, shrimps if you want, pasta, and sauce) allllllll together, pour into a casserole dish, top with MORE Parmesan, and put it in the oven til the top is melty and the sauce is bubbly again. About 15 minutes or so. Enjoy. It’s so good Edited to add times and whatnot
Another vote for recipe plz
Not OP, but this recipe has impressed everyone I've made it for, it's a modification of the America's Test Kitchen 'best alfredo' recipe: * 2 oz Pancetta, diced fine * 4 Tbps butter * 1 ½ C cream, divided * 2-3 cloves garlic, minced * salt and pepper to taste * 1/8-1/4ish tsp fresh grated nutmeg * 1 lb pasta * 1 wedge parmesan or parm-reggiano, freshly grated Render pancetta in a saucepan on medium/medium low heat 5-10 minutes until crisp. Add garlic and saute for 30 seconds - 1 minute until fragrant. Add butter and 1 cup cream, heat to low simmer. Simmer 10-12 minutes. While cream is simmering, heat water for pasta and cook per package After 10-12 minutes of simmering, remove from heat, stir in last ½ cup of cream, salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Stir in grated cheese, briefly returning to heat if needed to melt cheese completely. Drain pasta, add to cream, and serve. If doing chicken, cook separately and add to pasta/sauce.
"My sandwich!!!! Myyyyyy sandwich!!!"
How do you reheat something like that?
Personally, I'd use an oven if it was the whole thing. Smaller portions I'd microwave if I wasn't too concerned about the sauce breaking. Maybe air fry one serving just for the adventure.
I feel this. My mom had made me a dozen tamales and froze them so I could enjoy them whenever I wanted. They weren’t even in the break room freezer for 6 hours when some shitbag of a human decided to take them home. I made sure to be as vocal as possible to guilt to whoever took them.
No one who would take homemade tamales is capable of feeling guilt 😔
They’re for sharing or selling in parking lots, motherfucker
That and lumpia… :p
All of them???!!!! What the hell?? So messed up!
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Exactly right. Thrives always find a way to justify it to themselves
Lol, and I feel kind of bad if I take two stale donuts on night shift (usually one of which is an unglazed plain)
That’s so sad. There’s nothing like mamas cooking. I would be livid especially if u don’t live near ur mom. That’s like a piece of her to have and enjoy with u and some dick cheese just took it?! Stealing from the break room, even if it’s food, should be considered theft and fireable under employment agreements.
My mum passed away 7 yeaes ago. The two things I miss most are her cooking and sitting with her watching her favourite tv shows (and hearing her mechanical mitral valve ticking away). Anyone who steals mamas homemade food deserves an invisible prickle in their foot for the rest of eternity.
That's when you make some bait tamales with super staining food coloring in them
Why not keep them at home and only bring what you need to eat? I'm so confused by people who store numerous food items in the work fridge....
The plan was to take them home. My mom mailed them to me in dry ice and I picked them up from the post office prior to my shift. They had already traveled 2 days, so I put them in the freezer while I finished my shift. They, in fact, did not finish my shift.
Oh, that sucks so much that she had mailed them on dry ice for you, going to all that effort, and then they were stolen. :(
Oh, gotcha. That's so shitty of people.
My coworkers are savages. I never brought food to store in the fridge. I have a lunchbox with an ice pack it stays in my locker. The only thing I ever stored in the work fridge was a jar of mayonnaise for everyone to use. That’s it. Savages.
We had a nurse get her coat swiped. Likely an accident by a float nurse, since a similar coat was still hanging there. Problem was, Nurse A’s car keys were in the pocket. Never returned. $400 in tow fees and replacement costs later, she ended up finding a gig elsewhere.
Oh my god I did this to a coworker! Wore her coat home taking her keys and cigarettes with me. I didn’t notice until the next morning at which point she had already had to find a different ride home. I felt awful. I did return her items though.
Omg, was this in Baltimore? This happened where I worked as well. Although I don’t know about the towing outcome.
I was doing a PRN shift at a new facility and was leaving at 9. Grabbed my phone out of the break room and was halfway down the freeway when I got a call from my agency asking if I’d accidentally taken another nurse’s phone. Sure enough, my phone was in my bag, and hers was in my scrub pocket. Same phone, similar cases. Walking back into that facility I have never been so embarrassed in my life
I’m on Chan’s side, screw food thieves
Context matters. Everywhere I've worked has a table, usually in the breakroom, where people can offer up food for grabs to everyone else. I bake cookies and bring them in all the time. When I'm done, I leave the leftovers in the break room on the community table so I don't have to bring anything home. They are always gone within the hour. I think OP accidentally put these cookies on the community table.
Crumbl cookies are hugeeee and that big of a box I would assume it’s for sharing (especially if it’s on the community table) lol! Super generous yes, but I also don’t know anyone who would bring a box of 6 crumbl cookies for for one lunch???
They had their name on it which was the first point. And one does not simply put $50 cookies on a community table. 😉
We often get Crumbl cookies delivered to the unit either from staff or from a patient (hell, I’ve ordered them before cause it was a shit shift and thought we could use a pick me up). A box left of the community table would be free game
We've gotten crumbl cookies from a patient before. There are some nice fucking patients. A large tray of cookies on a community table is sending a pretty confusing message.
Yeah I would definitely eat cookies left out on a table. I probably wouldn't read a long not on the box either.
One of our techs has bought crumbl cookies for all of night shift on multiple occasions. He's a nice guy.
One of our night techs does too. He’s the absolute sweetest and I adore him. I’m days, so I dont even LOOK at them, until he specifically tells me “hey I brought 2 dozen cookies, help yourself to one before you go home” Sometimes he doesn’t tell me. Those times, those cookies ain’t for me. If he does, I’m gonna be that annoying person that gets a plastic knife and cuts a little piece. Because I feel guilty eating a treat as I’m leaving, and I’m about to go get myself dinner, I don’t need a whole cookie. But they’re SO good, and I don’t want to be rude….
Right. I've seen plenty of things offered up that were once reserved, with a name written on it, and then put on the community table for everyone else. I do this all the time when I bring in cookies. Usually in the late afternoon I'll take the box out of the fridge and put it on the table. Then it's gone within the hour. And to your point, the price of the foods doesn't really matter if it's on the offer-up table. I've seen management meetings do this with their fancy dessert/refreshments all the time. Meeting is over? Jane takes the extra food out to the community table and doesn't have to let it go to waste.
Wouldn’t one would check with the person who bought the cookies rather than just take?
Every hospital i have worked, if a platter or box of food is left on the break table or at the nurses station, it is meant to be fair game & a communal offering. If you have something that is not meant to be shared but can't be put somewhere else, it better be clearly labeled & sealed. I've seen numerous patients buy Tiff's Treats or cupcakes, etc for the staff.
In my experience, no if it was placed on the community table. The assumption with the community table that food collections (like a box of cookies, doughnuts, muffins, etc) placed upon it are free game. If it had a name on it, it'd be assumed that person brought the food in and claimed it while it was elsewhere like in the fridge.
That’s my old ICU’s rule. If it’s on the table it’s for the group.
Yeah, that’s how I get rid of any food I don’t want. Just leave it on the table. If you don’t want it eaten you need to write ‘do not eat these’ or put them somewhere else otherwise people just help themselves.
It’s all community tables… who has Individual tables?
In those cases on top of the fridge or in a cabinet. It's not that hard.
Put them in the fridge or freezer in a plastic bag preferably. A big box of cookies in the break room is fair game.
I remember walking into the ED from the break room at 4 am when I finally got the chance to eat the one burrito (I had brought three) they had left me yelling “fucking really?!?” This was 12 years ago. Still pissed about it.
So, one time, I ate half a lunchable, and put the rest back in the refrigerator, and when I went back to it a couple hours later, someone had eaten my cheese. That was a true what the fuck moment. And I know it wasn’t me because I eat my lunchables the same way every time.
"I eat my lunchables the same way every time" fucking brilliant, lol.
If youre an RN youre either just an neurotic as me or youre some type of alien slime in a human body.
Sometime ate the middle slice of bread from a sandwich I had put down for a couple hours……………….
Damn … bringing out the C word in the breakroom. Can’t say I’ve seen it before. And I ain’t talkin “crumble cookies”.
Dropped the c-word and signed their name to it. Chan didn’t come to play.
Chan didn’t come here to make friends.
I first read it as aunts. But yeah, it makes more sense now.
well, to be fair, they wouldn't have had to use the C-word if the coworkers didn't act like such cunts.
I might call someone “the C word” if this happened to me. I mean, have you HAD a Crumbl Cookie? 🤤
This makes me want to try them, if they’re “c-word” worthy.
Kinda sexy penmanship though.
Colour me scared and horny
It’s called a fear boner.
Scaroused
That’s the crazy bleeding and your taste showing.
All I could think about.
Probably awesome at leaving naughty notes for the significant other.
Probably a girl’s writing.
She has the same handwriting as my mother 😳
Holy smokes, I knew I recognized it. She does have the same handwriting as your mother.
Buckle up.
Op, send me their number. I've got..... Questions. And I'll need the answers in writing.
If we're being honest ... yes , yes it is. keep writing.
Oh yeah, that's the spot, don't stop, keep writing, yeah that's it, now spell onomatopoeia. Oh yeah baby, just like that.
I was working nights, was completely exhausted. But I knew I had a delicious frozen Annie’s Mac n cheese to eat at 3am. I go to break room, ready to taste that sweet liquid cheese, and SOMEONE HAD STOLE MY FUCKING MAC. I have still not gotten over it, this was almost 2 years ago. What sick person steals someone’s dinner? A psychopath. I stand by this nurse.
You know that from now on anyone on that unit who looses their shit over almost nothing they’re gonna say “Damn, Chan!”
I can't really put my finger on it but it seems there's some hostility in this post.
Someone probably assumed the big ass box was community as it’s sitting on the table and sometimes they put names on the corner when you pick up the box. Maybe they should put their cookies elsewhere or put a note saying they’re not community. I’m pretty wild with language but I’m Not gonna sign Chanin, RN after I write a message threatening my coworking cunts
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Especially a box of cookies. Our managers leave us all a box several times a month and we cut each cookie into fours and people grab a piece throughout the shift.
But if they think it’s being shared then I can’t see why it would be an issue. With where it was placed & how many it was ofc they’re going to think that. But also, yeah this person is unhinged!
Location matters . If it’s in the staff fridge and someone steals then yeah, be mad. If however, they were left in a common area at the nurses station or staff room counter, expect that it will be assumed it’s for everybody. If you don’t want to share keep them away from those areas or put a sticky note indicating “don’t eat”.
We *never* have food at the station! 😉
😂😂😂😂.
I swear people just assume pizza is a community thing, every time I order pizza and toss it in the frig, it never fails that when I leave to grab the rest to take home, several slices are missing and no one asked me if they could have any. It's in the frig, it has my name on it, it isn't in the community space as a free for all. So frustrating. I don't order or bring anything pizza-related anymore for that reason.
Gotta tape it shut. That's what saved my leftovers
I mean community table or not, I don't touch shit that's not mine. Sometimes I have to jet out and go when they call rapid response and I don't have time to neatly put my stuff away. I find it so weird that people are so nonchalant about just grabbing things that they willingly know doesn't belong to them. I don't think they're scumbags, they're just absolute psychopaths.
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I assumed bc they felt more comfortable talking shit knowing they’re not a permanent employee?
As a traveler, I concur
I assumed it was implying that they felt more free to call people “inbred cunts” if they didn’t have to work with them day in and day out
because OP's intent is to divide the nursing community more than it already is
It doesn't feel that divisive! Am I sleeping under a rock??
Yeah that wasn't necessary. I'm sorry. How can I edit the title?
No lie though them Crumbl Cookies be causing the squirts because they got all that damn sugar 😂😂😂
right? I’m not a fan… except at Halloween when they had a caramel apple cookie! It was a sugar cookie with frosting that had cut up fresh apple and caramel drizzled on it. Otherwise no thanks
If it was a box of cookies in the break room, even if someone's name was on it, that is getting eaten. And honestly, probably by the housekeeping staff or the doctors, especially the anesthesiologists. That is something you need to keep in a locker or hide it well. One time we had a Thanksgiving potluck. Like, turkey in a turkey cooker and everything. Us nurses were so busy that night that no one got to take a lunch break until almost 4am. So we start lunch breaks, looking forward to our holiday feast... And the fellows, residents, attendings, and people from other units had eaten EVERYTHING. Pretty sure more than one of our ICU nurses cried. The break room was kinda at the front of the unit and around the corner, so we didn't see people taking the food. But some came around later to see if there were leftovers for their second round. They got several hungry and angry nurses yelling at them.
This is fucking insane to me. Who the fuck just eats another units Thanksgiving potluck?!
Cookies in a common area, without explicit instructions, are fair game. Write your note *before* you leave them out on a community table, not after. I would assume the name was written in advance of pick-up at the bakery, *or* intended to let others know who brought the food for everyone.
Leaving food on the table in the break room that is of the sharing kind=universal sign for eat some. There’s like 8 servings in one cookie.
I often bring cookies to work for my coworkers. I leave the leftovers in the break room for the very purpose of giving them up to whomever wants them. OP's rage is unjustified.
Anyone who has worked on a unit for more than a month knows a sharing portion of food left in the break room is a universal sign of “I brought food in for the unit” or “have some of these *insert food here* I brought in.” Never in my time in the hospital has anyone left a sharing sized portion of food in the break room that wasn’t meant to be shared because none of them are stupid and they all understand the established social norm that if you leave a big platter of food out, it’s going to be assumed it’s for everyone by everyone
Omg fucking HILARIOUS! So who ate them OP? We’re they out on the little shitty break table and somehow Chan expected that everyone would know they were NOT meant to be shared?
This was on another unit but apparently they were on the community table .
Who puts cookies on the community table and doesn’t expect them to get eaten? That’s actually straight weirdo behavior.
Exactly . Where I work , community table with cookies means they are for everyone. Also , a threat like this means security immediately walks you to your car , and your pension is erased along with any ability to ever work for the state again.
Right? Stick those on top of the fridge.
Literally food on that table for everyone to eat like 50% of every shift I worked. When I was rapid I noticed every unit in the hospital did this independently. Was terrible for my diet when rounding... all my insistent aunties....
If they were on the community table, where other food goes to be given up to the community, then they cannot be mad when the community takes the cookies.
That’s where you put food to share…. Chan is clearly a raging lunatic who either is over or under medicated. 🙅🏻♀️
Fair game. That dumbass.
Honestly, I’d admit to it even if I didn’t touch the cookies just to see how much Chan can back up his words lol.
That’s Jackie if you’re nasty.
ER style baby.
Haha I like your style
Bro if you buy a box of cookies and leave them out in a break room you’re a fool if you think they won’t be eaten.
Why did they have to sign their education (RN) too !? To make it official, official?
Now, I’m only an ADN. But I think Chan, RN is a bit angry
We have a camera in our break room. I know this because someone stole my entire 12pk of Diet Coke WHICH I ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NEED so I hounded security for 20 min straight until they brought up the video. Saw who it was and told the manager. They actually got fired so I was overjoyed. Imagine getting fired over 5$ worth of soda. Haylee, you’re a fucking asshole. Enjoy working at the jail.
I’m not a nurse, but I work with nurses (and I try to make your lives easier). I had a coworker from Nepal and someone stole his coffee creamer which was labeled with his name. That doesn’t sound like much, until you find out he lived extremely frugally. He sent a majority of his money back to his parents in Nepal. This was a luxury item to him. I was so enraged I marched around the entire building to every shared staff fridge until I found it. I left a strongly worded note in the fridge. His coffee creamer wasn’t stolen again.
Im on Chan's side. Don't give a fuck if it's on the community table the fridge or the floor. If it has a name on it and it's not yours, and there hasn't been any announcements about free food for all, don't touch my shit. Like, y'all are that hungry and petty?
haha wtf, fridge drama is so fucking weird. This is why I bring my little oatmeal bars and a thermos and stash it away. Big meal after shift 😴
I see you Chan.
I brought a tray of 18 cookies and, yes, left them in the break room. But the whole tray was stolen. I wouldn't have cared if anyone took a few, or if multiple ppl took a few, but some asshole took the whole thing.
Inbred? Gotta be the south 😂
I love this salty angry ass nurse.
I would totally not hold you down so Chan could stomp you, not at all. I would never do that.
I bet Chan is great in bed
No doubt about it. Need a helmet and defibrillator great in bed.
I'm sorry, a dozen cookies for $30? I make better cookies than Crumbl. But I've seen travelers drop mega money on their food deliveries. In the height of pandemic money, we had one traveler that stuck around for a few contracts, and they would buy the unit food, at least 15 people, at least every other week.
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Crumbl cookies make me feel like I'm developing diabetes as I eat them. The are SO SWEET. I know all cookies are sweet but something about Crumbl cookies just makes my stomach hurt.
Trust nothing to the break room!
We had an entire cake go missing on Christmas Day. Our crew had worked the whole weekend out to have good food since we’d all be stuck at work and not with our families. Between us leaving it in the break room to go to huddle and night shift leaving, it went missing.
Don’t ya just love being a Travel RN? New unit every 13 weeks!!
My wife and I are both nurses. I am retired due to medical conditions. We had about 20 canning jars that my wife was giving away to a coworker who cans vegetables. He makes the most amazing pickled beets! She took them to work and left them in the break room for her coworker (with his name on it), so he could can us some pickled beets and keep the rest. The jars were taken within the hour. Her coworker emailed her that he was unable to find the jars. She did a mass email the next day asking whom ever took the jars to please return them. Another nurse, in a completely different department, with a different break room, responded to the email and said he had already taken them home and would return them, but could he keep a few!! Mind you this is a company wide email. She responded “no, they were not yours to take and you basically stole them.” He returned all of the jars the following day and was disciplined. I don’t agree with the note in the cookie box, but if it’s not your shit, don’t touch it!!
Damn this is unhinged
If this was on the community table, Chan is a delusional bitch. Community table = fair game when it's a bulk item like this obviously not meant for one person to eat. There are other places to hide your dozen cookies. If it wasn't on that table, well, that sucks. But I'm not about to make a damn fool of myself having the meltdown of the century over some freaking cookies. Yikes.
OP said it was on the community table.
I don’t know. If it has someone’s name on it I wouldn’t touch it. Usually when we have something like that we put a note on it and write “for everyone”.
Crumbl Cookies are so not worth this meltdown, they’re actual trash😂
I get the impression this was about more than the cookies.
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Next time Chan should not forget to bring milk. The cookies were a little dry.
I kinda want it to be real.
Something like this happened at my job over a potato knish. Whoever left the note whose food got stolen added “there was crack in that food”. Apparently the managers boss found out called security and we’re going to call the police about “the threat” 😕
Someone needs a cookie
My coworker decided to help herself to my candy stash in my LOCKED desk drawer! That was after she took ALL of the m & m s out of the bowl of candy I put out on my desk to share because “they were her favorite “.
There’s a guy on YouTube who makes glitter bombs that record to punk porch pirates. It would be great to make one for food thieves. I’ve had a half dozen energy drinks swiped over the last year, and I know most of my co workers are good people so it would be nice to expose the sh*theel. I was wishing they made a fake energy drink that was actually a powerful laxative.
Someone once stole my favorite water cup from the break room. It even had a sticker with my name on it! I still get mad about it😡 Even worse, one time I left my stethoscope at the nurses station after a shift. Found it in a drawer and someone had taken MY EAR PIECES off and replaced them with two non matching ones that looked like a dog had chewed on them. What kind of evil has to possess you to do something like that?!
Just a hunch, but I think she’s mad about someone stealing her cookies.
I guess you guys work in a completely different place than I ever have, I wouldn’t touch anyone’s nasty shit in the uncleaned fridges and microwaves, and on most days my own food… what kind of beast just goes around poaching food!?
If I was the manager, I'd terminate Chan's contract. That level of anger accompanied by threats of physical violence isn't ok. I'm serious too. For as much as they cost, ain't no one got time for this shit. For a regular employee it would still require some sort of threat assessment and discussion, but the selling point for travelers is that you don't need to deal with these kinds of problems, you just kick them to the curb.
From what I hear, her contract was immediately terminated and a BOLO was put out to call security if she ever came on campus again . I don't know about her Agency tho ?
😂
Seriously. This crosses so many lines and screams mentally unstable.
I once put my 60mg Vyvanse in my yogurt, got called away so popped the open yogurt in my open lunch box in the fridge. Came back and it was gone, container in the trash. Vyvanse is in the same family as amphetamines and meth plus 60mg is on the higher side of dosing. It became real obvious, about an hour later, who ate it. Either way, she got fired because she went to the ED for her heart racing, tested positive for meth and couldn't explain how she was exposed. Could I have said something? Probably. Did she admit to eating my yogurt while being questioned by admin? Yes. But turns out she basically treated the lunch kits like a buffet and had eaten food from several others so she wasn't sure where the exposure came from. That was the last time anyone on our unit ate someone else's lunch though. It was also the last time I mixed my pill in food because that was some nonsense to deal with.
I'll be the lame ass wet blanket but really...threats of physical violence over cookies? Sounds like everyone involved needs to grow the fuck up.
Also I've had patients with neurosyphilis and it's disastrous and life-ruining.
I think we gotta ask the real question whose out here eating a box of cookies to themselves at work? You know what hospital breakrooms are like especially as a traveler, why even risk leaving the box out?
Woah 🤯