Teaspoon Thief

[Who_Goes_Blue]

Our office has a teaspoon thief! 50 of the things were bought for the office kitchen less than a month ago, now we have 4.

So fellow pistonheadians I need your ideas on how to oust, shame and humiliate said thief and stop their dirty thieving ways.

Edited by Who_Goes_Blue on Thursday 17th August 08:27

[ReaderScars]

'I WAS THEIVED' engraved in the next set?

[ReaderScars]

Or 'I was engraved by a dyslexic'

[Ructions]

[otherman]

We have them at my place as well. We've re-stocked four times now, and finally the number has started to stabalise.

[TooMany2cvs]

Drill a hole in the end of the replacements, and tie them to the drawer handle.

[klootzak]

Give each person their own teaspoon. If they lose it, they replace it.

Either that or just replace all the cutlery with an endless supply of disposable lolly-stick stirrers. That's what one of our clients did when faced with the same issue. It really is bloody irritating. But very amusing watching people trying to eat lunch with only a lolly stick.

k

[Long Drax]

Who_Goes_Blue said:

Our office has a teaspoon thief! 50 of things were bought for the office kitchen less than a month ago, now we have 4.

So fellow pistonheadians I need your ideas on how to oust, shame and humiliate said thief and stop their dirty thieving ways.

A similar thing occurred in my office about three years ago. I fired all the coffee drinkers. No teaspoon has been stolen since that time. Instant Coffee drinkers are kleptomaniacs by nature. Get rid of them and, your precious teaspoons will be safe.

[Wacky Racer]

I used to go in a greasy spoon transport café near the top of the Woodhead pass, and there was a sign on the wall which said:-

CROCKERY, UNLIKE MEDICINE SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN AFTER MEALS

[eldar]

Some eminent scientists worked on the half life of teaspoons....

http://www.bmj.com/content/331/7531/1498

[sunbeam alpine]

Everything you ever needed to know about disappearing teaspoons - plus proof that a lot of scientists (and the British Medical Journal) - have too much time on their hands.

http://www.bmj.com/content/331/7531/1498

ETA: Bugger - Eldar beat me to it!

Or for the cognoscenti - https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=12...

Edited by sunbeam alpine on Wednesday 16th August 23:00

[anonymous-user]

https://www.homeshopcatalogue.co.uk/catalogue/olym...

£6 for 120 steel teaspoons
Buy £100 worth, 2000 teaspoons
They will soon get bored

[TooMany2cvs]

Jimboka said:

https://www.homeshopcatalogue.co.uk/catalogue/olym...

£6 for 120 steel teaspoons
Buy £100 worth, 2000 teaspoons
They will soon get bored

Either that, or you'll quickly figure out who it is, by the fact you can't get near their desk for spoons.

[Long Drax]

Wacky Racer said:

I used to go in a greasy spoon transport café near the top of the Woodhead pass, and there was a sign on the wall which said:-

CROCKERY, UNLIKE MEDICINE SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN AFTER MEALS

People were swallowing cups and plates

[hyphen]

Who_Goes_Blue said:

Our office has a teaspoon thief! 50 of things were bought for the office kitchen less than a month ago, now we have 4.

So fellow pistonheadians I need your ideas on how to oust, shame and humiliate said thief and stop their dirty thieving ways.

My OH must work there,

Our cutlery is all matching stuff, so it is easy to spot the 'from work' stuff. Takes lunch to work, uses cutlery there, has a short lunch and so ends up staying in the lunch box and washed at home at which point it gets mixed up with the other washed cutlery and so ends up living in the cutlery drawer. Every so often it all goes back.

Women!

[Ki3r]

Don't work at a police station do you? Although it tends to be forks there.

I carry one around with me in my stab vest now...how people laughed until I was eating with a fork and they had to make do with a knife and spoon.

[Emanresu]

Just stop buying cutlery. Let people bring their own from home.

[Pothole]

Happens everywhere. I've had success in the past sending an email asking people to check at home in case they've taken items there by mistake (they're often taken in lunchboxes - I recently returned 3 to my mess room's drawer which had gone home with me that way). Teaspoons often end up in the bin

[ReallyReallyGood]

I have never accidentally taken a teaspoon home, nor seen anyone else do so. Am I the weird one? Cos you lot sound mental.

[Bristol spark]

Do people chuck them in the bin, rather than having to wash them?.......