Poll of the Day > I ate my coworkers lunch today by accident and I feel bad

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I saw a frozen dinner in the fridge - the same one(brand and type) I had last week, and I felt like I forgot about it. Once in a blue moon i'll go out to eat and leave whatever I brought in there, which one day last week I got burger king instead of eating whatever I brought.

He takes his lunch break and comes out a minute later from the back room asking who ate his lunch. I confessed immediately. I was 100% certain it was mine I left in there, but it was actually his.

So, I apologized profusely and felt like an ass. To make up for it I bought him a new frozen dinner and a big bag of lays potato chips that he always eats, right after our shift was over. I will bring these items with me tomorrow. I know what I did was dumb. He seemed annoyed but not mad, though I don't know. I feel like buying him a replacement meal and a bag of chips(which I did not eat) oughtta smooth things over. if not oh well, I did my best to make up for it.

what size chips?

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I'd be okay with it since you said you apologized, but I don't bring a lunch so this could never happen to me.

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Not family size but the regular large size bag.

Chips, is there anything they cant fix

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He's just being an asshole if you replaced it

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I didnt yet, but tomorrow i will.

I dont know if he is mad or whatever. I dont think he will be since I am correcting my failure and I feel awful.

That's good that you confessed! I hope he understood the mix-up and accepted your apology.

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darcandkharg31 posted...

what size chips?

This is a important factor.

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https://youtu.be/yOtNMp9GSoM

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argonautweakend posted...

I saw a frozen dinner in the fridge - the same one(brand and type) I had last week, and I felt like I forgot about it. Once in a blue moon i'll go out to eat and leave whatever I brought in there, which one day last week I got burger king instead of eating whatever I brought.

He takes his lunch break and comes out a minute later from the back room asking who ate his lunch. I confessed immediately. I was 100% certain it was mine I left in there, but it was actually his.

So, I apologized profusely and felt like an ass. To make up for it I bought him a new frozen dinner and a big bag of lays potato chips that he always eats, right after our shift was over. I will bring these items with me tomorrow. I know what I did was dumb. He seemed annoyed but not mad, though I don't know. I feel like buying him a replacement meal and a bag of chips(which I did not eat) oughtta smooth things over. if not oh well, I did my best to make up for it.

Should be all right. It was a pretty lousy thing to do, but he's probably mostly annoyed that he basically paid for *your* lunch & didn't get what he might've been looking forward to having. Also, if he didn't have time to grab anything else to eat instead, he might have been a bit hangry.

I think you'll be OK with what you're planning - you're making up for the financial loss & being courteous at the same time. That's a good move.

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Today he told me it wasn't a big deal and that i didn't have to do what i did.

Oh well i felt conpelled because i am not a their or an asshole. So things are okay

Now you can take his lunch whenever because he says it's not a big deal.

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well, at least it all turned out ok. Though, it mostly likely would have, anyway. You did apologize, and didn't do it on purpose...
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Somebody took my lunch, which I packed in my tupperware from home, with my fork that I brought from home. Unfortunately I never got a confession or saw that bowl and fork again. I think you handled your mistake very well.

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argonautweakend posted...

Today he told me it wasn't a big deal and that i didn't have to do what i did.

Oh well i felt conpelled because i am not a their or an asshole. So things are okay

Yeah, but for a lot of folks that's a polite way of receiving an apology... and definitely not a hint that it's fine to do it again, as per other poster =P

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You handled it well, he may have said that you didnt have to do what you did but I think that is just him being polite.

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