Hot take: the break room fridge at my old office in Denver taught me to label my lunch with a fake name

Gray Shah · 2026-09-29T18:05:04.732804+00:00

I worked at a call center in Denver for 14 months and people kept stealing my leftovers every single week. One Tuesday I watched a guy from the sales team walk out with my $9 chipotle bowl, so I started writing "Sarah - night shift" on my tupperware even though my name is Dave. Nobody touched my food for the next 7 months and Sarah never existed, but I felt like a genius every time I opened that fridge. The real trick was using a girl's name because nobody suspected a guy would do that. Has anyone else pulled a fake name move to protect their lunch, or am I the only petty one here?

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