Colleague suspect that I ate/stole his food in the fridge. I did not. The suspicion was expressed in a semi-casual-semi-serious tone in front of other colleagues. How would you handle this?

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Have a private 1:1 convo with the accuser in a conference room and clear it up. “Hey I just want to make sure that you don’t actually think I ate your food. I don’t think you think I did but I just want to make sure!!"

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At my old place, someone actually wrote “I licked all my food” on their lunchbox. It baffles me that adults in a professional environment a) steal food and b) resort to preventative measures to deter food theft.

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This is kind of funny - your colleague sounds like one of my bratty classmates from 3rd grade. Even if someone did steal his food - why make such a fuss?

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Man this brings me back to a time when a HS classmate semi-casually and seriously implied I leaked her secret. I didn’t. I wish I stood up for myself ASAP but I didn’t!! And I have not seen this classmate ever since.

Burp.

Someone once left a note on the fridge saying something along the lines of "to the food thief, u must be so poor that u need to steal my food. I pity you. You need it more than I do”<—— I thought that was going too far.

You should have just called them out right there in front of everyone. No one has time for that pettiness

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