AITA for not warning the guy who kept stealing my lunch that this one was really spicy
someone at my job has been taking my lunch out of the communal fridge and I know exactly who it is. I have literally watched him walk to the fridge on days my food goes missing and come back to his desk eating something that looks exactly like what I packed that morning. I said something to him directly twice and both times he acted completely baffled, like he had absolutely no idea what I was talking about.
so I just stopped bringing it up and kept packing my food.
I eat pretty specifically, just personal preference, and whatever I bring tends to be more interesting than the average desk lunch. I think that is why he started taking it in the first place.
last week I had leftovers from a dinner I made at home. genuinely very spicy, like I have spent years building up a tolerance for this stuff and it still gets me a little, the kind of thing that would wreck most people who were not expecting it. I packed it in my usual container, wrote my name on it like always, put it in the fridge. no ingredient list because nobody does that, it is just a fridge full of containers with names on them.
lunchtime. my food was gone again. I walked to his desk and sure enough there he was eating it and already looking like he was having a bad time.
I just said I hoped he enjoyed it and went back to my desk.
twenty minutes later he came over with watery eyes telling me I should have warned him it was that spicy and that I had basically set him up on purpose.
I said I brought my own lunch in my own container with my own name on it and he took it again after I already asked him twice to stop so I was not sure what warning he thought he was owed.
he went to our manager about it. manager told him taking other people's food is a policy violation and that people do not need to label ingredients on their personal meals.
AITA?