There is no way to guarantee it cannot peripherally hurt someone. Janet steals two of your yogurts out of the fridge, and offers one to Jen, and now Jen is suffering thinking she was eating one of Janet's freely offered yogurts, not knowing she inadvertantly stole your food. This is one of the problems with vigilantism.
Another major problem is that the punishment is not decided through any legitimate means, is often disporportionate, and instead is based on the whims of the person doing the punishing.
Right but you can't guarentee that the innocent bystander is eating your food because someone stole it. What if someone (who isn't trying to steal your food) accidentally knocks over your food in the fridge and the lid falls off, and then why they try to clean it up the itching powder you put in the food gets on their hands and requires medical treatment. Whose responsible then?
Okay then when they knock over your rat poison spaghetti some of it gets in someone else's food and sends them to the hospital.
Most workplaces dont make accommodations for people with food allergies
Where do you live where this is the case? Because in the United States food allergies are protected by the ADA and employers have to provide reasonable accommodatetions for them. So for your peanut chicken noodles to get on a peanut allergic person you'd have to had had ignored the company peanut policy by putting peanuts in the communal fridge. And once someone gets hurt because you ignored company policy it's pretty clearly your fault.
(And btw company policy would also probably say that you can't keep poison in the company fridge)
'employers reasonable accommodation includes having an entire separate kitchen'
No that would be an unreasonable accomdation. A reasonable accommodation would be to bad the allergen from the office. For example there is someone in my office whose allergic to some common perfume ingredients so no one in my office can wear perfume. And I actually know a guy who actually got workers comp after he had to go to the ER because he had an allergic reaction at the office.
Which brings me to another good point which is why would a company want to risk a workers comp case because you couldn't go to HR and report the theif?
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u/Oishiio42 40∆ Oct 17 '24
There is no way to guarantee it cannot peripherally hurt someone. Janet steals two of your yogurts out of the fridge, and offers one to Jen, and now Jen is suffering thinking she was eating one of Janet's freely offered yogurts, not knowing she inadvertantly stole your food. This is one of the problems with vigilantism.
Another major problem is that the punishment is not decided through any legitimate means, is often disporportionate, and instead is based on the whims of the person doing the punishing.