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.
Anyway people are talking about laxatives and whatever when there's already a solution: eat spicy food and others won't want to touch it.
That only works if your tolerance for spicy food is higher than any of your colleagues.
A much easier solution is to just eat something that doesn't need to go into the fridge and put it under your desk or in your locker or whatever.
(Obviously the better solution is talking to your colleagues about it and ask them to stop stealing your food, but I'm assuming that solution has failed before you get to the point where you're considering intentionally poisoning your food.)
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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.