Man Says Supervisor Saved Stealing His Charger, So He Got here Up with a Plan

After his supervisor took his cellphone charger one too many instances, one worker had sufficient — after which found out a method to verify it could not be stolen anymore.

In a current put up on Reddit’s “Am I the A——?,” the person, 25, mentioned issues together with his 45-year-old supervisor began off positive.

“He all the time appeared like a fairly good man and he’d cease by my workplace simply to talk a minimum of as soon as a day. We had a superb relationship,” the person started.  

“It began when, a pair months in the past, he stopped in my workplace to ask if I had a cellphone charger, as a result of he’d left it at dwelling by chance,” the person defined. “I mentioned ‘Positive, I all the time preserve one plugged in by my desk,’ and I handed it to him. He thanked me, used it, and gave it again the subsequent morning as a result of he’d forgotten to return it. No worries.”

Nevertheless, the person mentioned his supervisor began asking to borrow his charger “a pair instances every week” and that “he would all the time neglect to offer it again.”

“So I would all the time should stroll down the corridor to his workplace and ask for it again if I wanted it. Not an enormous deal, however a bit annoying,” he continued.

Then issues took a flip when the person went on trip. A lot to his shock, when he got here again, his charger was lacking.

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“The factor is, I lock my workplace each time I depart. And the one different particular person with a secret is…you guessed it…my supervisor,” he wrote.

When he went to his supervisor’s workplace, there it was “plugged into the wall.”

“He sees me it and simply says ‘Hope you don’t thoughts I borrowed it when you had been gone,’ and tosses it again to me,” the person recalled.

“Since then, it’s develop into a fairly widespread factor for him to only stroll into my workplace — locked or no — and seize it with out asking,” the person added. “This was beginning to get on my nerves.”

Not wanting the scenario to get even worse, the person mentioned that he got here up with a easy, however in the end efficient, plan: he ordered a particular machine, “which locks your charger in place so it may’t be moved or taken.”

“I obtained it the subsequent day and it solely took me a minute to put in it on the outlet in my workplace,” he added. Now, his charger “is all the time proper the place I would like it,” however he admitted that “a few of my coworkers suppose I overreacted and will simply purchase one other charger.”

Eager to get one other opinion, he requested if he was truly within the incorrect for “stopping my supervisor from stealing my charger?” In accordance with nearly all of commenters, the reply was no.

“Severely, your supervisor is such a creep for stealing your charger. It is not like he is asking, he is simply taking it! You are completely justified in getting a lock for it. I imply, what’s he, a toddler? He must study to respect individuals’s stuff!,” wrote one commenter.

“You paid cash to your charger, he’s your supervisor…he positively makes extra money than you so he should buy his personal charger,” added one other.

A 3rd commenter additionally did not mince phrases, writing “F— your supervisor and f— your coworkers.”

Nevertheless, they did go on to share some extra constructive recommendation, writing, “For those who suppose they will be responsive, discuss to HR about the truth that he intruded into your locked workplace and took one thing with out permission or discover.”