Because it was lying there on her desk. I had to handle the life-savers because she just left them in a random mess, and the bag of animal crackers was just open and sitting there. That and i already had a low opinion of her at that point. The point where i lose some of the moral high ground, definitely, but there was no way she noticed them actually missing. More likely she noticed them moved (and was mad about her precious CD player being unplugged) and put two and two together.

Left in a random mess in such a way as to interfere with my work.

She was gone, though. I would not have been sitting at her desk if she was there. If anyone saw, I couldn't say, though i doubt it.

It was actually a good story. Sorry to ear about this misadventure (even if you do not seem to care that much).
The letter was very good by the way; not that I expect the "company" to do anything about it; but still very good.

Because i had no desk of my own at which to sit, being a trainee (another point where the company ends up looking incompetent) and the desk that became her desk (due to recarpeting in the office) was the desk i had been "squatting" at before she came around.

As i said, eating the food did erode my moral-high-ground position certainly, but ultimately that's not at all the central issue here, e.g. if that lady hadn't hated me, nothing ever would have been said if the food were the sole point of contention here.

Also we weren't allowed to take photographs in there. National security violation (casual web-browsing was also deemed as much). Part of the reason why i'm better off gone from there.

Dude you stole her food....and here you are complaining...

-_-

Even if we set that matter aside, they fired me for supposedly *continuing* to steal stuff, which i can honestly say did not happen. Most i ever did was borrow staple-removers when someone wasn't around.

And the food was on an inconsequential level. Unless she had an eidetic memory, she would not have noticed it missing. What, i imagine, really bothered her, was unplugging the CD player.

Haha, for some reason I was thinking the woman must have been fat. No offense to fat people. Maybe it was the food scattered thing.

I just dont think you should have ever touched anybody elses stuff.

If her shit was all over your desk then just move it over to hers and leave it at that. But actually eating someone elses food, whether once or twice, doesnt actually matter. People in the workplace can be seriously messed up...you really dont wana piss off the wrong people. So keep it simple.

And btw didnt you make threads about how hard it was to find a job after you graduated or something like that? Or posts? I would think you would value your job more than one cracker or staples or whatever.

Thats just my opinion but i also know how nuts other people can be at the workplace and maybe you are justified. Who knows.