Funny Work Story: Pizza Edition

This happend in August 2005. I work at Hewitt, which does human resources outsourcing (health benefits, pension, 401k, etc). It is a 6-story office building that functions mainly as a call-center. At the time, I worked until 8pm every night. The place basically goes silent after 6pm, with scattered humans and scattered cars in the parking lot.

So one day at work I get up from my desk to get a drink. Every floor has its own refrigerator stacked with cans of soda. There is also space for people's lunches, etc. This particular day, there were two boxes of left-over pizza. There are numerous 'teams' on each floor. In this case, another team got pizza for lunch and had some remaining slices.

I said to myself, "Tonight, when the clock hits 6:00 and everone is gone...if that pizza is still there I am stealing a slice!"

So the clock strikes 6:00pm and most of the people are gone. There are 2 other people from my team still around. Most teams don't even work past 6:00pm. So a little later I get up to the refrigerator. A Ha! Delicious pizza awaited my nervous hands. I make my move. I reach in and grab a slice. I then grab a few napkins and wrap the pizza in the napkins. That way, in case someone passes me in the hall, they won't see my cheesy prize. Also, one of my team-mates sits on the aisle. So I had to slip by him on the way to my desk.

I make my move, and am walking back to my desk. The pizza hidden in the napkin, I hold it down by my side. Even if I walked by someone, they probably wouldn't even see the bundle of napkin, let alone think there is pizza in it. Success! I am back at my desk. I eat my stolen slice. It wasn't even that good.

After I have finished my pizza and icy cold Diet Coca-Cola, I get a "Sametime" (this is a program used in offices that is just like AOL Instant Messenger). My co-worker that sits on the aisle sent me a link. He says:

"Hey Wes, check this out! haha
http://forum.simplyhired.com/showthread.php?t=495"

!!!READ LINK BEFORE CONTINUING!!!

Yes, this really happened. I was shocked. (At the time, this story was #1 winner for the month, a full-colored feature story on the main 'Simply Fired' homepage. Complete with a picture of a squirrelly employee scarfing down stolen pizza.)

There was no way he saw me! I got up from my desk and looked around. Was I being spied on? Was this a complete set-up? Turns out it is an amazing coincidence. Or is it...?