Although stealing nuts and other snacks happens daily in Gib, this is normally a monkey's thing and is never done by people. Well, listen to this story...
It is Thursday morning in my company's headquarters. We are enjoying our breakfast when a delivery guy brings a couple of bags of cashews, pistachios and peanuts. Mmm, we think - that would be a nice snack for tea later!
My colleague however, goes to a kitchen staff member. Conversation goes as follows:
Colleague: I'd like some nuts.
Kitchen Staff Member: I am sorry but the nuts will be served at 3pm for everyone.
Colleague: But I want the nuts now, not at 3 o'clock.
Kitchen Staff Member: Unfortunately, like I said, you cannot have any now.
At this point, she is already walking out of the kitchen with a kilo pack of cashews. 2 kitchen staff members are chasing her down the stairs to our floor to take the nuts back. Many people have left their workstations to observe the happenings, attracted by the noise.
Some time later, the nuts have been recovered and the peace somehow restored after this big cashew drama, it turns out they actually have thought that this is a real theft and not a joke. This is cleared out and we carry on working as normal.
Rumor has it, this might as well be the theft of the century in our otherwise peaceful chunk of land at the end of the world.
And since in the chaos I forgot to film, here is a Gib monkey stealing:
It is Thursday morning in my company's headquarters. We are enjoying our breakfast when a delivery guy brings a couple of bags of cashews, pistachios and peanuts. Mmm, we think - that would be a nice snack for tea later!
My colleague however, goes to a kitchen staff member. Conversation goes as follows:
Colleague: I'd like some nuts.
Kitchen Staff Member: I am sorry but the nuts will be served at 3pm for everyone.
Colleague: But I want the nuts now, not at 3 o'clock.
Kitchen Staff Member: Unfortunately, like I said, you cannot have any now.
At this point, she is already walking out of the kitchen with a kilo pack of cashews. 2 kitchen staff members are chasing her down the stairs to our floor to take the nuts back. Many people have left their workstations to observe the happenings, attracted by the noise.
Some time later, the nuts have been recovered and the peace somehow restored after this big cashew drama, it turns out they actually have thought that this is a real theft and not a joke. This is cleared out and we carry on working as normal.
Rumor has it, this might as well be the theft of the century in our otherwise peaceful chunk of land at the end of the world.
And since in the chaos I forgot to film, here is a Gib monkey stealing:
