Workplace Nightmares·
COOKIES GONE MISSING
A woman pays for three Girl Scout cookie boxes through coworkers, only to see two accounts clash as a missing third box and an uneasy debate about blame unfold.
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The missing Girl Scout cookies never made it to the woman who paid for them, and by the time anyone noticed, one box had already been eaten.
A 28-year-old poster said she ordered three boxes through a coworker selling cookies for her granddaughter, "we'll call her A." She paid for all three boxes up front: one box of Tagalongs for herself, and two boxes of Adventurefuls for other people who had already sent her money. The whole plan seemed simple enough. She bought them, she'd get them, and then she'd hand off the two paid-for boxes.
But that is not how it played out.
The poster later learned that the cookies were not waiting for her in the usual way. Another coworker, "we'll call him B", told her that A had given him the cookies to pass along. Instead of a clean handoff, B apparently took them home with his own cookies. Then, according to the poster, "his 13 year old son ate one of the boxes."
That left the question at the center of the mess: where did the third box go?
B's version was that his son only ate one box and that A had given him just two boxes total, not three. In other words, one box was missing before the cookies ever reached the poster. But when the poster checked with A, she said something different.
"I confirmed with A that she gave him 3 boxes," the poster wrote.
So now the story had two coworkers, two conflicting accounts, and only one box in the poster's hands, "the only box that was mine."
The poster said she had never been told there would be a third-party handoff in the first place. She had assumed A would give her the cookies directly, not send them through B. Instead, the boxes moved from one coworker to another, one box apparently disappeared into someone else's kitchen, and the person who paid was left trying to sort out the damage.
What remains is the practical problem. Two of the boxes had already been paid for by other people, and the poster still has to decide whether to replace those missing cookies herself or explain what happened and push the issue back toward A or B.
Now she's left asking the question that started the whole thread: "Or would that just make me an asshole over some Girl Scout cookies?"