October 29, 2025 at 7:55 am

Pregnant Woman Notices That Coworkers Are Taking Her Fruit Snacks, So Now She’s Thinking About Hiding Them In Her Desk

by Sarrah Murtaza

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Imagine working in an office where you can’t even keep snacks on your desk without fear of your coworkers taking them.

If you were in this situation, would you hide your snacks, confront the coworkers, or talk to HR?

This pregnant woman shares how everyone at her work place keeps eating her snacks, and she’s not sure what to do about it.

Check out the full story!

AITAH For reclaiming my pregnancy snacks and not telling people about the pregnancy?
Hi all,

I’m currently 14 weeks pregnant and have not told many people at work aside from HR, my direct supervisor, and a few close colleagues.

It is not widely known that I am pregnant and I’ve been wearing baggy clothes as I wanted to wait a good amount of time of time before announcing it.

This is where it gets tricky…

My issue is that I now have limited foods I can eat and keep snacks at my desk so I can nibble throughout the day.

I had a bowl of mixed fruit snacks (welches and albanese) and recently found out that I can’t eat the welches (my blood sugar reacts more to these than the others).

I had yet to sort out the bowl and admittedly left it out for two days on the back of my desk.

UH OH…

Well a coworker walked behind me assuming I was in a meeting and started taking them.

I felt weird and didn’t say anything in the moment.

I waited until after she left to sort out the fruit snacks and decided to be nice and put out the bowl in a shared area with the welches since I won’t be able to eat them for months.

She was not expecting that…

Fast forward a week and a different coworker was complaining loudly by my desk that someone had sorted the fruit snacks and taken all the good ones leading me to believe multiple people were taking my snacks without asking.

Admittedly, I know my hormones are messing with me lately due to being pregnant and I’m wondering if I over reacted by taking away the fruit snacks I can eat?

She’s not sure what to do.

Should I put the remainder in the bowl and stop keeping snacks at my desk?

I usually put them in my cabinet but didn’t know leaving them out would cause my coworkers to see it as an invitation to take them.

After hearing my coworker complain I’m wondering AITAH?

YIKES! That sounds problematic!

Why would they take her snacks?

Let’s find out what folks on Reddit think about this one.

This user thinks this lady could have just snapped back at them!

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This user thinks it is crazy how these people are treating this lady.

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This user would have given the other person some benefit of doubt!

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This user knows this lady is not at fault!

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This user would have given these people a good response!

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Just because it’s on your desk doesn’t mean it’s meant to be shared!

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