One of my favorite co-workers is leaving tomorrow.  It is her last day at work, but we are going to have a happy hour which makes up for it :)  She passed along an interesting story to me that made me wonder: do people even think anymore??

Our office manager helped another co-worker with his iPhone and to say thanks he bought her some flowers.  That happened a couple of days ago.  I would see the flowers each morning as I walked in on the way to my office.  A few days ago I noticed the flowers were gone.  I didn’t think much of it, I figured she took them home or something.

Fast Forward to today.  I am chatting with a friend of mine and she tells me the story of the disapearring flowers.  Turns out that another co-worker of ours decided to throw the flowers away.  Why, you may ask?  Apparently she thought they were ‘ugly’ and ‘unprofessional’.  So, her answer was to throw out the flowers without even talking to the flowers owner.  I was shocked by this.

Is this normal behavior?  I have talked to a few people about it and they all agree that the ‘flower bandit’ was way out of line for this.  What do you think?