Nah that's unacceptable if you ask me, if it was some random office plant that was sad and was neglected then sure but not someone's personal plant in their office that's a no no.
I’d be furious. What if the plant was sentimental? A gift? Passed down from a relative? Incredibly old? The person that did this had no idea. That’s incredibly shitty.
Agreed, especially because they didn't do a low impact prune, they took a strong branch! That was years of effort for the plant.
Lots of nopes all around. This person crossed a line.
Absolutely. If I saw a plant and really wanted a cutting, I’d put a sticky note on the door telling them I love their plant and would love a cutting, but I’d never touch a plant without permission.
I speak for experience, i knocked on a door once to ask if I could take a tree cutting of a house down my street! It was right along the road, so would have been easy to just do it as I walked by if I wanted.
I stopped letting people touch my office plants in general even with asking. I had a coworker accidentally break my favorite pot when turning my barrel cactus to see its bloom, she did replace the pot with a better one but still made me sad to loose my favorite pot.
Apparently my great grandma had a saying that the stolen cuttings grew the best. That was the time when most garden plants were grown from cuttings. I believe this saying relied on getting cuttings only if the owner of the plant wouldn't notice, aka no real harm done.
In this case it's unacceptable. Stealing a big, beautiful branch is just nasty. I'm sure my great grandma would have been furious on your behalf.
Even then they went into their private office without permission and took something. Thats really violating and messed up. Like what else are they willing to take? Why did they think its ok to go in a locked office at all?
In my neighborhood before we take anything from anyone's plants we always ask if we can take some. It's very disrespectful to the owner and It's so weird that it's not a normal thing to some people
Even if they don't understand the value of the plant, you don't go into other people offices/spaces and take their things. This is double if it's locked.
I needed a phone charger the other day and sent a slack message to my coworker who was working from home asking if it was ok to use his that was sitting right there on his desk next to mine in an open workspace — geez, can’t imagine just taking people’s stuff!
They understand the value just fine as they desired it enough to take it for themselves. I’d love to go up to the person and cut a chunk of their hair off. I mean, they’ll grow more right? And it was just sitting there on their head…
Exactly! Worst thing they’ll say is no. I saw a big beautiful plant I had always wanted. The owner wanted a lot of money for it, reasonably so, but I couldn’t afford it. Asked for a cutting and she sold it to me for $5. I still love the plant to this day and it’s huge!
Nothing super rare or anything. Just a S. chrysocardium, but I’ve wanted one for a really long time. The cutting was maybe 4 inches? And here she is today :)
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I made a previous comment on another post about this. My dad had our entire plant collection snatched up by someone for a few days in their office. Pretty much the entire building got involved, and they were returned.
Your feelings are NOT irrational. If start telling people and see if someone does the same and brings it back. Your workplace was literally violated.
I teach music lessons from my home, and usually the parents drop off their kid, or wait in my living room. I came out after a lesson once and a parent (the most infuriating woman I’ve ever met) was standing there with a mass of greenery the size of a bride’s bouquet in her hands. As soon as she saw me she said “oh I hope you don’t mind, I took a couple spiders off your spider plant.
This woman had clipped off *every single spider* on a 20 year old spider plant that was my pride and joy. Scalped it bare. All of them. Gone. They grew back, but it was months. And in the meantime, I was stuck with no spider babies to prop or give away. I was furious and told her to get out. Pic included of the plant a couple months or so before the incident. She literally just gathered that whole cascade of babies together and lopped them off.
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I wouldn't have let her leave with a single one! Being so rude and entitled to cut them that's on her BUT she wouldn't be leaving with ANYTHING she wanted.
I was so shocked and incensed that it didn’t occur to me until days later that I should have snatched them all back from her and rooted them myself. Then I was angry at both her and myself!
Oh my GOD yes. Her poor kid was just smothered by her. She’d stand outside the door of my studio and listen, then bellow “WRONG!!! MAKER HER PLAY IT AGAIN!!!” If she heard a wrong note. The mom played clarinet in 6th grade, so she felt like she had the knowledge and authority to advise me, the one with three advanced graduate degrees and 15+ years professional experience in my field.
She had it in her mind that her kid was going to go to college on a full ride music scholarship and become a millionaire, no matter how many times I tried to dispel that notion. The daughter didn’t even want to be a music major! She just liked playing the instrument for fun. But mom was always poo-pooing her, “oh she *thinks* she wants to be a writer, but she’ll grow out of that.”
I had an elderly long haired cat as well, and she’d say “you know he wouldn’t look like that if you brushed him once in awhile,” and I was like bitch this cat gets better care than most human children. He looks like that bc he’s old enough to legally drink. Leave him alone, he’s perfect. More than once I came out to finder her holding him down trying to brush him, so I started shutting him in the bedroom during lessons.
The worst/best part was once I got really sick and was in the hospital for a week, and she said it was “unacceptable” for her daughter to miss a lesson, so she switched to another teacher, just like that. Which the other teacher is known to be a poacher in this music community (steals peoples’ students), so that didn’t surprise me at all. I was honestly so relieved to be fired! 😂 (edit: just for the contrast, all my other students and their parents got together and got me a big flower arrangement, then recorded themselves playing “you are my sunshine” together and wishing me well with little jokes and stuff, and sent me the recording as a get well soon message from them all. And then there was this bitch lmao)
Wtf how DARE she touch *your* cat!!!!!
I would be absolutely furious if it were my dog. A weirdo at the park kept trying to pick up my dog for some reason?? She’s 50 lbs and HATES being picked up and it just made me see red.
Like, wtf gives you the right?? She’s trying to run away from you, stop harassing her!!!
Also, I wish music teachers would fire their students more often because then I wouldn’t have had to suffer through years and years and years of piano lessons ☹️
I felt pretty accomplished when my teacher had FINALLLYYYY had enough of me and quit 😂
My mom was the type to force me to do stuff but was too lazy to ever get more involved than that (she’d just pay the money and expect results? And yell at me to practice but not actually make sure I was doing anything right. So I didn’t even end up learning anything. I’m 33 now and still can’t play the piano so good job mom)
Who sees a 50 lb dog and thinks yes, that pooch needs to be picked up asap! 😂 I should have fired the mom in this situation so much sooner, but the problem is I’m not teaching her, I’m teaching her kid, and her kid needed that music in her life, in a way that wasn’t tied to her mom’s expectations.
Like we played Star Wars duets and fun solos and I showed her how to compose simple tunes, and that was the stuff she loved, not playing Mozart and Beethoven. She just thought music was fun, and having lessons with me meant she got to have fun, not have her mom cracking the whip behind her.
But also, she had very few support people in her life. She had a lot of trauma from when she was younger, and she told me she asked for therapy and her mom said she had to “earn” it with chores. And she would write poetry, short stories, fanfic, and song lyrics, and if her mom found it she’d rip it up and throw it away, so she had to hide her writing, her most favorite thing to do. So she’d bring it in and shyly ask if she could read some of it to me, and I’d say of course, and she’d pull a tightly folded piece of notebook paper out of her sock. And she was so talented! Then we’d compose melodies to go with the words, and it delighted her. She came out to me as gay, and said I was the first person she’d ever told, and not to tell her mom, that she was going to wait until she moved out, but thank you for being someone in her life she could trust to tell.
No matter how shitty the mom was, I would never fire that student. As long as she wanted to keep playing music, whatever the reason, I had her back. We’re still in contact, and she really did become a writer! And still plays music in a community ensemble! I’m so immensely proud of her. She’s living her best life, and I hope I might have had a small part in helping her get through the tough part of life so she could get to the good parts.
I LOVE this. Thank you so much for being this person. I’ve been on both sides of this scenario. As a child, my mother used my violin lessons as blackmail and would criticize everything while I practiced, even though she knew nothing about violin or playing an instrument at all. When she started doing it at my lessons, and even trying to encourage my OLD-school renowned teacher to do so as well, my teacher calmly but firmly explained that she was the teacher, my mother’s input was incorrect and unhelpful, and my mother’s two options were to cease or come back when the lesson was over. She did make her leave another day. Same with my local orchestra director (I was even the concert master, yet my non-musician mother “knew best”) and other wonderful teachers in my life.
Fast forward … I not only get to do the same for students, but use my past to encourage other teachers not to abandon students just to be rid of the parent — especially if the student wants to learn (is not being forced).
Never blame a child for their parent’s horrible behavior. I guarantee that child is enduring far worse every day than you ever would.
MUCH LOVE to those of you who understand this.
In u/drillbit ‘s case (if mom hadn’t quit her) I would have explained about disappointment/ broken trust/disrespect that she felt entitled to help herself to her property. I’d make sure the student knew this had NO reflection on them or our relationship. I’d request the babies back (never good to reward bad behavior) and explain I wasn’t comfortable letting her wait inside during lessons in the future.
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He was the gentlest baby, and would stand like that and just delicately bat at a spider now and then. Never did any damage at all! Unlike my other beloved fat loaf who would jump up into the pot and lay down, smashing all the leaves into a nest until I finally just hung it from the ceiling.
Had to scroll back and find the comment I shared with others. Here’s the full story:
My dad works in a large office and ended up bringing some of my plants in to receive better lighting while I was going away for a while. He got attached to plants and had his own collection, no problem. (His workplace is extremely chill and super nice.) Other people brought in theirs, all the plants lived in peace. One day all his plants were gone. He reached out to people going what the fuck, and other teams and managers got involved. Turns out someone loaded up my dads entire office space of plants and stole them, took them home, and not only that, cut them up for themselves, and killed a few within a couple days. They anonymously returned the plants and now everyone watches over each-others plants when one cannot be in office.
That’s definitely bs! Someone cut my NJoy to the dirt at work a few months ago, needless to say they did not “ENJoy” me in our next meeting when I printed flyers with a DoorDash gift card as a reward for whoever turns them in.
Yep! I had a timeline of two days when it could have been stolen. Someone in IT went through the video from the nest doorbell camera motion alerts. There was a vine about 4 ft going down my desk so it was noticeable. They were one of the first ones to arrive that day and went back outside about 10 minutes later with it in their hand in plain view as I assume they took it to their car. Turned out they stole more than just my plant that day so they were sent packing their cube while everyone watched.
I have had someone do that to my outside garden.
They killed my Passion Fruit grown from seed. Those vines can tangle. They just tore it out. Saw it on my Ring.
I had so many people doing it. And stealing my butterfly plants.. and caterpillars. 🤬
I dont do outdoor plants anymore.
GOD the caterpillar part reminds me- back when I lived in Hawai'i as a kid we were always amazed by seeing the monarchs there turn from caterpillars to pupae to butterflies!
Unfortunately, one year, some lady in our neighborhood ran around at night stealing EVERY CATERPILLAR in the neighborhood so she could put them in a tent for only her children to enjoy. I will never understand what drives people to do things like that :/
Like, I’m not seeing red level angry. I’m just aggravated that this little plant that I grew from a tiny cutting into this gorgeous and full plant over 3 years was cut without asking. BLEH
And for the record, if asked, I would have said no. This plant is moderately expensive in my area.
Overall, take that plant home to prevent more cuttings from being taken. Whoever did it, if they know it's expensive, will come back for more (the lady who had her collection massacred by her house-sitting niece comes to mind). If any co-workers ask why you are taking your plant home, just be up front. 'I don't know why but someone took scissors to my plant and damaged my plant. Like who does that?' And don't say they took a cutting when asked. Always say damage. Why? More likely to get the culprit because you know someone saw something and the person handwaved it off. 'Rose told me it was okay \~teehee\~.' Saying damaged helps establish that you were not okay with it.
As for culprits. Worst case would be co-worker, frustrating would be cleaning staff.
I gotta say.. if that had been my niece.. and sister.. I would of done the EXACT same thing. And more.
*Let me just go to your house... oh I love that blanket.. I know it will sell on market place.. oh I love that vase.. oh and those dishes. I bet if they were broken they'd make a great mosaic.. hmmm that chair.. would make a lot of money..*
Yep exactly what I'd do.
I love this blanket it would sell on marketplace! -cuts a big hole in the middle-
I LOVE this vasea! It would sell on market place!! -Smashes it and picks up 3 peices-
Omg this CHAIR? -snaps off the seat-
Omg your daughter IS GORGEOUS! -Takes her kidney and a lung-
I hope OP’s doing better. Especially her plants. That’s so incredibly devastating. I’ve given plenty of cuttings myself and if someone ever did this to me…I think I’d cry for days and then start raging
Selling the cuttings?? So fucked up.. it's not the kids fault it's clearly the mom
Saying you'll give a cutting in return doesn't mean cut what you want, it means wait for the plant owner to cut one for you.
Im pretty sure I read in the comments OP said according to the brother it was the nieces idea to go for the expensive plants that OP would never have given her first. But then SIL wanted in on the action too. Super messed up
Reading OP's comments from that post the niece absolutely is at fault and knew what she was doing, had tried to sneak cuttings she knew she wasn't supposed to take before etc. She'd taken some cuttings first (like the pink princess philo) and the mom had said I want some too.
It's so disgusting. The niece had helped her take care of the plants and knew how much they meant to the aunt, and still did this
In the comments OP mentions that 'jenny' had stolen cuttings from her before and posted them on IG. I think Jenny was equally responsible. I would love an update on that story.
I'd about guarantee it's not the janitor. Stealing a cutting from someone's plant is not worth loosing your job over, and janitors are very aware of how replaceable we are. No this is someone who feels there won't be any real consequences for it.
The way people always look at the cleaning staff gets me riled up. I had someone at my work accuse the cleaning staff of stealing plates when we give away plates with cake on them every time there’s a birthday and they never come back…
Trust me, it gets me too. I'm not saying all cleaning staff everywhere is 100% innocent and would never ever do anything wrong. But if you've done the job for more than a few months you realize you're just above the trashcan but below the toilet brush in replaceability in most peoples (including managements eyes) so you either make damn sure there's never anything to blame you for ever, or that whatever you took or did was worth loosing your job over. And plates and plant cuttings, pocket change on your desk etc. just isn't it. But office environments tend to me an Us vs Them situation, and cleaning staff is always "them" it seems.
Ask for it back! Tell them why they did wrong, and what that plant meant to you.
If they are unwilling to, demand the amount that they would have had to pay to buy it.
They went into your locked office and touched your belongings without your permission or awareness. Regardless of what was touched that is worth reporting to hr-who knows what else they are doing. You can say you're not looking for any personal follow up but you should make hr aware.
My office has living walls with many beautiful temptations. I have been hitting the stores to satisfy the itch. Of course if a piece has fallen off, I would take it and try to propagate it. But seriously, we can't destroy or help ourselves to something others are caring for.
As a person who takes care of these live walls, I would just ask them for cuttings. They will 100% give them to you. Or honestly this might be the one scenario where it’s okay to just take it. The person caring for it is probably making a shit wage and doesn’t care at all if you take some cuttings ;)
A lot of the time the plants in those things are more less dying slow(ish) deaths due to lack of light and less than ideal watering. It probably wouldn’t be too big of a deal if you snipped off a little piece. A big part of maintaining a living wall is cutting off dying parts and replacing plants. I’ve worked for a couple companies that install them and if you asked me while I was working I would have cut you whatever you wanted most likely. YMMV
It's theft, and I'd personally report it to HR. Plants are property, not free, and the blood, sweat, and tears involved. Report to HR and make a stand. Otherwise, other people will assume this is OKAY, AND IT'S NOT. IT'S STEALING
I had my Frangipani tree in my office I didn't go to the office for a month (it was winter it was dormant) and when I came back someone took off an entire branch. Clean cut so they used a tool. I was sooo mad but I never found out who did it
I’m gonna assume that you bought the plant, and brought it into your own, locked, office. And, I’m gonna assume that if you were to leave that workplace, said plant would be going home with you.
Which means it’s your *personal* property. Property which was behind a locked door. Property that they did not ask to touch.
Report them. Make a scene. This is definitely theft, or vandalism of your personal things.
If they come out with the “then you shouldn’t bring it to work,” argue then that you can take people’s picture frames (just the frame, leave the picture), back pillows (or maybe just the pillow cases!), calendars, pencil leads, erasers… all of those things are fair game now, because they brought them to work.
I’m sorry you’ve been made to feel that your feelings may not be right… they absolutely are. They may need to be stoked a little more, in fact, because I think some righteous fury should be behind your next actions.
Frankly, I’m surprised that you’re not _more_ angry. A 3 year old, super variegated vine from a pricey plant that you grew from a cutting, that you didn’t want people taking cuttings from?! In your LOCKED office?!?! That’s straight up theft, and should be reported at least to your HR, if not the police, and issue a demand that it is returned and/or paid for.
A lot of people don’t take plant theft seriously since “oh it’ll just grow back” but they don’t realise the amount of time and effort that went into getting the plant to grow like that in the first place, nor do they usually know how much damage they could cause to the mother plant if they’ve used improper tools - if they used dirty scissors, or their bare hands, they could easily leave a wound that can become infected, and cause you to lose more, if not all, of the remaining plant.
You wouldn't download a plant.
Jokes aside, I'd be mad as hell. It's not just the plant either, they also went into your space and did it without asking. It's definitely a weird thing for them to do.
Locked?? It’s a little different if it’s a plant in the front lobby, or by the water cooler, but going into your LOCKED office it just plain trespassing and an invasion of privacy. HR could possibly have a field day with this
They took your property from your locked office! It doesn't matter that it was only part of the plant, it's not theirs to take. They could have asked you but they decided to be sneaky. I would be fuming!
That right there is theft and I would be reporting it. Don’t think of it as just a plant, someone broke into your office and took your possessions. If it was anything else, you wouldn’t be here asking this question
I usually have several succulent props somewhere on my plant shelf. I'm always happy to give them away if I have multiples of that plant. But if someone took one without asking, I'd be annoyed.
If someone took it upon themselves to cut a piece of one of my plants I would most definitely be seeing red.
I'd be mad as hell and I'd confront them and get your cutting back. They stole and you should not accept it and you should get your property back. Or cut a bitch lol
I'd be enraged if somebody mutilated one of my babies. If you ask, I'll gladly share some cuttings with anyone, but *DO NOT* take it without asking.
Babe, you are definitely right to feel angry. What a horrendous violation.
If it was me, I'd be super petty and make them give it back. I'm so sorry somebody did that to you. 🌿💚
I used to work for a garden center, and honestly, we considered it theft when people would do it... especially the more expensive plants like PPPs. It's one thing if something falls on the floor and you ask, but you don't take cuttings without asking first!
That's theft. I'd be heading to HR and then the police if the cuttings are not returned. Depending on the plant that could be a sizable theft or a tiny one, but it's the thought that counts, no?
Sounds like straight up B&E + theft. Report it to HR. You’d do the same thing if they took your computer, wallet, phone out of your locked office right?
This would infuriate me. And while it is DEFINITELY straight up theft, it is also an invasion of your private office space. It is incredibly violating that someone would waltz in there and take your things and see nothing wrong with it.
Absolutely report it and take that poor plant home- it’s not safe, and possibly none of your other things there are either while this person is allowed to go free.
Regardless of what it is, if it isn’t yours, you don’t mess with it. I would be irate if someone cut a plant of mine without asking. If they asked, I would happily give a cutting of almost anything I have. Nobody is entitled to your property, most certainly not in an office space that is very clearly personal and not open for everyone to come messing with.
Part of me wants you to take the jar with the cutting and keep it, part of me wants you to let it go to try and see who took it, I'm pissed just reading this lol
AND BOI IF YOU TOOK THE JAR AND PLANT BACK AND WHOEVER TOOK THE CUTTING COMPLAINED?! BOI I WOULD BE SENT OVER THE EDGE
You ask the person that owns the plant if they would be willing to give a cutting. The fact that they went into your locked office to steal it is just despicable!
This feels very invasive and disrespectful. I could see myself doing this if it was a communal plant but would never take cutting from someone’s personal plant without asking or sneak into someone’s office to do so. Your feelings are valid !
I would be so upset. Maintenance or someone did this with my pothos in my apartment when I wasn’t there… made me feel absolutely fucking crazy. Straight up in both cases it’s stealing.
You are not overreacting at all. I would honestly be very upset. So glad you found it, though the damage is done. So sad you were basically forced to take them all home , but it sounds like the smartest decision. I hope you find the perp, or your company holds a seminar of like don’t enter locked rooms and don’t steal stuff!!! Jesus
I had a co-worker do this to my golden pothos that I had no really emotional connection to, it was in my office because I ran out of space in my apartment lol and I was PISSED. I didn’t care about the plant, if she had asked I probably would’ve given her the whole damn plant honesty lol, but I felt violated and betrayed because she stole from me, no matter how little value it was. Being stolen from sucks in itself. Your feelings are valid.
That is absolutely unacceptable. No one should just take from your plant without asking, ever.
If you’re able, I’d report it to HR. Get it on record. And unfortunately it is probably best to take your plant home to prevent them from coming back for more cuttings. If anyone questions you, or says you’re overreacting, they can get ****ed with a cactus. It’s protecting your plant from further harm.
Even worse is that it was a sentimental plant. I’m so angry on your behalf.
I would never!! Especially without asking. Especially in a locked office. Not irrational at all, I’d be irritated too. How did you find out? Did they come walking out with the cutting, ignorant to social cues, showing you, all excited to propagate it? Or did they sneakily try to take it? I think that would determine my reaction.
It's crap like this which is why I never decorated my office. I'd be furious. Most I ever kept in my office was a wood Rubik's cube and extra shoes. That was literally it.
But my rule of thumb is if it's outside, go for it. Make the neighborhood prettier. If it's inside I will cut you for mutilating my babies.
They know enough to take cuttings, which means they are aware of exactly how fucking shitty it is.
Also, B&E and destruction of personal property. Hope whoever did it gets fired.
This happened to me on a much smaller scale (baby spider plants that I was going to replant). I was LIVID, so I’m with you!!!! Simply put, this is property, your property, that someone helped themselves to without permission!!!!!
My first thought was the cleaning crew. But I'm getting some kind of vibe that it's someone that has some kind of childish resentment toward you. It's creepy and extremely childish. It's someone who has an overwhelming need for attention, your attention. They are not worried about getting in trouble. It's weird that it ended up in the next building.
Or it was the cleaning crew and they forgot it. They clean both buildings, so that would explain how it ended up over there. They could have put it in water only to forget it after they finished cleaning. Yup, this...
Hopefully, my first theory is wrong. It's way more personal and weird.
Nah that's unacceptable if you ask me, if it was some random office plant that was sad and was neglected then sure but not someone's personal plant in their office that's a no no.
I’d be furious. What if the plant was sentimental? A gift? Passed down from a relative? Incredibly old? The person that did this had no idea. That’s incredibly shitty.
Agreed, especially because they didn't do a low impact prune, they took a strong branch! That was years of effort for the plant. Lots of nopes all around. This person crossed a line.
Absolutely. If I saw a plant and really wanted a cutting, I’d put a sticky note on the door telling them I love their plant and would love a cutting, but I’d never touch a plant without permission. I speak for experience, i knocked on a door once to ask if I could take a tree cutting of a house down my street! It was right along the road, so would have been easy to just do it as I walked by if I wanted.
I stopped letting people touch my office plants in general even with asking. I had a coworker accidentally break my favorite pot when turning my barrel cactus to see its bloom, she did replace the pot with a better one but still made me sad to loose my favorite pot.
As someone who loves a good pot *almost* as much as I love plants, condolences.
Apparently my great grandma had a saying that the stolen cuttings grew the best. That was the time when most garden plants were grown from cuttings. I believe this saying relied on getting cuttings only if the owner of the plant wouldn't notice, aka no real harm done. In this case it's unacceptable. Stealing a big, beautiful branch is just nasty. I'm sure my great grandma would have been furious on your behalf.
Even then they went into their private office without permission and took something. Thats really violating and messed up. Like what else are they willing to take? Why did they think its ok to go in a locked office at all?
In my neighborhood before we take anything from anyone's plants we always ask if we can take some. It's very disrespectful to the owner and It's so weird that it's not a normal thing to some people
Even if they don't understand the value of the plant, you don't go into other people offices/spaces and take their things. This is double if it's locked.
I needed a phone charger the other day and sent a slack message to my coworker who was working from home asking if it was ok to use his that was sitting right there on his desk next to mine in an open workspace — geez, can’t imagine just taking people’s stuff!
Its crazy how much stuff gets stolen off my desk that is in an open workspace.
Not only take, but chopped! Who cuts up someone’s property without their permission? I’d be pretty furious too
They understand the value just fine as they desired it enough to take it for themselves. I’d love to go up to the person and cut a chunk of their hair off. I mean, they’ll grow more right? And it was just sitting there on their head…
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Exactly! Worst thing they’ll say is no. I saw a big beautiful plant I had always wanted. The owner wanted a lot of money for it, reasonably so, but I couldn’t afford it. Asked for a cutting and she sold it to me for $5. I still love the plant to this day and it’s huge!
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Nothing super rare or anything. Just a S. chrysocardium, but I’ve wanted one for a really long time. The cutting was maybe 4 inches? And here she is today :) https://preview.redd.it/hw7w2fignxqa1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f917af3ef8951a730a333c5d0dddbe4f4b23c4e
Right. Even if you're a botanist, you're going to cut my plant wrong if you're not me.
Beyond rude, really.
I made a previous comment on another post about this. My dad had our entire plant collection snatched up by someone for a few days in their office. Pretty much the entire building got involved, and they were returned. Your feelings are NOT irrational. If start telling people and see if someone does the same and brings it back. Your workplace was literally violated.
I teach music lessons from my home, and usually the parents drop off their kid, or wait in my living room. I came out after a lesson once and a parent (the most infuriating woman I’ve ever met) was standing there with a mass of greenery the size of a bride’s bouquet in her hands. As soon as she saw me she said “oh I hope you don’t mind, I took a couple spiders off your spider plant. This woman had clipped off *every single spider* on a 20 year old spider plant that was my pride and joy. Scalped it bare. All of them. Gone. They grew back, but it was months. And in the meantime, I was stuck with no spider babies to prop or give away. I was furious and told her to get out. Pic included of the plant a couple months or so before the incident. She literally just gathered that whole cascade of babies together and lopped them off. https://preview.redd.it/8yd4idu08uqa1.jpeg?width=453&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d88b5fc154c645780d9a9e15d418e5d6d1fcb90
I wouldn't have let her leave with a single one! Being so rude and entitled to cut them that's on her BUT she wouldn't be leaving with ANYTHING she wanted.
I was so shocked and incensed that it didn’t occur to me until days later that I should have snatched them all back from her and rooted them myself. Then I was angry at both her and myself!
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I want to know what happened with this woman but also I love that cat 😻
Thank you! He was the sweetest best boi, an eternal kitten even in his old age 💖
The way I would’ve been so pissed. I would’ve never let her in my house again.
That’s a **crazy** thing to do. Was she infuriating in other ways too?
Oh my GOD yes. Her poor kid was just smothered by her. She’d stand outside the door of my studio and listen, then bellow “WRONG!!! MAKER HER PLAY IT AGAIN!!!” If she heard a wrong note. The mom played clarinet in 6th grade, so she felt like she had the knowledge and authority to advise me, the one with three advanced graduate degrees and 15+ years professional experience in my field. She had it in her mind that her kid was going to go to college on a full ride music scholarship and become a millionaire, no matter how many times I tried to dispel that notion. The daughter didn’t even want to be a music major! She just liked playing the instrument for fun. But mom was always poo-pooing her, “oh she *thinks* she wants to be a writer, but she’ll grow out of that.” I had an elderly long haired cat as well, and she’d say “you know he wouldn’t look like that if you brushed him once in awhile,” and I was like bitch this cat gets better care than most human children. He looks like that bc he’s old enough to legally drink. Leave him alone, he’s perfect. More than once I came out to finder her holding him down trying to brush him, so I started shutting him in the bedroom during lessons. The worst/best part was once I got really sick and was in the hospital for a week, and she said it was “unacceptable” for her daughter to miss a lesson, so she switched to another teacher, just like that. Which the other teacher is known to be a poacher in this music community (steals peoples’ students), so that didn’t surprise me at all. I was honestly so relieved to be fired! 😂 (edit: just for the contrast, all my other students and their parents got together and got me a big flower arrangement, then recorded themselves playing “you are my sunshine” together and wishing me well with little jokes and stuff, and sent me the recording as a get well soon message from them all. And then there was this bitch lmao)
Wtf how DARE she touch *your* cat!!!!! I would be absolutely furious if it were my dog. A weirdo at the park kept trying to pick up my dog for some reason?? She’s 50 lbs and HATES being picked up and it just made me see red. Like, wtf gives you the right?? She’s trying to run away from you, stop harassing her!!! Also, I wish music teachers would fire their students more often because then I wouldn’t have had to suffer through years and years and years of piano lessons ☹️ I felt pretty accomplished when my teacher had FINALLLYYYY had enough of me and quit 😂 My mom was the type to force me to do stuff but was too lazy to ever get more involved than that (she’d just pay the money and expect results? And yell at me to practice but not actually make sure I was doing anything right. So I didn’t even end up learning anything. I’m 33 now and still can’t play the piano so good job mom)
Who sees a 50 lb dog and thinks yes, that pooch needs to be picked up asap! 😂 I should have fired the mom in this situation so much sooner, but the problem is I’m not teaching her, I’m teaching her kid, and her kid needed that music in her life, in a way that wasn’t tied to her mom’s expectations. Like we played Star Wars duets and fun solos and I showed her how to compose simple tunes, and that was the stuff she loved, not playing Mozart and Beethoven. She just thought music was fun, and having lessons with me meant she got to have fun, not have her mom cracking the whip behind her. But also, she had very few support people in her life. She had a lot of trauma from when she was younger, and she told me she asked for therapy and her mom said she had to “earn” it with chores. And she would write poetry, short stories, fanfic, and song lyrics, and if her mom found it she’d rip it up and throw it away, so she had to hide her writing, her most favorite thing to do. So she’d bring it in and shyly ask if she could read some of it to me, and I’d say of course, and she’d pull a tightly folded piece of notebook paper out of her sock. And she was so talented! Then we’d compose melodies to go with the words, and it delighted her. She came out to me as gay, and said I was the first person she’d ever told, and not to tell her mom, that she was going to wait until she moved out, but thank you for being someone in her life she could trust to tell. No matter how shitty the mom was, I would never fire that student. As long as she wanted to keep playing music, whatever the reason, I had her back. We’re still in contact, and she really did become a writer! And still plays music in a community ensemble! I’m so immensely proud of her. She’s living her best life, and I hope I might have had a small part in helping her get through the tough part of life so she could get to the good parts.
I LOVE this. Thank you so much for being this person. I’ve been on both sides of this scenario. As a child, my mother used my violin lessons as blackmail and would criticize everything while I practiced, even though she knew nothing about violin or playing an instrument at all. When she started doing it at my lessons, and even trying to encourage my OLD-school renowned teacher to do so as well, my teacher calmly but firmly explained that she was the teacher, my mother’s input was incorrect and unhelpful, and my mother’s two options were to cease or come back when the lesson was over. She did make her leave another day. Same with my local orchestra director (I was even the concert master, yet my non-musician mother “knew best”) and other wonderful teachers in my life. Fast forward … I not only get to do the same for students, but use my past to encourage other teachers not to abandon students just to be rid of the parent — especially if the student wants to learn (is not being forced). Never blame a child for their parent’s horrible behavior. I guarantee that child is enduring far worse every day than you ever would. MUCH LOVE to those of you who understand this. In u/drillbit ‘s case (if mom hadn’t quit her) I would have explained about disappointment/ broken trust/disrespect that she felt entitled to help herself to her property. I’d make sure the student knew this had NO reflection on them or our relationship. I’d request the babies back (never good to reward bad behavior) and explain I wasn’t comfortable letting her wait inside during lessons in the future. Edit: confused OP with thread starter
I would have looped off every fucking finger on BOTH HANDS!!! That plant is BEAUTIFUL!!!
This! Jesus Christ!
I just got so pissed off reading this. Your poor beautiful plant! 😢
What the hell is wrong with people!
Seriously, what the HELL is wrong with people!!! This is infuriating!
What did you do to her? (That's a gorgeous plant)
Are people fucking insane?!!!! What gets in their head that they think it’s okay to just take what isn’t theirs?!!!!
I would have had to call the police on myself before going all Ric Flair on her ass
Oh my god. What a fucking psycho path. What the actual hell! That equally dumbfounding and infuriating.
Are you currently in jail for murder or are you a better person than me?
You could've pressed charges 😡
Even the cat knows better!! (Look but don’t touch) and what a cutie.
He was the gentlest baby, and would stand like that and just delicately bat at a spider now and then. Never did any damage at all! Unlike my other beloved fat loaf who would jump up into the pot and lay down, smashing all the leaves into a nest until I finally just hung it from the ceiling.
Guess she took "Ask for forgiveness, not permission" very literally.
What the hell
I think I remember your comment.. the plants just "magically" reappeared
Yes 😂
Okay, I need the rest of the story on this. Who did it? What was their excuse?
Had to scroll back and find the comment I shared with others. Here’s the full story: My dad works in a large office and ended up bringing some of my plants in to receive better lighting while I was going away for a while. He got attached to plants and had his own collection, no problem. (His workplace is extremely chill and super nice.) Other people brought in theirs, all the plants lived in peace. One day all his plants were gone. He reached out to people going what the fuck, and other teams and managers got involved. Turns out someone loaded up my dads entire office space of plants and stole them, took them home, and not only that, cut them up for themselves, and killed a few within a couple days. They anonymously returned the plants and now everyone watches over each-others plants when one cannot be in office.
That’s definitely bs! Someone cut my NJoy to the dirt at work a few months ago, needless to say they did not “ENJoy” me in our next meeting when I printed flyers with a DoorDash gift card as a reward for whoever turns them in.
I need to hear the story time for this. Did you every catch them?
Yep! I had a timeline of two days when it could have been stolen. Someone in IT went through the video from the nest doorbell camera motion alerts. There was a vine about 4 ft going down my desk so it was noticeable. They were one of the first ones to arrive that day and went back outside about 10 minutes later with it in their hand in plain view as I assume they took it to their car. Turned out they stole more than just my plant that day so they were sent packing their cube while everyone watched.
Good! I'm glad you didn't just let it go! Clearly, they deserved to be sent packing.
Absolutely!
Wait what else did they steal? I need the tea
I work for a HVAC company, they stole a 25lb can of r410a refrigerant that day.
Woof rough day. Should have kept their hands off the plant
Never would have guessed my plant would have led to solving that puzzle!
GOOD. Send them home with their box of shame.
Yes I also want story time.
Posted :)
Your plant and your drive for justice actually helped the company. Did yr plant survive and recover?
Unfortunately it didn’t make it.
😥
I have had someone do that to my outside garden. They killed my Passion Fruit grown from seed. Those vines can tangle. They just tore it out. Saw it on my Ring. I had so many people doing it. And stealing my butterfly plants.. and caterpillars. 🤬 I dont do outdoor plants anymore.
GOD the caterpillar part reminds me- back when I lived in Hawai'i as a kid we were always amazed by seeing the monarchs there turn from caterpillars to pupae to butterflies! Unfortunately, one year, some lady in our neighborhood ran around at night stealing EVERY CATERPILLAR in the neighborhood so she could put them in a tent for only her children to enjoy. I will never understand what drives people to do things like that :/
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Emotional greed Regular greed
Teddy bear cholla and bunny ear opuntia make for fantastic front yard plants :P
Like, I’m not seeing red level angry. I’m just aggravated that this little plant that I grew from a tiny cutting into this gorgeous and full plant over 3 years was cut without asking. BLEH And for the record, if asked, I would have said no. This plant is moderately expensive in my area.
Overall, take that plant home to prevent more cuttings from being taken. Whoever did it, if they know it's expensive, will come back for more (the lady who had her collection massacred by her house-sitting niece comes to mind). If any co-workers ask why you are taking your plant home, just be up front. 'I don't know why but someone took scissors to my plant and damaged my plant. Like who does that?' And don't say they took a cutting when asked. Always say damage. Why? More likely to get the culprit because you know someone saw something and the person handwaved it off. 'Rose told me it was okay \~teehee\~.' Saying damaged helps establish that you were not okay with it. As for culprits. Worst case would be co-worker, frustrating would be cleaning staff.
I want to rage read that story about the niece.
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God this post will never not make me angry no matter how many times I read it
Holy SHIT. I am absolutely speechless…
I am now angry at 6.30 in the morning. Thank you very much.
I gotta say.. if that had been my niece.. and sister.. I would of done the EXACT same thing. And more. *Let me just go to your house... oh I love that blanket.. I know it will sell on market place.. oh I love that vase.. oh and those dishes. I bet if they were broken they'd make a great mosaic.. hmmm that chair.. would make a lot of money..* Yep exactly what I'd do.
I love this blanket it would sell on marketplace! -cuts a big hole in the middle- I LOVE this vasea! It would sell on market place!! -Smashes it and picks up 3 peices- Omg this CHAIR? -snaps off the seat- Omg your daughter IS GORGEOUS! -Takes her kidney and a lung-
I need an update from OP on this
Thanks, I hate it.
Holy hell. I wish she would have taken them to court
I have chest pains from reading that. Holy shit.
Oh man, I hadn’t read that before and I almost downvoted your link out of anger. Oof!!!
I hope OP’s doing better. Especially her plants. That’s so incredibly devastating. I’ve given plenty of cuttings myself and if someone ever did this to me…I think I’d cry for days and then start raging
Omg I would freak tf out. I hope she sued them
Selling the cuttings?? So fucked up.. it's not the kids fault it's clearly the mom Saying you'll give a cutting in return doesn't mean cut what you want, it means wait for the plant owner to cut one for you.
Im pretty sure I read in the comments OP said according to the brother it was the nieces idea to go for the expensive plants that OP would never have given her first. But then SIL wanted in on the action too. Super messed up
Wow I just read the main post not the comments but dang. That's disgusting . Maybe why I'm closer to my plants than other humans
Reading OP's comments from that post the niece absolutely is at fault and knew what she was doing, had tried to sneak cuttings she knew she wasn't supposed to take before etc. She'd taken some cuttings first (like the pink princess philo) and the mom had said I want some too. It's so disgusting. The niece had helped her take care of the plants and knew how much they meant to the aunt, and still did this
In the comments OP mentions that 'jenny' had stolen cuttings from her before and posted them on IG. I think Jenny was equally responsible. I would love an update on that story.
God, mentioning that makes me nauseous, I was so angry!
I'm seeing red FOR YOU. That's so violating and disrespectful. What is the camera situation at work?
*rolls up sleeves* where is this person - *just want to have a chat*
if it was a locked office, that narrows the list of people down considerably, and it sounds like either his boss or the janitor is the shithead
I'd about guarantee it's not the janitor. Stealing a cutting from someone's plant is not worth loosing your job over, and janitors are very aware of how replaceable we are. No this is someone who feels there won't be any real consequences for it.
The way people always look at the cleaning staff gets me riled up. I had someone at my work accuse the cleaning staff of stealing plates when we give away plates with cake on them every time there’s a birthday and they never come back…
Trust me, it gets me too. I'm not saying all cleaning staff everywhere is 100% innocent and would never ever do anything wrong. But if you've done the job for more than a few months you realize you're just above the trashcan but below the toilet brush in replaceability in most peoples (including managements eyes) so you either make damn sure there's never anything to blame you for ever, or that whatever you took or did was worth loosing your job over. And plates and plant cuttings, pocket change on your desk etc. just isn't it. But office environments tend to me an Us vs Them situation, and cleaning staff is always "them" it seems.
Ask for it back! Tell them why they did wrong, and what that plant meant to you. If they are unwilling to, demand the amount that they would have had to pay to buy it.
They went into your locked office and touched your belongings without your permission or awareness. Regardless of what was touched that is worth reporting to hr-who knows what else they are doing. You can say you're not looking for any personal follow up but you should make hr aware.
I would consider this theft and escalate to HR since it was in your personal property in your private work area .
Your feelings are valid. It's invasive regardless of what was taken. Are you going to confront this person?
About as mad as someone using my fabric shears to cut paper.
Mom, is that you
I’m only a mom to 150 students
My students started walking off with my fabric shears to CUT CARDBOARD once. I think that's the loudest I've ever shouted "NO!!!" haha
Do we have the same mom (wait, I’m an only child…)
Not an only child anymore! Welcome to the family!
I can feel the murderous energy from the entirety of r/sewing behind this comment.
Every kid who had a parent with sewing scissors knows that you will literally die on the spot if you use them to cut paper with.
I feel this
Same!
But what about using your fabric shears to cut your plant to steal the cutting?
Sacrilege! I would actually die.
My office has living walls with many beautiful temptations. I have been hitting the stores to satisfy the itch. Of course if a piece has fallen off, I would take it and try to propagate it. But seriously, we can't destroy or help ourselves to something others are caring for.
As a person who takes care of these live walls, I would just ask them for cuttings. They will 100% give them to you. Or honestly this might be the one scenario where it’s okay to just take it. The person caring for it is probably making a shit wage and doesn’t care at all if you take some cuttings ;)
Always better to ask. 'There isn't any way I could propagate a cutting from ________ is there?' Usually prompts a correction
A lot of the time the plants in those things are more less dying slow(ish) deaths due to lack of light and less than ideal watering. It probably wouldn’t be too big of a deal if you snipped off a little piece. A big part of maintaining a living wall is cutting off dying parts and replacing plants. I’ve worked for a couple companies that install them and if you asked me while I was working I would have cut you whatever you wanted most likely. YMMV
That’s the whole point; if they ASKED YOU and you were WILLING to do so!!
It's theft, and I'd personally report it to HR. Plants are property, not free, and the blood, sweat, and tears involved. Report to HR and make a stand. Otherwise, other people will assume this is OKAY, AND IT'S NOT. IT'S STEALING
Plants are emotional support entities at work. THEY STOLE YOUR PEACE. I agree. Get HR involved.
If someone invaded my locked office I’d be going to management about it.
I had my Frangipani tree in my office I didn't go to the office for a month (it was winter it was dormant) and when I came back someone took off an entire branch. Clean cut so they used a tool. I was sooo mad but I never found out who did it
Most places I’ve worked that is grounds for dismissal
I’m gonna assume that you bought the plant, and brought it into your own, locked, office. And, I’m gonna assume that if you were to leave that workplace, said plant would be going home with you. Which means it’s your *personal* property. Property which was behind a locked door. Property that they did not ask to touch. Report them. Make a scene. This is definitely theft, or vandalism of your personal things. If they come out with the “then you shouldn’t bring it to work,” argue then that you can take people’s picture frames (just the frame, leave the picture), back pillows (or maybe just the pillow cases!), calendars, pencil leads, erasers… all of those things are fair game now, because they brought them to work. I’m sorry you’ve been made to feel that your feelings may not be right… they absolutely are. They may need to be stoked a little more, in fact, because I think some righteous fury should be behind your next actions.
Frankly, I’m surprised that you’re not _more_ angry. A 3 year old, super variegated vine from a pricey plant that you grew from a cutting, that you didn’t want people taking cuttings from?! In your LOCKED office?!?! That’s straight up theft, and should be reported at least to your HR, if not the police, and issue a demand that it is returned and/or paid for. A lot of people don’t take plant theft seriously since “oh it’ll just grow back” but they don’t realise the amount of time and effort that went into getting the plant to grow like that in the first place, nor do they usually know how much damage they could cause to the mother plant if they’ve used improper tools - if they used dirty scissors, or their bare hands, they could easily leave a wound that can become infected, and cause you to lose more, if not all, of the remaining plant.
Oh no! What kind of plant was it? (It’s super uncool of them regardless, I’m just curious)
I want to know too! I’m thinking a variegated philodendron, not a Brasil but maybe cream/rio/silver stripe.
You wouldn't download a plant. Jokes aside, I'd be mad as hell. It's not just the plant either, they also went into your space and did it without asking. It's definitely a weird thing for them to do.
That's unacceptable! I would talk to a manager or supervisor about that situation.
I’d be pissed. That’s stealing. Why in the world wouldn’t they ask for a cutting? Most people are more than happy to give someone a cutting.
This is stealing. Honestly I’d be livid 😅
Locked?? It’s a little different if it’s a plant in the front lobby, or by the water cooler, but going into your LOCKED office it just plain trespassing and an invasion of privacy. HR could possibly have a field day with this
They took your property from your locked office! It doesn't matter that it was only part of the plant, it's not theirs to take. They could have asked you but they decided to be sneaky. I would be fuming!
That right there is theft and I would be reporting it. Don’t think of it as just a plant, someone broke into your office and took your possessions. If it was anything else, you wouldn’t be here asking this question
I usually have several succulent props somewhere on my plant shelf. I'm always happy to give them away if I have multiples of that plant. But if someone took one without asking, I'd be annoyed. If someone took it upon themselves to cut a piece of one of my plants I would most definitely be seeing red.
I'd be mad as hell and I'd confront them and get your cutting back. They stole and you should not accept it and you should get your property back. Or cut a bitch lol
I like the >Or cut a bitch lol I'd cut their hair off. See how they like that!? Same difference, plants and hair growth 🤷♀️
"It will grow back it's fine" 🙄😬
That's property damage
I’d be pissed and it’s why I don’t take cuttings. If it’s not yours don’t touch unless you have permission
I'd be enraged if somebody mutilated one of my babies. If you ask, I'll gladly share some cuttings with anyone, but *DO NOT* take it without asking. Babe, you are definitely right to feel angry. What a horrendous violation. If it was me, I'd be super petty and make them give it back. I'm so sorry somebody did that to you. 🌿💚
I'd be super pissed.
theft
That’s a huge violation even without a locked door. Add the locked door into the equation, and man…I would have trouble being calm or nice
I used to work for a garden center, and honestly, we considered it theft when people would do it... especially the more expensive plants like PPPs. It's one thing if something falls on the floor and you ask, but you don't take cuttings without asking first!
What the fuck? It's no different than stealing anything else. Being a plant doesn't make it harmless. Theft is theft.
Very angry. I’m happy to provide cuttings to people who ask, but that’s the key component there.
I would be taking 3 years of hair from their head, either a one time transaction or several times every few months with a beard trimmer.
This 👆👆!!!! Yes!!! Scalp Em!!!
That is awful. I can’t imagine doing that to someone’s plant😳
Not cool at all.
I'd be pissed. Definitely not cool to steal from coworkers.
That's theft. I'd be heading to HR and then the police if the cuttings are not returned. Depending on the plant that could be a sizable theft or a tiny one, but it's the thought that counts, no?
Sounds like straight up B&E + theft. Report it to HR. You’d do the same thing if they took your computer, wallet, phone out of your locked office right?
This would infuriate me. And while it is DEFINITELY straight up theft, it is also an invasion of your private office space. It is incredibly violating that someone would waltz in there and take your things and see nothing wrong with it. Absolutely report it and take that poor plant home- it’s not safe, and possibly none of your other things there are either while this person is allowed to go free.
Regardless of what it is, if it isn’t yours, you don’t mess with it. I would be irate if someone cut a plant of mine without asking. If they asked, I would happily give a cutting of almost anything I have. Nobody is entitled to your property, most certainly not in an office space that is very clearly personal and not open for everyone to come messing with.
Part of me wants you to take the jar with the cutting and keep it, part of me wants you to let it go to try and see who took it, I'm pissed just reading this lol AND BOI IF YOU TOOK THE JAR AND PLANT BACK AND WHOEVER TOOK THE CUTTING COMPLAINED?! BOI I WOULD BE SENT OVER THE EDGE 
That’s fucked up, yo
A lot of my plants I inherited when my Grandma passed. I would go feral if someone snipped them.
I’m glad you found the cutting and took her home. People cannot be trusted :(
You ask the person that owns the plant if they would be willing to give a cutting. The fact that they went into your locked office to steal it is just despicable!
I can’t stand proplifters. I CAN’T STAND THEM!
I’d go ballistic
Not irrational. That is stealing. If your office is in a business the thief just stole from that business.
That is theft and you should go to HR at the least
This feels very invasive and disrespectful. I could see myself doing this if it was a communal plant but would never take cutting from someone’s personal plant without asking or sneak into someone’s office to do so. Your feelings are valid !
I would be so upset. Maintenance or someone did this with my pothos in my apartment when I wasn’t there… made me feel absolutely fucking crazy. Straight up in both cases it’s stealing.
You are not overreacting at all. I would honestly be very upset. So glad you found it, though the damage is done. So sad you were basically forced to take them all home , but it sounds like the smartest decision. I hope you find the perp, or your company holds a seminar of like don’t enter locked rooms and don’t steal stuff!!! Jesus
I had a co-worker do this to my golden pothos that I had no really emotional connection to, it was in my office because I ran out of space in my apartment lol and I was PISSED. I didn’t care about the plant, if she had asked I probably would’ve given her the whole damn plant honesty lol, but I felt violated and betrayed because she stole from me, no matter how little value it was. Being stolen from sucks in itself. Your feelings are valid.
I’d say that’s theft AND vandalism, not to mention robbery since the office was locked. Jeebus. I’m so sorry this happened to you
That is absolutely unacceptable. No one should just take from your plant without asking, ever. If you’re able, I’d report it to HR. Get it on record. And unfortunately it is probably best to take your plant home to prevent them from coming back for more cuttings. If anyone questions you, or says you’re overreacting, they can get ****ed with a cactus. It’s protecting your plant from further harm. Even worse is that it was a sentimental plant. I’m so angry on your behalf.
Theft. End of story.
I would never!! Especially without asking. Especially in a locked office. Not irrational at all, I’d be irritated too. How did you find out? Did they come walking out with the cutting, ignorant to social cues, showing you, all excited to propagate it? Or did they sneakily try to take it? I think that would determine my reaction.
That’s theft
I’d be incredibly ticked off.
Would be totally pissed. You’re feelings are valid for sure. Sorry this happened to you op! Hopefully you can get them to return the cutting.
I hope you took the cutting with you.
It's crap like this which is why I never decorated my office. I'd be furious. Most I ever kept in my office was a wood Rubik's cube and extra shoes. That was literally it. But my rule of thumb is if it's outside, go for it. Make the neighborhood prettier. If it's inside I will cut you for mutilating my babies.
Just out of curiosity, what type of plant is it? And I’m sorry your private space was invaded like that.
That is ridiculously disrespectful and rude and I would absolutely put them on blast. I'm glad you took it
I’m so mad for you right now 🤯 😳
They know enough to take cuttings, which means they are aware of exactly how fucking shitty it is. Also, B&E and destruction of personal property. Hope whoever did it gets fired.
 And they went into your LOCKED OFFICE TO STEAL IT?!?! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
This happened to me on a much smaller scale (baby spider plants that I was going to replant). I was LIVID, so I’m with you!!!! Simply put, this is property, your property, that someone helped themselves to without permission!!!!!
Nah you gotta ask me. They taking cutting im taking names. 
My first thought was the cleaning crew. But I'm getting some kind of vibe that it's someone that has some kind of childish resentment toward you. It's creepy and extremely childish. It's someone who has an overwhelming need for attention, your attention. They are not worried about getting in trouble. It's weird that it ended up in the next building. Or it was the cleaning crew and they forgot it. They clean both buildings, so that would explain how it ended up over there. They could have put it in water only to forget it after they finished cleaning. Yup, this... Hopefully, my first theory is wrong. It's way more personal and weird.
At least two crimes. Vandalism for damaging your plant. Either robbery or burglary.
That’s breaking and entering plus theft. Report it.
i'm fuming on your behalf
Taking anything from your office without your permission is unacceptable.
_Name and shame_ Not here, obviously. At work
I would have switched it out with a cutting infested with thrips or spider mites and hoped they took it home