Non-confrontational employee exposes an office thief, crafting a glitter trap to call them out during the company meeting: ‘A little harmless embarrassment to solve the problem without getting HR involved'

Maybe it's just a pen, but they were HER pens, expensive ones at that. 

Office supplies can get expensive. There's a reason that most of us use the office printer to do our taxes, and we somehow end up with a house full of company-branded pens and notebooks. While it's one thing for employees to use equipment and supplies paid for by the company's deepest pockets, stealing from your coworker is just low. You should be supporting your fellow colleagues, and considering you likely make the same salary as your cubiclemates, thieving from the desk of a close comrade is some employee-on-employee crime that cannot be tolerated.

For this reason, it's important to call those freeloaders out, but for a non-confrontational personality, sometimes buying new packs of pens is easier than the confrontation, but not forever. As something of a non-confrontational individual myself, I'm personally quite proud of the office worker in this next story because they crafted a perfect workaround to a classic problem. I'd nearly quit my job before confronting a thieving coworker directly, but setting them up for some public humiliation is the perfect lighthearted middle ground for us non-confrontational types. Without getting HR or any managers involved in a stupid cubicle dispute, this worker figured out a way to catch a thief in real time: Glitter. 

Impossible to erase and as persistent as this office thief, glitter ink presented itself as the perfect Pink Panther-style trap for this employee. Surely, after getting caught with the infamous ink on their hands, there would be no more pens stolen from their neighbor's desk.