Something very fishy

It's been high drama here at the office this morning, and I am currently sitting next to a crime scene.

To start at the beginning, my friend and colleague over the partition has a little bowl on her desk with two fish in it. She only works part time, so on the days she doesn't work I feed the little fishes and say good morning and so on. Last Tuesday I went to feed my little friends and stopped because there was a huge pile of fish food in there - flakes of it resting all over their little play equipment and all over the bottom of the bowl, and the water was going all murky. I thought that was odd because I knew my colleague wouldn't have done it the day before. Things appeared quite normal on Wednesday, except the water was murkier. Then on Thursday my colleague was in (so I don't feed them) but when she came in she got to her desk and said to me "did someone have an accident with the fish food?", because again food was everywhere. So I explained. So on Thursday night she put the food away in her drawer, out of harms way, or so we thought, but then on Friday (I actually worked from home so wasn't here for this), there was more food in there, and the culprit had obviously been through her desk drawer to find it.

At this stage we were mostly thinking that maybe there were kids coming in here after hours and they had done it.

So, on Friday my colleague wrote a nice little note pointing out how bad it was for fish to overfeed them, and taped it to the wall above the fish bowl, and also stuck a little note on her desk in front of the bowl, and locked her drawer. But this morning, when the first people arrived, there was her fish bowl chocked up with piles of bread, and the fish were dead!! Not only that, but someone has done the same thing to the other fish tank on this level, and also to the fish upstairs in the library.

At this point the whole thing has become a little disturbing, because in response to my colleagues note, it has clearly been malicious.

And so now we are all wondering who is getting around here after hours, going through people's drawers and deliberately killing fish. Our section manager is on the case, and actually took photos of the bowl this morning (I missed the real scene of the crime because I was in later this morning, so was my colleague, so I just arrived to an empty bowl). Building security is also checking records to see who came in over the weekend. The whole thing has escalated into a weird scenario and and it's disconcerting to know that someone with access around here thinks that's acceptable (or normal) behaviour.

But inbetween everyone's disgust there have been a lot of jokes today about crime scenes and detective procedures and fish.

The funny thing in all of this is that the person who has been placing CDs in my computer (I don't think I have shared on this blog some of the later ones - I got Britney Spears and that was an experience - I wasn't expecting great things but I listened one day when my iPod was flat and it was truly appalling - I am still recovering from her shocking song lyrics) came and fessed up so I wouldn't think it was connected to the weird fish killer. So that is one mystery solved.