Ok, well it happened about a month or so ago. I work as a server/Busser at an upscale Senior Living community and had just finished making about 15 rolls of silverware I use in my section for that night as I was bussing. Otherwise it can get kinda crazy if you have to go running back to make rolls after each table leaves on top of everything else. I just put them away when the host comes to find me so we can start line up (the sous chef will explain the daily specials and such). Once we opened I come back to find the drawer I had put my rolls in partially open. I didn’t remember leaving it open at all and quickly realized what had happened, a dozen rolls had been taken. I was beyond angry but there wasn’t exactly time to do anything about it as residents were already coming in. I went ahead and served the residents their bread and water and went back to refill my water and to start questioning every coworker who could’ve had anything to do with my rolls disappearing. No one would admit to knowing anything. I questioned each of my coworkers the rest of the day to no avail. This has only happened once or twice before but when I get really angry I speak in a really low tone and very fluently if I’m not left angry beyond words. I also go very red so everyone could plainly see something wasn’t right. I’m usually a very energetic and bubbly person at work and always go out of my way to help everyone. That day I was nothing like my self. Another Busser at some point (also a good friend) pulled me aside and told me she knew where my rolls were and she would show me. She said she saw who took them but didn’t feel comfortable telling me because she didn’t want there to be a scene. She showed me where the rolls were and when I asked her if she could even just pass me a note with their name on it she said she wouldn’t. Fine. I was too upset to argue and just took the rolls back. The rest of the night went smoothly despite the very obvious scene that had already happened. I told that same Busser that I wouldn’t be doing anything outside of my job that night and to pass it on that I was unavailable to help until the person came forward. No one blamed me for it and everyone seemingly was as upset as I was at the thief but no one came forward. To this day they have never told me. I got into a big argument with that same Busser about how if she wouldn’t tell me I had no reason to believe it wasn’t her who stole them. I told her how stupid it was there had to be such a big ordeal over stolen silverware rolls. This whole thing was going to end our friendship. She was not going to get anymore favors from me unless she could prove her innocence or tell me who it was. She was mad at me for blaming her but didn’t budge. I bring in an electric sweeper for everyone to use since we are only provided nasty brooms to use and told her she wouldn’t be using it anymore and finished up my closing work and left. For the next few weeks we didn’t talk about anything asides from when we had to at work. I often saw her crying at work because of me. One of the servers came to me for an explanation, someone who hadn’t worked that day. I told her I felt like the Busser had betrayed me as a friend and I was hurt by her actions. It had led me to blame another person who I had been friends with and that really messed up our relationship. I said if she had just told me what had happened I never would’ve brought her name up and would’ve handled the situation myself. Because as it had to be, I ended up reporting the whole thing to my supervisor. I had said I felt like I couldn’t trust any of my coworkers including that one Busser who had been a good friend. My supervisor did uncover who it was but when I confronted them they treated the whole ordeal like a joke and wouldn’t take me seriously. I have since started talking to all of the above mentioned coworkers but some I am still on rocky terms with. It’s just so ridiculously stupid it had to even go that far. If the rolls has been switched and I had seen someone take her rolls instead I would’ve said something to my friend as well as that thief on the spot. That’s what real friends are supposed to do. tl;dr: a friend who is a Busser like myself saw someone steal my silverware rolls but wouldn’t say who. Took reporting to the supervisor to uncover the truth.