Office rage is violent, irrational and overwhelming, and it can be set off by the smallest thing. If someone just reached over and took a biscuit from your desk, that would be understandable, commonplace even, if a breach of the stricter rules of etiquette.
To go into your drawer and root around is less permissible, but hell, they are probably hungry right? So if there's an open packet they could take one, and maybe leave a note explaining how they fell prey to the basic level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs and were therefore unable to adhere to social conventions, which come way higher up.
But to go into your drawer, open the packet, take three cookies and then just leave the box open so that all the other cookies go stale - well that really takes the biscuit.
The main thing is not to let it invade your inner tranquility, because this is not important. It really isn't anything that you need to worry about - you're bigger than that. Honestly, you are.
If they'd just asked, you would have been happy to share, because that's the kind of maganamous, empathetic and most of all - calm - person you are.
Forget about the cookies. Seriously.
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