Working man's Twitter story about office lunch thief goes mega-viral — and it's absolutely hilarious

There's nothing worse than opening the refrigerator to find the food that had occupied your mind all day is no longer there. What's worse is when it happens at the office.

But one man's story about an office lunch thief has gone mega-viral — and it's absolutely hilarious. The story was so popular, in fact, that it garnered the attention of actors and play directors.

Here's the story:

Co-worker got his lunch stolen and they’ve agreed to let him watch the security camera tape. This is the most excited I’ve ever been at any job ever. Ever.

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 29, 2018

The lunch in question was shrimp fried rice which means this escalates from a misdemeanor to felony no doubt

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 29, 2018

Case facts:
Lunch was in fridge for less than an hour before it vanished. No shrimp smell remnants in the microwave or kitchen area. This was a professional hit no doubt

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 29, 2018

So the man who’s lunch was stolen sits across from me. The person who stole his lunch sits RIGHT NEXT TO ME! She left for the day before the investigation started

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani)

March 29, 2018

According to the video, this psychopath DIDNT EVEN EAT THE FOOD. She took it out of the fridge and threw and buried it in the trash

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani)

March 29, 2018

Her motives remain completely unknown. In lieu of what he saw on the tape he has decided to not to press the matter anymore. I can’t say I blame him. We don’t know what this women’s fully capable of

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 29, 2018

Points to clarify: he bought the shrimp fried rice around 11:30am (carry out) and put it in the fridge to chill until he takes lunch at noon. So she had exactly a 30min window of time to do what she did. There was no intention of microwaving the food

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 30, 2018

Update: Ok so when dude watched the video with HR they asked “what do you want to do about it?” he told them he was solely interested in who did it and that he didn’t want to be responsible for someone getting fired

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 30, 2018

After charges were dropped, HR sent a company wide email about not stealing people’s lunches. She is scheduled to arrive at work in 20min. My blood is on cocaine

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 30, 2018

I can’t move. I simply cannot move, anything could happen right now

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 30, 2018

!!!! After seeing the HR email she says out loud “woah. Someone stole a lunch? Who would do something like that?” !!! I may have to run out of this room

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 30, 2018

After she said that, shrimp guy responds “well yea it’s not ok to throw someone’s food away” we’re all about to start screaming

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 30, 2018

She has simultaneously denied her involvement AND called the guy who saved her job a snitch!!!!!!!!!

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 30, 2018

Dude just sighed and went back to work after she said what she said. She looks frightwningly calm

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 30, 2018

I’ll keep updating if anything else occurs but all I can say is that EVERYONE in the office from the janitor to the founder knows what she did. She now carries an invisible scarlet letter

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 30, 2018

This is real. This is happening. We know who did it but we don’t know why. It’s a post production company so we’re in fact open today. She’s been sitting 3ft from me this whole time

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 30, 2018

Unbeknownst to the guy and the woman, I just ordered 3 shrimp fried rice plates for lunch and will be hand delivering them

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 30, 2018

She took the fried rice from me with a big smile on her face. She’s eating it and loving it. This is utter ruthlessness

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 30, 2018

“I LOVE shrimp fried rice” - the thief

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 30, 2018

I wish I could close this up with a neat little bow, but, it appears that we may never know why she did it. Maybe she doesn’t know she did it. Either way I’m now forced to work 40hrs a week next to a cold blooded individual

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 30, 2018

Toscani's tweets received more than 1 million "likes" and hundreds of thousands of comments and retweets.

The story even garnered rave reviews from a "The Mindy Project" actor and Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is best-known for writing the hit Broadway play "Hamilton."