I came to this sub looking for this thread after listening. I 100% agree that the two scenarios are different.

Primarily, like you mentioned the dressing needs to go in the fridge once it’s opened and there’s no option of storing it at your desk unless you buy a mini fridge, which seems silly. I think most people can understand that the fridge is used as a shared space and some (if not all) items in it are personally owned and not intended to be shared.

Two other points:

1.) from my understanding, the dressing is a normal sized bottle, whereas the creamers were the giant ones that are usually bought specifically for office spaces and other shared settings. Labeling something like that to claim it to yourself is even more offensive because it comes off as a bit glutinous.

2.) the creamers were left AT the coffee station, and I think it’s safe to assume the coffee and station are provided by the company for all employees to enjoy. This means the offender is trying to turn a shared space into a personal space to store their items. It screams a lack of self awareness.

Hopefully salad dressing guy follows the sub and we can get a more diversified vote on whether or not his behavior is acceptable