WWND?

asilsjf

I have a new co-worker (meaning I don't know her well, I can remember her first name), meaning we're not close.

 Her alarm on her phone was going off (loudly) for ~10 minutes, so I eventually dug through her purse and turned the thing off.  I left her a note telling her I did it, so she knows who wen through her purse.

Was that okay?  Would you have just let it go?  I don't like to dig through other people's things.

schoolsoutbride

If it wasn't stopping, I would.  

Pesky

schoolsoutbride:

If it wasn't stopping, I would.  

Ditto.  Once you leave an alarm on in a work area with a bunch of people and walk away, your expectations of total privacy go out the window.

ondrea

I would never go into someone's purse that I don't know.  IMO - I don't think that it was appropriate regardless of the noise.

moomeek

I have done this many times. CW was fine with it. 

pixy_stix

I probably wouldn't have even left a note.

WonderRed

I've done it before when a phone keeps going  off in the courtroom and the owner is not there to turn it off and the judge is giving everyone the evil eye. (Attys & social workers drop their bags/purses off on the benches all the time then step out into the hall to talk to clients all the time). I probably would have done the same thing under your circumstances. I don't really consider it the same thing as going through someone's purse.

smilelari

I probably wouldn't have gone through the purse but I might have shoved the whole thing in a file cabinet

Sunflower22

smilelari:

I probably wouldn't have gone through the purse but I might have shoved the whole thing in a file cabinet

I probably would have done this. I wouldn't feel too comfortable going into someone else's purse. 

DruidPrincess

smilelari:

I probably wouldn't have gone through the purse but I might have shoved the whole thing in a file cabinet

This.  Purses are pretty sacred IMO, whether they are trumpeting forth noises of annoyance or not.