Checking my e-mail this morning, I found another e-mail or two from co-workers -- one of which was sent at "high priority," which I really didn't think the situation warranted, especially since it was the next morning already -- saying that "we normally keep leftovers for the staff." I e-mailed back saying that I knew that was normally the case, but there was just so much food and there was no room for it in the fridge despite the fact that an entire tin of chicken was already being refrigerated, so it would've spoiled before the morning and that's why I did what I did. I had no idea that people here would be so possessive of their leftovers to the point of letting them go bad rather than giving them away to people who could use them.

Like I said last night, it's kind of odd that something like this would make me feel guilty. I'm not trying to take food out of other people's mouths deliberately -- especially not my co-workers -- but I thought these were reasonable circumstances under which people would understand. Was what I did wrong?