People at work ruining potlucks!

There is always that one fucking' cheapo at every work related potluck/holiday lunch that brings fuckin' store bought chips and dip, or a liter of some generic shit soda, a bag of mixed Hershey's, or cookies from the grocery store bakery, or some overpriced meat and cheese tray from the deli. I can't stand that shit. A potluck is supposed to be HOMEMADE, and brought in. Crock pot foods, casseroles, and desserts baked at home! If you're just going to bring shit from Instacart that you HAVE DELIVERED that day, why even come? Just call in sick or don't partake in it! We could get our own shit from the store!

"I don't cook!" You don't cook?? What the fuck does that even mean? Who doesn't cook? How d you live? What do you eat at home? You eat out every goddamn meal? Someone else cooks for you? You just eat junk-food like the trash you bring to the Thanksgiving potluck? It's the same people every year, or they think they are REALLY going all out if they bring a tub of warmed over potato salad or macaronic salad with a giant plastic spoon for all to dig into!

Can't even whip together some fucking potato salad at home? It isn't even that hard!

No one else agrees with me at work, and says they like all of it, and that it is "nice" that someone brings drink. Yeah, I mean...bring drinks, but don't JUST bring a liter of Pepsi or Root Beer! Don't bring Fritos Bean Dip and corn chips with a small container of Pace Salsa from home! Don't bring a bag of Chips Ahoys! Are you for real???

I feel like people can make ONE damn dish at home the night before or early before work to bring, a FEW times a year that we have the office potlucks! We do them for Easter, Christmas, and Thanksgiving, and then once in the summer for a taco bar....and the same people don't bring shit to that either!

At least the lady is gone who used to bring a box of KFC or store deli chicken every damn time! People dived into that crap too, and gobbled it up! Thanking her!

I can't wrap my head around it. To me, it is totally rude, lazy, incompetent, disengaged, and shows lack of etiquette!

Then to see them, piling up their plate with homemade food that other people brought, and the ham I spent HOURS preparing in my oven and carefully brought in here EARLY, put in a crock pot I also dragged in to keep it warm....and then they plop a bag of Ruffles and some Fritos Ranch Dip on the table? Didn't even open it?

I've brought this up to our supervisor AND our Director but neither of them seem to care, and said "People bring what they can, not everyone is into preparing meals, or has the time, space or ability. You are not required to eat anything that you don't like."

That isn't the point! At all! THOSE people STILL eat the GOOD stuff that others bring in! I watch these people every day, go out for every lunch, bring in McDonald's, Taco Bell, Burger King, order burritos and sandwiches and Panda Express...it is UNREAL...how can they live this way? And when our leaders said they don't have the "ability" I assume they meant financial, but they spent MORE on all that delivery and fast-food!! And if by "ability" they meant physical, well, that's still not everyone else's problem...and if that is the case, then, they shouldn't participate! They can stay in their cubicle for lunch and go get their take-out!

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Samantha Work November 13, 2024 at 3:53 pm 1 2