Called “greedy” at work

Your coworkers are ever so ready to make snarky rude comments, especially when they want what you are snacking on for themselves.

I'd be hungry again by 4pm too. The greedy ones were those guarding the food so they could take it home.

I know..but it was funny and I agree. 😂

Same here
I don't like loads of food piled up or hot/cold food touching so I would rather make 2 trips or more
If people think I am greedy I don't much care

I mean it’s a bit excessive to go again x 3

I know. My post might not have been entirely serious.

Im one to go up a few times because I take very little each time. Greedy is the one that piles the plate with as much food as they can fit on it. Half the time the plate pilers don't eat it all.
Buffet food (assuming it's cold) should only be left out a max of 4 hours - considering this hasn't even been produced by caterers, and is unlikely to have been transported in the morning with temperature controlled packaging, the safest course was for it to be consumed quickly.

OP won’t be back. Rude to start a post and not bother replying.

I would call that greedy yes.

Oh FFS. The teeny tinies and fat phobes are definitely out in force here. People making up that OP had platefuls of food each time when she specified they weren’t full.

I don’t know about anyone else but when you’re having buffet style food, I think it’s quite common to have a few bits here and there, rather than a big plateful in one go and the going back for more is normal for a lot of people. And even if OP had had lots of food each time, so what? She might be pre menstrual with a bigger appetite than normal, she might have done lots of exercise that made her hungry. She might not have done anything that meant her appetite was different and just fancied what she had at that particular time, which was one day out of her whole life. And people are making assumptions about her based on that.

No, you weren’t greedy, OP. I agree with keeping an eye on it all in case you get any further comments. In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed what you had!!

You did nothing wrong, your colleague was mean and spiteful to call you out like that. She is the weird and inappropriate one, not you.

TBH I think you were being a bit over zealous! Once or twice to be up for more OK 3 or 4 times a little bit much really.I also think with COL as it is, people with kids should come first .It's hard to feed a family these days.

I don’t think you were greedy, and it’s definitely not acceptable to call work colleagues greedy.

In this situation, a greedy person would be the one who takes far more than their fair share before others have had the opportunity to have anything. Getting food once everyone has had plenty of time to eat and the food has been left out would strike me as finishing food off rather than binning it.

Who decides that families with kids would get leftovers? Surely everyone takes their own leftovers (not least to ensure you all get your own containers back!)

How bizarre! Why assume the people with kids get it, too… I have kids, but I’m not quite sure on the logic of why I or my children would be more deserving of food than any of my other colleagues…

You should ask tomorrow if you should organise a collection for the parents that are so poor and desperate they need to give their kids 5 hour old dry sandwiches that have been left out uncovered in a warm office 😂

These kids, are they starving or something?

I think we need more information, OP. What was the diameter of the plates? Was the bread thin, medium or thick sliced? Were the sandwiches cut into halves, quarters or eighths? Crusts cut off or left on? Were they sparsely or generously filled? Approximate diameter of the muffin? We really need to know these details before we can accurately pass judgment. 🤔

Having four servings of food is greed though.

Think we've all experienced the buffet police. Watching who is taking what or deterring people from eating too much so the watcher can take as much as possible home. I've come across people hiding stuff in cupboards or taking trays for 'the pensioners'

Greedy is hoovering things up before everyone else has had a chance

I agree, @Sdrena, but then if OP had already visited the buffet three times I can just about see folk tthinking it was time for someone else to have a go, regardless of how much was left

Of course if absolutely everyone else had had their chance and there was still stuff going to waste then that would be different, but this isn't clear from the first post

Jeezus., so maybe put a timer out and let everyone know to get their plate by, say, 2 o'clock then it's going in the garbage? Adults can decide for themselves if they want that egg sandwich at 4pm. Who cares?
Why judge anyone anyway?

Why though? The food was for staff, not anyone else, and there was lots left over. Greedy would have been if the OP had done this before the stage when things were left over.

Indeed, the usual mumsnet performative undereaters ("...one ritz with a bit of marmite on and I'm full!").

But they're convincingly out-voted in the poll, which is heartening.

Agreed. 4 quarters is two slices of bread, which makes a whole sandwich. If you factor in that op ate more than this and all of the other bits and pieces here and there, she certainly ate more than her fair share. I think people end up eating more than anybody else with all of the mini trips. I think it is is greedy, but I wouldn't say anything. I would think it was especially cheeky if somebody was eating the rest of a homemade cake that everyone had already had a slice of, which the maker was planning to wrap and take home. I think the context is very important, and I still don't buy the kids comment as being it, and not an exaggeration/fabrication to get people to agree. I don't know many people who would do that, so can't imagine the whole office were taking all of the food back of their kids (when op stated there was "so much left."

I couldn't give a stuff about how much people eat, but at a shared buffet, it is rude.

Why is eating a lot either 'normal' or 'healthy'? Four lots of food in one afternoon doesn't sound normal or healthy to me. Especially when it's sandwiches and flapjacks etc.