Called “greedy” at work

Yes, I understand. But I’m saying that would be rude as hell, wrapping food up to take home before people who work there and brought the food had finished eating. Leftovers is one thing. I would definitelt stop contributing if cf people did this.

While food is there to be eaten, popping back three or four times for “a few sandwiches and other bits” is greed.

Buffets are rank anyway after the first hour or so and the food should have been thrown away not quaffed down after it had been sitting out in the warm, and certainly not been taken home to anyone’s kids.

Yum 😋 - lucky kids getting dried up sandwiches and snacks that had been sitting out all day at room temperature!

‘Excessive’ or ‘too much’ and ‘a lot’ aren’t synonymous.

The last is neutral. The former two are not.

Op may have eaten loads of food. I don’t necessarily think this implies excess. In the absence of it harming anyone, who is to say it’s excessive?

But I don’t think we’re going to agree on this as it’s clear eating more than strictly necessary is inextricably bound up with morality for many people!

Sounds like a normal healthy appetite to me, not greed. Also, I assume your actual work is pretty boring so the extra stimulation of a bite to eat would be welcome, hunger or no hunger.

I'd put the embarrassment behind me, but at the next workplace buffet I would pointedly avoid eating anything at all, and I'd respond to any smart remarks with a raised middle finger.

Why would someone’s child be more entitled to eat the work lunch than the people who actually work there?! Taking food home that’s left there at the end of the day is one thing but that’s usually to avoid waste. It’s not waste if it’s been eaten.

I only think it’s greedy when someone piles more than their shares worth on their plate before everyone has had a chance to go up, such as if 3 pizzas were ordered for a team of 6 and someone goes up and takes a whole one for example leaving the others short.

I'd question my job if my colleagues were upset over a bit of cold quiche and a sausage roll...

Think you missed my point lol

I agree it's not for the children but if they were that worried they could of took a bit and wrapped it up.

I think it's ridiculous tbh my old office buffets we took what we wanted then went to the pub no big deal

Are the co-workers so desperate to feed their starving kids that they need to take food that has been sitting out all day from their office pot-luck? 🤮
No shame in going up 2x, 3x, 4x, what ever. 🙄
Co-workers are bitches. Steer clear of them.

Your post

I’m struggling to understand the correlation between having kids and being more deserving of the sandwiches.

Because it’s not there for them to take home for their children!?

So a lot, excessive, abundance of food, any word really that means large amount or quantity? But greedy somehow isn’t the correct word?

You’re right that people do judge this sort of thing. I guess it’s maybe not the hidden judgment I’m surprised at (because we do have issues with food as a society) so much as posters on here insisting to op that, yes, objectively she was being excessive.

Because in the absence of other selfish behaviour it’s a rather illogical moral judgment at the end of the day. Why is eating a lot of food the same as too much food?

My post or the OP’s post? 😳

I think that the OP over-ate.

“How do you usually feed your kids?” Would come to mind.
Don’t cry, son. Roger is retiring next year. You can have a sandwich that’s been sitting out all afternoon and curling at the edges then. Just don’t bank on a stale flapjack. 🙄

I wrote similarly - then I found out it’s gluttonous - as in “glutton”.

We don’t know how much gluten was in the food the OP fed her face with four times.

This is such an insane post it has to be a pisstake 🤣🤣

A couple of buffet sandwiches could be two triangles so 1 slice of bread per trip.

@HamOnBethfabulous username!

I don't think you were being greedy at all and certainly didn't warrant the comments from your colleagues. The food was out and left out to be picked at and then any left would go home for employees children. I'd have picked if I was peckish and got the nibbles. There's cake here at the moment and I know others will just be cutting slices and slivers all afternoon with any left (who am I kidding) being munched for breakfast here in the morning. I certainly don't count how many visits my colleagues go to the kitchen and certainly wouldn't call or imply a greediness.

Tbh if they wanted to take some for their children why wouldn't you take a bit from the start and wrap it to keep it fresh especially with other peoples hands all over it. (Unfortunately not everyone washes their hands that would be my thinking anyway)

We have cold buffets at work once a week. Someone brings bread, someone else cheese, ham, vegetables etc. The food is left out for one hr in the morning. Then we each take home what we brought. If I don’t want to take it home I offer it to a colleague or bin it.

It wouldn’t enter our minds that one person (with kids) or just some people would get to take all leftovers. Weird.

Regarding washing hands there is a rule that we all wash and sanitize hands just before touching any food (sanitizer is next to the plates). I think most of us would anyway, it’s just common sense.

Exactly! Who even counts such a ridiculous thing? People who have eyes on bagging the leftovers.

@HamOnBeth heavens, I wouldnt even be watching the people going up for more food!! why would anyone do that? as for only the ones with kids getting food to go home?? what a bloody cheek when you have all contributed!!e

Well, as others have pointed out a ‘plate’ isn’t a standard measurement. I never put much on a plate at buffets but do tend to go back more frequently than others.

But let’s assume op has jammed on as much food as logistically possible.

I’d call it ‘a lot’.

Greed wouldn’t enter into it unless she was elbowing people aside to get to the flapjacks or chucking half of it in the bin.