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Management giving the scrap of their catered food after a meeting to plebs

143 replies

Peasantsuzzane · 26/09/2015 08:40

I find it very insulting that management give their leftovers to other people, only after a long meeting and thw food is all looking a bit tired.

This isn't a nice thing for them to do right?

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Oysterbabe · 26/09/2015 08:42

They do that at our place too.
I guess better than just throwing it away.

nonetcurtains · 26/09/2015 08:42

well no-one has to eat it do they? I wouldn't have an issue with it, better than binning good food surely?

CarrotVan · 26/09/2015 08:42

Huh? Totally normal for anyone having a catered meeting to bring leftovers back for the rest of the team. Not that we cater many meetings these days

megletthesecond · 26/09/2015 08:44

Same at our office. I don't touch buffets though .

recyclingbag · 26/09/2015 08:44

What do you think they should do with it? Bin it?

Or do you think the whole company should have catering if there's a meeting.

Aridane · 26/09/2015 08:44

It's done at our work - and we all appreciate this. As nonetcurtains says, better than throwing it away...

Alconleigh · 26/09/2015 08:46

Totally standard office behaviour. Leftovers always get put out at my place. It's about not wasting food, not patronising you with their perceived largesse with slightly curling sandwiches......

60sname · 26/09/2015 08:47

This has been common at several places I've worked - some of the leftovers are great! Presumably no-one is being forced to eat it/would go hungry if they didn't

definiteissues · 26/09/2015 08:47

Done at our place too.
I like it. Nobody says you have to eat it

FarFromAnyRoad · 26/09/2015 08:48

What - are they making you sit and beg for it? Do tricks? No - of course they're not. Get over yourself!

MuttonCadet · 26/09/2015 08:49

It's what we do at our place, although we make sure the food is put out as soon as we've finished so it's still fresh.
I'd rather nothing was left but catering companies always seem to over do it.
You don't have to eat it.
You just can't please some people.

HermioneWeasley · 26/09/2015 08:49

We do this too. But I make the plebs queue up and call me Ma'am and curtesy if they take anything

TeaAndNoSympathy · 26/09/2015 08:51

This has happened at every office I've ever worked in. Better that someone who might be hungry is given an opportunity to eat it than it's just chucked in the bin and wasted, surely? Not sure why you're getting irate at perfectly standard and reasonable behaviour.

Iagreewithmrsdevere · 26/09/2015 08:51

I always sneak some biscuits out of a meeting for my team, hope they don't hate me for it! -they have lots of other stuff to hate me for--

FruSirkaOla · 26/09/2015 08:52

In one company I worked for, when we hosted lunchtime meetings the outside catering was Danish open sandwiches, which were delicious. Any leftovers were put in the kitchen for the rest of us - there would be a scrum at the kitchen door and the leftovers were probably cleared in a couple of minutes!

Why waste good food?

ripeningapples · 26/09/2015 08:52

I thought it was called avoiding waste and sharing. Who thinks of you as a "pleb" btw? Do they actually lay it out and say "come plebs, your turn to feed on the leftovers". I very much doubt it.

I think you need to deal with why you think you are a pleb because I doubt anybody else does.

OneDay103 · 26/09/2015 08:53

Are they forcing you to eat it? No. So quit being so miserable, it's done in most places. Would you rather then throw it away?

GeraldineFangedVagine · 26/09/2015 08:53

Some really senior people in my work place organised a lovely catered spread for one of my managers a few weeks ago as a leaving party, she went to the party and told them exactly what she thought of them and to basically stick their sandwhiches up their arse. We therefore, got the whole spread, it was delicious! Like a pack of ravenous hyeanas in the coffee room that day Grin

gobbynorthernbird · 26/09/2015 08:54

YANBU. If there is a meeting then people who don't attend and get the food should, at the very least, be able to order pizza that your firm pays for. It's really unfair otherwise.

viciousknid · 26/09/2015 08:55

so don't eat it

Preminstreltension · 26/09/2015 08:56

Our plebs sit outside the room whining and scratching at the door while we're finishing. It's only kind to let them have a few bits.

YAB ridiculous.

ClashCityRocker · 26/09/2015 08:57

Oh I love catered meeting leftovers.

If I'm in a catered meeting, I normally politely nibble a wrap and a few grapes. When they've gone, it all goes into the office kitchen and I can rip into the cake that I secretly wanted but didn't trust myself to eat without making a mess of myself.

ptumbi · 26/09/2015 08:58

Um, you don't work, do you gobby? You really think that when the General Manager comes for a lunch meeting with shareholders/Governers etc, the company should pay for pizza for everyone who works there as well?

What if they go out for lunch? SHould the entire staff go too?

wonkylegs · 26/09/2015 08:58

What a weird attitude OP - this is perfectly normal and not in anyway patronising. We used to have monthly training meetings and leftover caterering was popped into the kitchen for the rest of the staff to share....which was the secretaries and directors. Do you have other problems with management that led you to jump to such a weird overreaction.

nooka · 26/09/2015 08:58

Why on earth is it unfair? I had a freebie lunch today as our board was meeting, and as usual there was some left over food. Board members had to sit through a long and boring meeting for their lunch, I just worked my normal day (with a break for lunch if I'd felt like taking it).

I wasn't insulted in any way. Sure I only got what wasn't eaten and it was a little cool, but it was a freebie. What's not to like?