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

[Peasantsuzzane]

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?

I would be more annoyed that its generally a better quality of food than they provide normally.

Most places people are talking about don't provide food, this is only for meetings/training etc, so the only food it's better than is the food people are bringing in themselves....

As somebody in 'management', YABU to refer to people not in management as 'plebs'.

I love my work colleagues - no matter what their grade - bringing through the catering (well the fruit kebabs and mini cakes anyway).

YABU.

Mmmmm...free food...mmmmm

At a series of meetings I used to attend, it was always massively over-catered. The chief exec always encouraged me to take loads home for the kids. That was always the next day's packed lunch sorted

Christ on a crumpet

Just when I think I've seen it all with regards to people taking offence at the strangest things, we can now add 'free food' to the list?

Manager: "Would you like some of this food to save it going to waste?"

OP: "Fuck off boss. You're dead to me now."

Weird...

i'd rather go hungry

Then don't eat it. I hate seeing waste not do I have a chip on my shoulder and assume there is a condescending message in people trying to not waste food

worra you always make me laugh. Christ on a crumpet brilliant.
As regards the thread look at it this way, I live and work in an hotel and we eat what is left after dinner is served. Can't be bad, free food that guests are paying through the nose for.

Worra

Where's the OP gone?

And would it somehow be considered better that "Management" swept a whole load of perfectly edible food into the bin to stop the "plebs" from getting their sticky paws on it?

Either way, I call bollocks.

Where I work we don't normally have catering but when we do it is if the meeting/training needs it. Catering is not done on seniority of the people attending the meeting!

No one makes a huge fuss. Left over sarnies/wraps/fruit/cake gets put in the kitchen. People eat it if they want it. Senior management are just as likely to eat the leftovers.

I don't work in a very heirarchical environment.

I like a bit of free food!

To add another thought.
OP why don't you collect the food and take it to the homeless shelter, I'm damn sure it wouldn't go to waste there!

This also happens at my workplace and I hate it. Leftover food that's been sat sweating for hours after numerous people have mauled...no thanks!

But I'm also one of those people who won't eat a buffet unless I'm the first one there

Oh I love a few choice leftovers.

In fact if I'm organising a lunch for the board I always buy from my favourite deli. The board members have the appetite of elderly sparrows whereas the rest of us are more like demented vultures.

IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou
"Most places people are talking about don't provide food, this is only for meetings/training etc, so the only food it's better than is the food people are bringing in themselves...."

And I am talking about places with staff canteens and schools. hence the "I would be more annoyed"

No one forces anyone to eat the leftover food! You can just ignore it and get on with your job or you can scoff to your hearts content, it's a free world.

I'm just taken aback at what people get worked up about, really I am.

Thanks, MsVestibule.

Although I am half considering going on strike until I get free Domino's now.

sugar21
OP why don't you collect the food and take it to the homeless shelter

She would have to fight her way through the people that quite enjoy the food that has been left over

It's not about management distributing leftover food to the poor blebs. It's about not wasting food from a meeting by offering it to colleagues who were not in the meeting. Those colleagues could be junior, senior or on a par with those in the meeting. The only relevant status difference is the fact that they didn't happen to be in the meeting.

Catered meetings are common at all levels in the area I work in - I always buy extra good quality biscuits for volunteer coffee mornings as an example it's a small thank you and appreciation of what they do - sometimes if I have time I'll bake scones or cakes for these events
Other times we have working lunch
Not sure about the plebs comment - but the unwritten rule in our offices is that leftovers get put in communal kitchen for anyone not involved in the catered event which can be from CEO down

@Behooven

Coming back op?

Actually, we've spotted that the OP was a previously banned poster so they won't be coming back to the thread.

As things were already in full swing by the time we noticed, though, and as the thread didn't appear to be a goady or malicious one, we're letting it run.

Well I never.

Perks of the job getting the leftovers isn't it? It's always a bit hit and miss as to what you get but no-one forces you to eat it.

Our company leaves the leftovers out as well. It's put out as soon as possible so it's fresh, and the idea is that food isn't wasted.

It's not just for management meetings, quite a few different meetings are catered, and the food is always put out.

Everyone at all the offices I've ever worked at get very excited about a catered lunch, precisely because of the locusting opportunities it provides!