AIBU to refuse to buy a colleague's lunch?

[BadElsa]

Heading out of the office for lunch break and a colleague asks if I can pick up lunch for them. I joked and refused. Feel like a bitch but don’t regret it. It always gets out of hand. The order gets convoluted ie “something with chicken..... except no mayo and I hate avocado and white bread only, oh and a packet of crisps pickled onion flavour if they have it, oh and a cappuccino with soy milk and three sugars” then another colleague says “I can you get me a twix” which means a different shop. By the time you’ve finished your whole lunch break is running errands and you have to juggle 4 lunches and a tray of bloody bespoke coffees! AIBU or is it just rude to expect a colleague to do this?

I say I am going to x, anyone want anything.
If they want something from another shop it's tuff.
Also, I take their money before I go 😉

On the plus side, I only ask my team and there are like 6 of us so not often I'm asked.

I would just try to sneak out unnoticed! 😣

That sounds really annoying! I was in a sandwich shop a while back at lunchtime and the person in front of me ordered six different sandwiches with lots of special instructions for each one, it was frustrating to be the person behind someone ordering six different complicated items! I don't why that is? If six separate people had been in front of me ordering a sandwich each I wouldn't have been bothered but one person ordering half a dozen sandwiches really grated on me for some reason.

I've got done by Janice too...more than once

I do think this is petty as I dont mind offering to get lunch for particular colleagues who do the same for me - sometimes its just a nice thing to do which includes occasionally paying for a few peoples lunches too (this is reciprocal). However this is based on fact that nobody takes the piss. We have noticed a senior manager getting individuals to get her lunch and then realising she has forgotten her purse once they come back with the goods. Someone put her in her place the last time she made a request and said sorry, but you still owe me for the last time and you get paid more than me. Deathly silence. So embarassing

Oh and I refuse to cater for fussy vegan, bread massaged by a rescued ape types in my own home much less at lunch time in the office

We don't offer to make hot drinks, they just get made every 40 minutes or by whoever is closest to the kettle at the time. There's a list above the kettle of what everybody drinks although it's all pretty simple anyway. I tend to bring lunch to work but if I do need to go out I tend to wait until others have gone first. I'll pick up a packet of crisps for a colleague or a sandwich if it's from the same place I'm going to though.

I just started a new job and just told my team on the first day that I didn't like anyone else making my hot drinks so (trust issues) so not to be offended if I didn't offer to make theirs as usually doesn't occur to me. Job done. Everyone happy.

Ha ha a fluffer is certainly not a sandwich buyer. They work in adult films to "get things going".

I understand that in certain parts of the acting business there are people known as fluffers. Given a choice, I'd rather fetch sandwiches.

You mean runners. Definitely different from a fluffer

YANBU. Tell them, like many other working women, that you have at least a dozen errands to run. I used to do that whilst eating my lunch on the hoof. Not hygienic, but needs must. I use the 8 hour carex gel in Boots. Sure it’s saves me a few lurgies going round the office😉.

I’m with you on this. I used to get landed with lunch orders at Cranks’ takeaway in my first job and after about the third time I refused because the restaurant compounded things by always mixing the order up.