He ate team lunch

[BertieBott]

I work in a large call centre type of place and instead of paying us properly, every now and then they give us treats . Eg. We met out target this month, a slice of pizza for Everyone and boxes will be delivered to the team leaders desks for distribution.

So, our team of 12 decided to do a ‘world food day’ for lunch. E.g someone from Spain brought paella, a Cornish pastie etc.

Obviously we only brought enough for ourselves. It was on one of our desks at lunch time. A lunchbox of Hungarian stew, some rice etc, obviously lunchboxes from home.

Normally when the company lays on a spread they make a big song and dance about it e.g. in celebration of out ten year anniversary doughnuts for all, and they hire someone to lay it out all fancy. This was lunchboxes on a desk.

We are in an open plan office of over 100. We all started helping ourselves buffet style. One cf manager of our department came over to help herself . And then two randoms also came over. No one knew who they were and thought maybe someone asked them over. No one said anything, there was plenty to go round and we had a lovely lunch.

Now one of the two randoms sent a group email to our team ‘It should have been made more clear that this was just for your team and not everyone was free to join. You made me embarrassed and I’m sure many others too.’

We’ve just ignored the message.

1. Whenever the company lays on a spread they make a big song and dance about it.

1. It was food on someone’s desk, not a communal area.

1. The only people taking food were people from that ‘island’ of 12 desks. No one else.

1. It was obviously mismatched home serving containers and homemade food.

5 there was Enough for 10 or so. Not 100 fucking people in the whole office?

Aibu to think this person was an idiot.

Were we unreasonable to not have a banner up saying ‘IT team only’ or whatever, instead of assuming it’s obviously to anyone with eyes and a brain?

I think some of the replies must be from people who haven’t worked in Teams in large offices. It’s perfectly normal to do ‘Team’ lunches and celebrations. Everyone knows who is in which Team. Clearly the food was ‘Team’ sized and laid out, not ‘Entire Office’ and laid out accordingly. Of course it’s not ‘unfriendly’ or ‘mean’ in the exact same way that if you have a family picnic you don’t expect some random to walk up and start helping themselves.

Reply ‘I am sorry you are embarrassed about helping yourself to our Team lunch’.

Nicely PA😂. The person is a giant tit.

Email a reply where everyone is copied in -

"Thank you for your email.

To clarify, if a range of mismatched lunches are laid out, not in a communal area, it is best to assume this is not provided by the company and therefore preferable not to eat any without being offered.

It is embarrassing to eat someone's lunch without so much as a by your leave.

Your apology is accepted."

It's obvious that they didn't apologise, but if you accept their non existent apology then they can't come back and point out that they didn't apologise without looking even worse.

He made a mistake. Whoever pulled him up on it (which probably wasn't really necessary after this one-off event anyway) must have gone OTT on the telling off, and made a fool of him.

How do you divvy up a Cornish pasty anyway?

nannyCrumb must know the OP well to be able to comment on her salary.

4) please use some common sense, if you do not have any then please ask someone who does.

Loving this!

It sounds as if he is getting his retaliation in first!

I thought this was going to be a story about someone's dog

Me too! (not mine)

Who pissed in your cornflakes nannycrumb?