AIBU to say "JUST EAT THE FU***NG CHEESE THEN!"

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Slightly dramatic title but honestly, my colleague is grating on me.

She is a vegetarian and every January she takes part in Veganuary.

We receive several photos and updates on what she is making for dinner/lunch etc each day and she talks quite a lot about it. I get it, when people are on diets they act the same I guess.

What is really boiling my piss, is that everything I bring to lunch she comments on.

Today is a cheese salad

"OMG I really miss cheese, I so wish I could eat cheese, this is so triggering" (triggering part is said light heartedly.

Yesterday I had a yoghurt and the conversation goes the same way.

Just eat the fucking cheese, why are you depriving yourself so much, for what? Veganuary? Is it worth it?

I just don't get why people do these things and then bitch about it every day. If you want it, have it. Life is too short!

Bingo! Best reply yet. So next time just tell her she's beginning to grate on you. And other dairy-related puns. Butter her up and milk it for all it's worth. Don't forget to call her "honey" (even better "hun" since she uses the word "triggering").

reply to the WhatsApp with - "can we have two WhatsApp groups, one for emergency work communication and an optional one for social stuff shit that no one is interested in

Bring her irresistible treat like and offer her, just for her, with “are you sure you don’t want one? Just one won’t hurt”. Sabotage her diet and be done with it - if she can’t do it, she might as will give up.

Tell her that vegan cheese exists.

Also, bring in an awesome cheese board with crackers for your next lunchbreak 😉

Tell her there are people starving around the world, and isn't she lucky she has such choices.

I did!!! People this irritating need the full works.

be concerned. Very worried about her. Be clear she’s giving off “fucking mental” vibes. But do it in a more polite and professional manner than calling her fucking mental.

Tbh she's probably just making conversation.....she won't really care that much it sounds like the sort of inane chat that goes on around my workplace. Daily topics will be played on repeat which are.

What time are you in till ?

What have got ? << squints towards food smells >>

Who else is in ?

I can't wait to finish already.

Other topics will be crap we're watching on TV, the trauma of giving up alcohol / cigarettes. And nobody in my workplace has done veganuary that I'm aware of but I can guarantee if they did it would be thrown into the bucket of workplace chat.

She won't really be that bothered. But it's safe, workplace chat to have a laugh about. And you're massively over thinking it and weird to be so bothered about it.

I love that you used 'grating on me'!

I'm not sure she'd give Edam

It's not, it's horrible stuff.

Vegan is acceptable is it hell it’s bloody vile snd I’ve tried loads of them.

Bring in a 5 course cheese platter with grapes, vino, chutneys, crackers... cheesecake for pudding... cheese twists for snacks... trigger the lactose out of her....
OOOO hot chocolate in this weather! Lovely.

"You can eat cheese/yoghurt, you've chosen not to!"

Say sorry I am not taking part in this and walk away.

Just tell her to fuck right off. Why on earth are you seeing her ridiculous photos of what she's eating/not eating. She sounds a complete PITA.

Take in cheesecake, cream cakes, all-butter mince pies, cheese straws, baklava, chocolate, fudge etc

That would wind me up too. That, and people who insist that their dog is a committed vegetarian/vegan... I know two of these folk. Yeah right - and the only mice your cat ever eats are ones it's lifted from the sweetie shop. 🙄😉

I think veganuary should be held in a different month. We should all band together as a nation to munch through the massive reduced price cheese mountain which is in the shops at this time of year. Prevent food waste and all that,

Suffering to be more saintly about food than you are and telling you about it is an anti-social trait.

Personal choice I know but as a non dairy household ( allergy reasons ) we’ve tried a lot and some really aren't bad!

It's really annoying when people comment about what you're eating at work.
Like someone just seems to loom over you 'ooh, what's that. It looks nice' or 'oh, that looks massive. I don't know where you put it'. Or 'oh, you're still having lunch?'. 'oooh, I wish I could eat that. It would make me so bloated' etc etc. I used to find it so grating!

It's like, why do you care what I eat or I think I care about your diet or self imposed weeks long veganism?

You never ever hear of people fasting for religious reasons ogling people's food and talking about it being 'triggering'.

Just buy a big block of economy cheddar and leave it on her desk on 30th January. With a heart on a post it. 🤣

I absolutely love Leena Norms idea of 'tag-team vegan': you and a friend decide to be vegan on every other day and together you make up 1 full time vegan.

Genius.

I hate anyone ever commenting on what i eat, I leave them to it they can leave me to it, next thing she'll be pocking it with her finger and shoving her nose in it for a sniff.
She would drive me crazy YANBU. I would deliberately take a plateful of meat in daily until she stopped commenting.

The photos & updates would piss me right off.
I used to have a really irritating colleague who insisted in having her desk in the kitchen, rather than the office the previous colleague had worked in as it had skylight windows & better light. She would then proceed to complain non-stop about everyone eating their lunch in there and how awful it smelt/looked - used to drive me potty. Was so happy when she left!

“What’s that smell? Is there a martyr burning in here?”

Nice pun with “grating” OP! YANBU.