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[shadowkat]

Management: To reward you all for coming in today, coffee and donuts in the kitchen.

Me: how exactly is this an reward? Can't bloody well have either, can I? (well not without getting a bad case of the trots and shakes and jitters...at any rate).

Sigh.

Management: Leaving you with this quote -"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and
let each new year find you a better person. ~Benjamin Franklin"

Co-worker: Vices? What Vices?

Me: Coffee and Donuts.

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

You would think if they want to reward everyone, they would check around to see who can eat what. I don't imagine the diabetics would be thrilled with the doughnuts either.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

But that would require work.

People are incredibly lazy and irritated at dealing with other's food ailements. That is until they discover they have one. Then everything changes.

The only thing I've seen people cater to in office, social, and church-related activities is "vegan" and "vegetarian" - which never made sense to me, considering that's initially a "philosophical choice" (after the first three years - it ceases to be one - you will get sick - so it becomes a biological choice), while diabetes, gluten-intolerance, lactose intolerance, and various allergic reactions aren't philosophical or ideological or religious choices, they are physical ones - we eat these things? They kill us or make us really really ill. Of course it is a whole lot easier to cater to a vegetarian than a ceilac.
Meat isn't put in everything the way flour is.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could find out who is actually calling in the orders for these sorts of things and make some suggestions (because I'll admit I wouldn't know what to get... I ordered a vegan pumpkin pie for my brother and it turned out to be a labeling error, the pie actually contained both milk and eggs...).

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

That only works when you are ordering food and you know everyone's issues. This is a boss who decided to bring donuts and coffee to work - and was oblivious to my dietary situation. People forget gluten-intolerance or celiac disease because it doesn't register. I've told my bosses numerous times, they don't remember, but my work colleagues do because I can't go out to lunch with them most of the time and have turned down cupcakes and cookies.

Did have one boss who asked me and then made a point to bring me an individual fruit cup every time he brought donuts and cinnamin buns for everyone else - but only because he brought them literally every Friday.
And he felt guilty that I couldn't eat any of it and it was literally right by my desk.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm sorry... because yes, it does depend upon someone taking the time to remember individual needs (instead of just their own convenience).