The Devil eats cheeseburgers. My hungry supervisor made me give her my lunch.
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Anonymous
| WTF is this? I got back to my desk with my lunch and my supervisor pokes her head in and asks, mmmm what smells so good? I show her my cheeseburger and fries I just got and was about to eat for MY lunch! She says, oh can I have that, I’m starving and I don’t have time to wait in the grill line. Do you mind? So I said sure and left to get another lunch. Never bringing food to my desk again (except when she’s on vacation). It was so weird, the nerve of her and my inability to say no since she’s my boss. What is this behavior? Should I tell HR? Look for a new job? |
Anonymous
Why did you give her your lunch if you didn’t want to? You could have just said no? |
Anonymous
| Look for a new job now! |
Anonymous
Fear of retaliation. She may have a point… she doesn’t have time to get lunch and I obviously do. It was so unexpected. |
Anonymous
| Just silently eat the cheeseburger in front of her while maintaining eye contact the entire time, then you’re the alpha. |
Anonymous
| Maybe she thinks you are friends. If My supervisor is going was having a day with a tight schedule AND I had the time to buy another I would let it slide. But I’m also in an office where if someone is going out they will ask for orders |
Anonymous
+1 I had a boss do something similar (asked me if I’d go out and grab him coffee). He was a great person and boss and was completely swamped. I didn’t even give it a second thought. If I had just arrived with fresh coffee I’d given it to him too. |
Anonymous
| I could see this with a work friend. Do you consider boss a friend? |
Anonymous
She didnt demand your food, she asked, and you agreed to do it. You could have said no. You said yes and now are mad at your own choice. |
Anonymous
| Go tell HR you’re a doormat and they should start looking to replace you. |
Anonymous
the hangry boss found the thread |
Anonymous
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This is insane lol and no normal person would ever ask this of a work friend. You might OFFER it to a work friend, but asking would be crazy! You can’t ask for someone else’s lunch!
OP I would have said no, but I would also look for another job. At most I would have offered to go get them a lunch or teach them about phones and Uber eats. |
Anonymous
| This should be reported to HR. This behavior poses risk to the company and needs to be addressed. |
Anonymous
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If you’re generally friendly with her I’d have no problem doing something like this, but it wouldn’t have occurred to me to make a worried post about it in that case. And even then I’d never do it again if she didn’t offer to pay for the burger.
If your primary motivation was fear, you need to look at if it was justified or just your personality. In the first case, get a new job; in the second, get a therapist. |
Anonymous
| Did she at least reimburse you? |