Work pot luck

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I know this party set-up isn't your choice, but a PSA for others - if you're leadership and can't afford to host at your house, just have a potluck at the office or a local park. So strange to make your underlings bring food to your home.

I once was invited to a similar one - for a nonprofit where lower level employees were making under 50k per year. Sign up genius for literally everything, including napkins etc. We arrived and the host lived in a HUGE penthouse in Georgetown with a beautiful view of the Potomac. Went on about their art pieces. So so tacky, left such a bad taste.

So cheap!!

Seriously cheap! Reminds me of my first job out of college. My boss invited us to her McMansion. She actually circled her grocery receipt in red and divided among the number of attendees. None of us had enough cash + this was before Venmo.

Ooh we need a side thread for these cheap employers. It's the best part of this thread. I had a tone deaf boss too and he invited everyone to his boat in Annapolis. I was a poor worker and only used metro. I didn't have a car and wouldn't afford a taxi without missing a student loan payment.

Yes we do! My thought is employers shouldn't ask employees to do pot lucks. It is so cheap of them to do do.

[Anonymous]

The last work potluck I went to was 23 years ago. My first job, a local county planning office. When it came to the larger planning department potlock, my wise division chief quietly said to me don't overthink it, just get something prepared. And I did, a pasta salad from a supermarket. And she was right. The sheer amount of comments I heard from the larger department over they wouldn't eat this or that, or trust anything that was home cooked, or how so-and-so makes amazing cookies (which were only slice and bake premade cookie dough). There were people complaining about open bowls of chips because of all the fingers so the following year the department got mini bags.

Two years later I moved to a F500 and haven't had an office potlock since. Thankfully.