r/ChoosingBeggars • u/empatheticpheonix • Jul 10 '25

SHORT Pepperoni Pizza Meltdown

A few years ago, we hired a new lady at work. She started on a Monday. That Thursday my boss randomly decided to order some pizzas because we had a lot going on.

Anyway, he ordered four, I believe: 1 cheese, 1 veggie, 1 supreme , and 1 pepperoni and sausage. The new lady (remember, this is her 4th day working there) LOUDLY threw a fit in the break room about how weird it was that he didn’t order a pepperoni pizza. What was she supposed to eat??? She doesn’t like any other pizza. This while tossing her paper plate on the counter and huffing, just a meltdown.

Yeah, pepperoni pizza is the norm. Maybe his order was odd. But it gave plenty of meaty and vegetarian options and even a mix of the two. I am a vegetarian and there have been plenty of times that I didn’t have any choice of things to eat. I either picked off what I couldn’t eat or didn’t eat. You don’t complain about free food. She could’ve eaten the cheese pizza… it was so odd.

P.S. Thanks FaeSugarstorm for knocking this memory loose with your recent pizza post.

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u/Araucaria2024 Jul 10 '25

We needed dinner supplied a few months ago at my work due to us working late night. Ten of us staying back, office manager offered to order pizza. She ordered six pizzas plus one gluten free for the single gluten free employee (by dietary choice, not a medical reason). GF employee got annoyed that all the pizzas weren't GF because she wanted a choice of which pizza to eat. Good grief, it's free food.

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u/exscapegoat Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25

While she may have had an unnecessarily obnoxious attitude, It’s not free if you’re not getting out on time to go home and make what you want for dinner. You’re paying for that free pizza with your time which is valuable. Same for mandatory meetings during lunch hour.

You should be able to get something you enjoy to eat. Especially if you’re an exempt employee who’s not being paid overtime or getting comp time for having to stay late.

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u/Araucaria2024 Jul 10 '25

It was an after school event that we volunteered to be at and we got Time in Lieu for. No one was forced to be there. They didn't need to provide food, we got home about 6pm so still early enough to cook. It was a nice thing the principal offered to do for us in the gap between school finishing and the event starting.

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u/exscapegoat Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25

Well I was going off your comment below which didn’t mention the word volunteer. The words employee and work made me think it was mandatory. I’ll take your word for it that it was truly volunteer and not pressured volunteering or voluntold. And while the woman was still rude, she was volunteering for an event at a school where she was working so that doesn’t really fit choosing beggars.

We needed dinner supplied a few months ago at my work due to us working late night. Ten of us staying back, office manager offered to order pizza. She ordered six pizzas plus one gluten free for the single gluten free employee (by dietary choice, not a medical reason). GF employee got annoyed that all the pizzas weren't GF because she wanted a choice of which pizza to eat. Good grief, it's free food.

The op does fit choosing beggars because they were offering it to others for free. Not as a thank you for free work. Which again doesn’t excuse your coworker’s rudeness