Workers Rant About the Offensive Nature of Workplace Pizza Parties

Let's get one thing straight: no one here is hating on pizza. Who doesn't love pizza (besides lactose intolerant people)? When workers groan and roll their eyes and send angry DMs to each other as soon as the 'pizza party' invite appears in their inboxes, the rage has nothing to do with the pizza itself. It's about what the pizza represents. Imagine if instead of paying rent, you handed a pizza to your landlord with a little note that said "just a little token of my appreciation for the housing!" As hilarious as that would be, your ass would be evicted faster than you could spell 'pizza.' So why are employers allowed to patronize us like this in lieu of an adequate salary?

Posted by Mel Dawn

“I didn't realise how offensive a ‘pizza party’ was until it happened to me..” Posted by u/DifficultCurrent7

The comment section

“See trickle down economics really does work” said u/potsticker17.

“At one point that was called Horse and Sparrow Economics. 'If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.”" said u/Orcus424.

“Yeah, I was in a position to attend the daily department heads & management meetings at a hospital for a time. This provided me access to some of the financials for the hospital as the hospital was ‘looking for ways to make cuts.’ It was brought up that over $750,000 a year was being spent on catered lunch meetings. Basically, the department heads and C Suite folks were having various lunch ‘meetings’ every single day and having them catered. 3/4 of a mil per year. Was it cut? Was it reduced? F-ck no it wasn't. Those cuts had to come at the expense of staffing/materials/equipment/quality of care. Every single day I wanted to punch each and every one of those people who constantly claimed patient care always came first while demonstrating the opposite.” said u/Protolictor.

“People at the c suite level and above only see the business as a way to extract money. Everything that doesn't provide to them is an expense that's in the way. They are parasites.” said u/Lazy-Jeweler3230.

“My old companies flavor was Jean Day ~vouchers~ which you could bring to your boss for ~permission~ to wear jeans on a day where there would be no clients and no upper management on the campus.” said u/Grizzledude8.

“Friday was jeans day IF you paid $1 to the ‘social fund’ or had a ‘reward voucher’. This was the same company that had a ‘holiday party’ that was 30 minutes off the phone in the meeting room with the Rankin-Bass Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer playing on the tv, and the only refreshments were candy raided from various desks and tap water. They just sucked at a human level.” said u/WillDupage.