'Does she also send scathing texts to his hairdresser?': Successful side-hustle causes a stir in the workplace when a jealous wife finds out her husband eats lunch made by another woman

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Apr 14, 2024 12:00 AM EDT

There's nothing more delicious than a home-cooked meal after a long morning at work. Not only does your lunch break provide a reprise from the laborious load of the day,  but it also gives coworkers a chance to mingle, relax, and chow down on some decent grub. In the workplace in our next story, warehouse laborers live a spoiled life, enjoying home-cooked lunches from a fellow coworker who makes lunches in bulk and sells them to her buddies for $10 a pop. Could it be any better than that?

Not only do these employees forego the drama of cooking in the morning before work or meal-prepping 100 lunches on a sad Sunday afternoon, but they enjoy the yummy spoils of another person's kitchen troubles without the price tag or caloric intake of eating at a restaurant. But one employee's wife didn't see it that way. Threatened by the romantic implications of making her husband lunch, she sent scathing messages to the lunch lady, threatening to bring down her side hustle if she continued to sell her husband lunches. 

Fired up yet? Keep scrolling for the entire story of how one woman went way over the line in a desperate attempt to tighten her grip on her hungry husband's leash. 

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  • 01
    Posted by u/Every-Sun-4431 D AITA for continuing to make lunch for my coworker, even if his wife asked me not to? I(23F) have been working in the same place (warehousing) since I turned 18. It pays me well enough that I am actively saving to buy a house.
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    For the last 4 years, I have been making extra money by making, and selling, lunches to some of my coworkers. My food tastes better than anything we can get close by, and is also cheaper.
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    Now, I have to be very clear, these are coworkers, they are not friends, there is no work wife/work husband BS going on. I just sell them lunches, and we usually eat at the same time/place (break room).
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  • 04
    One of my coworkers (30sM) has gotten married earlier this year, but he still continued to buy lunches from me, which is normal, since most of my customers are also married.
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  • 05
    But earlier this week, I got a call from his wife, and she asked me (more like ordered me), to stop making her husband lunches. It was a weird conversation, but I just said that if she doesn't want him buying lunches from
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    me, she should tell him to stop asking me himself. Then I said a terse goodbye. I also sent a text to my coworker, telling him what happened, and asking him to tell his wife to never contact me again. He was apologetic, and assured me that he will be talking with her.
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    But, he didn't stop buying lunches from me, and I continued selling them to him. This lead to his wife sending me a scathing text, calling me a homewrecking blocked her. . I didn't reply, I just forewarded it to her husband and
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    He apologized to me again, told me that he talked with her, and said that he will still buy lunches from me if I was ok with it. I said sure, money is money.
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  • 09
    Then I was venting to my roommate, and she said that I was being an AH. It's not like he is my friend, and I could do without his $10 a day to help him save his marriage. So AITA?
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    EDIT: since a lot of people asked, I assume she got my number from his phone. We have a GC that I use to post weekly meal plans/receive orders, and that's the only reason my coworkers have my phone number.
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    EDIT 2: I have a permit to cook/distribute food from home, my kitchen is up to code (the only reason I have a roommate, so I could afford a house with a big kitchen and space for a separate fridge/freezer).
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    Additional_Flan_6594. 6 hr. ago ΝΤΑ Enthusiast [5] Your co-workers wife is unhinged. You aren't making her husband's lunch. You are selling food to anyone willing to buy it (by the way, you would verify with your job that it's ok for you to do that...
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    most businesses don't allow their emloyees to run a private, for- profit business while they are at work). In any event, block her number and carry on. You're not doing anything wrong.
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    Every-Sun-4431 OP 5 hr. ago Thank you for your concern, but considering that the warehouse manager is also one of my customers, I think I'm in the clear.
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    Royally Oakie 6 hr. ago Judge, Jury, and Excretioner [332] NTA...this is a business relationship. The wife seems unbalanced. That said I'm really wondering just how good these lunches are!
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    ScallionKindly8264 - 6 hr. ago NTA. You are running a business, not trying to steal her man. Will she be calling every restaurant/cafe this man visits, to tell them to stop serving him?
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    Click Clack_33.5 hr. ago ΝΤΑ I could do without his $10 a day to help him save his marriage. He can "save his marriage" himself. That's not your job. He could stop buying lunch from you.
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    WeMiPl 4 hr. ago Also $10 a day is $200 a month, $2400 a year. That's a decent chunk of change when you're trying to save up for a house. 412 Reply Share ... BxAnnie 4 hr. ago Partassipant [1] $10 is probably a lot cheaper than getting crappy fast food nearby.
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    SunnyBunnyHopHop Partassipant [3] 5 hr. ago Absolutely NTA. Your coworker's wife is crazy. She's essentially asking to stop running your side business because she can't manage her jealousy. Would she walk into a Subway & demand they never sell her
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    husband sandwiches because she's jealous?! If she's so threatened by her husband buying lunch from someone else, then she can make his lunches herself. Either way though, that's between coworker & his wife. You just keep selling food for profit like normal.
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    beep beep_crunch. 4 hr. ago I have a suspicion that the wife wants to make him food, but he prefers OP's lunches. Might be why she's so angry about it. Not that would be an excuse
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    Funkyzebra1999. 6 hr. ago Partassipant [2] If she's so concerned about you making her husband lunch, maybe she should get up a bit earlier in the mornings and make them herself Can't see a problem with what you're doing but just be a little bit careful. She sounds like a bit of a bunny-boiler to me. Never know when you might find your tyres slashed.
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    MrsPomMummy · 6 hr. ago Partassipant [4] ΝΤΑ You have a side gig. He is a customer. Exactly what responsibility do you have towards his marriage? Exactly zero. Does she also send scathing texts to the hairdresser who cuts his hair? Or the barrista who sells him a coffee?
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