Company instates 'return to office' policy after 3 years of remote work, attempts to fix morale by holding a "pizza party" but doesn't buy enough pizza: 'They only bought five pizzas for a team of 25. by the time I got there, it was just empty boxes'

When this company established an unpopular return-to-work policy, they attempted to use pizza to soften the blow, but this approach to employee engagement fell as flat as the dough, the cheese, and the sauce were baked on.

There are cliches and then there are cliches. When it comes to the workplace, the pizza party is one of the biggest, cheesiest clichés out there. 

Employers often treat the pizza party as a band-aid solution to every morale problem that could have been solved by actually addressing the issue. Yet, this employer couldn't even do that right, only purchasing 5 pizzas for the entire 25-person team.

Arguably, the only thing worse than blatantly disregarding employee quality of life and morale is rubbing salt in the wound in the form of empty, greasy pizza boxes.

Nothing quite says "we value you" like cold pizza and an empty break room, anyway. Especially when it is curtailing a blissful and productive period of remote work and is supposed to kick off a new era of boring office chitchat, awkward bathroom encounters, and time spent commuting when you could otherwise be seated comfortably at home on your couch.