Employee gets excluded from team lunch due to her dietary restrictions, she confronts manager, leading to tension in the office when team backs her up: ‘I thought I was being considerate’

Being the one person in the office who is even slightly different from everyone else is always a bummer. The office vibe can be all sunshine and rainbows until the minute people find out they have to make adjustments for one person, then this person will forever feel like they are ruining everything for everyone.

When it comes to food, this statement goes a long way. Having one person in the office who is either gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian, vegan, or anything similar is, for some reason, a tough pill to swallow for the rest of the employees. That can cause quite an awkward situation, even if that person does everything in their power not to be an issue, they would always feel like an issue.

To be fair, most offices handle these "restrictions" well. They either provide a substitute for whoever needs one, or simply settle on food that works for all so that everyone would be happy. However, some offices handle this all wrong, like the office in the story below, whose manager decided to simply not invite the one employee with dietary restrictions to the team lunch.

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