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AITA for calling out a coworker's 'gluten-free' lie when she ate regular pizza at the office party?
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Workplace food politics run on unspoken contracts. Someone with a medical restriction gets the accommodation without debate, and in return, they honor the seriousness of the claim. When that contract is broken, especially with something as misunderstood as celiac disease, it doesn’t just make the liar look bad, it chips away at the credibility of everyone with the real diagnosis who would pay not to spend a week doubled over from a breadcrumb.
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So there’s Emma, months into telling tales of glove changes and the horrors of cross-contamination, strolling up to the pizza table and helping herself to two gluten-packed slices like she’s starring in her own cheat-day special. A polite query about mistaken slices turns into a shrugging confession that it’s all just “gluten sensitivity,” the rules bend when the toppings are tempting.
The response is blunt, public, and, in an office setting, fatal to plausible deniability. Emma now calls it humiliation. In reality, it was the social equivalent of watching someone declare a peanut allergy, demand almond-free everything, and then snack on a Snickers. The reveal wasn’t cruel. The performance was.
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The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.
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The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.
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