Office worker throws a fit after a failed attempt to take home dietary-restricted pizzas not reserved for him, then bizarrely tries to steal paper towels off of the office custodial cart later that same day: ‘Happy news, boss gave me the day off’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Aug 23, 2025 5:00 AM EDT

Almost everyone, anywhere, has specific dietary restrictions either for health reasons, allergy reasons, or both. It's normal—but if you don't, then you should know not to touch the gluten-free food at your office if none of your gluten-free coworkers have had the chance to help themselves yet. Bringing a cooler to work to bring pizza home? Innovative, but wait until everyone eats at least…

That's the main idea of this next story. Absurd? Yes. Funny? Also yes. Entitlement shows itself in many ways, and taking pizza from your coworkers is one of the most absurd ways to out yourself as an impolite person. Just say you don't care about others, am I right?

Luckily, the coworker who tried to steal the pizza before anyone else got the chance to eat it gets what's coming to them after they also try to steal cleaning supplies off the office custodial cart. There is surely a bigger conversation to be had about this coworker's sticky fingers, but I'd much rather you read the full story first. Comment below what you think about this one.

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  • "Entitled office worker thinks he should get to take home gluten-free pizza as a leftover that was not ordered or paid by him before the office even eats."

    I work in a weird sales job. I have been here going on 33 years. The ages in the office goes from 20 to 90. When people work together
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  • for 40 years, everybody knows everything about each other. It really is gossip Central. I feel like I work in a geriatric high school sometimes.
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  • We order lunch for the office at least two times a month, its usually pizza or sandwiches. We have a few people with dietary restrictions and we order Kosher,
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  • gluten-free and vegan. I make sure everybody is covered. Since I never know how many people are going to be in the office we always order extra and there's always leftovers for people to take home.
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  • Since the specialty food is very expensive, we keep it at reception. Last week, I heard someone arguing with the receptionist. He was trying to take the specialty food, which is not ordered for him.
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  • When I tried to interject, he started screaming at me telling me that there's more than enough specialty food and there's no reason why he can't
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  • have it. I calmly explain to him that that is ordered for the people who need the dietary restrictions and that there is more than enough pizza for him to take home. He was screaming at a level I can't even describe considering it's about crappy pizza.
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  • Well, like every other gossip item in my office everyone wanted to talk about him taking pizza. Unfortunately, the whole office knows that this gentleman packs
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  • pizza in a travel cooler before anybody has actually eaten. He wraps it in tinfoil and takes it home. He's been doing this for years. This is not a money issue he is just cheap. He is quite well off.
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  • YETI cooler sitting on top of an office table
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  • The next day, I tried to discuss with him in his office with the door closed that he couldn't talk like that to anybody and explained the specialty food was
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  • ordered for people who have dietary restrictions. Once again he starts screaming at me that there's more than enough specialty pizza and there's no reason why he can't have it.
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  • I haven't lost my temper in the office in over eight years. I do my best to be calm and even toned at all times, but It came out of me like hot lava. I started screaming
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  • back that the entire office knows that he's stealing the pizza and it has to stop. He's more than welcome to take pizza home after
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  • everyone has eaten. He was quite shocked that the whole office knows. It seems odd he would be surprised considering he whips out aluminum foil to wrap it in.
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  • The next morning he asked to speak to me and then begins to cry to tell me he's sorry he doesn't know why he does it and he will do better.
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  • I felt awful. I felt about 2 inches big. That's not who I am and I needed to do better. For the last week, I have just been a mess. I feel terrible that I yelled at him. I kept telling my boss maybe I should apologize again.
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  • Well, my boss called me last night to tell me that he caught him stealing paper towels off the cleaning people's cart last night. He was loading paper towels in a big bag.
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  • Well, I no longer feel bad. Happy news, boss gave me the day off. What are people thinking?
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  • NamasteNoodle Oh come on, he's a thief and he knows it? You have nothing to feel bad about.
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  • Whole-Ad-2347 I am always incredulous about how some people think they deserve more and better than everyone else. I have seen people who really lose their minds when it comes to food.
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  • I have seen a lunch set up in a school, set up by parents and the office people who are not on any particular schedule like teachers are, have seconds before some people even get to eat at all, and once those who haven't eaten get there, the food is all gone.
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  • Glittering Win_9677 Is he still employed? Have office supplies been going faster than seems normal? Don't feel bad, this guy is a thief and is only sorry he got caught.
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  • NewHopeResources You matched his energy, which is what he needed!
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