63-year-old part-time employee quits after company orders pizza on day with extra staff that she didn't work: 'She marched right to HR'

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Nov 21, 2025 9:00 PM EST

It is the small gestures that make or break a job.

Perhaps the position is poorly paid and stressful, but you have a coworker you are friendly with who makes the whole experience just about bearable. Or maybe you are working on a project you hate, but you get to expense fancy business lunches with no questions asked. 

Many employers know and understand that a little positive can do a lot to outweigh a big negative, and they engage with this by offering them now and then. While these supposed perks do not always get taken as such, they get taken seriously by a lot of employees. So seriously, in fact, that if they feel like they have missed out on a nice thing that their company is offering, they take serious action. Nobody wants to feel like they are missing out, or even worse, that they have deliberately been discriminated.

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  • In this story, a former factory employee recounted how a colleague had taken drastic measures after feeling slighted by the company for not being included in a perk they had offered. On a day she didn't work, they had a lot of extra employees, and as a result, had decided to order pizza for everyone who was working that day.

    When this woman found out that this had happened on her day off, she complained to HR and demanded that they serve pizza again within the week. This didn't happen, and the fallout afterwards was something to behold.

  • She quit because of pizza

    I am still shocked by this. My husband and I were just talking and he reminded me and I had to run to Reddit to post. I used to work at a salt production facility. You had one job. Put salt into a bag. It paid more than average for the area, you could listen to music, great
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  • benefits, great schedule. There was a woman named Sues that was about 63 years old that worked there part time. Everyone took it easy on her. We barely made her work. For her age and skills also working part time, she was
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  • making good money. Anyway. She would work Monday- Wednesday. One time the company ordered us pizza because we had high numbers. They gave us this pizza Thursday. Monday rolls around and Sues heard about our pizza party. She was LIVID. She marched right
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  • to HR and told them it was unfair they served pizza on Thursday because they KNOW she doesn't work that day. She said if they didn't serve pizza that Wednesday she would quit. Wednesday rolled around and no pizza. She
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  • puts in her two week notice. The two weeks are almost up and Sues can't find another job, she asks Hr if she can stay. HR SAYS NO!!! Last thing I heard she had to move back to her home town on the other side of the country. She literally quit over pizza
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  • HonestPerspective638 oh she was,..., Salty. I'll see myself out
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  • HorrorBusiness616 Reminds me of the time I worked retail. One of the staff members mom ordered pizza for the entire store one day during the holidays. Well, the pizza got there towards the end of one of the key holders shift. Instead of taking a couple of slices to go, he took one whole pizza that was untouched home to feed him and his family.
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  • The next day the manager was like, "hey, that pizza was for the staff. You should have asked instead of taking the entire thing." Anyways, it eventually ended in a shouting match and the key holder quit on the spot for being "embarrassed in front of the whole staff over a pizza." The whole thing was absurd lol.
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  • Admirable-Box5200 I worked at a union custom equipment manufacturing shop. One of the salary exempt office guys was a total dick to the shop and always nitpicked anything he could on any of his orders. He had an onsite customer meeting that he ordered pizza for lunch and it was in a shop conference room. After that meeting was over he left what was left in the room and said it was "for the shop". Well, there was
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  • maybe 1/2 a pizza and 20 guys in the shop. Few shop guys saw it as a chance to finally get back at him and filed a grievance because there wasn't enough pizza for everyone. He got called into HR and barely kept his job as it was viewed as a deliberate act of "antagonizing and creating conflict".
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  • Hidden-Doorway That reminds me of one lady in our office who lost her shit when she found out one of our vendors bought the office & warehouse pizza when she was out on vacation. Somehow it became one of the managers fault because he should have "communicated to them that she wasn't there and should pick another day". Ma'am it's pizza, not a lobster dinner.
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  • SoftlySpoken One tbh unless they're known to be unstable, it probably wasn't about pizza, it was probably other stuff piling up over time & them feeling excluded was just the straw that broke the camel's back... tho them being unable to find another job is unfortunate for them edit: I personally recently almost quit over something most people would consider minor.. but it was the culmination of 5 years of other frustrations
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  • high_throughput Babe wake up, they finally found the person for whom a pizza party is more important than a raise
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  • Least_Tower_5447 My number one piece of advice to anyone about work is: 1. Never be excessively loyal to ANY company. You are a "resource." Not family or friends. No matter what they tell you or how you feel.
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  • My number two piece of advice about work is: 2. Only threaten to quit if you are sure you will be fine without a job immediately - because of that first piece of advice.
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  • Pleasant_Bad924 My guess is HR was thrilled she gave notice. I had a pain in the ass coworker that threw hissy fits over every little thing but their work was just good enough to not get fired. They lost their shit one day over a printer being broken, said they quit and walked out. They tried to come back a couple of hours later and were astonished to discover their swipe card didn't work and HR wouldn't let them un-quit.
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  • PirateSanta_1 I didn't quit over pizza but I did once get pissed at (a now former) workplace for doing a pizza party. The reason was that the company did a pizza thing for hitting various warehouse goal numbers but they only order the pizza for 1st shift and I worked 3rd. So by the time I got to work got to work 1st shift, 2nd shift and the office workers who were entirely uninvolved had eaten everything. They didn't even give some money to the shift manager to buy something for us we just got n
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  • lost_dazed_101 HR knew about her being a slack worker and demanding pizza when she knows she was no part of you all doing awesome was the breaking point.
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  • ProudTexan 1971 Not a very forward-thinking person. It's so funny when someone gives an ultimatum and then are surprised when the other party doesn't back down
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