'She literally quit over pizza': 63-year-old part-time worker hands in resignation because HR ordered everyone pizza on one of her days off

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 25, 2025 2:00 PM EST

There were many aspects of this workplace environment that would have justifiably enraged this part-time employee, but the one thing that really took her over the edge was the pizza party HR threw without her.

Most employees bemoan the fact that their managers would rather throw a pizza party for everyone to boost morale rather than, say, give them well-deserved raises. However, for Sues, it was the pizza that she wanted. 

Sues had been working at this salt production facility on Mondays through Wednesdays. As a 63-year-old employee, she wasn't given many of the labor-intensive responsibilities that other full-time coworkers had. Still, people seemed to like her enough until the human resources department made the incorrect judgment call to schedule a celebratory pizza party on Thursday, one of her days off.

Sues could not get over the fact that other employees got to enjoy all that free pizza while she wasn't working. In what would end up clearly being a reactive choice, Sues put in her two weeks' notice… all because of the pizza party. 

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  • A group of coworkers enjoy pizza at the office.
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  • Eventually, it seems that Sues would come to regret her decision to quit simply over being denied what was probably a greasy, average slice of cheese pizza. She even admitted this regret right before her two weeks were up, when she desperately walked into HR and asked if she could change her mind. They told her no. Clearly, they were not willing to continue working with someone who would make such a stink over this relatively unremarkable display of gratitude.

  • "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 R to post. I used to work at a salt production facility.
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  • You had one job. Put salt into a bag. It paid more than average for the area, you could listen to music, great benefits, great schedule. There was a woman named Sues that was about 63
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  • 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 making good money. Anyway.
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  • She would work Monday- Wednesday. One time the company ordered us pizza because we had high numbers. They gave us this pizza Thursday.
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  • Monday rolls around and Sues heard about our pizza party. She was LIVID. She marched right to HR and told them it was unfair they served pizza on Thursday
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  • because they KNOW she doesn't work that day. She said if they didn't serve pizza that Wednesday she would quit.
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  • Wednesday rolled around and no pizza. She 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.
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  • 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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  • A group of coworkers enjoy pizza at the office.
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  • OP demonslayercorpp They used to make us do a rally cry at the beginning of every shift and would have grown ass adults yell 'LETS GET SALTY!!'
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  • shchemprof She sounds salty
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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. 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 e
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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 maybe 1/2 a pizza and 20 guys in the shop. Few shop guys saw it as a chance to final
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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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  • SoftlySpokenOne 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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  • tatortot1003 Didn't quit over something but did take a job because of ice. Was interviewing with several places for a new gig as mine was wrapping up. Current spot had ONE household fridge for at least 60 people. First in got a cup of ice and that was it. Interviewed at new place and they had multiple giant industrial ice makers. After talking with multiple people went to the break room with big boss and he asked what I thought about working for them. Replied that I liked the people I had met an
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  • Dufiel Morningstar Had a temp once, who was filling in for someone who had major surgery...maybe a 3 month gig. From day 1 he does 2 things, mess everything up, and insist he has to be full time or he'll leave...one month in, the three fulltime members of our little team have had it to heaven with him...everyone teels him to start looking elsewhere...so he decides to take an interview with another department. Gives us his 2 weeks, and says during his last day that we have to give him a fulltime
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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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