Manager of 6 people refuses to get 2 burrito bowls for 1 employee: 'I... called HR'

Special requests for your workplace lunch are all well and good, but this team member may have taken it too far with her lunchtime request. 

There's been a rising tide of disinterest toward the slop bowl economy, and I think you're all wrong for it. Slop bowls are incredible, timeless even; in the same way one can drink coffee every day and never tire of it, some of us will always adore our bowls of mixed veggies, proteins, and rice. I mean, no one likes paying those rising prices on burrito bowls… but sometimes you have no alternative. 

If you're the right amount of hungry, you can eat your bowl over two meals, which is awesome. Or, you can half of eat your meal at 12 PM, and then eat the other half at 1 PM. It's a matter of willpower, but sometimes that second half of the burrito bowl is just calling your name minutes after you've finished meal #1. Anyway, this person got a free lunch at work — score! She could've easily split her burrito bowl over 2 meals, but instead, she had a different idea. She decided to push the boundaries of workplace niceties, but in her case, it didn't work out quite as planned. 

The worker found out that a company lunch was planned, and asked her manager for a burrito bowl, but added "2x" alongside the written request. Hmm… an interesting strategy. You take a risk with a move like that, because asking for 2 bowls of food brings up a few questions that aren't necessarily polite to ask a worker you're in charge of, such as, "Why do you need that much food?" I probably would've just gotten 2 bowls if the company was paying for it… but I also would side-eye that worker if she didn't eat 2 entire bowls of food at lunch. We all know that by ordering 2 meals, she was most likely planning to take the extras home with her, either for an extra meal, or as a meal for a spouse. If the company is paying for it, I guess it's fair game, but it's just a bit odd, isn't it? Not to mention that in this case, the manager was personally paying for it, so that should be the manager's choice whether or not to indulge her. Plus, if this person had ordered her 2 bowls, it could've made the other workers wonder why they couldn't get 2 meals worth of food. I mean, some people really do just have outlandishly large appetites… but this is the kind of gluttony that squashes company lunches right in their tracks. 

Check out the full story below and see what you would've done in this situation: would you buy a 2nd lunch bowl for a coworker, or to ignore the request? 

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