5 employees order desserts to the office every week, enraging their 30 coworkers who they don't share food with: 'Our coworkers constantly glare at us when eating.'

Are they being cliquey or fair?

Some people never grow out of that high school mentality. In fact, many people grow into it as they age. Maybe they never got to be the popular girl who excluded people at her lunch table. Maybe they were the nerd who ate lunch on the emergency exit staircase and prayed that nobody would walk in on them spending the one social hour of the day by themselves. But all of that changed when they became adults and found a working environment that suited them better than a high school. Or perhaps, they stopped being an ugly duckling when they were 21 instead of 16, and felt more confident and powerful. Whatever the case may be, some adults take the opportunity to be the mean girls they never could be in high school. In high school, you're more likely to get in trouble for making fun of your peers than you are at an office job or in an adult recreational sports league. Also, adults are less likely to change than kids. A high school mean girl might see the error of her ways as she matures, but if someone is a mean girl in their 40s and has been for years, the chances of them making a big change grow slimmer and slimmer over time.

In this story, it's hard to see who the mean girls are. Are they the employees who are excluding others from their dessert group, or are they the employees who aren't paying for desserts, but feel entitled to them anyway? What do you think?

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Am I the bad guy for not sharing dessert with my coworkers?

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