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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Coworkers keep eating the food for meetings that they’re not attending. I work in an office where it is common to have catered lunches for executive meetings. It’s entirely reasonable and normal to tell people to leave food alone if it’s for a meeting that they’re not part of. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

We have to provide food to our managers for Boss’s Day. The staff where I work have received the usual cringe-worthy email from the office manager, notifying us we are to provide a breakfast potluck plus afternoon desserts for our bosses. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The fast food revenge. Our manager promptly responded by disappearing to the back. His only help was to tell them that they had to get their food and leave before he ran away. They then wandered around asking their friends if their food was right. Setting: 1980, legal deposition. ” and they all laugh.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Our office nurse thinks Covid is a hoax. The food-service manager at our site who was also employed by the state was deeply disturbed by the fact that the nurse wouldn’t wear a mask. Finally, the food-service manager contacted the nurse’s supervisor and reported her.

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APRIL 14, 2020

It went quiet for a little bit, but then he started laying into her about how there was “too much f—–g food” and he couldn’t find anything or put anything away. I was an office manager for a small company that shut down mid-March due to COVID-19. Is this legal? Does $X work?”

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AUGUST 2, 2022

My mom, who is the boss-boss, is only in the office a couple days a week and when she is it’s a couple hours a day. Because of this I have the title “office manager” but that doesn’t really mean a thing. Is this legal? It’s almost like she’s getting paid twice. I’m so confused.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2019

s and working with a placement agency to find that perfect job that would take me out of food service. Finally, the office manager started hinting that if I wasn’t actually working, I didn’t need to be at work. The ED asked me to handle all the legal paperwork for transferring the deeds and titles and whatnot.

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