Holiday Blog

By blacksheep

November 20, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

slow news day, huh?

By Sagegirl

November 20, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this

I only trust food from the Publix deli.

By Buckie

November 20, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this

There is a lady named Debbie that fits one of the descriptions above

By ron

November 20, 2007 10:55 AM | Link to this

By request,I always took in a large crock pot full of sweet and sour keilbasa.My duties always kept me outside the office most of the day,so I missed everything that went on.Lucky me.

By Maggie

November 20, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

I recently learned that a coworker does not use soap when they take a shower/bath…it just makes u wonder and think twice about eating other people’s food!

By jmd

November 20, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

Everyone in my small office are scrooges. No food, no drinks, not even a “happy thanksgiving” the day before. Of course, their all men.

By Mrs. Warren

November 20, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this

Thank goodness we had a firm dinner at the Capital Grille…… =)

No pot lucks at this firm.

By debbie

November 20, 2007 11:31 AM | Link to this

slow work day huh?

By Dan

November 20, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this

I’m tired of the freeloaders who never bring anything and they eat first and overextend their lunch break. Then to top it off they invite their scumbag friends to come eat too. But they didn’t know I was scratching my butt and picking my nose when I was cooking the grub they just ate. Bon apetieheheheh!!!

By Shin23

November 20, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this

Totally agree. There ought to be a rule…if you don’t cook, you can’t eat! I love those people who pick up a nasty box of dried out deli cookies or a bag of Lays and then pile their plates sky-high with all the delicious home-made cuisine that most of us spend hours making. And those very ones NEVER touch their gross cookies or chips. Neither does anyone else. So WHY do they bring them? Please people! If you are guilty of this, RECOGNIZE!!!

By lovelyliz

November 20, 2007 12:49 PM | Link to this

This is a sore spot with me, but you started this conversation!!

Yes, I do work with the guys who don’t care that the official start is at noon so as to give the people in other offices a chance to make it here. They start digging in as soon as we start setting up. They will even go in for seconds before everyone shows up.

Then there is the guy who has never ever brought a dish. (And he can well afford it)

I had the privilege a helping with the office Thanksgiving potluck last year. The woman who took it upon herself to plan everything out really tried her hardest, but didn’t listen to much of my advice. She originally wanted to schedule the office party for Monday before Thanksgiving and I reminded her that in an office full of men, it was asking too much for them to remember to a request made on Friday. It was scheduled for Tuesday.

I tried to talk her out of being too specific, but that advice went in one ear and out another. She had everyone sign up for a dish and verified with everyone before they left work for the weekend before. Then Monday afternoon she re-verified. Everything should have gone well on Tuesday because nothing too taxing was asked of anybody, but of course that wasn’t the case. Most of the men showed up empty handed and later ran by the old standby that a good portion of the office had stopped of at before they made it in:Wal-Mart. We had more chips/dip, el cheapo/crappy pumpkin and pecan pies than anything else. If the managers hadn’t ordered a ham & turkey the whole thing would have been a disaster.

And who do you think was left cleaning up the mess of these people who couldn’t clean up after themselves?

I warned you this was a sore spot with me.

By Potluck Ban

November 20, 2007 1:00 PM | Link to this

Office Potlucks should be Banned To truly celebrate the spirit of the season, upper management ought to provide store bought or catered food/refreshments or take staff out. To have staff purchase and prepare food for the office is unfair or in some cases not sanitary.

By One

November 20, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this

I HATE office potlucks!!!!!!!! I was raised not to eat food from people I didn’t know, I mean really know!!! So why in hellz would I want to eat something that someone cooked that I know has a house full of cats? Or doesn’t wash their hands after using the restroom (you can tell when they fly out of the stall and straight out the door!)!!!

What really p** me off with companies like the one I currently work for, is that they can afford to have events like this catered (even for individual departments), but will not. This company just bought it’s 4th plane, yeah, 4TH PLANE!!!!! Yet, our CFO insists on having potlucks whenever we do something in accounting. OR, his cheap azz will buy pizza!!! All of the money we spend on company vehicles (for example), and all you can ever offer us is pizza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whateva! Corporate America STINKS!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Don't do them

November 20, 2007 1:32 PM | Link to this

I don’t do potlucks and when asked why I have food allergies.

By Sagegirl

November 20, 2007 1:34 PM | Link to this

My favorites are the ones that — not only forget to bring a dish… help themselves to triple helpings, and then pack plates to take home to the kiddies. Got-a-luv-it!

By two cents

November 20, 2007 1:35 PM | Link to this

One of my pet peeve’s about Potlucks:

The people with in-house pets i usually don’t even bother. I’ll only eat from the dishes that are non-casserole or store bought, to cover my butt. Or i’ll just eat what i brought.

I also co-sign with Potluck Ban

By BiteMe

November 20, 2007 1:36 PM | Link to this

Ironically, we JUST had our potluck about an hour ago, which I can’t STAND, especially being that I have OCD and do note the people here who wash their hands and such……but I decided to put my anal fears aside and joined in and ate a couple things - Am now praying not to get sick for my Thanksgiving weekend, as so many people here have kids, usually who are always “sick” - Why do they make us do this cr@p every year???

By BiteMe

November 20, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this

AND pleaes note, I did only eat from those that I know shower, wash their hands, etc…….but still, do we EVER really know?

Having anxiety now, bye!

By Nah

November 20, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

I can’t do it. Too much cultural pet love in the office. Folks have pictures in their offices of cats on the counter and dogs in the bed like every area of the home is one big free-for-all. I’ll pass.

By One

November 20, 2007 1:56 PM | Link to this

I don’t even participate. I don’t bring anything, so I don’t eat anything!!!! I won’t even go near the area where the food is set up! NO THANKS!!!

By Judith Smith

November 20, 2007 2:14 PM | Link to this

We have several people in our office that have cats and don’t wash there hands after leaving the bathroom. They are always the ones that want to bring something to eat for everyone. I don’t like the potlucks. I don’t care for cats because they will get on your countertops, tables and leave there hair, even eat out of the food you prepared for others and they still serve it. No Potlucks for me. After all its called potluck because you never know what you’re getting.

By Nah

November 20, 2007 2:17 PM | Link to this

The pet thing…

I think I’ve been scarred since high school. Dinner for the homecoming court was hosted at one of the girl’s parents’ homes (so we all HAD to go, whether we kicked it with this chic in school or not). All the court and their escorts were seated and preparing to eat when the mom ran into the dining room, grabbed a casserole dish off the table, and laughingly said, “OOPS! THAT’S NOT THE STUFFING, IT’S THE BIRDSEED!”

HELL NAW.

By Me!

November 20, 2007 2:27 PM | Link to this

I hear everyone complaining about animals; well I have a 3lb short-haired dog. He is NOT allowed or even tall enough to jump on the counter, couch, table, etc. And he barely sheds. Even if he did shed I clean my house quite often and thoroghly. If you ask me cleanliness has more to do with the individual than whether or not they have a pet.

By Then think

November 20, 2007 2:47 PM | Link to this

All of you that hate the mondane routine every year, suggest something different. It doesn’t cost a fortune to round up some grills and throw down some hot dogs and hamburgers.

By Tom

November 20, 2007 2:52 PM | Link to this

We have great potlucks at work. If it doesnt look good i dont eat it, and there was plenty of that. My only peeve is the gas that fills up the floor afterwards.

By Anne

November 20, 2007 2:53 PM | Link to this

First of all, “Me!” if you think your cat isn’t all up on those counters, couches, tables, etc….when you’re not at home, you need to set up a camera when you’re gone.

I used to do potlucks, but one day a co-worker needed a ride the next day to work. She always looked nice and clean, then I stopped at her house. the outside was nice, but she invited me in while she was getting her coat….holy cow! You could barely walk through the mess! And dishes piled high in the sink, little black bugs….I almost died, but I never participated in potlucks again, stating food allergies like “Don’t do them” does.

By No brainer

November 20, 2007 2:59 PM | Link to this

Animals belong outside. Anyone that keeps animals in their house are dirty in my opinion. You may not smell them beacuse your use to it, but let a stranger walk in and they can tell you live in filth.

By Jennifer

November 20, 2007 2:59 PM | Link to this

Why are the words cut in the blog section?

By Potluck Today

November 20, 2007 3:06 PM | Link to this

We just had our chili cook off today and it was a blast. There are very few people who do not wash their hands after they use the restroom and those who don’t, didn’t happen to bring anything. From the sounds of what some of you have to work with, I feel for you.

By Karrie

November 20, 2007 3:09 PM | Link to this

Just say no to potluck! Hearing my coworker describe how she cleans her greens by putting them in the washing machine or the bath tub just confirmed my rule of no potluck! Ewwww!

By Tyrone Biggums

November 20, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this

We had our potluck yesterday. It was terrific- I have no complaints at all, except that no one brought mashed potatoes. Nobody ever shortchanges the group either- if you don’t cook a dish, you have to contribute $10. Our xmas potluck is coming up..can’t wait! By the way, this is a Fortune 15 company, and not some random business.

By One

November 20, 2007 3:16 PM | Link to this

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Anne, Me! has a dog, or so she stated.

ThenThink, I have suggested we do something else, even if it meant everyone chipping in and ordering from somewhere, but NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, they’d rather go the lucky/unlucky route. So, I don’t participate!

By love my co-workers

November 20, 2007 3:30 PM | Link to this

I work with a bunch of nurses, so everything is sanitary and delicious. I agree that having pets does not make you unsanitary. It’s more a matter of management of the pets than the existence of the pets. I have three dogs, yet I’m a big stickler for keeping my cooking CLEAN and I know my nurse friends are too.

By One

November 20, 2007 3:39 PM | Link to this

I agree, having a pet(s) doesn’t automatically mean you’re not clean, not automatically!!! Just like being a nurse doesn’t automatically mean you are clean, again, not automatically!! Those are personal choices no matter what you do or have!

By oh, man........

November 20, 2007 3:40 PM | Link to this

I’m just SO glad I read this after eating at our pot luck today.

No, really.

By love my co-workers

November 20, 2007 3:45 PM | Link to this

I know my nurse friends pretty well, having worked here for a decade. HOWEVER, I am about to change jobs and become the director of an organization that employs a handful of people, so…I think our Christmas party will be at a restaurant.

By lovelyliz

November 20, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

When I worked in Washington DC we had great potlucks mainly because they weren’t office sponsored. The time/date was chosen and whoever want to come could as long as they brought a dish. Sometimes we wouldn’t have a main course, but there was always a good selection, great conversation and the moochers stayed away.

By Then think

November 20, 2007 3:50 PM | Link to this

ONE, print this out and leave copies around the office. Maybe the right person will pick up the clue.

By One

November 20, 2007 4:06 PM | Link to this

Then think, good idea!!!! lol

By Scott

November 20, 2007 4:17 PM | Link to this

When it was time for our company potluck, I pushed for getting the meal catered. So noone had to eat cathair casserole or any other disgusting surprises.

By laughing

November 20, 2007 4:28 PM | Link to this

I needed a laugh today…. This was funny… Thank God we didn’t have a pot luck dinner this year. I think my coworkers have no spirit to put up with other people’s crap this year so we prayed that no one would bring it up and no one did. Now my potlucks in the past…. God help me… There was this girl that were sandels 24/7 365 days a week and her sandals were white but her feet was brown. She was a white female by the way but had dirty brown feet. She was always bringing unusual things to our potlucks. I would look down at her feet and gag. Then we had a guy who was in love with his 4 cats. I found out he would let his cats “test” the food before he brought it in. That stopped me from eating right there. Some people are just plain nasty!!

By lovelyliz

November 20, 2007 4:54 PM | Link to this

Ever had Swedish mystery meatballs that smelled like cigarette smoke?

By Nah

November 20, 2007 4:57 PM | Link to this

Well “laughing” - my coworker who LOVED to cook had/has 16 cats.

We actually told her the reason nobody was eating her stuff.

Pet owners, YOU could be the cleanliest person in the world, we all know that. YOU could be much cleaner than a non-pet-owner. However, your pet brings elements into your homes that can’t be denied. One poster even said that the dog sheds very little. Well one hair is one too many. In the park, they sniff others’ tails. When they are feeling unclean, they lick…

Most true pet lovers add to this by giving their pets scraps straight from the tip of their fingers to the animal’s mouth. The animal is just like a child - that’s what’s often stated.

Be realistic, there is only so much sanitary-management you can do with an animal.

By PearsonM

November 20, 2007 5:31 PM | Link to this

Hello…pet haters - get a grip. People are dirtier than animals could ever be. Learn your science. I have 2 indoor dogs. I shed more hair than they do. I have been in houses that do not have pets and they are the filthiest places I have ever been. A good rule to follow is to check the inside of anyones refrigerator. If it is sticky, gooey and has buildup all over it or just plain stinks, you know that person is NASTY.

By jsmom

November 20, 2007 7:18 PM | Link to this

I have had a couple of good experiences with pot lucks and one horrible experience. The bad one— the office “manager” took it upon herself to warm everyone else’s contributions. Several people asked her not to warm up their dishes for various reasons. She chose to ignore these requests, tossed it all in the microwave (even took things out of their containers to “re-dish” them).Told everyone that she knew how to fix their stuff, they didn’t. She wound up ruining 4 casseroles and a pie that she thought was a casserole. She didn’t understand why so many people were angry with her— the stuff she wanted to eat was fine.

By di

November 20, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this

Well.I miss office potlucks since I’m a home office person now. And yes, I met “dirty” people but I think they would have other people in mind when bringing a dish..Been to quite a few..survived each one of them..and actually had a good time learning things about people I work with when maybe wouldn’t have a chance..Give it up people that are complaining..How often do you fast food? More at risk there..quit being so snobby??

By tim

November 20, 2007 8:57 PM | Link to this

we had a potluck at our office and I heard a lot of people say they don’t eat from people they don’t know or such n such isn’t clean. But the same people eat at fast food joints,mexican joints,chinese places,order pizza,order wings,etc. And all these places are just as nasty than eating from your coworker!even upscale resturants like Houstons are not clean either.Beleive me I worked at these places in high school and college.So participate stop complaining and pray and give thanks!

By Mark

November 21, 2007 7:38 AM | Link to this

I worked 9 years for a particular auto parts accounting and data office in Norcross and our potlucks were phenominal. Our General Manager was a great cook and all my staff were pretty good, too. Some of the best food and I never once thought about hygiene or pets. I guess, I really cared about my co-workers. I am with ‘Tim’ - many of you others need to stop being such prissy germophobes and try to enjoy the company of your staff - you are a team after all.

And kindly remember that pets are generally cleaner than humans.

Thanks for your time.

By Mike In Woodstock

November 21, 2007 8:03 AM | Link to this

Looks like there’s a bunch of potluck snobs on this board.

By Let's Eat

November 21, 2007 8:21 AM | Link to this

We have a potluck every year. Yes, there is one person whose dish doesn’t get touched except by him. He digs in his butt in front of anyone. We are not sure if he washes his hands before coming out of the restroom.

I used to volunteer on the committee. However, there is one person who wants to be in charge of everything. So, this year I sat out and got word from others that if she is on the committee next year, they won’t volunteer.

But I must say, with all of the bull that happened, our office potluck turned out great. We had enough the right amount of veggies, starches and desserts. We even had 2 fried turkeys.

I can’t wait for next year’s potluck. I love to eat.

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November 22, 2007 3:08 PM | Link to this

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