# \*sniff\* All my co-workers went to lunch without me! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 20, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391 "2003-02-20T19:46:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/1 "2003-02-20T19:46:20Z")
To celebrate a co-worker’s good fortune, everyone went to a fancy-fun restaurant during the lunch hour. Reserved a big table and everything. _lip quivering_ … But no one remembered to tell me! ☹ Usually, they send an e-mail to everyone, but this time they didn’t. A few people just trotted around the office to let everyone know. Everyone thought everyone else had talked to little, ol’ me, but no one had. _snuffle_ Then the office got really quiet – eerily quiet. As if everyone was gone! So I went to investigate. Then the receptionist said everyone had gone out to celebrate. 😕 She didn’t even know where they went – and the new employee (also overlooked) and I found out about 3/4 of the way through the lunch hour. So I had a lukewarm slice of pizza all alone at my desk. WAAAAAAH! ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/2 "2003-02-20T19:51:13Z")
Maybe the fancy restaurant doesn’t have crayons on the menu? If that isn’t the case, I’d slip into their offices whilst they are out, and fart in their desk draws. Bippy ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/3 "2003-02-20T19:56:11Z")
I am ALWAYS getting left out of lunch plans. My desk is a bit removed, so I’m constantly being forgotten when someone goes around collecting for the daily food run. I hate it! You try not to take it personally, but sometimes I feel like the lunch-time leper. It _really_ sucks that you missed an actual celebration, and not just random face-stuffing. Please tell me you at least spent the hour slacking off and rifling through their desk drawers in a spirited attempt at self-comfort… ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/4 "2003-02-20T20:04:08Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Bippy the Beardless:_ > If that isn’t the case, I’d slip into their offices whilst they are out, and fart in their desk draws. **Bippy** , I like your style! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/5 "2003-02-20T20:04:36Z")
Well, no wonder. You eat crayons. We can’t go to Perkins again… ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/6 "2003-02-20T20:05:48Z")
_maudlin singing_ Nooooooobody loves me, eeeeverybody hates me, I’m goooooing to the forest to eat worms… ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/7 "2003-02-20T20:50:15Z")
aw, **Eats\_Crayons** , I’d make sure you were with my lunch party. I used to have the same situation **belladonna** has, and it would piss me off to be left out of plans all the time just because they wouldn’t walk over to my cube and let me know they were makin, or more often, changing plans. Hell, they’d even change lunch plans _I originally made_ and not tell me until we were on the way out! So I feel for you both. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/8 "2003-02-20T20:51:53Z")
Heck, that’s nothing. I was at my grandmother’s house once, when I was about 12 years old. Dinner time rolled around, and all the aunts, uncles and cousins were invited to come eat. Everyone except me. I didn’t find out until dinnertime was almost over. Not even my parents and siblings remembered me. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/9 "2003-02-20T21:11:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JThunder \* > \*\*Heck, that’s nothing. > > I was at my grandmother’s house once, when I was about 12 years old. Dinner time rolled around, and all the aunts, uncles and cousins were invited to come eat. > > Everyone except me. I didn’t find out until dinnertime was almost over. Not even my parents and siblings remembered me. \*\* \< wallowing in self-pity - PAUSE \> See? That’s why it’s good to be an only child. If it’s quiet and no one is playing with their mashed potatoes, the conspicuous absence is noticed (and/or appreciated). \< wallowing in self-pity - RESUME \> Noooobody likes me, eeeverybody hates me, I’m goooooing to the office to eat crayons… ---
**Author:** ![lothos2002](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/df788c/32.png) [@lothos2002](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lothos2002)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/10 "2003-02-20T21:13:18Z")
**JThunder** That’s sad. **Eats\_Crayons** Sorry for the hijack, but I have it worse. Our boss gave everyone the afternoon off last friday because we finnished a project and it was Valentine’s day. He forgot to tell me, because I was in a meeting on another floor at the time. When I got back I spoke many of the cow-orkers during the day. No one said anything. At lunch time, they all started leaving, I asked some if they had any plans, and they just said: No, nothing for now, See you later! and they left. I stayed, thinking they just went to lunch, but after a few hours I started wondering why no one was back. I kept on working until 6:00 and left. Next morning my boss told me he was very sorry, but he forgot to tell me we had the afternoon off. I asked those who I remember speaking to before they left and they all just stared blankly and said, soorry, we kind of forgot too… Ba\*\*rds, all of them. ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Frank\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_2)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/11 "2003-02-20T21:16:47Z")
To even things out in the cosmic scheme of things I went out to lunch without any of my co-workers. This should bring the universe back to it’s normal equilibrium and you should be getting lunch invites soon. I’m just here to help, no thanks are neccessary. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/12 "2003-02-20T21:28:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lothos2002 \* > \*\*Next morning my boss told me he was very sorry, but he forgot to tell me we had the afternoon off. I asked those who I remember speaking to before they left and they all just stared blankly and said, soorry, we kind of forgot too… \*\* Hope your boss let you go home early _that_ day to make up for it. If not, hide some dog poo in his office so it’ll smell bad but take him awhile to find it. ---
**Author:** ![lothos2002](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/df788c/32.png) [@lothos2002](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lothos2002)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/13 "2003-02-20T21:45:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eats\_Crayons \* > \*\*Hope your boss let you go home early _that_ day to make up for it. If not, hide some dog poo in his office so it’ll smell bad but take him awhile to find it. \*\* This was last Friday, so I guess it’s dog poo for him. Or stinky cheese? … Nope, dog poo is better. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/14 "2003-02-20T22:41:29Z")
At my last job they always went to lunch without me. Mind you, I’m a big ol’ computer geek and I know it, but this was a development house and they ALL were computer geeks. In all my other jobs I have never been left out like that. Of course, this was one of the reasons I only stayed there for 7 weeks. Now at THIS job, I am never left out. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/15 "2003-02-21T00:39:55Z")
Rub it in, why dontcha. I guess I should start bringing my personal belongings home. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/16 "2003-02-21T00:44:59Z")
I’m not even going to bring up the time my own mother forgot me on Christmas… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/17 "2003-02-21T00:46:57Z")
Awwwwwwwww… **Eats\_Crayons** , better yet, bring in a big batch of homemade brownies and **don’t** share them with your cow-orkers. Course, I’m still all for **Bippy’s** suggestion of farting in their desk drawers too. Hmm…ya know, eating a bunch of brownies could bring on a big ol’ case of drawer farts. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/18 "2003-02-21T00:49:15Z")
**FairyChatMom** your **MOTHER** forgot you at Christmas? :eek: When I come to Jaxtown, not only will I buy you dinner, you get a Margarita and some chocolate too. Poor dear! ---
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/19 "2003-02-21T00:56:08Z")
Them bastiches! You see, this is why I’m in charge of the lunch ordering, 'cause I know they’ll ‘forget’ me. Yeah, I’m still that same kid picked nearly last in gym… You should definitely poot in their desk drawers, just riffle through them for any good candy before you do! ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391/20 "2003-02-21T01:17:04Z")
Aw, **Eats\_Crayons** and my darling **belladonna** …I"LL have lunch with you. When’s good? We can invite **Khadaji** and pork out BIG TIME!!! And the best part is, we can do it in honor of **FairyChatMom** , who certainly has the best angst of anyone here so far. If she wasn’t so far away, we could invite her, too. Oh, wait…how far from WA are OH, Canada (unless we are talking about BC???) and PE? 😃 [sub]Nevermind…I’ll just have lunch all by OWNself … and dedicate it to the lot of you. Personally, I see enough of my co-workers during office hours. I’d MUCH rather have lunch with the four of YOU!!![/sub] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff-all-my-co-workers-went-to-lunch-without-me/156391.md?page=2)