# Workplace Griping Spinoff - Shredder Guy and other tales **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 10, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014 "2011-06-10T19:01:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/7 "2011-06-10T19:11:41Z")
1. > [@Workplace griping, anyone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1162): > > You are totally right. I wouldn’t be upset if I had been assigned a dish a week ago. I’d even use her recipe. Potlucks are good, I’ve had some amazing food at them, but communal meals are good too. I’ve always enjoyed them. Its the “that sounds great” emails she sends after we make our suggestions and the last minute changes that tick me off. > [@Workplace griping, anyone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1161): > > What she needs to do is to write up a menu, and ask people to sign up for one or two items each. In the case of main dishes, perhaps two or even three people could sign up. Or she can assign dishes to start out with. But what she’s doing is not even close to a potluck. She’s organizing a communal meal, which can be a better meal than a potluck…but she needs to understand what potluck means. It means that Shredder Guy digs into the office fridge, steals someone’s leftovers, and presents them as his contribution. Or he brings in a box of Shredded Wheat crackers. And then he proceeds to make a pig of himself. > [@flatlined](#): > > Do you work with me :dubious: Shredder Guy always says he will bring the paper plates, plastic forks, etc. He used to get them out of the our break room, but I haven’t restocked since the last potluck, so he showed up with the chipped dishes and bent forks that every work place has. When I mentioned that I expected _him_ to wash them, he went to a different department and got their paper and plastic. After he was done pigging out, he offered to clean up. Which meant he took one of the cakes to the department he had gotten the paper and plastic from. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014)._