Workplace fills break room with snacks 2 years past their expiration date: 'Three of us tried eating something before checking dates. All of us regretted it'

Nobody wants to eat something that's gone bad. One time, I ate strawberries that were a little past their prime, and I paid the price for it almost immediately and had to leave school early. That memory is indelible in my body, and it happened over 15 years ago. You probably have a story of your own that goes like that. As soon as you took a bite, you regretted it, but it was too late. You're looking for somebody to blame, but ultimately you only have yourself. We as adults are in charge of the food we eat, and we have to pay the price for what goes wrong. That is, unless your workplace is the one that's providing the food.

Then it's their fault. That's what happened in this story, where a workplace tried to do something nice for its employees that ended up backfiring and exposing their cheapness to the world. At work, there's not a ton of variance to get you through the mundanity of the day. Your work snacks might be the thing that gets you through the day.

You hope it's something good, and you hope that it makes you feel good. Because at the end of the day, that's all you have. But that's not what happened to these workers who, after they checked the date, realized that they had gotten got. Read on to see what happened and to see what commenters had to say about it.
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