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Coworkers eating together at the office
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I suppose the phrase ‘Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth’ wasn’t invented in vain, and the coworkers in this story have a point to judge the young girl who’s trying to ask. After all, bringing lunch for everybody is a thoughtful gesture and should be met only with gratitude. This story was, although, posted in the AITA section of Reddit, so we’re assuming the girl had an intuition about her moral position in the drama, or at least that she is open to constructive criticism.
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She then starts to recite all sorts of neurotic reasoning to justify her will to unveil this mystical enigma, such as needing to know in order to avoid spending extra money on her food for the next day, given her ‘dietary restrictions’, but we, as readers and judges, are still not satisfied. She also says the food would arrive during her break, so she wouldn’t have any time to get her own if it turns out she can’t eat it, but that would constitute a minor inconvenience in the end because she could very well take her own food and leave it in the fridge for the next day if the gifted feast were to be enough for her.
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It seems that in the end, it’s all a question of manners, and some things are better to remain a mystery so as not to disturb the peaceful order of multi-generational teams in an office. Could it be that simple politeness has become a forgotten discipline? For this, it would help to start metabolizing the idea that not everything that happens has to fit our timetable or even our preferences, and that the ability to handle that nuance is what supports happy communities, inside or outside the workplace.
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People sitting on chairs eating lunch around a table
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