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On a team with many colleagues from India, was repeatedly promised steak dinners if we were able to meet deadlines.
by Areading314 7y ago
On a team with many colleagues from India, was repeatedly promised steak dinners if we were able to meet deadlines.
- duxup 7y agoI once traveled with a college who was socially a bit hard to handle. So we go out to the valley from the Midwest and he keeps suggesting we go to burger joints with the local team that is about %70 Indian. Everyone kept looking at me like "What the hell?".
- duxup 7y agoEr... colleague.
- hinkley 7y agoOne of the places I mentioned in another post did pizza on fridays as a teambuilding lunch thing. It would have been nice except it took us about two months to convince them to order a vegetarian pizza for our Indian coworkers. Didn't feel like teambuilding. But as I meet more and more people with food sensitivities I think that providing food for an event is just fraught anyway, and maybe you should try something else.
- duxup 7y agoThat's really weird, when done right, it isn't that hard to find a vegetarian or similar alternative. Most places that cater or just about any place have good options these days. At one place I worked we just used the same folks to bring in food. Rather than debate what they just had packages and we would check boxes (vegetarian, etc) and numbers and blamo reasonable food showed up. I think the real issue is when you have folks who don't know what they're doing trying to manage it.
- vibrato 7y agoWhat about a carnivore alternative? Not so cheap...
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- billfruit 7y agoThere are plenty of Indians fine with steak dinners. India is a pretty diverse country.
- Areading314 7y agoI know -- my colleagues were not though!
- KSS42 7y agoSome get around this by ordering bison - totally different species ...
- kyllo 7y agoOnly about one-quarter of Indians eat beef, so it's not at all safe to assume that any random group of Indians you encounter will be majority beef-eaters.
- oh_sigh 7y agoWell then they can get the pork chop
- AstralStorm 7y agoThat reduces it to just over half Indians, the other is vegetarian.
- bastawhiz 7y agoThen maybe they should have used the extra five brain cycles to decide to offer a pork chop dinner instead.
- oh_sigh 7y agoPerson A: Do you want to get tacos for lunch? Person B: Sure - goes to taco stand - Person A: 3 tacos please Person B: I'll take the enchiladas Person A: Oh my god, we were supposed to be getting tacos for lunch. How could you do this to me?
- kgwxd 7y agoThe steak is a lie!
- Theodores 7y agoOh dear! I can relate to this as I am invariably the lone vegetarian. I don't have meat or fish smells in my life and so the idea of dining out with people eating steaks is just abhorrent. I prefer not to go if I know I am going to struggle with the menu but it is never easy to refuse the kind gesture. It comes across as anti-social. People also order from the more expensive end of the menu if the company is paying. Normally they might eat a chicken sandwich for lunch but if the company pays they are eating dead octopus or some other endangered species more intelligent than them. The other one that I have seen is outright vegetarian baiting, so that means ordering things like crispy chicken's feet or sheep testicles just to push things to the culinary extreme. Working with Indian co-workers on training in the UK the Friday treat was KFC. Eaten at desks. So the whole place reeked of the stuff and every surface had the finger licking slime. Bins had bones in them. If you are the lone vegetarian you have to just keep quiet. But with 6-7 people over from India in the office? The company can't just change its KFC ritual. Few people were what you might call athletic in that office.