In theory, you would think being friends with your boss would make things easier.

But in practice, this isn’t always the case.

A man who considers his boss a friend had an unpleasant surprise when he noticed she had thrown away his favorite meal that his wife prepared for him.

But being his boss or a friend wasn’t enough reason for him to forgive and forget.

Let’s read the story.

You are your own revenge

My boss and I are friends.

I usually don’t comment so early on a post, but we can see the problem already.

We carpool and share an office.

Oh my God.

Today my wife brought me my favorite lunch.

Boss commented it smelled good but oniony.

I ate most of it but had to leave my desk briefly for a time-sensitive task, about 5-7 minutes.

When I came back, Boss had thrown the rest of my lunch away because the smell was getting to her.

That’s absurd. But he was about to make her pay for that.

The revenge: She threw what was left of my lunch in our shared office trash can.

Nobody can enter the office.

Now, I always take my lunch trash to the dumpster to avoid old lunch stank.

Because she chucked it, I did not take it out.

Those last bites of today’s lunch will fill our office with the smell of sweet, petty revenge by morning!

I have a bad feeling this is the start of a cold war between the two soon-to-be ex-friends.

Let’s see what Reddit is saying about this.

This reader sounds baffled.

That’s a good question.

The perfect use of a Friend’s reference.

A good observation.

Someone has a suggestion.

Now this is clear after the onion incident:

Messing with someone else’s food in the workplace never ends well.

A recipe for disaster indeed.

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