Stories like this make me glad that I work from home…

Because every office worker who ever lived has experienced a co-worker eating disgusting food in the break room!

But this guy seems a little bit clueless about the whole ‘courtesy in the office’ thing.

Did he do anything wrong?

Read on and see what you think!

AITA for bringing smelly food to the office and getting someone in trouble?

“I (26M) work at a mid-sized company in a pretty casual office.

I’m kind of a picky eater and don’t like a lot of standard American lunch stuff so I tend to meal prep and bring my own lunches every day.

I also like cooking and trying out stuff I see online. I follow a lot of Asian and Eastern European cooking channels.

This doesn’t sound good…

Last week I brought in homemade kimchi fried rice with a soft-boiled egg and some pickled daikon.

It smelled amazing to me, and I was excited to eat it.

I heated it up in the break room like usual and enjoyed it.

About 10 minutes later, my manager comes over and very politely asks if I can avoid bringing really strong-smelling food because someone complained.

I was honestly kind of surprised. I’ve brought curries, garlic-heavy pasta, even fish before and no one said anything.

But I said okay, no big deal.

Someone wasn’t happy about this.

I thought that was the end of it but yesterday, my coworker who sits a few desks down came over and straight-up asked me if I was the one who brought the smelly food.

I said yeah and he just goes, “Cool, well thanks for getting me written up.”

Turns out, he was the one who complained, but he apparently did it in a super rude way, calling it “foreign garbage” in the Slack channel for his team.

Someone screenshotted it and sent it to HR.

He didn’t get fired or anything, but he got a formal warning.

The vibe in the office is weird now.

Now a few people in the office are giving me weird looks and being a little cold.

I think they think I snitched or that I was the one who reported it or something but I had nothing to do with the HR stuff.

I still don’t even know who complained.

I told one of the nicer coworkers what actually happened, and she said I should have expected food like that would cause drama and that bringing such weird food would only draw attention.

But it was literally rice and egg? And kimchi?

I got the recipe off a BuzzFeed video. It’s not like I cooked a whole octopus or something.

Now I feel super self-conscious and am back to eating sad peanut butter sandwiches at my desk.

My roommate says I didn’t do anything wrong, but I do kind of feel like I caused a mess without meaning to.”

Reddit users shared their thoughts.

This person thinks they both SUCK.

This Reddit user shared their thoughts.

Another individual weighed in.

And this reader sounds shocked!

There’s nothing worse than a nasty-smelling break room at work!

No one likes it.

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