This week both my sister and I are having work potlucks, the reasons vary from birthday to team building. We are both choosing not to make anything. She's in charge of her office's "non-cooker" funds (people contributed because they didn't want to bring anything themselves) and I'm bringing "water/soda" (that is how the organizer denoted what was needed.) Yes, neither of us is fully engaged with the whole thing.
That's the challenge with work activities, because companies can't legally say "thou shalt eat lunch together and enjoy it, and pay for it yourselves" someone invented the work potluck. Work can always make you eat together, but they have to buy it. Have you noticed when there is a potluck, nine times out of 10 the person who makes the most money in the room didn't bring anything?
We just had our Halloween potluck (lots of eyeball dishes). I prefer the ones the employees organize because those seem to be done out of a truly fun spirit. The ones the company tries to organize are a little painful. You are right about the most money person. They often will arrange to have a main dish such as the burgers or turkey brought in for us but that gets expensed.
Posted by: Laurie | October 29, 2009 at 12:33 PM
No Kidding! The top ones donated 20, 10 and 8 accordingly with a male non-cook but nice guy donating another 6. at least it was enough for the chicken
Posted by: Boo | October 29, 2009 at 07:32 PM