It's amazing that in the year of our Lord 2023, companies are still arranging work meals without bothering to ensure that employees with dietary restrictions will be able to eat. Dietary restrictions aren't a new or rare thing! And you're probably not the only one who's less than thrilled with the menu; if your company has more than a handful of employees, chances are high that you have co-workers who are also vegetarian or who keep kosher or halal or don't eat red meat for health reasons. It's a particularly bizarre choice because workplace holiday meals are meant to be morale boosters-carelessly excluding people accomplishes the opposite of that.
I would just skip it, except that my boss is really big on everyone showing up to work events like this. It's not officially mandatory, but I've seen him give a hard time to people who didn't attend in the past. And hey, if it were a party where I could briefly circulate and then leave, I would. But this is a sit-down dinner that will last for several hours, and everyone else will be eating. I guess I'll just ... sit there? Can I get out of this?
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