Men At Work Podcast - Coworker Freaks Out Over My Leftovers! | PATREON PREVIEW

Episode Date: August 9, 2025

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I bring in leftovers pretty often. Usually homemade stuff like curry, stir fry, pasta, whatever. Nothing insane, just real food. Last week, I heat up some leftover buriani, and this coworker makes a face. And literally says, could you not heat that up again? The smell is too real. Too real, question mark, she says. What does that even mean?

I asked her to clarify, and she said it's too textured and savory. And that it feels like someone is cooking, which is distracting, which is distracting. in a workplace setting. Mind you, the break room is on the other side of the building from her desk. I'm not nuking fish or anything cursed.

She then suggests, I bring in more neutral lunches like protein bars, not a lunch. Okay. Or spooky couches, not a lunch. This is definitely a keto woman

or like, she's an almond lady. I know it is. I laughed because I thought she was joking. She was not. Now she's been passive aggressively spraying this lavender odor

neutralizer spray in the break room. every time I use the microwave and it makes the whole room smell like soap and rice death. What the fuck? This is the battle.

This is the battle. This is a battle. This is Normandy, dude. These are two people who just storming the break room. Dude, I think if you just recite what she said back to anybody else, somebody saying, I'm sorry, the smell is too real. It's far too textured and flavorful.

Tell anybody else that somebody said that, and they'll be like, yeah, that's not a real person at all. no too textured and flavorful now she did kind of miss me with the um the curry curry can be a smelly that's a smelly yeah you can't do you really pasta something she's not doing fish yeah but even a stir fry is pushing it dude think so i don't want to be on this other lady's side but it's like you got to get you do have to get in fairness of this weird textured bitch You do got to get a little less creative with the lunches It's like what are we doing

Stir fry's wild Surfrice crazy Pasta's not crazy though As a guy who is a guy who was Probably a twice a week pasta Back in my heyday Because it's easy and it's cheap It's easy to easy to

I had a lentil pasta too That shit sucked Yeah what are you doing I don't know I was with a girl who was into that shit I don't know it's so bad but yeah i mean because like because usually i'm on the i'm on the side of like the people if you stink up the break room you are the worst you're the worst employee and everybody hates you yeah i actually

i'll take it a step further i think if you bring your own lunch to work you're out of your mind i buy i buy every meal at my office every single day yeah but you're you're a you're a door-dash dream like every time i'm like how your dash staying in in business i'm like oh yeah forgot matt orders it 10 times a week i'm stocking dude i got i got the dash pass i got to use it brother dude i think and it's also if you're at work and people talk about like oh you're saving money you're doing this and that it's like you're sitting in a hellhole for eight hours and you don't even want to reward yourself with food you enjoy eating like you're like i'm just going to go reheat cold shit from my fridge that i hated the night before no it's never good it's never good

it's never good so our leftovers overrated leftovers are the worst thing next to the holocaust that's ever happened there six million leftovers show me the numbers like i've never seen the burial sites people who go to the office and they're like this is the most miserable possible existence we've evolved as humans to such a cognitive high level yet we subject ourselves a sitting in a cubicle and you decide I won't even reward myself with a real, textured, flavorful lunch made to order at the cafe by the nice black and Asian family that runs it.

Because it goes a little further, too. Because a lot of times when you're heating up your leftovers, you just go right back to your desk and you keep doing work. Yes. Which is a little dystopian because you're granted in our lunch that you get paid for if you're in the white collar area. white collar business which I'm assuming this is probably a white collar business so it's like now you're just in another way feeding into the man you're giving an extra hour to the man

you are saying it's exactly you're saying yes daddy can I have another as they sit and make you work eight hours on an Excel phone I think matches go slow down there big dog what happened I don't know dude you just left you think i went too hard i think you were going too hard i think your point might have been too too hot but anyway i stand in it dude there's too many people and look this is coming from a somewhat privileged perspective but like people are too guarded about their money it's it's like if you can't even let yourself and enjoy 30 minutes of a decent meal at work what do you do you

do you has a guy who overdrafted this weekend down the shore by accident what no do you Overdrafts apart as fuck. Please get on the Patreon. Please, guys. Keep track of the bills, dude. The bills are just, they're coming out of my fucking nose right now. You got it with an overdraft. Dude, overdraft, like a motherfucker.

Because, like, I don't know. I don't want to how much I want to talk about it because I'm just going to sound like a fucking dumbass. I don't mind sound like a dumbass, but I'm going to sound like a little bit of a privilege, too, where it's like, hey, we got the new rent. That comes out. We got the parking spot now, which I didn't have before.

That comes out. I've got a finance account with my financial advisor that takes out some in the beginning of the month there. And then every year I get hit with a charge from Northwestern Mutual, which is my finance advisor. And it all just fucking came at the same time. I was like, I know I'm getting paid on the fifth or sixth. I know I can make it until then.

but those first two days I was sweating I mean we went hard on Sunday too and I bought I bought a shirt off the back of this guy at the bar because I liked it so much so I like yeah I saw that I went to the I went to the ATM like three times and I was like well as long as the ATM still giving me money

I knew I was like I knew I was on the threshold but I budget I'm trying to get a little more mature I'm trying to budget more and stuff you know like okay rent's coming out this is coming out but these bills out of nowhere sneaking up on me and stuff and it's like the fucking PNC at man i don't know who you have as a banker they suck they never are on time they never updated in real time so i'm thinking i have this when i really don't have that and now i'm just like getting emails being like you're overdraft

well guess who fucking's fault that is not mine the irony you don't mind the irony dude i am the king of overdress the king of overdress How does that happen? It happens to gab all the time, too. The overtray. Just look at the number and spend at least $100 less than it. That's my motto. I'm telling you.

I even keep shit. I keep shit. I think this is what it is. So like I'll usually keep from paycheck to paycheck. I'll keep like $5 to $400 in the checking. Yeah. A little bit of gambling money, a little bit of, hey, you got a Venmo here or there and stuff. If you go out with the buddies or anything or you go out with, you know, a couple of friends.

and then I think I have this thing where I don't want to check it I'm like you get the right thing you put your $400 in I just can't get past this threshold of putting it in my username and stuff and being like damn I'm only I only got 116 left and it's only you know it's only it's Thursday the week before you

I got two weeks instead of the payday like there's just the thing right here that I can't I swear it's a kid it's being a kid of the 2008 financial class collapse it's being a middle middle class kid growing up middle class like i swear like if i if you don't look at it it's not real that's not real yes exactly it's not real it's not real and then when you live that way and then you finally it's like i want to cry half the time dude that's why you were so bent out of shape about the podcast today now i'm saying put the pieces together and it's

And then the funny thing is, you give me 24, 48 hours. I'm right there back on the mad people's train. Money's not real. Money doesn't matter? I can't take this when I'm gone. Dude, people say the phrase money always comes back. I'll do you one better. I don't give a fuck where it goes.

It can come back. It could leave. It can go on sabbatical. That's got nothing to do with me, dude. I'm still going to dinner every night of the week. Dude, we have the fucking government asking us to pay down the national debt through Venmo and PayPal now. Yeah, what is happening? not real i just saw the planet is you ever seen blow no you ever seen blow

johnny dev certainly not no it's making it less enticing i think that rules dude stop it johnny dev stinks amber heard amber heard amber turd where's that's the kind of shit we do on here that's the kind of shit we do on here where's the rub there's the rub there's the rub captain jack sparrow do not be a do not be a do not be a 30 dog. All right. Of course, of course CJS is the guy of the year. However, almost everything else he's done. A bit of a stinker. Who's the guy from Goodfellas, the main character? Joe Pesci, Rob De Niro. No, you're right there. Al Pacino. No, another, another dying guy, just died. He was the main character. He's slapping on the, he's slapping on the shower.

Johnny! Jimmy! You're not going to like this? Ray Leota. I've seen Goodfellas. Ray Leota. Oh, RIP with his beautiful eyes. Yeah, Ray Leota. He's in the movie Blow, and he's going to the bank, and he's got no money. And young Johnny Depp is like, what are you going to tell Mom?

And he's just like, I'm going to tell, listen, George, when you're up, you're up. Or when you're up, you're never going to think you're down again. And when you're down, you never think you're going to be up again. Money's not real, George. People only think it's real or something like that. I butchered that quote. But that's like, I watched that and I was like, me. That's how I'm going to live my life now.