But they sent my area to a different building.

I’m at a place I don’t know, surrounded by people I’ve never met, and as it happens food I can’t eat.

I’m not allowed to leave.

I’m supposed to feel appreciated.

  • CaptObvious@literature.cafeEnglish
    211·
    7 months ago

    Go to the bathroom and “get lost.” You’re in a strange place. It’s plausible. Slip out a side door and leave.

    They mean well, but these things can be such bullshit. These days, I just thank them for the invitation and send my regrets. If they want to make an issue of it, they can be my guest. The fact is, they need my autism (to show diversity and disability in the workforce) as much as I need their job, so neither of us is going to make a fuss.

  • DirigibleProtein@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    7 months ago

    Leave. If your boss/manager/whatever starts to make a fuss, “I noticed you weren’t at the lunch”, lie and make a fuss right back, “I was in the bathroom chundering my guts out for two hours. Did anyone notice that?” and take the next day off sick with an unspecified illness. Your boss/manager/whatever will be so embarrassed, and unconcerned for your welfare, that there will be no repercussions.

  • Lexam@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    I feel you. Our team potluck (Small team of people I am comfortable with) was canceled. Instead we have to go to the corporate office and have a pizza party with a bunch of people I don’t know.