Meal prep every sunday so I have meals for the entire week

Damn that's sad

You're probably better off anyways, OP. Let them blow their money while you save it. You just aren't part of "the group" because you don't go with them is all. It happens a lot with the younger generation. If you're like 30 or older, it's a different breed and we just don't care and treat every one the same unless they personally are a poor worker or something.

>>meal prep every sunday so I have meals for the entire week
>>bring meals to work and heat them up
>>millennial coworkers keep eating out at $15 a meal
>>coworkers outcast me and don't talk to me
>What went wrong?
I guess
>you are probably an antisocial autist
went wrong.

And I'm not trying to be a dick, I speak from experience.

Lost a job once, because I couldn't "socialize" with my coworkers.

Now, I would not advice you to completely forgo cooking stuff to save some money, but eating out with your coworkers once or twice a week is a good investment.

Oh, and:
>>meal prep every sunday so I have meals for the entire week
yeah. That is kinda the definition of autism. Cooking once and eating the same thing every single day. Yeah, that totally does not look weird at all…
With that you can't even pull the
>I like to eat healthy
excuse, when you gobble down the same slop every day.

what's wrong with eating the same thing everyday? the communist do it

fuck you're a dumbass

where did you get that from?
why?

nothing.

The "eating the same thing" isn't the problem. Ignoring your co-workers and not socializing with them is the problem.

restaurants have "NO OUTSIDE FOOD ALLOWED" plastered on their windows

$15 for a meal is is $300 a month! Ridiculous!

You're telling me you eat stuff on friday that you cooked on sunday?

Just go out to lunch with them twice a week, man

Talk to them during work instead of at lunch. They aren't exuding you they are just too lazy to bring food to work so they have to go out together. If you wanna be talked to you gotta speak up.

I'm a super shy person and people leave me alone because of it because they think that's what I want. It stopped happening when I started to initiate conversations.

You prolly was on about your meals and how you are better. Most people with conditions such as yours never know how obnoxious they really are.
or your food is so dull and plain like your personality that it's turns people away from you

no I don't
I just make them because it cost me $4 for a meal instead of $15

uhh, you have to WORK during work, not talk

How old are you? I prefer eating alone

Did you really read this as
>go to a restaurant and bring your own food with you
?
You are probably beyond saving.

and yeah, $15*5*4 is indeed $300, but if you go between once and three times a week, this becomes $15*2*4 = $120, which seems like a reasonable investment for a healthy social life and a good career.

There's literally nothing wrong with eating the same meal for a week.

That not the reason they are ignoring you, you must be obnoxious. I bet the first thing you did when you started meal prepping is go right up to them and tell them they are wasting money and you are so much smarter.
You must be such an ass.

What do you do for work op

no i didn't
stop assuming

ernst & young

Oh come on, work is not for talking? Dry simple meal that you judge others for not doing?
How are you not an obnoxious ass? You seem like a huge dick head.

I don't judge what others eat other than the price.
I'd love to eat with them if there was $4 meals available.
You should be focusing on your work during working hours, not chatting away.

I agree but how are you not an asshole.
You are the problem with the co-workers nothing else.
I can't believe how truly annoying you must be in real life to have your co-workers hate you.

Agreed. I brought up someone's spending habits one time because I didn't think it was a rude thing to point out. Colleague got pretty upsetti. Barely talk. If you're simply not a complete ass hat, you should get along with anyone at work just fine.

How am I being an asshole for making my own food and choosing not to spend $15 a day? I don't tell them it's wrong to spend $15 for every single meal and choose to eat my own meals instead.

>some random bro-outs

I would say it becomes a problem if the bro-out isn't just randomly but every fucking day.

You are being an asshole if you complain about it like that. Just go out with them every so often but not all the time. Relationships in the work place are an investment just like any other relationship, and it's something worth investing in. The only thing keeping you from that is if you're a huge cu/ck/ outside of what has already been displayed.

I sing in the break room while eating mi goreng. Everyone goes out and buys $12 sushi. But then again I only work with women

>How am I being an asshole for making my own food and choosing not to spend $15 a day?

That's not why you're an asshole. You're an asshole because you aren't being sociable with your co-workers.

this.

How can I be socialable if they keep dining out? I go out for drinks once in a while but no way am I going to lunches.
Work is work time and you shouldn't be talking about non-work stuff during working hours.

>Damn that's sad

Or wonderful, depending on your perspective. He still loves her, which cannot be said for a lot of married couples after the first year.

The other day I saw a man about his age buying some flowers, and I wondered if they were for his wife, and did she still enjoy getting something like that, or was it just a routine for them.

>why don't millennial like me?
>work time is work time and don't talk to me

>autism
Your father's decision not to pull out

>>>work time is work time and don't talk to me
it's part of the company's culture and rules
they do the same too

>it's autistic to save money
lol

>How can I be socialable if they keep dining out?
You go out with them. Perhaps not every day, but sometimes.

>>Work is work time and you shouldn't be talking about non-work stuff during working hours.
Autism. Literally.

>ernst & young
You work at fucking EY and can't afford to spend a few hundred for food? Are you their fucking cleaning lady?

>Work is work time and you shouldn't be talking about non-work stuff during working hours.
That right there is wrong.
I thought so too, but it's wrong. Sure, you need to get your work done (and then some, at firms like EY) but you are also expected to be social. Unless you have a position where you are some data/software wizard in the basement, you are expected to have some social skills, if you want to get anywhere. Otherwise, enjoy keeping your entrylevel job for a few more years, until your coworkers finally manage to get rid of that weird autist.
and trust me, I learned that lesson the hard way!

it's the company's rules and culture
they don't talk to each other either during working hours

read the millionaire next door, millionaires don't become millionaires by spending lavishly, it's all about being frugal

>Are you their fucking cleaning lady?

He's probably like my accountant brother, who charges Dad for answering a few tax questions.

Do you have a glory hole in the bathroom? Trying being social that way

Did you say hello to the man?

Christ that photo made me well up.

*hangs head in shame

>Did you say hello to the man?

No, he was across the parking lot getting into his car.

He might have been putting them on her grave

Woops

>You can't get rich by spending money
Yeah but in a world of "its not what you know, its who you know" sometimes you have to spend $15 on lunch to get to know people.

It would behoove you to go out to lunch once a week with these people. Spend the $15 a week, it may lead to an additional $1500 a week with the right contacts.

Now comes the hard part of trying to go with them once or twice a week now that you've turned them down for so long.

>they don't talk to each other either during working hours
and that's why they do so in their lunchbreak, you imbecile.
Their is a difference between being frugal and being a sad, autistic, niggard weirdo.
and those $100 you spend on lunches if you join them occasionally will yield you some easy dividens worth more than $100, like a promotion, that you certainly will not get if your are the silent autist.

This, I got way better jobs I normally wouldn't get just by making conversation with people at my old bar and meeting them outside work. I still owe him a drink actually.

lifestyle creep detected

the only important people to socalise with are the higher ups

>What went wrong?
Shit-Boomers made millennials, didn't realize life was a mistake and they should take it to the grave

>Work is work time and you shouldn't be talking about non-work stuff during working hours.

Just to perhaps clear things up for you. I work with a group of 7 in total, we all eat together at the same table and sometimes we bring cheese or sausage to share but we don't sit around quietly and just eat, we do talk about hobbies and whats going on. We don't hang out outside of work, but even during work hours we work seriously when needed but do talk in between for 15min at least once a day.

different working environment, different working culture

>the only important people to socalise with are the higher ups

Nope. You want to socialize with everybody, even those lower than you. You never know when you might need a favor from someone. You can collect "dirt" that has negotiating value. And cultivating a good relationship with your equals can help you get promotions if your equals have good things to say about you.

When I was working I'd eat out (both ways) every day... it wasn't because I didn't realize 10-15$ for lunch was expensive... it was because I'm well off xD

>You can collect "dirt" that has negotiating value

My god some of the shit in this thread. I'm not naive, and I realize shit's like you exist, but damn.

>lifestyle creep detected
What the hell is a lifestyle creep?
>the only important people to socalise with are the higher ups
nope. and with this attitude, you won't get close to them anyways.

Jesus OP you sound autistic as fuck.

DEFINITION of 'Lifestyle Creep '

A situation where people's lifestyle or standard of living improves as their discretionary income rises either through an increase in income or decrease in costs. As lifestyle creep occurs, and more money is spent on lifestyle, former luxuries are now considered necessities.
BREAKING DOWN 'Lifestyle Creep '

Lifestyle creep is particularly a problem to those individuals approaching retirement. People, five to ten years before retirement are typically in their peak earning years, but at the same time many of their earlier expenses, such as paying off a mortgage, or raising a family have been reduced dramatically. Faced with a surplus of cash, some people use it to buy more expensive cars, more expensive vacations or possibly a second home.

Since the goal in retirement is to maintain the lifestyle enjoyed in the last few years before retirement, these retirees require more funds to support their new, more lavish lifestyles. Unfortunately, they don't have the resources to do this because they spent their surplus cash flow.

And this has nothing to do with what is discussed in this thread.
Yoou don't need to eat out everyday and buy a big BMW, just because you are at EY, but you gotta do certain things to fit in, just like in every other job too.
Can you please send me an archive link to the Veeky Forums thread where you whined that they made you get rid of your cargo shorts and flames T-shirt?

I was in your place too, but when I realized that I'm now a 30yo virgin with no job, I finally made some changes, but it seems like you still need some more suffering until you are ready to get some help.

Sounds like a pretty accurate explaination why the baby boomers are so terrible with money even having way more than current generations.

>And this has nothing to do with what is discussed in this thread.

Sure it does. OP is being antisocial and the justification he gives is money. It's cheaper for him to eat in than it is to eat out.

But what OP is missing is that if OP socializes with his coworkers instead of hiding away like Spergy McAutist, then he can expect to do better in the company and get promotions. The value of that promotion exceeds the amount of extra money OP has to spend on sociable lunches.

I was interpreting this as - I assume - OP trying to tell me that eating out, just because you got a good job, is lifestyle creep and thus will lead to loosing money.
I'm with you on the
>The value of that promotion exceeds the amount of extra money OP has to spend on sociable lunches.
issue.

Completely inaccurate. Higherups generally don't socialize with the low-level scum because they have little in common. Yeah you might get someone 1-2 levels higher than you willing to go to lunch, but they generally have no ability to get you promoted.

Sometimes its also better to socialise with people on your level, and as they get promoted they in turn help you get promoted, or at least assign you the special projects to put yourself in the limelight.

I'm already on track for promotions because my seniors like me since I do more work instead of eating outside of the office.

>Tfw i get chinese take out for 6 bucks and the portion is so big its lunch for 2 days
Is your meal prep significanty cheaper that 3 bucks a meal and significantly healthier that chicken broccoli and rice?

Corporate advertising director for a Fortune 100 company here. Wanna know why I got promoted twice in the past year? Not 100% based on my talent in advertising, that's for sure.

It's because the team around me sees that I'm not a stuck up asshole and I adeptly navigate the political challenges of the office while managing both up and down. That means sucking it up and going to lunches and happy hours, occasionally stepping away from my desk to chat with a coworker about the big game, a new movie, their kids, whatever. I'm now the guy who hired me's boss, because I work well with others and act like a leader. The kind that isn't going to backstab his friends or others around him so the whole team can succeed.

The others around you have value, and sitting at your desk eating your 6 day old dried out chicken breast isn't going to make you allies.

wanna get promoted, fine have a quick lunch at your desk then back to work while everyone else is still at lunch

Work smarter, not longer. You're not a special champ for not taking your allotted lunch time or your vacation time or for staying a shitton of hours late. Sometimes the business dictates we all work late, but if you're skipping lunch and staying late every day, it says one of two things:

>You are working inefficiently and aren't good at your job
>I have done a poor job as a manager of properly distributing the work and we either need to move some things off your plate, or hire additional help.

Only 52 different dinners a year, assuming you don't cook the same thing twice.
Note that if you cook the same thing every day it will probably be a little different each time.
It's not horrible but it sure is bland, especially when you're coming to a cooking board. The OP is better asking /adv/ or /r9k/ for this sort of stuff.

Fuck normies

They have no concept of frugality

Yeah it's either that or they bring frozen slop.
I don't understand.
Nothing feels better than having a good lunch in the middle of a hard day at the shop.

Alternatively,
>You are a massive autist who can't look his co-workers in the eye and can't be handle a role with any type of authority

Millionaires manage to make friends, millionaires are sociable, millionaires are likeable

You're not.

I will join you with my daily barley lentils cabbage with corporate Snapchat periscope and Facebook live.

Not everyone at EY makes bank.Only the few at the top do that.

>eating day old chinese takeout

Don't play with that fire my friend

I don't understand. Why don't you just go out with them and not order anything? Is that hard?

you look like a retard sitting at a restaurant and not ordering anything

Not all of them. I'm a millionaire and am an autistic weirdo. To be fair, I inherited some of my wealth though.

Yeah, but that also happens if you sit around in the company breakroom as well, so what's the difference?

just order a drink or a small bread or something. jesus.

All my past jobs had a different way of going out for lunch.

>job with 10 other people total --> we all ate home made lunch together at a big table, except for Friday when we ordered some

>intern job with law firm --> they had a free buffet where you could get lunch so everybody did that

>intern at department of economics: 100's of co-workers all gathered in 1 big internal restaurant. Some bought food there, some brought food from home. Somedays we went out for a walk and ate something at a small cafeteria.

The point I'm trying to get across is that every place has its own lunch environment. You can either adapt to that or eat alone every day. If I were you I'd go out with the co-workers 2 days a week or something and eat 3 days alone. To make up for that lack of socialising during lunch you need to socilise during work hours i guess.

That's a perfect explanation

>not ordering the large bread

To be fair, almost everybody in my country eats bread for lunch. Everyday. MAYBE if someone is adventurous a salad. Its amazing

Fuck this thread, you all sound like retarded children. And fuck you op for coming to Veeky Forums for social advice, you deserve your fate.

i-irish stew guy?

Order a drink if you're so self-conscious.

It isn't exactly brain surgery, my god.

May be a stupid question, but isn't eating the same thing for the whole thing bad for you? Or at least just extremely boring by friday?

>but isn't eating the same thing for the whole thing bad for you?

That would depend entirely on what you're eating. If the food you prep is well balanced then there's nothing unhealthy about it.

>>Or at least just extremely boring by friday?
Obviously would depend on the person.

I have no problem eating the same lunch every day for a week at a time. But that's about the limit I can take as far as lack of variety. I would still be eating a different dinner every day. But I know other people who eat the same thing day in and day out and it doesn't bother them.

I used to eat beans for 2 meals a day every day and it was okay. Going out to eat every day is definitely going to be worse for you.

Youre millenial coworkers are stupid fucking goys who probably go out for goy shit like chilis or applebees lunch specials or other vanilla shit like that, dont envy them or even desire their company.