This is Burrito Gate 2026 at my office. This is almost more of a who is overreacting??
My coworker (Let's call him Mike - mid 40s) ordered lunch and expensed it for our department - because it's Cinco De Mayo he wanted to get Mexican food - and none of us really wanted that but he offered to expense it and so everyone got something. He asked everyone what they wanted and everyone put in an item. Mike asked me if I wanted to split a bean and cheese burrito and a steak quesadilla and I said sure why not - he put in a note for the restaurant to cut the burrito in half (this is a key point).
My other colleague who is vegetarian (let's call her Sally - mid 20s) had already ate lunch but because it was being paid for she ordered a bean and cheese burrito as well and was going to save it for dinner.
SO when the food came we realized something was messed up and the bean and cheese burrito that was cut in half but was literally only HALF a burrito - not a full thing. So my colleague Mike who ordered and expensed everything for everyone decided to cut the full burrito in half and starting eating - Sally was like 'hey that's my burrito 'and Mike didn't say anything but just sort of just gave her a look. She was like 'hey that's messed up' and he got defensive - this wasn't resolved and later Sally again in front of everyone was like 'hey that was my burrito you ate - that was messed up' and she kept going on and on about how rude it was and it was her burrito and he just ate it and she sort of kept bringing it up and Mike BLEW UP and was like "I PAID FOR IT ALL - I treat everyone all the time" (which is true) and he was like "what was I supposed to do - not eat lunch? this was for your DINNER and I PAID for it"
It created an awkward situation and I think he probably should have said something like - 'hey I know they messed up the order but is it okay if you take the other half of a burrito for your dinner' or something along those lines...
Also for some context we order food together ALL the time and we group order and over order and share things a lot - share snacks, share food, order coffee for each other.
I got put into the situation between both colleagues where I understand where Sally is coming from because the situation wasn't really handled nicely and I understand Mike's POV because he ordered and paid for everyone and it was our lunch and she was only saving it for dinner and only ordered it because it was free. They both got mad at the other and Mike def yelled about it but Sally kept going on and on about it saying that he's rude and she hates him etc.
Mike really sort of freaked out and started yelling that he's never paying for anyone's lunches ever again and he's very generous and everyone is rude and everyone sucks and ungrateful - he was like FUCK YOU ALL - he was being defensive for sure and again the other half of the burrito was for me... but I should have said at the time I don't need the other half and Sally should just take all of it. I feel like I got put into this situation and ended up telling Sally look - I think Mike is kinda right and I understand he maybe handled it rudely but you were literally getting a free burrito to save it for later and this was supposed to be for lunch. Like just suck it up and move on - it's just a burrito and you weren't eating lunch anyways.
For an hour they kept keep bringing this up and neither thinks they are in the wrong.
I'm just curious who does everyone think is overreacting in this situation?
Literally felt like the dumbest fight over a burrito for lunch.
UPDATE::
this post blew up more than I thought
Mike apologized to Sally and I think really meant it. He acknowledged he overreacted and said some things he shouldn’t have.
Sally ended up taking the other half of the burrito home and didn’t end up empty handed.
I think it’s honestly funny but def got out of control - they are both funny people and I would call them friends and hope it’s all mended because I like them both.