Keke's Court: Potluck!

A listener is conflicted after she refused to participate in her work's potluck... Judge Keke weighs in!

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Speaker 1 (00:26):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's Kiki's all right, jonnerbl Kiki is here, Judge Kiky
your honor?

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yes, he's all yours.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
All right, let's get in the courtroom. The gabble has
been hit, it says Kiki. Am I wrong because I
don't mess around with potlucks?

Speaker 4 (00:44):
No?

Speaker 1 (00:44):
I play the song because we can move on?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
No? Right? Is this?

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Right? It is there?

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Probably go from you. Y'all found me already, didn't you. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
I just started working at a small office of about
ten people, and everything was great until pot lucksies and hit.
I don't do potlucks. I don't like bringing or eating
other people's homemade food. When everyone started planning the holiday potluck.
I said I won't be bringing anything, but I'd happily
chip in money or help with supplies. Well, my boss

(01:16):
got offended and said everyone has to contribute something because
this is a team bonding tradition. Well, on the day
of the potluck, I brought my own lunch, and I
thought and I thought it would be nice to still
sit and eat with everyone. But the entire time I

(01:37):
got side eyes in shady comments. So my boss kept
saying things like some people just don't believe in the
holiday spirit.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
And it got super awkward aggressives for the boss.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Wow, and now I'm honestly thinking about finding a new job.
I'm here to work and not pass around mystery castle roles?

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Am I wrong?

Speaker 5 (01:59):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:59):
My job? Over the holiday potluck?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Wait?

Speaker 5 (02:03):
Girl?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
The economy though? Where you go?

Speaker 5 (02:06):
You're potluck?

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Eight three?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Five thoughts on the potluck? Are we in on the
office potluck? Does everybody have to participate? If you're not
comfortable you do? You don't have to do it? The Shenanigans.
You know, this happened to me several years ago. I
was told you you need to bring something because I
don't typically go to the potluck, and the potluck is
usually as you know, boy, as you know, they planned

(02:36):
things around here for the nine to five ors eight
to six ers, whatever you want to say. They don't
plan things around here for the people to start at
four in the morning. And that's okay. They don't have to,
I guess, because I guess there are more people here
nine to five or whatever. However, I don't really hang
around till like noon when we got here at five,
so I could eat a bunch of food that was
cooking someone's home. And I've seen how they're living like

(02:59):
not at home, I see how they exist, right, so
I'm scared of what their houses look like. But anyway,
I didn't go for a few years, and I was
summoned to the boss's office in the suits, multiple suits
were in the room, and they said, Fred, you need
to come to the potlok this year, and not only that,
but you are expected to contribute something what because you
need to be part of the group. And I said okay,

(03:20):
I said, no problem. This is exactly how it happened.
I said, okay, no problem.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
So I went home. I said what am I going
to bring? I got it? Vodka soaked gummy bears. Now
I'm going to have you know that. Uh, there was.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
It requires a deft hand to get it just right,
just perfect. And they were perfect. They were completely because
sometimes I've made him in the past and like you'll
pour the Vodkan hum or whatever, and then you put
them in the refrigerator and then it doesn't absorb them
for some reason. These were chef's kiss, chef's kiss. No,
I really, I really did a great job. And so
I brought them and I set them on the table

(03:54):
and I said, there's my contribution. And guess who won
the dessert category? Your boy? And guess swat There was
a there. There were multiple people in the office who
made formal complaints. What yes, that it was unfair that
I won because I used alcohol. No, you know what
I did, you sore losers. I catered to my audience.

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That's what I did.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
I catered audience. I know what these people want. They
want to get drunk. So I should see you at
the Super Bowl of Soup this year, right right? Are
you still doing that? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
I got cheering about it last week because I got
asked that I was making something and I was like, no,
but I'll come.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
It was like you any thinking like do I give
soup energy? Like I love it, but I don't know
how to make a soup. I'll never do it again.

Speaker 6 (04:42):
I got last place in that ill he'll never see
me again. I'm still mad about that. What did you
make soup? Okay, that's how you got last place. That's
how you got last place. It's really good though, again
to the masses. You weren't catering to the masses.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
I only want to vote for you Polish pickles, and
I wasn't even there because you know, I'm not gonna
eat it, so I I couldn't voted for you. I know.
I'm sorry. You know what you gotta do. I saw
somebody online do this. This is what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
If they force me to do that, I'm gonna go
down to Potbelly and I'm gonna I'm just gonna bring
my crock pot down to Potbelly and tell the nice
people down there fill it up with the chili, which
is elite, fill it up, and then I'm just gonna
carry that thing up there and set it down and
then I'm going to win because it's elite, and and
that's that's all there is to it. So I got
to know from you guys though, Office Pod Luck. Yes,

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are we in on this? Are we out on this?

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Again? You need to do it?

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, I'm fine if you want to have like an
office Thanksgiving and have it catered by someone and we
have it like a public sanitation score available, and I'm
fine with that if as long as you got an
A or higher, you know, a ninety or higher on
your public But otherwise I don't know, because again I
watch people around here, and I see how they treat
their little their little workspaces, and I see how they

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sort of like do things, and then I'm like, your house.
I don't want to know what your house looks like.
And now you're in there cooking and I got to
eat it.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Absolutely not. Hey Jen, Hey Jen, So this one's out.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
She's not talking about leaving her job because she was
chastised for not being involved with the Office Podluck.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
So look, I'm not a fan of potlucks either, thank you.
But all she had done was head over to jewel
and bought a ten dollars thing of cookies and brought
it and not touched anything and not made it a
whole thing. It is a cultural thing, and it is
a team building thing, and she didn't have to make
it a whole thing. You know, it's her job, it's

(06:42):
the team culture, and it didn't have to be a
whole thing that attracted attention to her. You know, yeah,
I mean I think it was like it kind of
shows a lack of professional maturity, Like you got to
kind of go with it.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Sometimes, well, especially if it happens during hours where you're
supposed to be in the office and the one person
who brings their own food and kind of rejects it
like you're making a statement. At that point, I suppose
you could hang around and kind of pretend like you're
eating it and but but you don't have to bring
your own lunch and like take a stand on the
whole thing and then threaten to quit your job. Like guys,

(07:18):
we're all trying to hang on to our jobs around here.
Like you know, if they told me it's either come
to the podlock or you're fired, guess what. I'll eat
your nasty pickle soup. I don't care. But your cat,
your cat probably was swimming in it.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
You know.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's what I'm going to say. That's what I'm going
to say. I'm gluten intolerant, which I think I am.
And then to be like, well there's no gluten in this,
well I'm anti gluten intolerant. Then as well, yeah there's
no gluten, I can't eat it.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
So I'll go. I'll go either way depending who asked me. Yeah,
that's what you do. Jan, Thank you. It's good advice.
You just showed me go. Oh you know what, I'm uh,
I got it. I don't know what's in this stuff,
but I'm allergic to a lot of things. That's what
you do. Have a good day. I'm glad you called, Alex.

Speaker 7 (08:00):
Hi, good morning. I love you, guys.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
I love you too, thanks for calling, Thanks for listening.
So in Kiki's court, Judge Kike presented the case of
an individual who is really contemplating a career change because
or at least a job change, because he or she
is not interested in being involved in the office public.
And I'm right there with him. Now, Am I going
to take you as far as to hit the streets
and go work into some inferior radio station.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
No, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
I'm not going to do that, but I don't. But
I'm not necessarily going to eat either. And I think
that's okay.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
I I think you should go.

Speaker 7 (08:32):
I don't think you necessarily have to eat. Maybe put
a little bit on your plate. And I think you
need to bring something. It doesn't need to be homemade.
It could be something packaged. But I think you need
to show up. I think bringing your own lunch was
a little not the right mode.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
I agree with that.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
But they're also the purists who will criticize you from
you right over there, criticize you for not bless you
for not I wasn't sure that it's a call for
a yak or a vomit. I wasn't sure what it was,
but I did. When I did the vodka thing that
the sok gummy bears, it was like, well, he didn't cook.
First of all, it was he didn't cook anything. And

(09:08):
I'm like, well, i'll have you know. Then you have
to have the perfect proportion otherwise it won't work. First
of all. Second of all, no one said that that
wasn't cooking. I don't know what your definition is, but
as far as I'm concerned, I was in the lab.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
I made him.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
And then so people will criticize you on that level too.
They'll criticize you if you don't make something at home.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
And I think that's wild.

Speaker 7 (09:29):
I think alcohol is always an option. A beverage, alcohol,
a drink, always an option. Yeah, I think you should
get ten points for bringing any sort of jello shot,
any sort of gummy bears.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
So, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
I was.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
There was actually a formal complaint lodged against me being
the winner for that reason. But you know what, I
still want to really have a good day, Alex.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
Thank you guys.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
And I took my twenty five dollars gift card and
I spent it in glory.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
It's what I did. It's weird to hear that that much.
It's very no. But this is a real controversy.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Have you been to a potluck since?

Speaker 2 (10:04):
No? Because no, non, I did. The next year I
made although because then I had to rub it in
people's faces. So I made like very elaborate yellow shots.
I can't remember what they were. You went back, Oh, no,
I should forget that, like I'm doing it again. And
they weren't as good. I didn't win. Nobody was mad
about them. Yeah, but like, I forget what they were.
But it was like a multi step jello shot. It

(10:24):
had like there was a lot going on and it
just wasn't as good. But no, you know, I was
coming with the alcohol again for a year two. But
I think other people picked up on that and we
did something similar. So I mean, look, guys, cater to
your audience. Yes, this is what you gotta do. Hey, Rna, Hey,
how you doing the office?

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Pot Look? Are we in or we out?

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Do we have to go?

Speaker 1 (10:44):
If we don't want to go? Are we bad people?
I have strong feelings about this. I hate a potluck.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
Do not invite me to anything and then tell me
I have to bring my own food. I'll chip in
for a caterer, yes, or you know, Tippen ten twenty bucks,
but do not tell me I have to bring my Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
And by the way, some people can cook.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
I mean there are people that were really into it
and they make good stuff and fine, but I and
there are people who's cooking I might trust. But again,
I haven't seen your house. I don't know where you
cook this. I don't know if you own lisol, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Do you let the do you let your dogs and
cats and turtles and ferrits just crawl around everywhere and
not clean up? Were you did you use the same
spoon to taste multiple times. You probably did because nobody
was watching, nobody would have known. But are you Are
you truly cooking to the standard of a rev a
professional kitchen. The entwer is absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
You're not. You're not, And thank you, thank you, Ron.
I'm very passionate about this. Have a good day.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, no, no, these are the kind of issues that
we are tackling, and this is what our show is for. Okay,
we tackle the real issues at hand. And it's that
time of year. She took it too far with like
to go out of her way to do something different.
She could have just blended in and and just not
eating anything, and I think it would have been fine.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Well, she got to eat lunch.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
I just think she should have at least brought something,
you know, like, hey, guys, I'm not gonna I don't.
You don't even have to say I don't want your food,
just don't eat it, but also contribute something. And you're
new to this office. It's only ten of y'all, so
it's like you're very noticeable, So at least play a
little bit of the game, right, Yeah, It's just true.

Speaker 7 (12:24):
The greater good like sometimes you have to do things
you don't like just for the greater good, Like you
want to have a be.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Cool, be chilled, right, make friends.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
So when text it, after having my own cleaning business,
I will never eat at a potluck ever.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Again, that's least. I'm talking about. What did you find?

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Right, that's what I mean, soup, that's what. And then
a lot of people are asking for the pickle soup recipes.
I would have liked it, but you got to understand
that that's not a winning dish because not everybody pickles.
Pickles are very polarizing for people. People are either and
then within a pickle community, and you've got the different
kinds of pickles, so mean, but like the sweet ones.

(13:02):
And then for me it's dial only, dial correct. Don't
come around here with the gerkins or whatever those things.
Don't want don't want gerkins my life, you know. So
so no, but if you'd come with pickle souper and
I said, it is exciting, and then I find out's
the sweet kind, the bread and butter con then we're out.
We're done, We're out, and I'm not going to eat them, mad,
I'm not voting for it. I'm also I will never return. No,

(13:24):
it's only two year two bring it back never. Maybe
pellets have changed, pickle soup, maybe a champion.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
I want an apology. And then maybe you were You were.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Either gonna win big because you're gonna have like a
devoted sort of core, or you were going to lose
because your baby was too specific. Yes, exactly, a little
focused research first, walk around, Ask people, are you Mexicans,
tortilla super chilli?

Speaker 1 (13:45):
What do you what would you like? What would you
vote for