{"id":8211,"date":"2025-09-28T14:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=8211"},"modified":"2025-09-28T14:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:03:35","slug":"i-refuse-to-serve-coffee-to-my-boss-im-the-hr-not-a-to-go-coffee-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=8211","title":{"rendered":"I Refuse to Serve Coffee to My Boss, I\u2019m the HR, Not a to-Go Coffee Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I work in HR at a pretty big company. I actually really love my job; it\u2019s busy, I get to help people, and I feel like I\u2019m good at what I do. But my boss? She drives me insane sometimes. Last week, she had some guests in her office. Totally fine, no big deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then she comes out and straight-up tells me, like I\u2019m her assistant or something, to go make and serve them coffee. I just froze for a second, then leaned in and said, \u201cThat\u2019s not really my job.\u201d She gave me this death stare and then said, \u201cI pay you, so I can ask you to do anything I want.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Y\u2019all\u2026 my face turned SO red. I felt embarrassed, angry, and just\u2026 small. Like, excuse me?? I worked so hard to get here. I\u2019m HR, not her personal waitress. Now I keep replaying it in my head. Part of me feels like I stood up for myself, which I don\u2019t usually do, but another part of me is low-key terrified I just painted a target on my back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, Bright Side, am I a bad guy for refusing to serve coffee, or was I right to set that boundary? What would you do in my shoes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I work in HR at a pretty big company. I actually really love my job; it\u2019s busy, I get to help people, and I feel like I\u2019m&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":285,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8213,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions\/8213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}