{"id":9009,"date":"2025-10-02T10:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=9009"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:58:20","slug":"im-vegan-and-asked-a-coworker-to-stop-eating-meat-near-me-now-ive-landed-in-hr-%f0%9f%91%87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=9009","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Vegan and Asked a Coworker to Stop Eating Meat Near Me \u2014 Now I\u2019ve Landed in HR \ud83d\udc47"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve been vegan for years without issues at work \u2014 until now. My coworker Mark eats heavy meat dishes right at his desk, just feet from mine. The smell makes me nauseous, and after weeks of trying to ignore it, I finally asked: \u201cMark, could you please not eat meat so close to my desk?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought I was being polite. Instead, the next day HR called me in \u2014 Mark had reported me for \u201charassing him\u201d and trying to control his food choices. I explained I wasn\u2019t banning meat, just asking for a little consideration in shared space. HR said they\u2019d \u201clook into it,\u201d but now Mark smirks at me like he won. Honestly, I\u2019m worried this will hurt my reputation more than his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been vegan for years without issues at work \u2014 until now. My coworker Mark eats heavy meat dishes right at his desk, just feet from mine&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":166,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009","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=9009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9011,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions\/9011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}