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Does the smell of a coworker's food bother you? What about eating around workspace?
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YuriLowell
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Kite
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I once worked at a place like this, my office-mate and I worked out a deal where we would only eat cold stuff like wraps and sandwiches in our office. Anything that had to be heated up had to be eaten outside. I'm asian, some of my lunches can smell kinda funky to non-asians so I gotta be considerate. Apparently there are heathens who can't stand the smell of kimchi fried rice
Don't you get sick of having to yell at everyone from atop your horse?
The Albatross
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I've gotten over it. I hate when people eat in meetings, especially smelly, sloppy food and especially when they talk with their mouth open, but it's always the same people that do this, so w/e... They're weirdos. Had to just accept it and move on.
sir_kevith
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We don't have anywhere to eat but our desks. All kinds of smells so bring something to contribute or be miserable.
ChemicalCutthroat
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Nah, percherons are majestic animals. Commute takes a while but it is worth it.
Liliana Eileen
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One time when I worked retail this lady was trying to buy a laptop from us but insisted in eating a Chipotle burrito in the middle of asking questions and being answered and it was DISGUSTING. Between the smells, he chewing, the food in and on her face (yes, seriously) and the big ass burrito, I felt like throwing her nasty was out. But we wanted the sale, so we didn't.
Fucking nasty. Eat that shit on your own time. I understand some people lack social skills but ugh.
Sorry for the rant lol
Fucking nasty. Eat that shit on your own time. I understand some people lack social skills but ugh.
Sorry for the rant lol
Stuff like biscuits and crisps I have no problem with, but anyone eating hot food around their workspace is a bit of a unthinking butthead really.
Luckily at work I have my own room. But others I know here have complained to management about people eating fast food at their desks or hot food with very strong aromas.
Go use the massive kitchen that's been provided.
Luckily at work I have my own room. But others I know here have complained to management about people eating fast food at their desks or hot food with very strong aromas.
Go use the massive kitchen that's been provided.
Site note: I've got a big pet peeve about people bringing food into meetings. I get that there's situations where someone's in back to back meetings and they don't have time to eat, but there's something extremely disrespectful about eating while someone is talking, at least to me.
It's just one of those things that I have to accept, but since the norm is becoming to eat smaller meals more frequently, it's increasingly becoming an issue.
It's just one of those things that I have to accept, but since the norm is becoming to eat smaller meals more frequently, it's increasingly becoming an issue.
Some smells you can almost taste. I don't like to taste my coworker's pad thai/chow mein at 11:45am while I'm at my desk, it's distracting. We occupy four floors, each with a small kitchen and one floor even has a big cafeteria. No reason to eat at your desk, your work can wait 15-20 minutes.
But whatever, I don't like it, but I do recognize they can eat where they want, so I leave them be.
But whatever, I don't like it, but I do recognize they can eat where they want, so I leave them be.
bumping this after watching this clip
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/05/31/al-franken-ted-cruz-toxic-ac-sot.cnn
Senator Al Franken, a progressive democrat, just compared people who microwave fish in an office to Ted Cruz
"toxic"
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/05/31/al-franken-ted-cruz-toxic-ac-sot.cnn
Senator Al Franken, a progressive democrat, just compared people who microwave fish in an office to Ted Cruz
"toxic"
Stormwatch
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Unfortunately I work at a job where we don't get lunch breaks, so eating at our desks is mandatory. We even have microwaves and toasters spread out among our desks so people can heat up their food and still stay at their desk. You just kinda get used to it. It does kinda suck when a neighboring deskmate heats up fish, though. You can't escape that.
ChubbyHuggs
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A coworker use to heat up sardines in the break room. Whole room, hallway and stairs would smell for the rest of the day. I like sardines, but that smell isn't something I wanted to be around all day.
MilkyJoe
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Common sense. Girl at work thinks it's acceptable to cook smoked mackerel in the microwave, stank out the entire floor and had the janitors up investigating what stinks in the building.
Everyone at your work probably hates you
TheOfficeMut
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Lmao great
TheOfficeMut
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You can't just chalk up everything to "common sense." I've known people who found the most inoffensive scents offensive, ones nearly unilaterally enjoyed by everyone else in the office.
Oh crapola, double post.
MilkyJoe
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That doesn't really count though, I find some perfumes toxic, but enough people buy them.
If you are going to knock up a curried, octopus arsehole soup, with some boiled cabbage and garnish with Gorgonzola, then you know you'r being a dick.
There's plenty of things that people can universally agree smell a bit manky and know they are being a dick by bringing it to the office.
TheOfficeMut
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And I agree with that. I believe I was simply referring to anything that exudes an odor in the original post you quoted, which I don't agree with.
eternalcircle
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The smell of popcorn has always bothered me, I don't know why. I remember when Target used to have a cafeteria and you'd walk in to an overwhelming sense of old popcorn. It always made me really nauseous, to the point where all popcorn makes me nauseous. And I swear I'm like a German shepherd when it comes to this stuff. I can smell it from rooms away. I'm the dude that's always like "can you smell that?", and no one else EVER can.
The girl across from me brought in really odorous, boiled hot dogs the other day. I get nauseous from these things easily.
The girl across from me brought in really odorous, boiled hot dogs the other day. I get nauseous from these things easily.
Fine Ham Abounds
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No lie, I got a frantic call from my Mom because my Dad was having chest pain and left microwave popcorn on for the whole 3 minutes once because I was distracted
Bag caught on fire, the inside of the microwave was coated in burned butter powder and oil that would not wash out of the plastic, and the inside of the office reeked of noxious fumes for 4 days. Had to leave the door open all day for the whole week, you could smell it 200 feet away in the atrium. Needless to say, I had to buy a new microwave.
Probably my most embarrassing work moment
AppleSeason
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Almost nobody eats at the post (and this is an open office). From time to time you will catch the aroma of potato chips or a big spanish omelette if there's a birthday, but 99% of people eat at the office kitchen. And even there, most people avoid bringing fish. if somebody microwaves that, the stench is unbearable. Luckily nobody has ever brought microwave pop corn here.
The real problem we face is fridge smell from rotten abandoned food. After the last week, it was decided that anything left at the end of the week would be purged.
The real problem we face is fridge smell from rotten abandoned food. After the last week, it was decided that anything left at the end of the week would be purged.
Omegasquash
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Doesn't bother me. Grew up smelling wet chicken/cow/horse shit. My shit stinks too. There's worse out there than popcorn. Someone wants to eat something in an office setting, be my guest, but go with the office zeitgeist and you won't make any enemies.
Your Entertainer
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The sounds of someone eating
Next time take a cup of water, put half a cup of baking soda in it, microwave it inside the microwavefor 2-4 minutes. Then using the same water wipe down the inside of the microwave, do it until the smell is gone.
Learned that trick out of necessity
Lionheart1827
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Yeah if its something bad like fish.
I still remember one time at my last job, one of the engineers microwaved some kind of fish in the microwave. It reeked so fucking bad and the microwave couldn't be used for about 2 weeks, even after cleaning it. Everything around the microwave also smelled.
Dont be that guy.
I still remember one time at my last job, one of the engineers microwaved some kind of fish in the microwave. It reeked so fucking bad and the microwave couldn't be used for about 2 weeks, even after cleaning it. Everything around the microwave also smelled.
Dont be that guy.
One Eyed Willy
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I haven't eaten in the office in like 8 years. I always hit eject and go out to eat every day.
DeviantBoi
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Fish.
One of the reasons why I don't eat any seafood is the smell. I can't stand it.
One of the reasons why I don't eat any seafood is the smell. I can't stand it.
My pilot school used to have a contract with Korean Air so we had a bunch of Korean students. However, their building didn't have a breakroom so they would use ours.
One day I was eating in there, and noticed that everyone else had suddenly gotten up, and left. "Odd," I thought, but I got the whole dining area to myself. In came ALL of the Korean students, and the smell when they used the microwave. Oh, God, that smell. I do not exaggerate when I say that it smelled like rancid garbage. I do not understand what could possibly make that smell, but I had to leave the smell was so bad. I like kimchi, but I really don't think that was it. And this was on top of the slurping, and talking with full mouths. I am the sort that goes batty when people slurp, and generally make noises when they eat. I understand that it is cultural, but I couldn't take it.
From then on, I scheduled my lunch so as not to coincide with theirs.
One day I was eating in there, and noticed that everyone else had suddenly gotten up, and left. "Odd," I thought, but I got the whole dining area to myself. In came ALL of the Korean students, and the smell when they used the microwave. Oh, God, that smell. I do not exaggerate when I say that it smelled like rancid garbage. I do not understand what could possibly make that smell, but I had to leave the smell was so bad. I like kimchi, but I really don't think that was it. And this was on top of the slurping, and talking with full mouths. I am the sort that goes batty when people slurp, and generally make noises when they eat. I understand that it is cultural, but I couldn't take it.
From then on, I scheduled my lunch so as not to coincide with theirs.
I liked the Korean students, and would talk with them in the rare instances we met outside of class, but those noises, and smells...