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Re: Co-worker wants to ban smelly foods.

  • PolarBearFitzPolarBearFitz member
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    edited November 2013
    krizzo17 said:
    WHAT IS THIS? I had no idea this was even a thing until my first internship, and even then I thought it was just those individuals. Then I worked at another office where people did that. Then another office! At what point does someone wake up in the morning and think "I should take these nail clippers out of the bathroom and move them to my desk so I can clip my nails there, instead". My husband's coworkers do this too. Now, whenever we see each other clipping our nails (at home!), we'll say "Don't you want to wait until you get to work tomorrow to do that?"
    RIGHT?! I told a guy the other day to cease clipping at his desk and go do that in the bathroom. He apparently did not receive the notice that this is heinous and forbidden lol. He looked me completely baffled as to why this is disgusting...

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  • I thankfully have never experienced office nail clipping. How foul and annoying. Do that shit in your bathroom! Gross. 
  • I don't mind smelly food around me, really, garlic...yum! But, I have to admit I once put a note on our office microwave asking that if anyone heated anything up and it exploded (as it sometimes does) to please clean it because my food was starting to taste like the left over smells in the microwave. That's just gross!

     I never seem to be able to get through a cup of coffee either so I always end up just re-heating it (everyone gasps when I say I drink re-heated coffee, I don't know why) so you can imagine how disgusting garlic/fish flavoured coffee is!
  • I would love to ban this one co-worker from chewing gum.  It is not that it smells but that she pops the shit out of it all.day.long.  I found myself grinding my teeth one day because it was beyond irritating.  And when you speak with her she literally chews like a fucking cow.  How in the world is that professional?

    Oh and in regards to what CommitmentCat said, it is horrible that you need signs to make sure that adults clean up after themselves when their lunch explodes all over the microwave.  It makes you wonder how these people live in their homes.

  • aefitz29 said:

    People clipping their fingernails at their desk! A lot of my coworkers and I are grossed out by this. Not to mention how annoying the repetitive clipping noise can be.



    UGH

    I have a co-irker who does this all the time. At her cube and even worse, out at the public service desk. Seriously, where we are helping the public. I've asked her supervisor to talk to her repeatedly. I don't know if he hasn't or if she just doesn't care, but she keeps on doing it. It is one of those things that makes me want to *headdesk*


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  • Hey you should put some blue cheese on that salad as well!
  • UGH FINGERNAILS.  My absolute biggest subway annoyance is people clipping their nails (and yes, TOENAILS) on the subway.  This happens with scary frequency.  What kind of toenail emergency can you possible be having that clipping on the subway is okay???
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  • Are garlic knots like taralli? Not the crunchy in the bag kind, the big soft Italian sort of pretzel baked by Grandmas kind? I need one, to find out.
  • UGH FINGERNAILS.  My absolute biggest subway annoyance is people clipping their nails (and yes, TOENAILS) on the subway.  This happens with scary frequency.  What kind of toenail emergency can you possible be having that clipping on the subway is okay???
    Toes?!?!?!...*SHUDDER*

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  • Aray82Aray82 member
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    edited November 2013

    And...now I want garlic knots. I also think any New Yorkers who don't like them should have their state residency revoked, especially if they're from any of the boroughs :)

    I don't care for the smell of fish and hard-boiled eggs, BUT I also know that it's on me to deal with it if someone brings it in and not the other way around. I'd be curious to know what other crusades this person has launched...it's been my experience that this type has had, and will have, other such projects up her sleeve...

  • Aray82 said:

    And...now I want garlic knots. I also think any New Yorkers who don't like them should have their state residency revoked, especially if they're from any of the boroughs :)

    I don't care for the smell of fish and hard-boiled eggs, BUT I also know that it's on me to deal with it if someone brings it in and not the other way around. I'd be curious to know what other crusades this person has launched...it's been my experience that this type has had, and will have, other such projects up her sleeve...

    Totally agree! Crazytown. 
  • Everytime someone burns popcorn in the microwave, everyone starts up with the banning popcorn. I am okay with this since the only popcorn I like is the kind that comes in a bag with the white cheddar flavoring. No heating required.
    My old employer didn't ban it, seeing as the company purchased it for us, but they did dictate how long you were allowed to microwave it for.  This was because we had a couple of incidents of it being burned so badly that we had smoke pouring through the building.  
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  • mysticl said:
    My old employer didn't ban it, seeing as the company purchased it for us, but they did dictate how long you were allowed to microwave it for.  This was because we had a couple of incidents of it being burned so badly that we had smoke pouring through the building.  
    We have had fire alarms and evacuations from burned popcorn and burned bagels. It's often hilarious and involves someone hanging their head in shame for the remainder of the day.

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  • I had a coworker apologize about 10 times to me because my sweater smelled like smoke for the rest of the day.  She offered to pay for the cleaning but it was machine wash so not that big of a deal.

    We had to evacuate over a pop tart in a toaster oven.  The toaster oven didn't survive the incident.  
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  • In the dorm building I worked in whilst in college, we had several incidents involving burnt popcorn.  Since everyone had to evacuate to the lawn and at least a handful of girls were halfway through their showers no matter what time it was, that was a special form of public shaming.  The worst was someone making easy mac n' cheese WHO FORGOT TO PUT IN THE WATER.  They just stuck the little bowl in the microwave and hit the buttons to make it go.  Now think about that.  There was someone who managed to get into college but couldn't figure out that easy mac needs water and also didn't have the brains to pull the dish out when it started to smoke.  She just let it go until it set off the alarm and the firetruck came.
  • Worked in a movie theater for 6 years - the smell of burnt popcorn is something I never want to smell again. 

    I've gotten people pissed off at me for the typical fish/seafood dishes. Saying things along the lines that they were disgusted not by just the smell of the food, but by me for eating/liking it. *shrugs* I kept bringing/eating it - I didn't see them all the time. 
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  • I am now going to go home tonight and make some garlic knots! So good!

    Thankfully I've never worked in an office that had a ban on any food items. At my current job, I have my own office and a door so if anyone's food does smell particularly awful to me, I can just shut my door now :)

    The fingernail clipping - I will never understand. To do that at work is disgusting and unsanitary, not to mention annoying as all get out to listen to.

  • In the dorm building I worked in whilst in college, we had several incidents involving burnt popcorn.  Since everyone had to evacuate to the lawn and at least a handful of girls were halfway through their showers no matter what time it was, that was a special form of public shaming.  The worst was someone making easy mac n' cheese WHO FORGOT TO PUT IN THE WATER.  They just stuck the little bowl in the microwave and hit the buttons to make it go.  Now think about that.  There was someone who managed to get into college but couldn't figure out that easy mac needs water and also didn't have the brains to pull the dish out when it started to smoke.  She just let it go until it set off the alarm and the firetruck came.
    One has nothing to do with the other.  I used to be a file clerk for some of the leading transplant surgeons in the world.  These guys invented new surgical techniques.  However, I caught one of them standing over the photocopier looking completely confused.  
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  • The only time I ever said anything was when a co-worker was too cheap to contribute to the coffee group and brought in his own pot and brewed it at his desk.  I get horrible migraines with strong flavored coffee smells.  I politely asked that it be brewed in the kitchen instead of his desk.  He kept doing it until one day a manager from another department went to my boss and complained.  He didn't talk to me for months after that, oh well.

    I love onions and garlic!
    Unfortunately, strong smells give me migraines.  In our office, the challenge is scented candles, clients who do not bathe, clients who marinate in cologne and clients who reek of cigarette smoke. 
  • mysticl said:
    One has nothing to do with the other.  I used to be a file clerk for some of the leading transplant surgeons in the world.  These guys invented new surgical techniques.  However, I caught one of them standing over the photocopier looking completely confused.  
    I understand your point, however, you would think college students would be used to following instructions.  Coupled with the fact that if the mac and cheese is dry as a bone, well, liquid doesn't magically appear.

    A copier is much more difficult.  Usually (and I've worked at three different jobs where I've had to use one of those really big, four paper trays, touch screen, staple it for you, email it office copiers), the manual is not sitting around and there are no instructions hanging on the wall.  And those copiers can be really difficult to operate because there are so many options and so many buttons and they can take a while to figure out.
  • I understand your point, however, you would think college students would be used to following instructions.  Coupled with the fact that if the mac and cheese is dry as a bone, well, liquid doesn't magically appear.

    A copier is much more difficult.  Usually (and I've worked at three different jobs where I've had to use one of those really big, four paper trays, touch screen, staple it for you, email it office copiers), the manual is not sitting around and there are no instructions hanging on the wall.  And those copiers can be really difficult to operate because there are so many options and so many buttons and they can take a while to figure out.
    This is exactly what I was getting at.  All over the package it says "Just add WATER" and I'm pretty sure those surgeons would've thought to stop the photocopier if they did something to make it start smoking before it got to the point that the smoke alarm went off.  I could be wrong, of course.  Maybe they would let it smoke and not hit the big, red "stop" button.  Besides which, photocopiers are at least slightly more difficult to operate than easy mac.
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