No eating at desk policy

Edups

Penn wrote: »

Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants!

**** gives you ants? I thought it was crabs?

Edups

Grayson wrote: »

I hate baked beans. The smell just turns my stomach. There was a girl who sat two desks away from me and would eat a fry up with beans every morning. And then she'd leave the plate on the desk all day long. There was a guy who sat opposite me who did something similar but would leave plates there for days so there' be a pile up of plates on his desk at the end of the week.

Beans make me want to die

Almost as much as filthy animals who leave dirty delph lying around. They're almost worse than those people who never wash dishes but insist they need to soak Sorry Jimmy but if you leave them dishes soaking any longer, they'll erode.

dinorebel

MeatTwoVeg wrote: »

They've banned **** at your desk in my place.

Saint_Mel wrote: »

Do you have to go into the canteen to do it instead?

Only when we've run out of milk.

Grayson

maximum12 wrote: »

Needy girlfriend ?

Crises bridges. My job was to manage a technical crises as it occurred.

One Saturday, just after xmas I was in the office by myself. at 8:05 there was a major incident. I was on the phone till nearly 4pm. I couldn't leave for more than a minute or two. There was a massive box of roses chocolates on the desk for xmas and I had no food. I ate nearly all of them. I have never felt so sick. After that I started stocking up on snacks.

mrcheez

Maguined wrote: »

Sometimes eating lunch at your desk is preferable than a cramped kitchen full of annoying twats you are stuck with for the rest of the day you just want a couple of minutes away from them and listening to their boring stories about their shítty nieces and nephews.

Pretty much exactly why I left Facebook

c68zapdsm5i1ru

My sister said they're always trying to bring in this policy where she works. It usually lasts for a couple of weeks and then people drift back to their old habits.

Hammer89

I eat at my desk, but I work from home. Enjoy your commute this evening. Fags.

MeatTwoVeg

If you didn't go to the canteen at tea break and lunchtime to socialise and chat with your colleagues where I work, people would think you were a right weirdo.

TheRiverman

MeatTwoVeg wrote: »

They've banned **** at your desk in my place.

How come?

dinorebel

TheRiverman wrote: »

no come?

fixed

Emma1980

andekwarhola wrote: »

I suggest working from home if you're that sensitive.

I don't see it as being "that sensitive" but when you work in a fairly small office with 30 people, then some consideration needs to be taken for your co-workers....especially when there is both a kitchen and a canteen provided!!

midnight city

The cleaners may have complained too. Food trampled into the carpets etc

lawred2

Jakob Ashy Headboard wrote: »

No eating lunch at your desk, please. This has just been introduced into my workplace, even for people in offices on their own. No real reason given.

Just wondering if this is a standard thing in workplaces, and is it usually adhered to?

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what sort of arsehole introduced that policy?

Ted111

Do these bans extend to eating under your desk?

Stheno

Ted111 wrote: »

Do these bans extend to eating under your desk?

You've reminded me of a vile creature I used to work with who did foul things while hiding under their desk

Edups

Hammer89 wrote: »

I eat at my desk, but I work from home. Enjoy your commute this evening.

Seriously? That last comment (I removed it from quote) is that really necessary?

By the by

Online surveys aren't work hon xoxo

TallGlass

My problem with it is. The ****ers who piss off on lunch for an hour away from there desks, then come back and start eating lunch at there desk and doing so called 'work', talk about taking the piss.

pilly

Grayson wrote: »

Crises bridges. My job was to manage a technical crises as it occurred.

One Saturday, just after xmas I was in the office by myself. at 8:05 there was a major incident. I was on the phone till nearly 4pm. I couldn't leave for more than a minute or two. There was a massive box of roses chocolates on the desk for xmas and I had no food. I ate nearly all of them. I have never felt so sick. After that I started stocking up on snacks.

What about going for a wee or should I ask.

Stheno

pilly wrote: »

What about going for a wee or should I ask.

Run to the toilet, pee at the speed of light and run back. These days with wireless headsets you can just head to the toilet wee in peace and put the headset on mute

BailMeOut

I worked at a financial services company where everyone ate at their desks and the keyboards were always disgusting. IT were always replacing or vacuuming all the crap out of them.

pilly

Stheno wrote: »

Run to the toilet, pee at the speed of light and run back. These days with wireless headsets you can just head to the toilet wee in peace and put the headset on mute

Oh I only thank god I'm out of the rat race!! Work for a much slower moving company now so no need to eat at the desk but I do have to say the art of conversation in the canteen has died anyway, everyone is on a bloody phone so it can be quite boring.

uch

Stheno wrote: »

Run to the toilet, pee at the speed of light and run back. These days with wireless headsets you can just head to the toilet wee in peace and put the headset on mute

I'd feel sorry for the poor fecker on the other end of the line if you needed a Dump though

diomed

Jakob Ashy Headboard wrote: »

No eating lunch at your desk, please. This has just been introduced into my workplace, even for people in offices on their own. No real reason given.
Just wondering if this is a standard thing in workplaces, and is it usually adhered to?

Don't let them grind you down. Stick it to the man, and get fired.

Ted_YNWA

Stheno wrote: »

Run to the toilet, pee at the speed of light and run back. These days with wireless headsets you can just head to the toilet wee in peace and put the headset on mute

I did that before one time & was paranoid that I never put it on mute.

ahlookit

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

I did that before one time & was paranoid that I never put it on mute.

Zaph

davmol wrote: »

I eat lunch at my desk and I usually bring in some stench fish like mackerel,Salmon etc.

Im sure some of my workmates cant stand it but no one has said anything yet.

We had a temp a few years ago who appeared to survive on nothing but tuna. She have a tin on bread for breakfast, another in a salad for lunch and usually another as a snack sometime during the day, all eaten at her desk. And as if the stench there wasn't bad enough, she had a habit of draining the tins in the sink in the kitchen and not running the tap afterwards. No amount of hints or eventually people asking her straight out to be a bit more considerate could get her to stop. There wasn't a single person sorry to see her go when her contract was up.

Edups

Zaph wrote: »

she had a habit of draining the tins in the sink in the kitchen and not running the tap afterwards. No amount of hints or eventually people asking her straight out to be a bit more considerate could get her to stop.

Same person no doubt erodes dishes in their sink.

Poor Uncle Tom

Mr.S wrote: »

Even if the food doesn't smell, eating noises are really annoying.

I don't like eating noises myself, I much prefer food.....:pac:

TallGlass

TallGlass wrote: »

My problem with it is. The ****ers who piss off on lunch for an hour away from there desks, then come back and start eating lunch at there desk and doing so called 'work', talk about taking the piss.

You wouldn't like working with in my place, we usually head of into town at 12:40 to have our sandwich got and be back to the tea room to start our hour of lunch from 1 to 2* :pac:

*We can have lunch any time we want but my group of friends at work and I always have it from 1 to 2.

Rezident

Jakob Ashy Headboard wrote: »

No eating lunch at your desk, please. This has just been introduced into my workplace, even for people in offices on their own. No real reason given.

Just wondering if this is a standard thing in workplaces, and is it usually adhered to?

No but I wish it was - kinda hard to work when people are eating smelly food near you, it's extremely obvious. Go for a walk or go out or something, how would you like it if I ate fish beside you while you were trying to work? It stinks.

Get out of it.

Goya

By the way, I don't think anyone objects to someone eating at their desk in their own office. The smell and crumbs (if an issue obviously) in an open-plan office only is what's being referred to. I eat a quick lunch in the canteen - usually by myself, go out for some air, then go back to my desk for the rest of my lunch. Would of course have a tea or coffee, fruit (not an orange!) chocolate, yogurt, those kinda things at my desk though. But stuff like tuna, egg, onion and crumb shedders like sausage rolls/croissants are for the canteen in my opinion.

MeatTwoVeg wrote: »

If you didn't go to the canteen at tea break and lunchtime to socialise and chat with your colleagues where I work, people would think you were a right weirdo.

I worked in a place like that - HR would even express concern if you took time for yourself. I lasted six weeks. I'm anything but anti social. I am in the company of my colleagues (whom I get on great with) and looking after customers and clients/attending meetings for 7.5 hours a day and I love my job. I want my breaks to myself mostly though - including stuff like making personal phonecalls, catching up on emails/social media messages. Plus I'm an adult.

Edups

Working in Slaney meats I used to go out somewhere quite for a cigarette break then again I return from a small walk through Clohamon village the canteen would be emptied out, so I could eat by myself... the other staff were decent folk I just rather be on my own during lunch. I don't see wanting an hour to yourself as a horrible thing at all

Aongus Von Bismarck

Dining al desko is one of the signs of the downfall of society. It's either a red flag that you aren't working to the best of your abilities, or that your employer has underestimated the resources required for that particular position.

I work in a highly pressurised and demanding industry. That said; I can always take 30 minutes away from my desk to eat well, read a book, and listen to some music or a podcast. If the weather is suitable, then I'll always go outside to do so.

Stheno

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Dining al desko is one of the signs of the downfall of society. It's either a red flag that you aren't working to the best of your abilities, or that your employer has underestimated the resources required for that particular position.

I work in a highly pressurised and demanding industry. That said; I can always take 30 minutes away from my desk to eat well, read a book, and listen to some music or a podcast. If the weather is suitable, then I'll always go outside to do so.

I'm disappointed I'd have been expecting you to be having two hour long corporate lunches

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

I emptied my yoghurt over my keyboard in work years ago. It was an utter nightmare to clean. I've never eaten yoghurt at my desk since.

Agricola

As a card carrying member of the IMBA, this rule would do my head in. Bad enough to be listening to people's shít for 7 hours of the day, but to be forced to go to the canteen every day to listen to it for lunch........ no thanks.






Irish Misanthropic Bastards Association

Username here

Grayson wrote: »

I used to have a desk stuffed with healthy snacks. Oat bars, some nuts etc. I could be on phone calls that lasted up to 12 hours and unable to leave so I always had food in my desk to keep me going.

I think saying nothing smelly is fine. Just no meals. Coffee, snacks are fine.
I can only imagine the heap the place would have been in if they banned coffee

TWELVE HOURS?!?!?! :eek: Did you have nappies at your desk as well?

Jesus Christ.

corner of hells

Username here wrote: »

TWELVE HOURS?!?!?! :eek: Did you have nappies at your desk as well?

Jesus Christ.

He charges 4 euros a minute to talk to him.His number is 0818 big boy and will wear the nappies for you.

A bloke I know told me about him .

somesoldiers

Jakob Ashy Headboard wrote: »

No eating lunch at your desk, please. This has just been introduced into my workplace, even for people in offices on their own. No real reason given.

Just wondering if this is a standard thing in workplaces, and is it usually adhered to?

it's just a gradual diminution of what we can decide to do for ourselves in the workplace. That and "casual Fridays", which we have every day during summer, Easter & Christmas although someone will probably moan that we only have it on Christian festivals one of these days and it'll be stopped altogether.


We are not allowed "hot meals or cereals", though I don't see anyone enforcing it. Am happy to get away from my desk for breakfast and lunch anyway regardless of the rules.


Reasons being I suppose- Stinkiness
The Finnish girl in accounts is having that smelly fish sandwich again, do you know they leave that in the garden for 6 months to ferment (may or may not be served cold am not sure)
The Indian IT guy having leftover curry or the Irish intern with his mum's coddle.
Spillage & general hygiene though why this would only apply to hot foods in our place is beyond me

whiskeyman

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »

I emptied my yoghurt over my keyboard in work years ago. It was an utter nightmare to clean. I've never eaten yoghurt at my desk since.

I bet your emails were written in a very cultured manner

c68zapdsm5i1ru

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Dining al desko is one of the signs of the downfall of society. It's either a red flag that you aren't working to the best of your abilities, or that your employer has underestimated the resources required for that particular position.

I work in a highly pressurised and demanding industry. That said; I can always take 30 minutes away from my desk to eat well, read a book, and listen to some music or a podcast. If the weather is suitable, then I'll always go outside to do so.

I agree people should get a proper lunch break. But if someone in an office on their own would prefer to have a sandwich at their desk while reading or listening to music or looking up stuff on the internet than going into the canteen, I don't really see why that should be an issue.
It's not necessarily anti social. Some people really just enjoy having their lunch in peace and quiet.

A Battered Mars Bar

Only saps ate at their desk. Nothing worse than these ones ating their breakfast in front of the computer. F*ck out of bed earlier and ate at home you lazy c*nt

c68zapdsm5i1ru

A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

Only saps ate at their desk. Nothing worse than these ones ating their breakfast in front of the computer. F*ck out of bed earlier and ate at home you lazy c*nt

Why are you a sap if you eat at your desk?

whoopsadoodles

Jakob Ashy Headboard wrote: »

Why are you a sap if you eat at your desk?

Ate at your desk he said.

Eating is grand. It's Ateing is the problem.

team_actimel

A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

Only saps ate at their desk. Nothing worse than these ones ating their breakfast in front of the computer. F*ck out of bed earlier and ate at home you lazy c*nt

I don't mind the ones eating sandwiches or breakfast bars (I do the same from time to time). It's the ones who eat their porridge or whatnot and they noisily clang their spoon in the bowl every minute or so in between typing and eating and then scrape the remains of the bowl which feels like an eternity.

FanadMan

somesoldiers wrote: »

The Finnish girl in accounts is having that smelly fish sandwich again, do you know they leave that in the garden for 6 months to ferment (may or may not be served cold am not sure)

If it's surstromming, be glad she doesn't open the tin in the building......needs to be opened underwater and rinsed for ages otherwise it would really stink the place out. It is nice though.

Joe prim

Jakob Ashy Headboard wrote: »

I can understand asking people in shared offices not to eat cooked food at their desks.
But surely someone in a room of their own, eating a sandwich and reading the paper or something interesting on the internet is not bothering anyone, and getting a proper break from work?

I actually find our canteen more stressful than relaxing at times. People talking about work, a loudmouth who always hogs the conversation to discuss her family, her health etc etc, or just the general noise level when a lot of people are there at the same time.

If this is what i think it is, (and it usually is) probably best not to do it at your desk, but wait until you are in the privacy of your own residence.

whoopsadoodles

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

Ate at your desk he said.

Eating is grand. It's Ateing is the problem.

Eating bates Ateing.

A Battered Mars Bar

A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

Only saps ate at their desk. Nothing worse than these ones ating their breakfast in front of the computer. F*ck out of bed earlier and ate at home you lazy c*nt

Na, I prefer the extra sleep and eating breakfast while browsing the internet and getting paid.

Teyla Emmagan

The last thing I want to have to do on lunch is talk to my ****ing colleagues.