No eating at desk policy

BrokenArrows

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?

We never had an official policy but one of my previous managers had his personal policy.
If you're sick stay at home.
If you're on lunch then leave the desk. Eat food elsewhere.
If you're working then be at your desk.

I think its easier just to have a blanket ban on stuff rather than "you can eat at your desk but only if it doesnt smell or noone in the office".
One persons doesnt smell is another persons tuna.

theteal

We don't really take lunch breaks as such so good luck enforcing it here

Grayson

BrokenArrows wrote: »

We never had an official policy but one of my previous managers had his personal policy.
If you're sick stay at home.
If you're on lunch then leave the desk. Eat food elsewhere.
If you're working then be at your desk.

I think its easier just to have a blanket ban on stuff rather than "you can eat at your desk but only if it doesnt smell or noone in the office".
One persons doesnt smell is another persons tuna.

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

Jen44

im eating at my desk right now

Robsweezie

Do a Larry david and kick up a right stink about it

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Blazer wrote: »

Its a good thing, it gets people away from their desk for 20-30 mins to relax and chat to their co-workers etc.
It's a really bad habit to fall into at work and leads to more stressful days.
That 30mins to unwind is worth its weight in gold.

Is it? That is entirely dependent on each individual and what industry/job you work in. There should be a ban on eating very smelly food at your desk, that's fair enough, but a complete ban on eating at your desk should be avoided.

Saint_Mel

MeatTwoVeg wrote: »

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

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

_Kaiser_

I regularly eat lunch in my office. There is a canteen but it's usually busy/noisy and overheated so it's far nicer to just close the door and relax for half an hour while I eat .. most days in fact I wouldn't leave the building at all until home time.

c68zapdsm5i1ru

Well, today I quietly ate a sandwich at my desk in my private office. I made sure to leave no crumbs or other incriminating evidence!

I'm not anti social. I'm quite happy to hang around the canteen chatting to people while I make my coffee or prepare a salad, and to go up now and again for a tea break. But I also like a bit of down time on my own. In addition, when I go up to the canteen there's often two or three people sitting there, saying absolutely nothing to each other, just doing crosswords or looking at their phones and so on. It's not really any more sociable and chatty than someone having lunch quietly at their desk.

ArnoldJRimmer

I eat at my desk every day, even have a kettle here so I can make my own tea and coffee (its not free or subsidised in the canteen).

And aside from the time I made a trout curry, I don't see how that can bother anyone. The alternative is go down two floors to a packed canteen, queue for a microwave, queue for a tea/ coffee and potentially have some bellend sit beside me muttering on about how many years its been since he last took all of his holiday days

Alternatively, I boil the kettle beside me, use the microwave a 30 second walk away that is usually free, have a relaxing lunch eaten in 15 minutes and then have the time to go for a walk, or catch up on the news online.

ArnoldJRimmer

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

And aside from the time I made a trout curry

Jaysus.

davmol

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.

Edups

Mortpourvelo wrote: »

Can we introduce a ban on food that smells like 40 day old road kill on the highway to Death Valley ?

Some **** used the microwave and stunk the place up.

God that reminds me of a post I seen here a few days ago or that

Something like "I eat curry noodles but people complained about the microwave smelling like curry.

So I changed to chicken and mushroom so I did'"

Just had me laughing.

kfallon

MeatTwoVeg wrote: »

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3BNsttZQGQ

Edups

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

And aside from the time I made a trout curry

You're that fùcker then

maximum12

Grayson wrote: »

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.

Needy girlfriend ?

cbreeze

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?

We always ate sandwiches at our desks for lunch until a new colleague started microwaving stew so then our manager banned all eating except coffee and biscuits which was annoying for those with non-smelly eating habits. When manager was away we went back to our usual practices.

Mortpourvelo

MeatTwoVeg wrote: »

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

The uncaring ba***rds!!!

Snugglebunnies

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.

Wow you're the only other person I've heard of hating beans as much as me! Let's be friends! ðŸ˜

Dubh Geannain

Homicidal Maniacs.

So you decide to adhere to the policy of not eating at your desk and die of starvation as a result. It's the most likely outcome I can see.

If you do manage to make it out of work alive, and I don't fancy your chances, you could sue for constructive dismissal, although you will be too emaciated to see out the course of the legal scrap.

Quite the bind. Have you given photosynthesis a try?

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