I'm sorry but...

[fingertrouble]

...eating at your desk at work is fucking disgusting.

Especially when your work colleagues are eating horribly smelly food and have to sit through them burping and gobbling their slop noisily at high speed like some fucking pig at a trough.

And you can't escape because you work next to them...

Sad thing is the employer subtly discourages you from going out to lunch, but if I was a boss it would be mandatory, I don't want to work in an unhygienic environment with half-eaten food and smelly distracting dishes. The closest I get to that is a croissant in the morning - maybe a few crumbs but not smelly or distracting, but I'd prefer to have a nice leisurely breakfast on my own, but then I'd roll in about 11am :-D Breakfast can be a tradeoff, but everyone should get a break and lunch outside.

In fact I have a real problem eating in public; I don't like it; especially on tubes or trains, I feel really embarassed and only do it when literally it's the absolutely only way. Even then I feel bad if there is a lot of people around and really self concious.

Just saying like.

Comments

[viridescence]

I don't think that it's disgusting to eat at your desk at work in general. Sometimes I'm too busy and literally have no other choice. However, I'll agree that doing it requires manners as well as some respect for those around you.

I don't leave half-eaten food sitting on my desk all day, and I don't throw anything away in my bin that would stink up the place. I try to be very courteous of others, and in my experience most everyone here is the same way. I've never heard anyone gobbling, smelled nasty dishes, et cetera. I think you just work with slobs. :)

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

I work with whoever pays me, so I've no choice about that.

Still annoys me sometimes tho, especially when it would take 5 minutes to go sit somewhere else, and some places I've worked have lounges / eating areas but still they eat at their desk...fair enough if there is no place to go; but there is around here, even the park...

It's a personal thing and won't be popular saying it, but I just think it's bad manners; and it's really unhygienic - remember that study that found there was more germs on a work desk than say a toilet - purely down to people eating at work.

[viridescence]

Yeah, I understand that -- we certainly can't choose our co-workers. How I wish I could! We do have a few places that we can go, but sometimes there's no time. Maybe we have to agree to disagree on this, but I still don't think it's bad manners to eat at your desk, period, just to do it in the slobby, disgusting way that you describe.

I believe you about the germs -- I'm germphobic and keep hand sanitizer in my desk. There's a guy here that has the most disgusting desk I have ever seen...