Eating at work

[bodylice]

Do any of you have policies on eating in the office?

Currently there is a bag of crisps going off 5 feet away from my left ear. It is nearly constant the whole working day.

I have several options:

- go home and work there (I often do, but prefer not)
- go out for repeated long walks (wastes work time)
- listen to very loud music in headphones (Gershwin at the moment)

Does anybody else agree that it is highly anti-social and ruinous to decent concentration? Does anybody's place of work have rules or limitations on anti-social eating in the office?

Crisps "belong" in pubs, not in an office.

[legendis.god]

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[funnygirl]

Boy, am I glad you don't work here with me!!!!

We have got crisps, biscuits and cakes constantly doing the rounds and lunchtime the smells of different lunches wafting around the office would surely do your head in!!!!!

[Octavius]

We have a staff break out area and all eating at desks is banned. We do have a few tea slurpers though.

[DanAB]

surely they would eat food during the lunch break?

[wigglebum]

No rules in our office but we did have one bloke who was constantly eating a bag of Bombay mix even when he answered the phone. He nearly got a punch!!

[Gormless]

No rules where I work, but I most definitely agree! We even had one meeting where bags of crisps were handed round. I walked out.

High concentration jobs are not helped by rustling bags and crunching crisps.

[mccfluff]

no rules in our office but on the sales food your not allowed hot food. We do have a canteen though so people can go in there

[cazzz1975]

why do you reply to your own thread gorm, all that sign out sign in must give you the willies

[Mr Veritas]

When I started work (At 14,in 1937) you weren't even allowed to talk to the person at the next desk without permission of your Supervisor.(Who would want to know exactly WHY you wanted to).
I wonder how people would cope with that today.
I never knew my (nearest) colleague's surname(we didn't do christian names at work then) until I had been there for 6 months!
It sounds like Queen Victoria's reign doesn't it.
Mind you I wouldn't want to go back to that era,even given the many faults of this time.