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No eating at desk policy

  • 15-11-2016 1:24pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭ Jakob Ashy Headboard


    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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  • Registered Users Posts: 27,317 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Sneak a sandwich into your sock and eat it in the jacks.

    That'll show those pricks.


  • Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    It could be that the smell isn't nice.
    It can also be that the company wants you to take a proper break and not push food into your face while still working.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,390 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    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?

    Its done in a few places, normally because people would come in to the office with a chipper etc and stink the office out of it.

    I eat at my desk everyday with no issues :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,410 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    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?

    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,484 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Their house- their rules I would have thought.

    It's a terrible habit to get in to imo.

    They're doing you a favour.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Mr Tuna Noodles across the partition from me would not be happy with this rule. I would be delighted!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Lunchtime should be banned outright.

    When the big end goes on the Zetor and you need to order parts, the bastards are out to lunch

    When you crash your tooth in a lump of Yellow Man and need a dentist real quick, the bastards are out to lunch

    When you're in town for the only time in a week and need to buy a stamp, the bastards are out to lunch

    Yous don't even work half a day, why do yous need to me munching in the middle of it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 505 ✭✭✭Koptain Liverpool


    I wish they introduce such a ban in my work. I' think it's awful that people don't go for lunch and have a proper break together.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I eat at other peoples desks.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Sounds like a challenge.

    Eat your lunch in the doorway and see how that goes down.


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  • 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?

    I was talking about work practices with my father recently. When he was my age, everyone got a full hour for lunch and they got a full sit down 3 course meal for free.

    Then we got onto expenses. He said when he was submitting expenses, he had been told that if he was away for business, they didn't expect him to sit in his hotel all evening. If you went to a show, expense it.

    I said "Dad, what year are we talking about?". He said: "It was about...1956".

    I said "Yeah, things have changed."

    OP, are you given anywhere to have lunch other than your desk? In my place there is a kitchen slightly larger than a phonebox, but we are "allowed" eat at our desks. It was pointed out to us during induction that we are allowed eat our desks like it was one of the benefits. :rolleyes:

    If they do provide you with somewhere to eat, then go eat there. If they don't then raise it with them.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    I've seen people dripping jam from the morning toast all over their keyboards. If nothing else, it would make your desk a little more hygenic.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,247 ✭✭✭Maguined


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭ Jakob Ashy Headboard


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭team_actimel


    I've never heard of it being a rule in workplaces before but I think it should. It would encourage people to be more social with their colleagues.

    A pet hate of mine is those colleagues who always eat at their desks and think nothing of scraping their forks as loudly as possibly against their ceramic bowls. Gives me shivers.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 393 ✭✭Mortpourvelo


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,118 ✭✭✭PressRun


    I think it's a good rule from the point of view of getting people away from their desks and out of the office to socialise at different intervals throughout the day, as well as the smell issue.

    I don't see any problem with having tea or coffee at the desk, though I know of a couple of employers who don't even allow this.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    I eat at my desk but only because there is no canteen, just a kitchen. I only ever eat cereal, sandwiches and cold food though, would never bring something hot into the office...not fair to subject other people to that. Would prefer a canteen though, but usually I go for a walk for 20-30 minutes just to get out of the office for a bit before eating.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Emma1980


    don't see a problem with cold food that doesn't smell but if it does smell, then eat it elsewhere!!

    i hate the smell of soup....to the point where it makes my stomach heave....my problem i know, i end up having to walk out for a few minutes until it's finished - extreme i know but thats how much i hate the smell!!

    and those egg mcmuffins too....bleurgh!!!!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭Bracken81


    The last thing i want to hear on lunch.............is people waffling about work issues!!
    Or their kids!!!

    Rather read the paper online at my desk :-)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Can we introduce a ban on food that smells like 40 day old road kill on the highway to Death Valley ?
    That should be easy enough. Death valleys arid conditions would slow down the decomposition process due to it being inhospitable to insects, the sun drying out the corpse would mean even bacteria would be hard pushed to get very far in breaking down the tissues. That would all mean that the animal will petrify, it won't smell good but it wouldn't be anywhere near the smell of a decomposing body here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Goya


    I wish they introduce such a ban in my work. I' think it's awful that people don't go for lunch and have a proper break together.
    Personally I don't mind that - I often prefer to take my lunch alone (although just for a bit of me time, not due to irrational anger at ordinary people and their nieces and nephews! :eek:) Eating at the desk due to the smell and crumbs (and in fairness if it's not stinky food and effort is made not to leave crumbs, that's fine in my opinion) is my only issue, just spending the rest of their lunch break at their desk is not a problem.

    There was a mouse in my workplace once - this is why I get bothered by the crumbs thing.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,852 ✭✭✭Steve F


    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.

    What ever for? ;)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 861 ✭✭✭MeatTwoVeg


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    My colleagues are fine but I like lunch time so I can read and relax alone.

    Unless you have to personally clean other people's desks, don't sweat about the crumbs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭CINCLANTFLT


    MeatTwoVeg wrote: »
    They've banned **** at your desk in my place.

    I was just about to post the same! I do it in the toilets anyway, but some guy got caught down in the PC repair area! He thought no one could see over the partition behind his Work bench.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,137 ✭✭✭✭Penn


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Emma1980 wrote: »
    i hate the smell of soup....to the point where it makes my stomach heave....my problem i know but when my co-worker decides to have soup at their desk which is next to mine, i end up having to walk out for a few minutes until it's finished - extreme i know but thats how much i hate the smell!!

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Flimpson wrote: »
    Personally I don't mind that - I often prefer to take my lunch alone (although just for a bit of me time, not due to irrational anger at ordinary people and their nieces and nephews! :eek:) Eating at the desk due to the smell and crumbs (and in fairness if it's not stinky food and effort is made not to leave crumbs, that's fine in my opinion) is my only issue, just spending the rest of their lunch break at their desk is not a problem.

    There was a mouse in my workplace once - this is why I get bothered by the crumbs thing.
    I was just about to mention that the crumbs would attract (non-human) vermin so that would be another reason for it. I normally go to the canteen for lunch but today I was delayed so sat down to read this thread with a nutritious packet of Thai chilli & basil Velvet Crunch. I can feel the nutrients enter my blood-stream and see the crumbs all over my keyboard. :pac:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 16,067 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Emma1980 wrote: »
    don't see a problem with cold food that doesn't smell but if it does smell, then eat it elsewhere!!

    i hate the smell of soup....to the point where it makes my stomach heave....my problem i know but when my co-worker decides to have soup at their desk which is next to mine, i end up having to walk out for a few minutes until it's finished - extreme i know but thats how much i hate the smell!!

    and those egg mcmuffins too....bleurgh!!!!!!

    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.


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