[Closed] People eating breakfast in shared offices

Its probably second breakfast they're having.

Why does it annoy you so much?

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I'm presently eating a full English at my desk. I keep dropping beans on my keyboard.

Its probably second breakfast they're having.

Yep, I need a tightener to see me through to brunch.

Its probably second breakfast they're having

You work with Hobbits?

Yep, I need a tightener to see me through to brunch.

Yes, wouldn't want to faint before elevenses.

monkeysfeet - not sure about all of them but Liam definitely is.

Start taking kippers for breakfast. Should generate the desired ban soon enough.

Take your shirt off and have a quick wash and shave in the kitchen sink - the room should clear pretty sharpish.

Do this everyday as '...you just don't have time before leaving the house'.

I guess depends what they're eating, I eat toast at my desk which I doubt bothers anyone, I could understand smoked kippers might though. As for why, well I prefer to start early but am not really hungry before 7am (when I leave the house), I also don't function before my 3-shot coffee so get a peanut butter toast sandwich with it (which keeps me feeling full until about 4pm).

Quite a few here make porridge at work and eat at their desks, can't see the problem with that either (although there were discussions about the company not supplying milk for breakfasts, just for tea/coffee which although seemed reasonable to me died away after a lot of complaints).

Perfectly acceptable practice in our offices. Quite a few like me either cycle or run to work, so no chance of breakfast at home. Others have been to the gym or just pick something up en-route and then we have a sandwich van that comes round so there’s always folk buying breakfast from that.

Can’t really see what the problem is. Is it any different to eating your lunch at your desk

If it's cereal, start a work related conversation with them just as they pour the milk on, and see if you can get them to come and look at something so by the time they get back their cornflakes are soggy.

Do they clean their teeth afterwards? I can't stand having unclean teeth after breakfast! Stale milk on the breath 😕

I do this. It's because I'm in earlier than everyone else.

Slackers, wasting time at home eating breakfast.

Start work at 6am. Can't face eating at 5am, so it's a couple of mugs of splosh at work then cereal/yoghurt about 8am. Not sure there's much of an alternative?

Nobody pays me to eat breakfast at home.

See also: China Cruise

annoying little pecks at work, who complain about everything.
all workplaces have a shithead........... 😀

IME it's not just the runners / cyclists, quite often it's just those that would rather eat breakfast in work time than have to get up 15 mins earlier,
And then they bigger off for a shit with their smartphones for 30 minutes.
Slackers!

Why is it a problem having breakfast at home? I cycle to work, leave home at 6:40, and have time for breakfast. Why should I put up with people and their smelly food just so they can have a bit longer in bed.
Wimps.

Surely the answer is the breakfast of champions in the car, on the way in....

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And people wonder why British productivity is so dire.

Robots don't eat breakfast.

Why is it a problem having breakfast at home?

Perhaps they are all doing a fasted ride on their commutes?

Perhaps they are all doing a fasted ride on their commutes?

So wait until lunch, that will be right fasted.

We have a restaurant that serves the building and cafes on every other floor, all serve breakfast and coffee etc.. quite right too.
Some folk travel half the country to get here in a morning, some run, some cycle, some walk, some catch the tube etc. etc. Some get here at 0630, some get here at 11, some don’t go home for 24hrs, some do 3hrs then head home again..
Perfectly acceptable to scoff bacon rolls or cereal or croissant or whatever else you fancy..

Get with modern work life living, it’s the future.

[i]IME it's not just the runners / cyclists, quite often it's just those that would rather eat breakfast in work time than have to get up 15 mins earlier[/i]

Yes - and knowing they can steal the tea/coffee milk rather than use their own.
And they have bad breath. Notice how people recoil from you, halitosis boy.

why does it annoy you?

i get in to the office at 6am, shower and eat cereal and start 6.30. No-one else is around.

i dont get paid to do this?

i brush my teeth and have a tea afterwards..

muggo - you'd have to be in early..

dezb - i take mine in with me.. sorry to disappoint

find it exceedingly annoying. Eat your damn breakfast at home!!!

No!

Acceptable here though bacon butties might be a little "delicate" given my boss is a Muslim and sits next to me!

I remember, pre austerity, working at Haringey Council in that London. My boss came up to a colleague and started asking her to carry out a task, I can't remember what.

Through a mouthful of cereal she replied "can you come back when I've finished my breakfast". This was 10am. She didn't make the cut when it was time to tighten the purse strings

I eat toast at my desk which I doubt bothers anyone

I guarantee it does 😀

Get a life Op 😉 Why does what they're doing bother you?
Is it smelly?
Are they managed by you and should be working?
Are they your peer and should be working while you are?
Are they making unnecessary noise?
Are you just feeling grumpy today or all the time?
Are you hungry and quite fancy their sausage butty?

I eat breakfast at work.
I get up at 5:45 and have a 40 mile drive to work, so leaving as early as possible means I can avoid the worst of the traffic. It's still dire, just a bit less dire than it would be if I left later.

If I sat around eating breakfast at home, I would start to hit the worst of the traffic.

I'm also not hungry that early in the morning so it makes sense to leave breakfast until about 9am, as it will then see me through to lunch.

Occasionally, I will treat myself to a double sausage & egg mcmuffin meal, as there's a McD's about 2 mins down the road....Yum Yum.....!

A new starter recently came upstairs with scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast. That's just showing off.....

OP arriving at work this morning

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Do muslims have a problem with other people eating pork? I've never met any who object to this.

The fact that this irritates people to such an irrational extent makes doing it even more appealing.

Its the ones that use three pints of the communal milk that is supposed to be for tea and coffee that boil my piss!

[i]Through a mouthful of cereal she replied "can you come back when I've finished my breakfast".[/i]

Women in the workplace! Pah!

Could you produce a list of which foods we're allowed to eat at work?

If you start at work at 9, then having breakfast at your desk and finishing at 9 would be acceptable as long as it isn't smelly. Why should they pay you to eat a meal in working time?

trailwagger - Member

Its the ones that use three pints of the communal milk that is supposed to be for tea and coffee that boil my piss!

Then stop urinating in the kettle you pervert.

A new starter recently came upstairs with scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast. That's just showing off.....

Is it?

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Quite a few like me either cycle or run to work, so no chance of breakfast at home

not disagreeing, just genuinely interested why cycling or walking to work means you can't have breakfast at home?

edit Percy that looks rough sorry 🙂

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Wom[s]e[/s]an in the workplace! Pah!

Not any more

How can you complain about breakfast at work?

My office provides milk and cereal for us 😀

OP is a car salesman btw.

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why should they pay you to eat a meal in working time?

BLOODY UNIONS!!!

Too late!!! You've summoned up his restless, undead spirit. [b]RUN!!!![/b]

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I've just made two poached eggs on toast and I'm sat at my desk eating them right now.

'AVE IT!

I have played Cricket with Bob Crowe. He was sh*te. True fact.

Second breakfast at work is ace.

I usually eat brekkie at 5am, by the time I've been for a run or swim then cycled to work I'm ready for part deux.

Kind of annoyed the OP isn't in my office, I'd take great delight in knowing that my behaviour is irrationally getting on someone's goat.

Just finished my 10am porridge too, nom.

I've banned eating at desks in my place. Its not healthy. If you want to eat go sit at one of the tables in the kitchen.

Must be nice to get the chance.

Not sure why so many people feel the need to eat at their desks.
Not that it would bother me, but it's not like you've got a real job where you might actually expend some calories.

And you wouldn't catch Bob Crow eating at his desk.
He'd probably be at the Ritz or Dorchester, champagne socialist freeloading scumbag.

Do they clean their teeth afterwards? I can't stand having unclean teeth after breakfast! Stale milk on the breath

This. Breakfast with coffee at home and then shower and teeth (at the same time) before leaving for work.

Used to work with a lunatic lady who would go mad about people using company milk for breakfast. Said she would find out who it was and get them sacked. I spent hours and hours printing and cutting out pictures of the Nesquick bunny and placing them everywhere she might go. Making enemies of crazy people at work is something I miss. Everyone is nice at my current place 😥

I find it exceedingly annoying. Eat your damn breakfast at home!!!

Let me know where your desk is, I'll come round and eat loudly at you. You can choose one of many feeding times. If you're lucky, I might even do some of that lip smacking noise that gets on peoples tits, spill a bit of coffee on your desk and fart in your general direction.

Everyone is nice at my current place

And we've found the arsehole! 🙂

And we've found the arsehole!

Yep! 😆

On site cafe (porta cabin) is a daily ritual, only thing that upsets people is if you don't ask if they want a bacon roll

We used to have 'non work' benches in our open plan office which worked quite well - so if you were eating breakfast or lunch you sat at the non-work bench cracked on and returned to your desk when done. It was very effective because it meant you were not trying to eat your breakfast and do work, meant you finished up your breakfast/lunch more quickly so got back to productive work more quickly and didn't annoy your fellow workers munching into your snap crackle and pop while they're trying to concentrate.

Unfortunately we got rid of them to make way for people being relocated from a condemned building, so we're back to eating at our desks.

Do muslims have a problem with other people eating pork? I've never met any who object to this.

The vast majority are completely tolerant to other people's eating habits and associated beliefs. Of course you will get the odd one that might want to kick up a fuss, much like the odd person in the office who objects to people eating breakfast in there, while everyone else just gets on with it.

Acceptable here though bacon butties might be a little "delicate" given my boss is a Muslim and sits next to me!

Have you asked him / her? My Muslim colleagues don't care what other people eat.

Drac - Moderator

Must be nice to get the chance.

But you've got time to spend hours and hours a day on here chatting nonsense......?

Re: Muslim boss and others eating a bacon butty - Joke, taking the mick out of the no-eating thing maybe?

He's not bothered really. We do tend to avoid eating in the office during Ramadan though he's said he's fine with that as well.

[quote=trailwagger ]Its the ones that use three pints of the communal milk that is supposed to be for tea and coffee that boil my piss!

you pissed in the kettle? harsh.

He's not bothered really. We do tend to avoid eating in the office during Ramadan though he's said he's fine with that as well.

Yeah, best to avoid or minimise it just to be polite/nice, but I've never heard anyone complain.

My first and only breakfast is at work (there's a lot that follows but I class those as snacks)

2 scrambled eggs done in a mug in the microwave with some black pepper, then big mug of muesli, and big mug of tea

Changing offices soon and no food at desk policy is being introduced. All part of 'fresh working', my ar5e its fresh

Do they clean their teeth afterwards? I can't stand having unclean teeth after breakfast! Stale milk on the breath

Have you tried putting fresh milk on your breakfast instead?

I've banned eating at desks in my place. Its not healthy.

Why isn't it healthy?

Changing offices soon and no food at desk policy is being introduced. All part of 'fresh working', my ar5e its fresh

Is this a hygiene thing? I know I'd trust my desk to be cleaner than the tables in the shared areas or the site restaurant. I guess 'hot desking' may make things a bit more difficult.

bowl of weetabix at my desk every morning about 7am. happily use their milk too.. but then i dont have a million cups of tea during the day so its my fair share.

if it pisses anyone off in here then im glad.

When people stop scheduling meetings before work, after work, and through lunchtime and expecting me to attend and work, then I'll stop eating at my desk whenever I damn well feel like.

I eat toast at my desk which I doubt bothers anyone

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although there were discussions about the company not supplying milk for breakfasts, just for tea/coffee which although seemed reasonable to me died away after a lot of complaints

You'd need a lot of fridges for everyone's single pint of half drunk milk.

I get breakfast at work cos if I eat too much before riding in I feel awful and might be a bit sick (And if I don't eat I fall asleep by mid morning). I'd happily pay for whatever milk I use on cereal, and would have toast instead except they've decided we aren't allowed toasters.

My last place had a canteen that served morning snacks as well as lunch, it was good. I'd be fine with that.

But you've got time to spend hours and hours a day on here chatting nonsense......?

No, not when I’m at work.

not disagreeing, just genuinely interested why cycling or walking to work means you can't have breakfast at home?

I cycle 20+ miles to work. If I have breakfast before the ride then I'm hungry at 9 anyway.
So I just wait until I get to work.

I can't eat first thing in the morning, just don't have the appetite. My cycle ride is only 10 miles so don't need to have eaten to ride that. Then means I can eat at work when I'm genuinely starving

No, not when I’m at work.

You must work non standard hours then?

angeldust - Member

No, not when I’m at work.

You must work non standard hours then?

I cycle 20+ miles to work. If I have breakfast before the ride then I'm hungry at 9 anyway.
So I just wait until I get to work.

What about the others that walk and cycle?

Edit sorry getting you confused with hairylegs

I leave home at 7am, cycle 15 miles to work. Don't really feel like eating at 6.30am so grab some toast or porridge at work after my shower and eat it (edit: at my desk :twisted:) whilst I plan my day, pickup any emails etc.

Don't poke the sponge

😆 😆

I know a paramedic who spend loads of time online while on duty - there seems to be regular down-time between the action. He probly spends some of it eating too.

I've been doing it for years, it's perfectly normal in the industry I work in and no, it's not the breakfast cereal tasting industry either 😆

Same as many of the above, I have at least an hours drive to get to work, I start at 07:30, so I'm not getting up at 05:30 to have breakfast before work, I'd be hungry by 09:00 again anyway.