[Closed] People at work who comment on your lunch!

Lighten up? People talk shite constantly, get used to it :-).

You just need to punch em' in the face whilst holding sushi.

That'll stop em'.

Picture of your lunch or it didn't happen...

Tell 'em the chicken is foul.

bikebouy - Member

That'll [s]stop[/s] learn em'.

Oooh, nice use of italics. Feeling fancy, are we?

Microwave some stinking fish leftovers

Yeah, it annoys me too. The other one: When checkout people comment on what I'm buying for lunch grrrrrrr. Yesterday, I took in a packed lunch, but went across the road to pick up additional yogurt and fruit. The checkout person comments on my "light" lunch, at which point I'm then forced to justify my lunch habit.

Whatever.

@LeeW - "learn 'em" 🙄

You sound like fun to have as a colleague 🙂

When checkout people comment on what I'm buying for lunch

there's a woman in out local tesco's who calims to have never seen half the stuff we buy.

looking at her i believe it's the salad ailse she doesn't know!

Microwave some stinking fish leftovers

You know my colleagues !0? Every lunch involves microwaved rotten fish.

I am a vegan and no one ever comments on what I am eating
Never hear - EEEEWWWWW what is that or it would be nice if you put meat in it

On the plus side no one ever steals it from the fridge

I generally have a variation on the same thing every day, a packet Pasta 'n' Sauce thing. Reason, it's easy, it's filling, and there aren't a lot of other options.

Someone will feel fit to comment, oh, twice a week maybe. Every week. I've been here ten years. I'm going to go all Falling Down one day.

You know my colleagues !0? Every lunch involves microwaved rotten fish.

Do you work in a seal sanctuary?

No i work in angola.

"AIBU". Anyone who uses that has instantly achieved the status of bat shit crazy harpy 😉

... I dunno what they eat for lunch, before you ask.

8/10 ..... good rant

I particularly enjoyed

your wife's face

🙂

I have to defend my piles of toast on a daily basis. They all know I ride to work, I tried just haveing half a tin of beans and 2 pieces of toast on tuesday, I nearly fainted on the way home 😆

Do you make your lunch like this?

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Top Tip :

Amaze and confound your work colleagues by having chicken for your lunch one day , changing your name to Hughie and then having pea and ham soup for lunch the next day. They won't believe how clever you are.*

*Please note - This joke is for 1980's Scottish persons only.

I particularly enjoyed

your wife's face

Juxtaposition of the day.

As you're a vegan junkyard no one gets chance to ask you what you're eating as you will have told them already

Rant loses all meaning because of the use of AIBU. This is not mums net yer big chicken lover.

-0.5 / 10

Junky, if I worked in your office I'd ask 'what meat you got in that?' every single day.

[b]EVERY

SINGLE

DAY[/b]

Hold on a second .....

SY is back ....

Since when ??

And why ???

As you're a vegan junkyard no one gets chance to ask you what you're eating as you will have told them already

This! I work with a vegan.........

As you're a vegan junkyard no one gets chance to ask you what you're eating as you will have told them already

Oh wow someone phone the local hospital try and get a hold of the MAJOR BURNS unit they've got a new patient

As you're a vegan junkyard no one gets chance to ask you what you're eating as you will have told them already

😆 😆 😆

Do you work in a seal sanctuary?

😆

[quote=The Southern Yeti ]Junky, if I worked in your office I'd ask 'what meat you got in that?' every single day.
EVERY
SINGLE
DAY

I would definitely eat meat for you

FWIW I have literally no idea who eats meat in my office* as they literally never ever mention this to me or ever say how tasty it is or how they could not live without it \nd they certainly never say how much they are looking fwd to the roast dinner on roast dinner day - as only vegans ever mention food - do you meat eat eaters like bacon I have always wondered as no one has ever said?

* I dont work in one BTW

Ummmmmm bacon *drooly smiley*

😛

Blimey, Junky's a vegan.....didn't know that! 😉

I don't think he's mentioned it before

I mentioned it once before but i think I got away with it as the meat eater took it with the usual diplomatic charm that I have come to expect from those who eat the flesh of the dead 😉

You mean they asked if you missed *****?

I don't need to type it 😉

Any meat in your breakfast Junky?

And you eat bacon, yeah?

At my old place a group of us used to go out and get fish or pie and chips on a Friday and take them into the work canteen.

Everyone would be around like they'd never seen chips before.

"Oooh, they look nice"

"Oooh what you got there?"

Then the MD (who was a bellend) would arrive and do a nauseating faux-matey "Oh go on, give us a chip" and take one.

We started driving to laybys and random dogging car parks to sit in the car (if winter) or out on garden chairs to eat.

I'd rather sit in car and stink it out with chips than go through the crap in the canteen.

I only tend to mention what a work colleague is eating if, driven by a human desire to engage with the people around me at least once a day, they are so completely devoid of any sort of personality or interests that I'm bereft of anything else to say.

"ooh that looks healthy"

Good for you, walrus face.

[quote=The Southern Yeti ]Any meat in your breakfast Junky?

pitta bread one with olive tapenade one with sun dried tomato tapenade

I wish I was joking

My favourite comment on a meal at work was made about my breakfast. I'd ridden about 30 miles in and sat down with a bowl of cereal. One of my rather less energetic and more rotund colleagues commented "blimey, that's a large portion". I'm surprised I could eat at all after biting my tongue.

Everyone would be around like they'd never seen chips before.

I used to get this in a previous place of work. Stick-thin young female office workers acting like I'd rocked up with a bag of heroin. "Would you like one?" I'd ask. "Oh, I can't, I'm on a diet." FFS, it's one chip! Have one, you'll feel better (and stop covering them with drool).

Half the staff at one workplace get precooked meals from the canteen, everyone get the same meal, ex. always fish on wednesday. The other half bring something from home.
As I bring whatever I have in the fridge I would be annoyed if someone was being nosey everyday on what I had for lunch.
-the only acceptable comment is on the fish as the canteen either over or under cook it.
[i]'How's the fish Erik?' 'Good thing you had wednesday off, the fish wasn't worth it'[/i]

In a similar vein: winching my way up a 1:3 off road climb on my heavy FS bike, a passing walker said "that looks like hard work".

Not really sure what to say there. It is quite hard work, yes.

at work there's a white board above my desk. when my colleagues found out that i have (slight ) reservations about eating food that still looks like it did when it was alive (ie visible egg and not in a cake like God meant it..) they started listing things on the board and getting exasperated on my behalf...

i just said i don't like it so i don't eat it; whats worth worrying about???

mind you one of my colleagues has never eaten chips, cheese & gravy (Manx alternative "National Dish") so there you go. thank heavens we're all different 🙂

I have cuscus and mackrel every day as it takes about a minitue to cook. Got grief for a bit and running joke of "what you got today... no wait i know".
Now a least 3 others at work eat it regularly...

Someone at work though has a packed lunch made for him everyday by his wife, doesnt know whats for lunch untill he open his lunchbox (s**** 🙂 ) now that just weired.

In a similar vein: winching my way up a 1:3 off road climb on my heavy FS bike, a passing walker said "that looks like hard work".

Not really sure what to say there. It is quite hard work, yes.

That's just classic slightly awkward, wanting to be friendly small talk. I quite like it as it means that they're not glaring at you for enjoying yourself.

Whenever a walker holds a gate open for me on a climb I always do a mild mock admonishment and say "Typical, if you'd closed that I could have had a rest".

Don't really know why, but it makes a few people chuckle.

Team I'm in gets a lot of comment about how much we eat (a fair bit, plus extra cake).
Each time someone from one of the other teams joins us to get more tree felling experience, they bring a lot more for lunch the next day. Most recent one bought a whole large Loaf in addition to their usual lunch on the second day.

I took various pasta-based tubs with me for a while, but I got fed up with the comments from the other members of the team.
Seeing as how the 'office' is a Kia Carens, with six of us packed in, they may have had a point.
I just take large bags of mixed nuts and chomp on those during the day.

So........people commenting on your lunch is the worst of your problems?

Ok.

no, I work in Angola

For my part, I used to work with a Portugueser who microwaved leftover bacalao about once a week- that gear is pungent!

My luchbox is often commented upon, I'm not offended.

@trail rat

Working off Angola yonks ago, an unstable place then (is it better now) we picked up a bird-dog off a platform. No-one went on land then. He commented on the quality of the food on board, being Norwegian it was rather good. Someone asked what he'd been getting, he said for the previous month fish and rice. We commiserated. He said it wasn't so bad, the previous month had been fish heads and rice.

Team I'm in gets a lot of comment about how much we eat

Everywhere I've ever worked, the IT department has been the leftover food disposal team.

We've nothing on the auditors we've got in at the moment though. They're on a hot-desk at the end of the office, and there's more food piled up on there than there is laptops and paperwork. They're the same every year, never known anything like it.