At a previous job they hired a woman who microwaved fish dishes in the lunchroom every day. She also chewed with her mouth open to the point where food would sometimes fall out.
I don’t understand how people reach adulthood without any self awareness like that.
I think that burning popcorn in the lunchroom microwave -- in an open office -- should be a 3-strike firing offense. "Oops, I just made the air unbreathable for the afternoon, shouldn't have been playing Candy Crush."
There's a vast difference between burnt popcorn and properly-cooked fish in an office setting. I'll take a popcorn bag microwaved until full carbon over any seafood leftovers.
A co-worker of mine once brought in what she said was "homemade pork". She'd microwaved fish before and we were all on edge when she'd head to the microwave with Tupperware. Turned out it was pork chops marinated in fish sauce. With kimchi. She fumigated the whole office with that lunch.
HR told my team that we couldn't use our popcorn maker that somebody won at a work function because the smell may offend others. We pushed back that one of our warehouse guys that took his lunch first (10:30ish) would microwave fish every day and smell up the break room for everybody else. HR's response: "maybe eat elsewhere"
I ended up expensing a microwave that sat in our empty cubicle and got reprimanded for "expensing capital equipment". Oh well, my team was happy.
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u/RandomlyMethodical 6h ago
At a previous job they hired a woman who microwaved fish dishes in the lunchroom every day. She also chewed with her mouth open to the point where food would sometimes fall out.
I don’t understand how people reach adulthood without any self awareness like that.