My feed
Premium

Please
or
to access all these features

AIBU?

to eat sardine sandwiches in the (shared) office?

29 replies

ClockWatchingLady · 18/07/2013 10:45

(the window won't open either Grin)

OP posts:
Report
Whothefuckfarted · 18/07/2013 10:47

Does everyone else eat their lunch in the shared office? If they do YANBU. If you have a canteen/lunch room use it.

Report
BoysAreLikeDogs · 18/07/2013 10:47

Could you not nip oot to the park to nom?

Report
limitedperiodonly · 18/07/2013 10:47

Yes, but I like smoked mackerel and everyone is too scared of me to say anything.

They just send me hurt little looks.

Report
Sparrowlegs248 · 18/07/2013 10:48

Someone at work does this (are you called Karl??) but then some else (me.....) eats houmous, manager has egg sandwiches every morning and two of us had mackeral last week......so no, i say yanbu!

Report
PeriodMath · 18/07/2013 10:48

YABU. Not nice to eat smelly food close to where people are working. Pop outdoors. Sort of an ideal day for it wouldn't you say?

Report
HoldingHigh · 18/07/2013 10:53

If you go ahead and decide to eat it in your office. Thank god I'm not in there. Even the thought of the smell is making me turn green.

Report
ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 18/07/2013 10:55

YABU. I'd barf in a drawer.

Report
ClockWatchingLady · 18/07/2013 10:55

OK, thank you very much to all.

Today, I will get up off my lazy backside and get outside.

When it rains, they may have to lump it, especially if the lady with the smelly gym kit doesn't take it home this evening.

Love,
Karl (maybe)

OP posts:
Report
Eddie107 · 18/07/2013 10:59

If no-one cares then yanbu but if you think they are bothered by it but too polite/intimidated to say anything then yabu.

Report
gordyslovesheep · 18/07/2013 11:02

the smell of fishy fish makes me gag - so when my kipper eating colleague kindly cooks hers in the microwave and tucks in I am forced to eat at my desk.

But it's a shared staff room so, while I think you should consider other people, no one can dictate what you eat .

However if you share an office and you are all going to be in there all day I think it's a bit unreasonable

Report
JacqueslePeacock · 18/07/2013 11:03

Oh God no, I'd be throwing up. But then I am allergic to fish, and maybe your colleagues aren't.

Report
ClockWatchingLady · 18/07/2013 11:06

Polite and intimidated I suspect they are not Grin

But I'm off outside - for me, it's pretty impressive I've lasted till 11 without eating my lunch.

Thanks again

OP posts:
Report
gordyslovesheep · 18/07/2013 11:09

does your work make you eat at your work station - do they not provide a staff room?

Report
Balaboosta · 18/07/2013 11:17

YAbu - four words: Egg. Sandwiches. On. Coach.

heave

Report
ThePlatterCompany · 18/07/2013 11:34

Most of the smelly stuff tastes so good though Wink...how about offering everyone a peg and make a joke of it.
No excuse for stinky gym kit though... putrid beast, especially in this weather, washed and dried in a few hours.

Report
KellyElly · 18/07/2013 11:38

YABU to eat sardine sandwiches. It's got to be sardines on toast Grin

Report
ClockWatchingLady · 18/07/2013 11:49

Kelly, the bread is toasted Smile

I know, Platter, nothing tastes so great if it's not also stinky (mmm, stilton).

OP posts:
Report
newmumsuchfun · 18/07/2013 11:52

When I was much younger and less wise i cooked mackerel in the microwave near the staff room. The stench reached every classroom on our floor and I was forever known as 'Fish Teacher'.

Yee have been warned.

Report
ClockWatchingLady · 18/07/2013 11:52

gordy, our "kitchen" area is a bit crap, and used almost exclusively by another team. No point in winding people up with my sardines if I don't even know them...

OP posts:
Report
piprabbit · 18/07/2013 11:53

Fishy smells in a hot sweaty office would make me barf, which would add another exciting aroma to mix.

BTW - what on earth do people put in their egg sandwiches to make them smell? I've been experimenting for years but my egg sarnies remain stink-free, what should I be adding?

Report
ClockWatchingLady · 18/07/2013 11:54

newmum Grin

OP posts:
Report
ClockWatchingLady · 18/07/2013 11:55

pip - make sure those eggs aren't too fresh. Spoils the effect.

OP posts:
Report

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

newmumsuchfun · 18/07/2013 12:05

Egg sandwiches are like farts - you can't smell them if they are your own.

Report
piprabbit · 18/07/2013 12:21
Grin
Report
ruby1234 · 18/07/2013 12:22

If you wash your newly hard boiled eggs in cold water for a while (straight away) they don't smell so bad. If you leave them to cool in the boiling water they stink.
Don't know why though.

Report
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.