Theres ALWAYS chocolate in the office!!!
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It's nurses week this week and tonight when I came into work there were donuts in the break room and tomorrow night there will be pizza, all provided by the hospital for us night shifters. I looked at the donuts, shrugged and moved on. I will do the same for the pizza.0
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julierockhead wrote: »hassankarimi82 wrote: »They are not foods, they are products.
Love that so much.
My office has this happen occasionally - if something is around for a day, and everyone has had their opportunity...I toss it. I find often people are bringing in non-food edible items because they don't want them in their house or the items are approaching the "best used by" date. I guess it's a way to unload unwanted stuff on their unsuspecting co-workers. So far nobody has complained when the junk food disappears.
I would totally grab that free fruit, every day, especially if it's going to waste! Give it to the homeless you see on the way to and from work, or get an Oriole bird feeder if you live in Oriole habitat. They love fruit.
Man, I'm glad we don't work together. I make treats work by footing a small portion into my day. I'm fully capable of doing that several days in a row.
Is it some sense of superiority, or do you just fell you know what is best for your coworker and you realize they are incapable of making their own decision? It must make doing any kind of work difficult too, if you are the only one in the entire office who can make a decision.4 -
julierockhead wrote: »My office has this happen occasionally - if something is around for a day, and everyone has had their opportunity...I toss it. I find often people are bringing in non-food edible items because they don't want them in their house or the items are approaching the "best used by" date. I guess it's a way to unload unwanted stuff on their unsuspecting co-workers. So far nobody has complained when the junk food disappears.
Just curious as to what "Non-food edible items" are?0 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »julierockhead wrote: »My office has this happen occasionally - if something is around for a day, and everyone has had their opportunity...I toss it. I find often people are bringing in non-food edible items because they don't want them in their house or the items are approaching the "best used by" date. I guess it's a way to unload unwanted stuff on their unsuspecting co-workers. So far nobody has complained when the junk food disappears.
Just curious as to what "Non-food edible items" are?
Underwear?4 -
WinoGelato wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »julierockhead wrote: »My office has this happen occasionally - if something is around for a day, and everyone has had their opportunity...I toss it. I find often people are bringing in non-food edible items because they don't want them in their house or the items are approaching the "best used by" date. I guess it's a way to unload unwanted stuff on their unsuspecting co-workers. So far nobody has complained when the junk food disappears.
Just curious as to what "Non-food edible items" are?
Underwear?
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StealthHealth wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »julierockhead wrote: »My office has this happen occasionally - if something is around for a day, and everyone has had their opportunity...I toss it. I find often people are bringing in non-food edible items because they don't want them in their house or the items are approaching the "best used by" date. I guess it's a way to unload unwanted stuff on their unsuspecting co-workers. So far nobody has complained when the junk food disappears.
Just curious as to what "Non-food edible items" are?
Underwear?
Pharmaceuticals
Violets and dandylion greens.2 -
StealthHealth wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »julierockhead wrote: »My office has this happen occasionally - if something is around for a day, and everyone has had their opportunity...I toss it. I find often people are bringing in non-food edible items because they don't want them in their house or the items are approaching the "best used by" date. I guess it's a way to unload unwanted stuff on their unsuspecting co-workers. So far nobody has complained when the junk food disappears.
Just curious as to what "Non-food edible items" are?
Underwear?
Pharmaceuticals
I picked the wrong office.5 -
EmilyShearon wrote: »My company had a mouse problem and cracked down on cakes and sweets and food (products
being left out in the open. Not sure how this helps you, so just an observation.
In my head you were talking about a computer mouse I was trying to figure the connection with food!!!!!2 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »julierockhead wrote: »My office has this happen occasionally - if something is around for a day, and everyone has had their opportunity...I toss it. I find often people are bringing in non-food edible items because they don't want them in their house or the items are approaching the "best used by" date. I guess it's a way to unload unwanted stuff on their unsuspecting co-workers. So far nobody has complained when the junk food disappears.
Just curious as to what "Non-food edible items" are?
Bread
Apples
Very small rocks
Cider
Grape gravy
Cherries
Mud
A Duck!4 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »julierockhead wrote: »My office has this happen occasionally - if something is around for a day, and everyone has had their opportunity...I toss it. I find often people are bringing in non-food edible items because they don't want them in their house or the items are approaching the "best used by" date. I guess it's a way to unload unwanted stuff on their unsuspecting co-workers. So far nobody has complained when the junk food disappears.
Just curious as to what "Non-food edible items" are?
Bread
Apples
Very small rocks
Cider
Grape gravy
Cherries
Mud
A Duck!
Worst Haiku Ever.7 -
Numerous lessons learned here.....1
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I'm going to put my hand up and say it, I'm a food unloader.
If someone brings me a box of chocolates when they come for dinner, I take it to the office to share. I don't want to eat it myself so I take it in to work where people will eat it with their lunch or with a cup of tea. Does this make me a bad person? I see it as not wasting food by throwing it out at home and my colleagues mostly get excited and say thanks.... I figure if people don't want to eat it, they won't eat it. It's not like I stand over anyone saying "consume these calories right now!".
We are all grown ups and everyone is accountable for their own choices.6 -
I'm on CICO so the mental thought that I Can Not, Must Not, Will Not, Should Not or just did grab a little candy from the candy bowl that always has chocolate doesn't occur to me. The candy bowl is there by the front door. I walk past it several times a day. Do I need it in my food plan? No. Will it fit my plan? Maybe. Is it forbidden? No. In all nutritional seriousness, one trying to keep their total calories low enough to lose weight safely can plan and enjoy the consumption of some chocolate. If your plan is keto, take the 25 or so carbs from a mini Snickers and avoid all other carbs in the day. Is that really something you'll enjoy?0
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Also, since I've begun to avoid the office junk food, and lose weight, several of my co-workers have joined me in avoiding the office junk and trying to lose weight, and the office junk food purchaser has started purchasing a greater variety of quite acceptable food items to supply the kitchen.1
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evelynwhitelaw wrote: »I'm going to put my hand up and say it, I'm a food unloader.
If someone brings me a box of chocolates when they come for dinner, I take it to the office to share. I don't want to eat it myself so I take it in to work where people will eat it with their lunch or with a cup of tea. Does this make me a bad person? I see it as not wasting food by throwing it out at home and my colleagues mostly get excited and say thanks.... I figure if people don't want to eat it, they won't eat it. It's not like I stand over anyone saying "consume these calories right now!".
We are all grown ups and everyone is accountable for their own choices.
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Me Too (Lessons learn). I like the jokes, the wisdom and the differing opinions, shared about real problems.1
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julierockhead wrote: »hassankarimi82 wrote: »They are not foods, they are products.
Love that so much.
My office has this happen occasionally - if something is around for a day, and everyone has had their opportunity...I toss it. I find often people are bringing in non-food edible items because they don't want them in their house or the items are approaching the "best used by" date. I guess it's a way to unload unwanted stuff on their unsuspecting co-workers. So far nobody has complained when the junk food disappears.
I would totally grab that free fruit, every day, especially if it's going to waste! Give it to the homeless you see on the way to and from work, or get an Oriole bird feeder if you live in Oriole habitat. They love fruit.
Man, I'm glad we don't work together. I make treats work by footing a small portion into my day. I'm fully capable of doing that several days in a row.
Is it some sense of superiority, or do you just fell you know what is best for your coworker and you realize they are incapable of making their own decision? It must make doing any kind of work difficult too, if you are the only one in the entire office who can make a decision.
No kidding....0 -
evelynwhitelaw wrote: »I'm going to put my hand up and say it, I'm a food unloader.
If someone brings me a box of chocolates when they come for dinner, I take it to the office to share. I don't want to eat it myself so I take it in to work where people will eat it with their lunch or with a cup of tea. Does this make me a bad person? I see it as not wasting food by throwing it out at home and my colleagues mostly get excited and say thanks.... I figure if people don't want to eat it, they won't eat it. It's not like I stand over anyone saying "consume these calories right now!".
We are all grown ups and everyone is accountable for their own choices.
We just fired a guy whose only real contribution was polishing off the sweets the rest of us would have polished off ourselves. We have a new part time worker. We had some peanut butter cups in the office and I asked if she'd had some. She said she'd already had some chocolate that day and I said, a little too seriously, "I'm gonna need you to start eating more".
So you're good.
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I allow myself small treats. Fewer than I used to have before I was counting calories, but enough to keep me from going nuts. That makes avoiding the full-size donuts that are often in the office easier for me.
I also have become a total snob about sweets. I like baking my own, and finding good bakeries and candy shops. So I can just look at the Dunkin Donuts and think, not worth the calories, since they're not (fancy donut shop) donuts.0 -
We just fired a guy whose only real contribution was polishing off the sweets the rest of us would have polished off ourselves. We have a new part time worker. We had some peanut butter cups in the office and I asked if she'd had some. She said she'd already had some chocolate that day and I said, a little too seriously, "I'm gonna need you to start eating more".
So you're good.
Hahaha! See there is a difference between offering something, making jokes and then full on food harassment. I've got a very dear friend who was constantly harassed by a co-worked when she knew full well my friend was losing weight. We are talking to the point where she stood over my friend and told her to eat a cream cake while she watched. Some people are just *kitten*.1 -
evelynwhitelaw wrote: »We just fired a guy whose only real contribution was polishing off the sweets the rest of us would have polished off ourselves. We have a new part time worker. We had some peanut butter cups in the office and I asked if she'd had some. She said she'd already had some chocolate that day and I said, a little too seriously, "I'm gonna need you to start eating more".
So you're good.
Hahaha! See there is a difference between offering something, making jokes and then full on food harassment. I've got a very dear friend who was constantly harassed by a co-worked when she knew full well my friend was losing weight. We are talking to the point where she stood over my friend and told her to eat a cream cake while she watched. Some people are just *kitten*.
And some people need to stand up for themselves, either personally or through HR.0 -
No is a full sentence. No, thanks even better. Smile and walk away.
Or, if you want a treat once in a while, have one and log it.
It's on you, not on the office culture or other people to ensure that you don't eat "unhealthy foods".
And the above about harassment - yes, say something and report it up the chain if the behavior doesn't stop. I would also say to the person above joking about "I'm going to need you to eat more" that's not cool. You don't know what their issues are. Especially if you are supervisory to them.
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snickerscharlie wrote: »julierockhead wrote: »My office has this happen occasionally - if something is around for a day, and everyone has had their opportunity...I toss it. I find often people are bringing in non-food edible items because they don't want them in their house or the items are approaching the "best used by" date. I guess it's a way to unload unwanted stuff on their unsuspecting co-workers. So far nobody has complained when the junk food disappears.
Just curious as to what "Non-food edible items" are?
Maybe someone has pica?0 -
evelynwhitelaw wrote: »I'm going to put my hand up and say it, I'm a food unloader.
If someone brings me a box of chocolates when they come for dinner, I take it to the office to share. I don't want to eat it myself so I take it in to work where people will eat it with their lunch or with a cup of tea. Does this make me a bad person? I see it as not wasting food by throwing it out at home and my colleagues mostly get excited and say thanks.... I figure if people don't want to eat it, they won't eat it. It's not like I stand over anyone saying "consume these calories right now!".
We are all grown ups and everyone is accountable for their own choices.
Seems reasonable to me. (I've done it too. People appreciate it, I didn't want it -- win/win!)0 -
I also "regift".
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katharmonic wrote: »No is a full sentence. No, thanks even better. Smile and walk away.
Or, if you want a treat once in a while, have one and log it.
It's on you, not on the office culture or other people to ensure that you don't eat "unhealthy foods".
And the above about harassment - yes, say something and report it up the chain if the behavior doesn't stop. I would also say to the person above joking about "I'm going to need you to eat more" that's not cool. You don't know what their issues are. Especially if you are supervisory to them.
LOL you took that way too seriously. I didn't shove the peanut butter cup in her mouth. And I won't shove the donuts that are sure to come when our donut bringing loving client shows up with another notice he receives.
I'm pretty sure her only issue is she knows how to say no to chocolate. 1 -
evelynwhitelaw wrote: »We just fired a guy whose only real contribution was polishing off the sweets the rest of us would have polished off ourselves. We have a new part time worker. We had some peanut butter cups in the office and I asked if she'd had some. She said she'd already had some chocolate that day and I said, a little too seriously, "I'm gonna need you to start eating more".
So you're good.
Hahaha! See there is a difference between offering something, making jokes and then full on food harassment. I've got a very dear friend who was constantly harassed by a co-worked when she knew full well my friend was losing weight. We are talking to the point where she stood over my friend and told her to eat a cream cake while she watched. Some people are just *kitten*.
Did she shove the cream cake in the woman's face cuz...geez!
We get a lot of clients and vendors sending and bringing us stuff (cookies, cakes, donuts, chocolates, and liquor mostly). There used to be 4 of us in the office but now only 3 and half.
I admit, I have absolutely no will power when it comes to the sweets and most of it gets logged but I'm happy when it's gone so we tend to eat what we want and share part of it with clients that come in to meet with the boss. There was this one reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally freakin' good cinnamon streusel cake a client brought in during Christmas time. I couldn't resist it and every morning I'd slice off a small piece. Then another small piece because c'mon....the first wasn't enough! I was pretty much the only one eating it and needed it gone so the coworker I like (most of the time) decided we'd cut the rest of it up and deliver it to a couple of the other offices in the building that we're close to personally.
Regifting!
The hilarious part is I got a thank you card in the mail from one of the offices for the used cake. I stuck my head in there and told them how classy they were.
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Free gift economy for the win!0
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I work on a help desk, so as there are a lot of us there are a lot of birthday treats, and pizza rewards for hitting SLA in a tough month.
I struggle to resist the pizza more than anything, but on my birthday I even bought in cakes and then didn't each much of them myself - they just didn't appeal to me.
I personal experience some people being really nasty towards me about food in our office. It seems to be one guys obsession. Every day he will mockingly say "oh lemon in your water again is it? Thought about putting a doughnut in there". Yesterday was especially bad when he found out I'm vegetarian - you can imagine the comments I got then.
But I just try to block it out, as I feel sorry for him for being uneducated about the food he puts into his body.1
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