Food Complaints?

VastBreak

Anyone have complaints about food smells at work? Especially hard boiled eggs or tuna salad?

How do you handle it?

We even have a no popcorn rule because the smell is so over powering.

FitBeto

I hate the smell of shrimp ramen noodles

Built_Strong

I dont eat tuna or eggs at my desk for that reason - the smell. I'll eat them in the lunchroom. If anyone complains, they can leave the lunchroom but people cant really leave their desks while I eat [I work in a call center]. I would LOVE a no-popcorn rule. I hate the smell of microwaved popcorn.

The co-worker who sits next to me actually hates the smell of eggs - it makes him sick, so out of respect for my co-worker I'll eat them elsewhere.

VastBreak

We basically have a kitchenette against one corner of a wall with cubicle wall around it. So the smells travel everywhere!

Glad I am only part-time but wonder what others do if they have to deal with this everyday.

rduhlir

Well...not really in mine. Because I am there for like 12 hours straight. If I pop popcorn though, I usually use the other microwave that is in the other room so that I don't annoy my coworker. I don't like tuna, so I don't have to worry about that problem lol.

runningwoodpecker

when the canteen is cooking fish and chips and it travels into the office. Makes me want to heave. On a positive note, when they cooked Christmas dinner it smelt sooooo gooood.

_TEMPEST_

How about the goof that decides to eat microwave popcorn, then proceeds to burn the snot out of it. THAT'S a smell no one can get away from! UGH!

neanderthin

If there's a kitchen area, then yup there's going to be food smells. Food cooked at work then taken to another area, that's something that should be talked about in a democratic way, if not then it's a free for all.