Candy Dish at work

lizziebeth1028
lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
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I have a co-worker that has a candy dish on her file cabinet which she fills with wrapped candy for everyone. Sitting next to the candy dish is a bottle of hand sanitizer. Most people do not think to use it before taking the candy since the candy is wrapped (boxes of nerds, suckers, tootsie rolls ect). She gets mad because no one uses the sanitizer and is making a HUGE fuss about it. How she doesn't want to get sick and then bring germs home to her kids too. Although I can totally understand wanting people to sanitize first....Quite frankly I wouldn't think to use the sanitizer either. I'm thinking that if you're going to be this fussy about your candy dish...why have one in the office for everyone. Any thoughts??? Discuss.......

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  • corn63
    corn63 Posts: 1,580 Member
    Thoughts?... there are bigger things in the world to occupy mind space than to sanitize or not to sanitize.

    She just needs to ditch the candy if she's going to be a germ freak about it. Does she monitor hand washing in the bathrooms as well?
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I'm thinking that if you're going to be this fussy about your candy dish...why have one in the office for everyone. Any thoughts???
    I agree.
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    Wrapped AND insisting on hand sanitiser? That's just weird. But then I brought a box of non-wrapped biscuits (cookies) back from a work trip and everyone's helping themselves, even the two with heavy colds, and the hygiene factor didn't even occur to me.

    Having said that, I'd never eat peanuts at a bar knowing how few people wash their hands after going to the loo. Except alcohol kills germs, right?
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    I wouldn't even eat her candy! Just on principle!!
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
    There are germs on EVERYTHING you touch.
  • Dub_D
    Dub_D Posts: 1,760 Member
    Just quit.
  • VelociMama
    VelociMama Posts: 3,119 Member
    Solution: take ALL the candy at once leaving none behind. Problem solved!
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    There are germs on EVERYTHING you touch.

    I don't believe this. I am in a germ-free bubble!
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    There are germs on EVERYTHING you touch.

    LIES!!!!

    *runs away sobbing*
  • saracatherine89
    saracatherine89 Posts: 291 Member
    I have a co-worker that has a candy dish on her file cabinet which she fills with wrapped candy for everyone. Sitting next to the candy dish is a bottle of hand sanitizer. Most people do not think to use it before taking the candy since the candy is wrapped (boxes of nerds, suckers, tootsie rolls ect). She gets mad because no one uses the sanitizer and is making a HUGE fuss about it. How she doesn't want to get sick and then bring germs home to her kids too. Although I can totally understand wanting people to sanitize first....Quite frankly I wouldn't think to use the sanitizer either. I'm thinking that if you're going to be this fussy about your candy dish...why have one in the office for everyone. Any thoughts??? Discuss.......

    I have to chime in on this as a former coworkers of yours...do you guys still get that amazing toffee and cookies around the holidays? :)
  • YoungDoc2B
    YoungDoc2B Posts: 1,593 Member
    Lol why is this even up for discussion...
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    There are germs on EVERYTHING you touch.

    Exactly. And anti-bacterials make stronger germs.

    As for your co-worker, if she is so worried about other peoples' germs, why doesn't she keep her own supply of candy in her desk drawer and then she won't have to deal with it. Sounds like a drama queen to me...
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    starving-children-africa.jpg

    Didn't use hand sanitizer?

    Or maybe you need perspective...
  • vim_n_vigor
    vim_n_vigor Posts: 4,089 Member
    starving-children-africa.jpg

    Didn't use hand sanitizer?

    Or maybe you need perspective...

    The one in the middle has the same look on his face that my baby gives me all the time. So touched right now...
  • erinfog
    erinfog Posts: 95 Member
    Just quit.

    this
  • lizziebeth1028
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
    I have a co-worker that has a candy dish on her file cabinet which she fills with wrapped candy for everyone. Sitting next to the candy dish is a bottle of hand sanitizer. Most people do not think to use it before taking the candy since the candy is wrapped (boxes of nerds, suckers, tootsie rolls ect). She gets mad because no one uses the sanitizer and is making a HUGE fuss about it. How she doesn't want to get sick and then bring germs home to her kids too. Although I can totally understand wanting people to sanitize first....Quite frankly I wouldn't think to use the sanitizer either. I'm thinking that if you're going to be this fussy about your candy dish...why have one in the office for everyone. Any thoughts??? Discuss.......

    I have to chime in on this as a former coworkers of yours...do you guys still get that amazing toffee and cookies around the holidays? :)

    No:((( Either we stopped getting due to bad economy OR......you know our 2 lovely office managers..they've been known to hoard the good stuff in their office and not put it out for the rest of the employees lol!!!
  • lizziebeth1028
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
    There are germs on EVERYTHING you touch.

    Exactly. And anti-bacterials make stronger germs.

    As for your co-worker, if she is so worried about other peoples' germs, why doesn't she keep her own supply of candy in her desk drawer and then she won't have to deal with it. Sounds like a drama queen to me...

    TOTAL DRAMA QUEEN!!!!
  • lizziebeth1028
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
    Lol why is this even up for discussion...


    Well I did put it in the chat chit section as a silly diversion.....not to be taken too seriously. Really it doesn't stress me out that much, I'm looking for idle chatter:ohwell:
  • kelseyhere
    kelseyhere Posts: 1,123 Member
    this lady sounds crazy. i have a co-worker who also has a candy dish, and if he started requiring that i use sanitizer before i take a WRAPPED candy, i would find another candy dish.
  • wow29
    wow29 Posts: 283 Member
    I have a co-worker that has a candy dish on her file cabinet which she fills with wrapped candy for everyone. Sitting next to the candy dish is a bottle of hand sanitizer. Most people do not think to use it before taking the candy since the candy is wrapped (boxes of nerds, suckers, tootsie rolls ect). She gets mad because no one uses the sanitizer and is making a HUGE fuss about it. How she doesn't want to get sick and then bring germs home to her kids too. Although I can totally understand wanting people to sanitize first....Quite frankly I wouldn't think to use the sanitizer either. I'm thinking that if you're going to be this fussy about your candy dish...why have one in the office for everyone. Any thoughts??? Discuss.......
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    Discussing, maybe she thought it was a polite, yet ingenious way to avioid spreading germs, so she is :mad:
  • twinmom14ek
    twinmom14ek Posts: 174 Member
    Do you work at my office??? :laugh: I'm laughing because I just refilled my candy jar that the entire floor shares in, and over the past couple weeks there's been a mean bug traveling through the office. I left a bottle of hand sanitizer up there with a note, specifically because it's just that time of year.

    Was afraid people would think I was being nuts. Guess this confirms it. :blushing:
  • wow29
    wow29 Posts: 283 Member
    starving-children-africa.jpg

    Didn't use hand sanitizer?

    Or maybe you need perspective...
    aaah
  • MsNewBooty83
    MsNewBooty83 Posts: 985 Member
    i wouls probly walk by her desk, sneeze on her keyboard, rub her stapler in my arm pit, maybe even fart into her phone reciever...then sanatize my hands and grab myself a foil wrapped candy :P after all, being completly obnoxious and annying is damn hard work.
    oooh, it would be even better if you entered the room after exiting the bathroom with wet hands and *****ing about how theres no toilet paper left! bahahaha! oooh thank gawd i dont work with anyone like this!
  • chubby_checkers
    chubby_checkers Posts: 2,352 Member
    Poop in the candy dish and watch her freak out.
  • lizziebeth1028
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
    I have a co-worker that has a candy dish on her file cabinet which she fills with wrapped candy for everyone. Sitting next to the candy dish is a bottle of hand sanitizer. Most people do not think to use it before taking the candy since the candy is wrapped (boxes of nerds, suckers, tootsie rolls ect). She gets mad because no one uses the sanitizer and is making a HUGE fuss about it. How she doesn't want to get sick and then bring germs home to her kids too. Although I can totally understand wanting people to sanitize first....Quite frankly I wouldn't think to use the sanitizer either. I'm thinking that if you're going to be this fussy about your candy dish...why have one in the office for everyone. Any thoughts??? Discuss.......
    [/quote
    Discussing, maybe she thought it was a polite, yet ingenious way to avioid spreading germs, so she is :mad:


    ^^^ I could understand candy dish sanitizer ladies point of view BUT she literally talked of nothing else all morning and she finished it off by having a panic attack. People who are that germiphobic shouldn't bring in food for the whole office to share.
  • RubyWare
    RubyWare Posts: 51 Member
    Solution: take ALL the candy at once leaving none behind. Problem solved!

    ^^this^^ very smart lady :flowerforyou:
  • Philllbis
    Philllbis Posts: 801 Member
    I wrk in that office. I thought we were supposed to bob for the candy. Geez, make one faux pas and out comes the sanitizer.
  • melsmith612
    melsmith612 Posts: 727 Member
    Your co-worker is a lunatic. If there's going to be a candy dish in your workplace, it should be out in a common area and refilled with items purchased by the company ... not something someone puts on their desk in order to rope people into conversation/gossip. We have 2 candy dishes at my work, 1 for chocolate and 1 for hard candy. The chocolate one had plain M&M's loose in it for people to just grab a handful for the longest time until someone complained about "germs" so they put a paper cup in there to scoop the M&M's out... which honestly makes zero sense considering you're still touching the cup and the cup is still touching the candy...

    Boycott her candy dish if she's going to be germ phobic.

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