Break Room Etiquette and Fish?

As someone very allergic to fish and shellfish, just smelling the fish smell could make me extremely ill. (My throat will start to swell shut just from breathing it in.) Leave it at home.

I also don't like burnt popcorn smell, but that is just an annoyance, not a life-threatening odor.

I guess no one should bring a peanut butter sandwich either because if they touch someone allergic to peanuts it could cause a reaction.

i dont care i eat what i want

Yeahhhhhh I wouldn't worry about it. Eat your food. Honestly, I've never had anyone complain about the smell of seafood (salmon) when reheating it at work and I work with a bunch of people who would never consider eating healthy.

And besides, these are the people who routinely cook and burn popcorn or put ramen noodles or cup o soup into the microwave without water. There's NOTHING worse than that.

would you want somebody walking into your cubicle or office and farting every morning and then walking away? same principle.

But it's not really. Like, not at all, ever, in the least.

yes, it is. i've been there years ago. every single day there were 6 or 7 engineers on the same floor who would microwave little tupperware containers of fish and rice. every day. they were oblivious to the smell because it was normal for them. but the smell was piped into my office and i had to deal with it for hours until it dissipated. i sat at a SPARC workstation all day working on integrated circuit design. i couldn't get up and leave and i couldn't open a window to get fresh air. it sucked. it got to the point where i had to constantly block the air vent in my office with cardboard. so yes, it was as if they were coming into my office every afternoon, one at a time, and farting and then leaving. live through that and you'll understand.

i think most of the people thinking this isn't a big deal never had a cubicle or office next to a break room. mine wasn't that close, but the air recirculation system piped that break room air directly into my office since i had a corner office.

i dont care i eat what i want....but there is only 4 of us girls here so its doesnt matter...unless its onions or seafood for one girl she cat stand it

edited to say i didnt mean to quote my own comment lol

i send my husband to work with leftovers all the time... and sometimes it is tuna noodle.. suck it

i send my husband to work with leftovers all the time... and sometimes it is tuna noodle.. suck it

:laugh: :flowerforyou:

Yeahhhhhh I wouldn't worry about it. Eat your food. Honestly, I've never had anyone complain about the smell of seafood (salmon) when reheating it at work and I work with a bunch of people who would never consider eating healthy.

And besides, these are the people who routinely cook and burn popcorn or put ramen noodles or cup o soup into the microwave without water. There's NOTHING worse than that.

would you want somebody walking into your cubicle or office and farting every morning and then walking away? same principle.

But it's not really. Like, not at all, ever, in the least.

yes, it is. i've been there years ago. every single day there were 6 or 7 engineers on the same floor who would microwave little tupperware containers of fish and rice. every day. they were oblivious to the smell because it was normal for them. but the smell was piped into my office and i had to deal with it for hours until it dissipated. i sat at a SPARC workstation all day working on integrated circuit design. i couldn't get up and leave and i couldn't open a window to get fresh air. it sucked. it got to the point where i had to constantly block the air vent in my office with cardboard. so yes, it was as if they were coming into my office every afternoon, one at a time, and farting and then leaving. live through that and you'll understand.

i think most of the people thinking this isn't a big deal never had a cubicle or office next to a break room. mine wasn't that close, but the air recirculation system piped that break room air directly into my office since i had a corner office.

Cool story bro. Still is nowhere even remotely close to the same planet as someone coming around and farting in your cube all the time.

yes, it is.

It's still nothing like that, as they were heating food which they were going to eat. They weren't simply heating it just to have it heated and then leave it.

There's really no comparison to blowing *kitten* in someone's office/cubicle.

i think most of the people thinking this isn't a big deal never had a cubicle or office next to a break room. mine wasn't that close, but the air recirculation system piped that break room air directly into my office since i had a corner office.

No cubicle, but I did used to have to empty said barrels of old fishguts into a muckspreader every month or so......

You were allowed to go home and have a wash if it was your turn to do that. :laugh:

Once, one of the lids got stuck and somehow my boss fell into the (half-full) spreader...

How we all laughed (apart from him) - I think the smell clung to him for a week...

As someone very allergic to fish and shellfish, just smelling the fish smell could make me extremely ill. (My throat will start to swell shut just from breathing it in.) Leave it at home.

I also don't like burnt popcorn smell, but that is just an annoyance, not a life-threatening odor.

I guess no one should bring a peanut butter sandwich either because if they touch someone allergic to peanuts it could cause a reaction.

This is nothing to laugh at. I have a friend that can't even smell peanuts or her throat swells. They have a no food, no perfume, no air freshener policy in thier office. Allergies can be life threatening.

I wasn't laughing, but it's still stupid logic. I work with 500 people, if no one could bring stuff that 1 other person was allergic to we would all be drinking water and eating peas.

Its not stupid logic - its no logic.

If you have someone with a nut allergy does nobody bring anything with nuts in? Thought not.

As someone very allergic to fish and shellfish, just smelling the fish smell could make me extremely ill. (My throat will start to swell shut just from breathing it in.) Leave it at home.

I also don't like burnt popcorn smell, but that is just an annoyance, not a life-threatening odor.

I guess no one should bring a peanut butter sandwich either because if they touch someone allergic to peanuts it could cause a reaction.

This is nothing to laugh at. I have a friend that can't even smell peanuts or her throat swells. They have a no food, no perfume, no air freshener policy in thier office. Allergies can be life threatening.

I wasn't laughing, but it's still stupid logic. I work with 500 people, if no one could bring stuff that 1 other person was allergic to we would all be drinking water and eating peas.

My building of 800 adults, and also a daycare is nut free, fish free, and perfume free b/c of allergies

I work in the reception area of an office and the smells from the kitchen fill the whole office. Fish I don't mind because everyone can tell that it's fish. There is one co-worker that will heat up a steam-fresh bag of broccoli and then the office smells like farts the rest of the day. So every person who comes in thinks one of the secretaries is farting like crazy in the office.

There are ways to retaliate (kimchee, corned beef and cabbage, sauerkraut) - usually this problem solves itself - with everyone being more considerate - in short order.

I do it. I don't care. I am eating healthy, and could care less what others think. I do Tilapia or Salmon with brussels! Not a *kitten* is given.

Thank you!

I was beginning to think that people with office jobs were born pathetic or had somehow reverted to being children.

Agree with these two.

Burnt popcorn is a different story because that's a result of someone having the attention span of a 2-year-old and being unwilling to stand in the break room for a few minutes to make sure the popcorn doesn't overcook.

But you can't help the way fish smells. My office is right next door to the break room, so I smell things all day long, and most of it is not appetizing. But I'm not going to be rude enough to tell my co-workers what to bring for lunch. They are not children, and I am not their mother. Commenting on people's food choices is one of the rudest behaviors that I witness on a daily basis. People eat certain things because they like those things. Acting like you're grossed out by what someone else is eating is an insult to that person and is in very poor taste.

As someone very allergic to fish and shellfish, just smelling the fish smell could make me extremely ill. (My throat will start to swell shut just from breathing it in.) Leave it at home.

I also don't like burnt popcorn smell, but that is just an annoyance, not a life-threatening odor.

I guess no one should bring a peanut butter sandwich either because if they touch someone allergic to peanuts it could cause a reaction.

This is nothing to laugh at. I have a friend that can't even smell peanuts or her throat swells. They have a no food, no perfume, no air freshener policy in thier office. Allergies can be life threatening.

I wasn't laughing, but it's still stupid logic. I work with 500 people, if no one could bring stuff that 1 other person was allergic to we would all be drinking water and eating peas.

My building of 800 adults, and also a daycare is nut free, fish free, and perfume free b/c of allergies

Nuts and Fish are both high allergen foods. They can both also become life threatening in a very short amount of time.

Most schools are now peanut free or at least have peanut free areas. Fish can be just as deadly. There is no shot a person can take to desensitize to these allergies. So if your child were highly allergic to peanuts, would you want to send them to a school that isn't peanut free? How would you feel if your fish leftovers caused someone to leave in an ambulance, or cause their death? It's not a matter of choice for those of us with allergies. Thankfully I have never worked anywhere that I had to deal with that issue. It's bad enough trying to avoid them at the grocery store, restaurants and parties.