Death by candy...sabotage ?

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  • sassyjae21
    sassyjae21 Posts: 1,217 Member
    If you sincerely think they are doing it to sabotage you, that stinks and you have awful coworkers.

    That being said, they can't make you eat it. I understand what a trigger it can be. But it's up to you to overcome it! You can do it! Don't give them the power, here. You are in control of yourself. This is about you; not them. I know how hard it is. People are constantly eating at my job- and horrible things that would blow my calories out of the water. But I want weight loss more than I want the candy, cakes, donuts, etc.

    Some people are jealous and passive aggressive, and just rotten. But you can only control how YOU react to it!
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    just walked by candy bowl...ignored it...
  • jennk5309
    jennk5309 Posts: 206 Member
    Ugh....I had a couple of really heavy coworkers last year who honestly, I think did not like seeing me lose weight while they stayed the same. One kept bringing doughnuts and would always include a coconut one because she knew it was my favorite. She'd then act hurt if I didn't eat it. If people can't be happy for you getting healthy and losing weight, then get "revenge" (lol not really) by proving your resolve to them through refusing to give in to temptation. Hard, I know, but we all have to toughen up when it comes to eating junk. It's always going to be right in front of us (commercials for junk food, driving by fast food places, snacks our family members bring home, etc.) and I think we all need to learn techniques to handle those temptations.


    As far as what techniques, I'm sure there are lots. One I know for sure is filling up on lots of vegetables and healthy, filling but low calorie foods so that you're not hungry all the time. Maybe also having a few dark chocolate Hershey's kisses at your desk will help. Dark chocolate is so rich, that 2 kisses satisfy my cravings. OR (just thought of this!) you could volunteer to refill the candy jar when it's empty, with candy you HATE....

    Hope that helps.
  • Scoobydoo1180
    Scoobydoo1180 Posts: 49 Member
    just walked by candy bowl...ignored it...

    You must be a candidate for sainthood by now, no ?

    Your dedication to healthy eating is an inspiration, thank you!
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    just walked by candy bowl...ignored it...
    I'm going to introduce you to an interesting concept you may not have considered: You and the OP are two completely different people.
  • ElizabethFuller
    ElizabethFuller Posts: 352 Member
    Put something healthy, such as clementines, under the tree so you will take that instead of the candy.
    If they moved the fruit away from the candy then put it on your desk, between you and the sweeties. Make it a pretty, tinselly bowl and offer your fruit, nuts etc to everyone else, including your potential saboteur! Be smiley about it, explain that the high sugar treats upset your blood glucose balance and you just need to avoid them - make it a health issue rather than a diet/vanity one, people rarely try to force things on you then.
    Keep strong, you can do this :flowerforyou:
  • rocky503
    rocky503 Posts: 430 Member
    Fill the candy dish with baby carrots one day just for fun.

    Pretend someone sneezed all over the candy then you won't want it or that people sticking thier hands in there all day didn't wash thier hands after using the toliet...

    One of my work pals put a bowl of candy right by my desk and I moved to another spot where it promptly got eaten. took care of that. I have pretty good self control but when my blood sugar dips I am weak.
  • rocky503
    rocky503 Posts: 430 Member
    just walked by candy bowl...ignored it...


    Ha, ha, ha....you so strong....:laugh:
  • skullshank
    skullshank Posts: 4,323 Member
    #firstworldproblems

    Well isn't weight loss a first world problem for us all ?? I highly doubt you are on MFP to gain weight. If you are on here to maintain, it's b/c you lost weight. There are people starving in other countries, just saying...

    i'm here to be supportive with a sarcastic delivery, bewbs, and cauliflower recipes.

    your reference to people starving in other countries helps drive home my point. thanks! :flowerforyou:
  • skullshank
    skullshank Posts: 4,323 Member
    We had a cookie exchange yesterday, and I took a bite out of the several cookies and dumped the rest... its all about moderation...

    didnt wanna offer them back to the masses?

    what a waste of cookies. *hears taps playing faintly in the background*
  • Myhaloslipped
    Myhaloslipped Posts: 4,317 Member
    Move it. Problem solved.

    I'll try that again and see how it goes and just continue to move it. It didn't work last yr. but I'll have to wait an see.

    I'm a *****. If someone sat it near my desk, I moved it away and it came back, I'd dump the whole thing, dish and all into the nearest garbage can.

    well aren't you a gem?

    Punish the whole office because you can't control yourself...

    Maybe punish the whole office because they aren't respecting her wishes to keep the candy in a different room because she ADMITS she is having a PROBLEM with it.

    She's doing her best - her workmates are in the wrong here - this is how I see it.

    If she didn't speak up and just threw them away then that is wrong.

    If this was people smoking in the office and she asked them to move to another room and they refused would that be different?

    Overeating lollies is not just a health issue but also a cosmetic one - sweets make you fat, ruin your skin, make you tired and contribute to diabetes and other assorted health problems. It also may or may not be addictive - but certainly some people have a huge problem saying NO to it.

    the workers are in the wrong for putting a candy bowl under a Christmas tree??? Bahahahaha that is hilarious ..

    and your smoking analogy is pretty extreme...

    Exactly. The person on the diet must learn self control and adjust to their surroundings in public, not the other way around.
  • MooMooooo
    MooMooooo Posts: 306 Member
    Move it. Problem solved.

    I'll try that again and see how it goes and just continue to move it. It didn't work last yr. but I'll have to wait an see.

    I'm a *****. If someone sat it near my desk, I moved it away and it came back, I'd dump the whole thing, dish and all into the nearest garbage can.

    well aren't you a gem?

    Punish the whole office because you can't control yourself...

    Maybe punish the whole office because they aren't respecting her wishes to keep the candy in a different room because she ADMITS she is having a PROBLEM with it.

    She's doing her best - her workmates are in the wrong here - this is how I see it.

    If she didn't speak up and just threw them away then that is wrong.

    If this was people smoking in the office and she asked them to move to another room and they refused would that be different?

    Overeating lollies is not just a health issue but also a cosmetic one - sweets make you fat, ruin your skin, make you tired and contribute to diabetes and other assorted health problems. It also may or may not be addictive - but certainly some people have a huge problem saying NO to it.

    the workers are in the wrong for putting a candy bowl under a Christmas tree??? Bahahahaha that is hilarious ..

    and your smoking analogy is pretty extreme...

    Exactly. The person on the diet must learn self control and adjust to their surroundings in public, not the other way around.

    If you have anything approaching addiction (I understand this is debatable in regards to sugar) and you're trying to quit.

    If you're in any kind of treatment program your support workers will advise you to stay away from the substance and people who use the substance (whatever it is) until you can get a grip on how to live life without overwhelming urges.

    Once you're past the 'white knuckle' phase the restrictions can be relaxed.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    We had a cookie exchange yesterday, and I took a bite out of the several cookies and dumped the rest... its all about moderation...


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  • stumblinthrulife
    stumblinthrulife Posts: 2,558 Member
    Move it. Problem solved.

    I'll try that again and see how it goes and just continue to move it. It didn't work last yr. but I'll have to wait an see.

    I'm a *****. If someone sat it near my desk, I moved it away and it came back, I'd dump the whole thing, dish and all into the nearest garbage can.

    well aren't you a gem?

    Punish the whole office because you can't control yourself...

    Maybe punish the whole office because they aren't respecting her wishes to keep the candy in a different room because she ADMITS she is having a PROBLEM with it.

    She's doing her best - her workmates are in the wrong here - this is how I see it.

    If she didn't speak up and just threw them away then that is wrong.

    If this was people smoking in the office and she asked them to move to another room and they refused would that be different?

    Overeating lollies is not just a health issue but also a cosmetic one - sweets make you fat, ruin your skin, make you tired and contribute to diabetes and other assorted health problems. It also may or may not be addictive - but certainly some people have a huge problem saying NO to it.

    the workers are in the wrong for putting a candy bowl under a Christmas tree??? Bahahahaha that is hilarious ..

    and your smoking analogy is pretty extreme...

    Exactly. The person on the diet must learn self control and adjust to their surroundings in public, not the other way around.

    If you have anything approaching addiction (I understand this is debatable in regards to sugar) and you're trying to quit.

    If you're in any kind of treatment program your support workers will advise you to stay away from the substance and people who use the substance (whatever it is) until you can get a grip on how to live life without overwhelming urges.

    Once you're past the 'white knuckle' phase the restrictions can be relaxed.

    Most people don't work surrounded by real addicts, and I'll go out on a limb and say that few work places have bowls of cocaine under the Christmas tree.

    There is a massive difference between staying away from something, and asking a group of people with only weak social ties to change their behaviors to accommodate you.
  • KnM0107
    KnM0107 Posts: 355 Member
    You made a request, your request was denied... Just because you want something doesn't mean you will get it. Obviously the others in the office disagree with you. Deal with it...
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Most people don't work surrounded by real addicts, and I'll go out on a limb and say that few work places have bowls of cocaine under the Christmas tree.

    Maybe if you work for this guy:

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    :laugh:
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    just walked by candy bowl...ignored it...
    I'm going to introduce you to an interesting concept you may not have considered: You and the OP are two completely different people.

    QFT
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  • Omnidir
    Omnidir Posts: 10 Member
    In front of my desk, less than 2’ away is a small table. On this table is a Christmas tree (so pretty) and eeeeeek, a CANDY DISH! Last year I actually ended up moving that lovely candy dish after two weeks had passed and many stolen calories. I relocated it to the lunch table in another room. I didn't think it would matter much or people would give it a second thought but guess what? The candy dish somehow magically reappearing in front of my desk overnight! I tried to ignore it and mentioned to no one in particular that I noticed someone had moved it back. A few more days past into the new yr. and all decorations and the wretched candy dish went back into the closest, phew!!
    From reading this and your other posts:
    Get a LARGE fruit dish, place it on the table to block your sight of the candy. Fill with fruit or decorations. Move your trash can under the desk or somewhere that they cannot put the wrappers in it. Get another trash can to put by the candy dish where you cannot see it.
  • Myhaloslipped
    Myhaloslipped Posts: 4,317 Member
    Move it. Problem solved.

    I'll try that again and see how it goes and just continue to move it. It didn't work last yr. but I'll have to wait an see.

    I'm a *****. If someone sat it near my desk, I moved it away and it came back, I'd dump the whole thing, dish and all into the nearest garbage can.

    well aren't you a gem?

    Punish the whole office because you can't control yourself...

    Maybe punish the whole office because they aren't respecting her wishes to keep the candy in a different room because she ADMITS she is having a PROBLEM with it.

    She's doing her best - her workmates are in the wrong here - this is how I see it.

    If she didn't speak up and just threw them away then that is wrong.

    If this was people smoking in the office and she asked them to move to another room and they refused would that be different?

    Overeating lollies is not just a health issue but also a cosmetic one - sweets make you fat, ruin your skin, make you tired and contribute to diabetes and other assorted health problems. It also may or may not be addictive - but certainly some people have a huge problem saying NO to it.

    the workers are in the wrong for putting a candy bowl under a Christmas tree??? Bahahahaha that is hilarious ..

    and your smoking analogy is pretty extreme...

    Exactly. The person on the diet must learn self control and adjust to their surroundings in public, not the other way around.

    If you have anything approaching addiction (I understand this is debatable in regards to sugar) and you're trying to quit.

    If you're in any kind of treatment program your support workers will advise you to stay away from the substance and people who use the substance (whatever it is) until you can get a grip on how to live life without overwhelming urges.

    Once you're past the 'white knuckle' phase the restrictions can be relaxed.

    True, but it is a workplace, and it is not up to everyone else to coddle the personal problems of co-workers in a professional environment. I personally would have been fine with moving the candy bowl if someone asked me to just to make their lives a bit easier. But not everyone is like that, and they are under no obligation to be like that. So the addicted person must learn to adjust or they will keep having these types of problems.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    Move it. Problem solved.

    I'll try that again and see how it goes and just continue to move it. It didn't work last yr. but I'll have to wait an see.

    I'm a *****. If someone sat it near my desk, I moved it away and it came back, I'd dump the whole thing, dish and all into the nearest garbage can.

    well aren't you a gem?

    Punish the whole office because you can't control yourself...

    Maybe punish the whole office because they aren't respecting her wishes to keep the candy in a different room because she ADMITS she is having a PROBLEM with it.

    She's doing her best - her workmates are in the wrong here - this is how I see it.

    If she didn't speak up and just threw them away then that is wrong.

    If this was people smoking in the office and she asked them to move to another room and they refused would that be different?

    Overeating lollies is not just a health issue but also a cosmetic one - sweets make you fat, ruin your skin, make you tired and contribute to diabetes and other assorted health problems. It also may or may not be addictive - but certainly some people have a huge problem saying NO to it.

    the workers are in the wrong for putting a candy bowl under a Christmas tree??? Bahahahaha that is hilarious ..

    and your smoking analogy is pretty extreme...

    Exactly. The person on the diet must learn self control and adjust to their surroundings in public, not the other way around.

    If you have anything approaching addiction (I understand this is debatable in regards to sugar) and you're trying to quit.

    If you're in any kind of treatment program your support workers will advise you to stay away from the substance and people who use the substance (whatever it is) until you can get a grip on how to live life without overwhelming urges.

    Once you're past the 'white knuckle' phase the restrictions can be relaxed.

    True, but it is a workplace, and it is not up to everyone else to coddle the personal problems of co-workers in a professional environment. I personally would have been fine with moving the candy bowl if someone asked me to just to make their lives a bit easier. But not everyone is like that, and they are under no obligation to be like that. So the addicted person must learn to adjust or they will keep having these types of problems.

    at my office we have three bowls..one for candy, one for cocaine, and one for crystal meth...
  • Maryaly40
    Maryaly40 Posts: 551 Member
    i would throw it right in the garbage
  • Siansonea
    Siansonea Posts: 917 Member
    Move it. Problem solved.

    I'll try that again and see how it goes and just continue to move it. It didn't work last yr. but I'll have to wait an see.

    I'm a *****. If someone sat it near my desk, I moved it away and it came back, I'd dump the whole thing, dish and all into the nearest garbage can.

    well aren't you a gem?

    Punish the whole office because you can't control yourself...

    Maybe punish the whole office because they aren't respecting her wishes to keep the candy in a different room because she ADMITS she is having a PROBLEM with it.

    She's doing her best - her workmates are in the wrong here - this is how I see it.

    If she didn't speak up and just threw them away then that is wrong.

    If this was people smoking in the office and she asked them to move to another room and they refused would that be different?

    Overeating lollies is not just a health issue but also a cosmetic one - sweets make you fat, ruin your skin, make you tired and contribute to diabetes and other assorted health problems. It also may or may not be addictive - but certainly some people have a huge problem saying NO to it.

    the workers are in the wrong for putting a candy bowl under a Christmas tree??? Bahahahaha that is hilarious ..

    and your smoking analogy is pretty extreme...

    Exactly. The person on the diet must learn self control and adjust to their surroundings in public, not the other way around.

    If you have anything approaching addiction (I understand this is debatable in regards to sugar) and you're trying to quit.

    If you're in any kind of treatment program your support workers will advise you to stay away from the substance and people who use the substance (whatever it is) until you can get a grip on how to live life without overwhelming urges.

    Once you're past the 'white knuckle' phase the restrictions can be relaxed.

    True, but it is a workplace, and it is not up to everyone else to coddle the personal problems of co-workers in a professional environment. I personally would have been fine with moving the candy bowl if someone asked me to just to make their lives a bit easier. But not everyone is like that, and they are under no obligation to be like that. So the addicted person must learn to adjust or they will keep having these types of problems.

    at my office we have three bowls..one for candy, one for cocaine, and one for crystal meth...

    Has Massengill contacted you about a spokesmodel contract? Because I think you'd be a natural. :tongue: You seriously have to be the most entitled jock I've ever seen in my life. You have zero sympathy for the people who are where you were six years ago, and rather than make a small accommodation to help them with their goals, you'd make things harder on them just to prove some "majority rules, suck it" point or something. Douchetacular.
  • Rage_Phish
    Rage_Phish Posts: 1,507 Member
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    Most people don't work surrounded by real addicts, and I'll go out on a limb and say that few work places have bowls of cocaine under the Christmas tree.

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  • Myhaloslipped
    Myhaloslipped Posts: 4,317 Member
    Move it. Problem solved.

    I'll try that again and see how it goes and just continue to move it. It didn't work last yr. but I'll have to wait an see.

    I'm a *****. If someone sat it near my desk, I moved it away and it came back, I'd dump the whole thing, dish and all into the nearest garbage can.

    well aren't you a gem?

    Punish the whole office because you can't control yourself...

    Maybe punish the whole office because they aren't respecting her wishes to keep the candy in a different room because she ADMITS she is having a PROBLEM with it.

    She's doing her best - her workmates are in the wrong here - this is how I see it.

    If she didn't speak up and just threw them away then that is wrong.

    If this was people smoking in the office and she asked them to move to another room and they refused would that be different?

    Overeating lollies is not just a health issue but also a cosmetic one - sweets make you fat, ruin your skin, make you tired and contribute to diabetes and other assorted health problems. It also may or may not be addictive - but certainly some people have a huge problem saying NO to it.

    the workers are in the wrong for putting a candy bowl under a Christmas tree??? Bahahahaha that is hilarious ..

    and your smoking analogy is pretty extreme...

    Exactly. The person on the diet must learn self control and adjust to their surroundings in public, not the other way around.

    If you have anything approaching addiction (I understand this is debatable in regards to sugar) and you're trying to quit.

    If you're in any kind of treatment program your support workers will advise you to stay away from the substance and people who use the substance (whatever it is) until you can get a grip on how to live life without overwhelming urges.

    Once you're past the 'white knuckle' phase the restrictions can be relaxed.

    True, but it is a workplace, and it is not up to everyone else to coddle the personal problems of co-workers in a professional environment. I personally would have been fine with moving the candy bowl if someone asked me to just to make their lives a bit easier. But not everyone is like that, and they are under no obligation to be like that. So the addicted person must learn to adjust or they will keep having these types of problems.

    at my office we have three bowls..one for candy, one for cocaine, and one for crystal meth...

    I can only imagine the drama when drunk people start mistaking the contents of those bowls for each other at the Christmas party. :laugh:
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Move it. Problem solved.

    I'll try that again and see how it goes and just continue to move it. It didn't work last yr. but I'll have to wait an see.

    I'm a *****. If someone sat it near my desk, I moved it away and it came back, I'd dump the whole thing, dish and all into the nearest garbage can.

    well aren't you a gem?

    Punish the whole office because you can't control yourself...

    Maybe punish the whole office because they aren't respecting her wishes to keep the candy in a different room because she ADMITS she is having a PROBLEM with it.

    She's doing her best - her workmates are in the wrong here - this is how I see it.

    If she didn't speak up and just threw them away then that is wrong.

    If this was people smoking in the office and she asked them to move to another room and they refused would that be different?

    Overeating lollies is not just a health issue but also a cosmetic one - sweets make you fat, ruin your skin, make you tired and contribute to diabetes and other assorted health problems. It also may or may not be addictive - but certainly some people have a huge problem saying NO to it.

    the workers are in the wrong for putting a candy bowl under a Christmas tree??? Bahahahaha that is hilarious ..

    and your smoking analogy is pretty extreme...

    Exactly. The person on the diet must learn self control and adjust to their surroundings in public, not the other way around.

    If you have anything approaching addiction (I understand this is debatable in regards to sugar) and you're trying to quit.

    If you're in any kind of treatment program your support workers will advise you to stay away from the substance and people who use the substance (whatever it is) until you can get a grip on how to live life without overwhelming urges.

    Once you're past the 'white knuckle' phase the restrictions can be relaxed.

    True, but it is a workplace, and it is not up to everyone else to coddle the personal problems of co-workers in a professional environment. I personally would have been fine with moving the candy bowl if someone asked me to just to make their lives a bit easier. But not everyone is like that, and they are under no obligation to be like that. So the addicted person must learn to adjust or they will keep having these types of problems.

    at my office we have three bowls..one for candy, one for cocaine, and one for crystal meth...

    Mail me an app? :laugh: :laugh:
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    Move it. Problem solved.

    I'll try that again and see how it goes and just continue to move it. It didn't work last yr. but I'll have to wait an see.

    I'm a *****. If someone sat it near my desk, I moved it away and it came back, I'd dump the whole thing, dish and all into the nearest garbage can.

    well aren't you a gem?

    Punish the whole office because you can't control yourself...

    Maybe punish the whole office because they aren't respecting her wishes to keep the candy in a different room because she ADMITS she is having a PROBLEM with it.

    She's doing her best - her workmates are in the wrong here - this is how I see it.

    If she didn't speak up and just threw them away then that is wrong.

    If this was people smoking in the office and she asked them to move to another room and they refused would that be different?

    Overeating lollies is not just a health issue but also a cosmetic one - sweets make you fat, ruin your skin, make you tired and contribute to diabetes and other assorted health problems. It also may or may not be addictive - but certainly some people have a huge problem saying NO to it.

    the workers are in the wrong for putting a candy bowl under a Christmas tree??? Bahahahaha that is hilarious ..

    and your smoking analogy is pretty extreme...

    Exactly. The person on the diet must learn self control and adjust to their surroundings in public, not the other way around.

    If you have anything approaching addiction (I understand this is debatable in regards to sugar) and you're trying to quit.

    If you're in any kind of treatment program your support workers will advise you to stay away from the substance and people who use the substance (whatever it is) until you can get a grip on how to live life without overwhelming urges.

    Once you're past the 'white knuckle' phase the restrictions can be relaxed.

    True, but it is a workplace, and it is not up to everyone else to coddle the personal problems of co-workers in a professional environment. I personally would have been fine with moving the candy bowl if someone asked me to just to make their lives a bit easier. But not everyone is like that, and they are under no obligation to be like that. So the addicted person must learn to adjust or they will keep having these types of problems.

    at my office we have three bowls..one for candy, one for cocaine, and one for crystal meth...

    Has Massengill contacted you about a spokesmodel contract? Because I think you'd be a natural. :tongue: You seriously have to be the most entitled jock I've ever seen in my life. You have zero sympathy for the people who are where you were six years ago, and rather than make a small accommodation to help them with their goals, you'd make things harder on them just to prove some "majority rules, suck it" point or something. Douchetacular.
    no, but I think Mattel might be contacting you for copyright infringement...

    No, I am simply saying that if nine out of ten people in the office want to have a candy bowl under the three, then why should it be moved for one person ...
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    Move it. Problem solved.

    I'll try that again and see how it goes and just continue to move it. It didn't work last yr. but I'll have to wait an see.

    I'm a *****. If someone sat it near my desk, I moved it away and it came back, I'd dump the whole thing, dish and all into the nearest garbage can.

    well aren't you a gem?

    Punish the whole office because you can't control yourself...

    Maybe punish the whole office because they aren't respecting her wishes to keep the candy in a different room because she ADMITS she is having a PROBLEM with it.

    She's doing her best - her workmates are in the wrong here - this is how I see it.

    If she didn't speak up and just threw them away then that is wrong.

    If this was people smoking in the office and she asked them to move to another room and they refused would that be different?

    Overeating lollies is not just a health issue but also a cosmetic one - sweets make you fat, ruin your skin, make you tired and contribute to diabetes and other assorted health problems. It also may or may not be addictive - but certainly some people have a huge problem saying NO to it.

    the workers are in the wrong for putting a candy bowl under a Christmas tree??? Bahahahaha that is hilarious ..

    and your smoking analogy is pretty extreme...

    Exactly. The person on the diet must learn self control and adjust to their surroundings in public, not the other way around.

    If you have anything approaching addiction (I understand this is debatable in regards to sugar) and you're trying to quit.

    If you're in any kind of treatment program your support workers will advise you to stay away from the substance and people who use the substance (whatever it is) until you can get a grip on how to live life without overwhelming urges.

    Once you're past the 'white knuckle' phase the restrictions can be relaxed.

    True, but it is a workplace, and it is not up to everyone else to coddle the personal problems of co-workers in a professional environment. I personally would have been fine with moving the candy bowl if someone asked me to just to make their lives a bit easier. But not everyone is like that, and they are under no obligation to be like that. So the addicted person must learn to adjust or they will keep having these types of problems.

    at my office we have three bowls..one for candy, one for cocaine, and one for crystal meth...

    Mail me an app? :laugh: :laugh:

    sent..
  • rabblerabble
    rabblerabble Posts: 471 Member
    Today a support team that shares the floor with the team I work for has a 'treat' day with a huge spread of goodies spread all over a table just a few steps away from my cubicle. All kinds of tasty looking stuff that doesn't fit into my plan for today. Sigh.
  • Azexas
    Azexas Posts: 4,334 Member
    I have to go with what a few other people have said and have a fruit bowl. If this person hasn't listened to you before and keeps doing their own thing, you may have to do the same and make adjustments around it. Put the fruit bowl on your desk and fill it with fresh fruit and granola so if you get the craving for the candy you can reach into your own stash of healthy snacks. It sucks, but in the end it is what it is.
  • Siansonea
    Siansonea Posts: 917 Member
    Move it. Problem solved.

    I'll try that again and see how it goes and just continue to move it. It didn't work last yr. but I'll have to wait an see.

    I'm a *****. If someone sat it near my desk, I moved it away and it came back, I'd dump the whole thing, dish and all into the nearest garbage can.

    well aren't you a gem?

    Punish the whole office because you can't control yourself...

    Maybe punish the whole office because they aren't respecting her wishes to keep the candy in a different room because she ADMITS she is having a PROBLEM with it.

    She's doing her best - her workmates are in the wrong here - this is how I see it.

    If she didn't speak up and just threw them away then that is wrong.

    If this was people smoking in the office and she asked them to move to another room and they refused would that be different?

    Overeating lollies is not just a health issue but also a cosmetic one - sweets make you fat, ruin your skin, make you tired and contribute to diabetes and other assorted health problems. It also may or may not be addictive - but certainly some people have a huge problem saying NO to it.

    the workers are in the wrong for putting a candy bowl under a Christmas tree??? Bahahahaha that is hilarious ..

    and your smoking analogy is pretty extreme...

    Exactly. The person on the diet must learn self control and adjust to their surroundings in public, not the other way around.

    If you have anything approaching addiction (I understand this is debatable in regards to sugar) and you're trying to quit.

    If you're in any kind of treatment program your support workers will advise you to stay away from the substance and people who use the substance (whatever it is) until you can get a grip on how to live life without overwhelming urges.

    Once you're past the 'white knuckle' phase the restrictions can be relaxed.

    True, but it is a workplace, and it is not up to everyone else to coddle the personal problems of co-workers in a professional environment. I personally would have been fine with moving the candy bowl if someone asked me to just to make their lives a bit easier. But not everyone is like that, and they are under no obligation to be like that. So the addicted person must learn to adjust or they will keep having these types of problems.

    at my office we have three bowls..one for candy, one for cocaine, and one for crystal meth...

    Has Massengill contacted you about a spokesmodel contract? Because I think you'd be a natural. :tongue: You seriously have to be the most entitled jock I've ever seen in my life. You have zero sympathy for the people who are where you were six years ago, and rather than make a small accommodation to help them with their goals, you'd make things harder on them just to prove some "majority rules, suck it" point or something. Douchetacular.
    no, but I think Mattel might be contacting you for copyright infringement...

    No, I am simply saying that if nine out of ten people in the office want to have a candy bowl under the three, then why should it be moved for one person ...

    Way to take a stand. I'm glad you're raising awareness for candy bowl placement in the workplace, it's such an important topic. Except, you know, not. People can find the candy bowl just fine without having it dangling in front of the one person who has impulse control issues and has asked for a simple accommodation. It sounds like only one trollish biznatch at that office is insisting that the bowl be placed in front of the OPs work area, not a unified front of disgruntled candy eaters forced to travel 5 more feet to obtain their God-given right to candy.

    And it's Hasbro, not Mattel. But you're probably wrong a lot, huh?