NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO! People should be banned from eating crunchy food in the office!

[CastingNasturtiums]

AIBU?

[Proudnscary]

[Proudnscary]

[Proudnscary]

[Sparklingbrook]

YANBU. They are the same folk that microwave fishy things that whiff the whole office out. What are they eating?

[Anniegetyourgun]

Mmm, crisps.

[Petsinmypudenda]

[CastingNasturtiums]

Something annoyingly fucking healthy, like nuts or some shit like that.

[myfirstkitchen]

Microwaving fishy things...
That is the worst!
Crunchy is annoying but smelly worse.
I once worked with a girl who often heated up egg curry in the microwave in the staff room that had no windows.

[CastingNasturtiums]

Crisps are not so bad Annie. It's apples and nuts and RAW VEGETABLES that piss me off.

Hang on, didn't you make that exact same comment on a different thread?

[Seeline]

When I was at work I used to have a colleague who used to actually make his sandwiches at his desk (opposite mine!). He'd go out to the supermarket and buy a proper loaf, ham, tomatoes etc. He kept butter and leftovers in the office fridge. He'd sit at his desk, get out a bread knife and slice up the loaf, spread the butter, slice up the tomato with a different knife and put it all together [ shock]
His computer keyboard was always full of breadcrumbs

[CastingNasturtiums]

I would prefer it if they were gutting dead fish at their desk rather than crunching!

[HecatePropolos]

Oh, I hate having to listen to other people's eating noises. Revolting.

[Grapesoda]

Ha ha. Annoying, but I agree that the fishy thing is the greater crime. A list needs to be made and discussions had in house of commons. Actually I feel a bit sick now just thinking about the fish thing.

[CastingNasturtiums]

Seeline that's odd.

[CastingNasturtiums]

Hmm, I guess I just really like fish and really hate crunching.

[Seeline]

Definitely odd - he was a nice guy though
To solve your problem you just need to crunch on something louder to block out the noise

[Proudnscary]

Actually although I am prone to eating an apple or two at my desk, a colleague drives me demented by snacking on very crunchy nutty/health snacks and sounds like a cat eating dry food.

[CastingNasturtiums]

Seriously though, why do people do it? Do they not wonder whether they might annoy someone else? I never eat on trains etc because I think there might be someone like me sitting nearby, who will be thinking murderous thoughts towards me.

[Sparklingbrook]

Ooh have they got one of those crappy Graze boxes?

My colleague used to slurp lots of cans of pop. Found out after a few months it was't just pop in the can.

[Trills]

Your office needs a higher level of background noise

[CastingNasturtiums]

That's actually not a bad idea at all Seeline. I should get a stock of crunchy snacks in and secretly coordinate our eating.

[CastingNasturtiums]

Trills my office is dead silent unfortunately.

[CastingNasturtiums]

Apart from the crunching, obv.

[Anniegetyourgun]

Yes I did. I make no apology for that. The only difference is that I am not, at this very moment, eating any. Though now you come to mention it...

[zlist]

YANBU! Drives me nutty!
Thankfully, the crisp cruncher and the load keyboard tapper have now moved on from our small office.