AIBU to think my colleague could have waited 5 minutes?

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for me to finish my bacon roll before he came over to my desk to ask me something completely non-urgent?

I had a mouth full of deliciously bacony goodness and he's was hanging over me while I chewed! And then I felt like I couldn't take another bite while he was there, so my roll got cold.

It's not like he arrived at my desk then discovered I was eating. He can see me from his desk so must have known that I was eating as he got out his chair!

My start to the day has been tainted.

Are you allowed to eat at your desk? We are not. Any food has to consumed in designated areas at designated mealtimes.
Clearly your colleague thought you were not busy with work...

YANBU about your colleague. Respect the bacon!

However you are being VVU to only be starting your day at 10.30am and a bacon roll, when my day started bacon-less at 5.30am.

YANBU at all. Pet hate of mine is when people can see you're eating and come up and say "sorry to interrupt your lunch" and start chatting away.

Bugger off until I've finished! Am also jealous of your bacon

YANBU - I was once interrupted and asked to join a conference call mid-sausage baguette and the whole thing was RUINED. I had to sit there on the sodding phone looking at the sausage baguette winking at me and going slowly but surely flat cold and greasy.

It still makes me a little bit 4 years on.

PasswordProtected I've never worked anywhere that eating at your desk was prohibited - mainly because, then, people would actually have to be given proper meal breaks (rather than shove butties in whilst continuing to type).

But start of the day is a bit different to a lunch break, isn't it? Presumably you don't get a break for breakfast, OP? Maybe he just wanted to get on with some work!

emsyj - do you think to yourself "I will always be one sausage baguette down?" That's the kind of thing I do!

Yeah, I suppose technically I was working, but it really could have waited (even for another week - it was so damn non-urgent!)

I was working on something else while I was eating - just doing stuff that didn't involve any actual talking.

Anyway, I'm supposed to be working now too so better get on before I get annoyed with someone interrupting my mumsnetting

He was drawn to the bacony delishousness. You are lucky he didn't as you to share.

But you cannot continue to work with such thoughtless colleagues.

You must resign immediately.

I'm outraged for you OP!!! What an inconsiderate basket!

Call HR immediately, he needs a written warning!

I keep doing this.

Walking over to people's desks & discovering they have a mouthful of something. Then feeling a twat but continuing to ask the question (why don't I walk off?!) so I apologise on stupid colleagues behalf OP!

However if you saw how much food gets consumed in my office, it's hard to catch people in the brief moments they're not eating or loudly discussing their current diet

I feel my human rights have been violated.

(As an aside, I cannot conceive of working somewhere I wasn't allowed to eat at my desk.)

I am thinking about lunch already

At a place i used to work years ago, we were strictly forbidden from eating at our desks... However... On pig-out/every other day 2 or 3 of us couldn't resist the odd mcdonalds - we became adept at listening for the tippytoes of our (female!) bosses stilettoes marching up the stairs whilst we quickly 'swept' the whole lot into our desk drawers... she used to sniff the air and spray the room whilst we tried to scoff the rest surreptiously... also used to 'secretly' eat oranges at the desk and she could never understand why my keyboard was always sticky... Those were the days

If you were working and not on a break he can discuss work related stuff with you.

Well, I had one mate who would be drawn to eating people like a wasp....he would then beg for bites/pieces/'whatever you can't manage' and hover making any enjoyment of the food impossible. The worst was when I had a huge bag of chips that I was going to partially eat, then save the remains in the fridge for microwaving later after the pub (classy). I ate them all to avoid sharing!

People used to bring in cakes for their birthdays where I used to work and one of the lawyers ripped apart a Swiss rolls with his hands to eat it, yuk

Yanbu! Anything non urgent can wait til someone's finished. It's nearly as bad as the "can u cover while I go......" And your not even due to start yet.