Is this really unreasonable?

[Mia4]

Or just...normal?

In work, largish kitchen but only one microwave and a few of us have things to heat. Everyone lines their food up as they go in as a kind of queue, there's something in the microwave going and everyone sitting at tables waiting to use or already eating.

The food in the microwave finishes, beeps and after about two minutes of waiting and everyone looking at each other and asking 'is it yours' we all realise canollini owner isn't around.

After another minute of waiting the next in line removes the food, puts it on the side (where it madly bubble away because superheated) and puts her soup in to heat.

After ten minutes, canollini owner finally returns and starts off on a massive rant about how it's disrespectful to touch someone else's food, even if it's sealed, and everyone should have waited their turn. Canollini owner then gets the hump and storms off, still ranting, saying they are going to complain when soup owner apologises and then her and myself point out that it's a waste of time to sit around and wait and she should have stayed to keep an eye on her food.

Everyone else just ignored us all. I'm sure (or at least both soup owner and I were but now we're a bit confused) it's not unreasonable to remove the sealed food and put it on a plate to one side, but soup owner and I are in one department and everyone else- canollini owner and all those who ignored the whole thing- are in another but did we make some big faux paux?

no, you behaved in a perfectly normal manner.

Not unreasonable at all, prob some work munching cockdodger with a big gob showing it off

hate those people

If you put your food in the microwave to cook it then you should at least hang around until its done. its a matter of minutes not hours. if you have limited time for lunch then of course it is reasonable to remove it to warm your own food. you could have hung around for ages. cannollini owner needs to get a life if this is the most important thing to them

Er... Yanbu. Expecting a queue of people to stand around waiting 10 mins because cannelloni-person has gone AWOL is unreasonable.

People are weird.

Er... Yanbu. Expecting a queue of people to stand around waiting 10 mins because cannelloni-person has gone AWOL is unreasonable.

People are weird.

I would have done exactly the same.
I assume you didn't stick your finger in it or anything

cannelloni-gate!

of course YANBU, how long were you supposed to wait, owner may never have come back and no one else would have got their lunch!

So i go to the staff room for lunch, I only get 15 mins and have taken a bowl of soup to eat. There is no way that I am going to wait 10 mins until the other person decides that they are going to return for their food. I doubt my line manager would be impressed if i am late back.

It is selfish on their part.

Thank you all, Soup owner and I are pretty relieved we're not being unreasonable. There's a lot of emphasis on diplomacy especially between our two departments since the heads hate each other and so it lends to a lot of tension between the two of us. When cannelloni (i knew i spelt that wrong but spell checker had no clue!) owner stormed off and no one else agreed with us I did start to get a bit unsure and second guessing.

We retreated back to the office to eat, I'm not sure if I'll see cannelloni owner again today but she's been known to hold a grudge- i just hope she won't over something so petty.

I promise you Seeline, we didn't :)

What's cannelloni-gate, phantomnamechanger?

Crap, I will see her tomorrow though, Soup just reminded me that there's a big meeting everyone has to attend. Oh well hopefully she will be fine by then. Thank you all again :)

Our work microwave caught fire a couple of weeks ago because someone put a whole fish in it and went off somewhere. They either put it on for a very long time or the timer stuck, anyway the firemen were not amused. The fish was just charred remains with sad eyes. Now we are not allowed a microwave. Who cooks a whole fish at work I hear you ask - nobody has owned up to it as yet.

Anyway, you were quite right to get the other person's food out, that is normal microwave etiquette. People should have the patience to wait by the microwave for a couple of minutes.

canollini cockwedge. YANBU

Pissing myself at the fish story. I have a similar one from my sixth form common room involving a banana and a fork instead of the fish.

But no, you weren't being unreasonable. I would've, and have, done exactly the same thing.

YANBU. My boss does this he also queue jumps as he's more important than us , but even he understands when we boot his food out after it's cooked.

So what if she's an arse tomorrow, I'd be tempted to touch all the biscuits in front of her so that she can't have any.

I would have done the same, for the simple reason I only get 30 minutes for lunch! I can't wait that amount of time on someone being an arse.

Very bad staffroom etiquette on Cannelloni's part. Mia, next time she pulls a stunt like that, remove her food from the microwave and sling it in the bin. Then everyone hotfoot it from the room sharpish lol...

Seriously, if she does glower at you at the meeting, glower right back at her.

Perhaps a sign on the micro door suggesting that people using the microwave should remain there while their food is cooking and should wipe the insides down after using (because they haven't put a cover over the bowl and the soup has splashed everywhere grrrrr), but that's a bugbear of mine.

Chemenge I had a French colleague once who used to microwave fillets of fish and eat them, on their own, for lunch. Regularly (and in a trés deadpan way).

Yanbu. We have 30 mins for lunch and it really annoys me when someone hogs the microwave for 10 mins.

At work people often leave food in the microwave and then come back to it, but if it pings then it's fair game to take it out and put your stuff in. YANBU.

We have a communal microwave and often people put something in and come back to it later. It's just accepted without question that if someone's food is done and another person needs the microwave, you take the food out. If anyone takes my food out, if anything I'm quite apologetic that they've had the bother.

We make a queue, first person waits till theirs is cooked and shoves next persons in for them goes back to desk and rings second person to tell them their food is in so they go get it when done and shove 3rd persons in etc etc. why on earth would anyone leave cannelloni in for 10 min anyhow??

YANBU

Its a communcal microwave. How long should you have waited? 10 minutes? 20? An hour?

Cannelloni should of stayed, or expect her food to be removed when finished.

Hopefully she will apologise, or she will never be able to take anyone food out of the microwave ever again.

Download a "ping' sound and have it as your ring tone, suggest everyone does the same.

YANBU. Your colleague sounds like a total drama queen making a fuss about fuck all. Does (s)he always behave like that? Perhaps just having a bad day?

Thank you all, I have to admit next time I am tempted to do Tabby's idea!

According to Soup, she kept glaring at us through the meeting which i didn't see until after when i turned around and saw her glowering. I probably had the worst reaction but i just couldn't help myself- I burst out laughing and she was very not impressed, did the storming thing again.

This lunchtime she wasn't there, apparently she was in the 'bosses office' using their very underused microwave. There were a few people from yesterday and this morning in our kitchen though and they told us she was in the wrong but once you get on her bad side she can be really unpleasant so no one (in their department) ever says anything. They just put their heads down. They found it hilarious when i laughed, they hadn't been expecting that but then neither had I!