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AIBU?

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Is this really unreasonable?

61 replies

Mia4 · 24/10/2013 16:39

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?

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ExitPursuedByABogieMan · 30/10/2013 22:16

Whatever happened to having a sandwich for lunch? Confused

Mia4 · 31/10/2013 11:24

Glad you guys all enjoyed, I must admit when i first posted the AIBU I was worried Soup and I messed up mainly because (and someone else pointed this out very aptly) none of the others said anything and seemed to stand with Cannelloni but after all your responses I felt much better.

And the update responses make me giggle, seriously, I don't know how i keep a straight face when i'll see her now. Quote you have a good point, maybe I should have namechanged in case she finds it but oh well whoops Blush, this is my first post about work so she's unlikely to find any dirt at all there.

Office etiquette can drive you to distraction, that's for sure.

And Soup, Soup is just awesome, she's one of those people who almost always has a witty retort while it takes me a few minutes to think of one, and by that point the person has wandered off.

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Mia4 · 31/10/2013 11:25

Hop, that sign would be awesome.

Exit, sandwiches incur the wrath of fridge etiquette! :)

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ExitPursuedByABogieMan · 31/10/2013 11:37

I only worked in a large office briefly but the smells from the kitchen area were horrendous. It was a 24 hour office so people cooked all the bloody time!

Mia4 · 31/10/2013 11:50

Oh yikes, I can only image how that must have been. I'm lucky enough to have the kitchen well ventilated and away from the offices.

Didn't it make you hungry a lot?

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ExitPursuedByABogieMan · 31/10/2013 12:07

No. It reminded me of school dinners at junior school, which were a very, very bad time for me - so it made me nervous. I was 53 for goodness sake!

EldritchCleavage · 31/10/2013 13:10

We had all sorts in the microwave until big boss with the office near the kitchen kicked off about unfortunate smells wafting through his meetings. The tuna pasta pong was especially memorable, apparently. Now people are restricted to soup and sandwiches, and open the window after heating the soup. Toast is made on my floor so as not to incur the wrath of big boss.

BaronessBomburst · 31/10/2013 13:17

Lots and lots have people have touched that sealed packet of cannelloni! You should see the teenagers boys stacking the shelves in our local supermarket. Grin

Mia4 · 31/10/2013 21:46

Oh Exit, that's not a good reminder.

Lol, no wonder they are restricted Eldritch. I think the smelliest thing, I ever smelt was a cauliflower and broccoli soup.

They have Baroness, and now i'm imagining sweaty teen boys fingering cannelloni's food!

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BaronessBomburst · 01/11/2013 10:02

" and now i'm imagining sweaty teen boys fingering cannelloni 's food! "

Is that even better? Grin

Mia4 · 01/11/2013 22:48

Baroness that's very evil and such a cringe-worthy image that now won't leave my mind! :)

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