Eating in office way before and after lunch time is antisocial

[DyslexicScientist]

A few people in the office eat about 11am and 3pm. I wouldn't mind so much but the food is smelly andthey are noisey eaters (cutlery on a plate like they are playing a drum).

Aibu to think eating at your desk should just be limited to around lunch?

I wouldn't mind the nutribullet, only on for seconds and doesn't smell.

I'm a bit at all these no break rooms. Your forced to eat at desk or outside? Shudder

Plus its annoyting for coleagues who dont know if you are 'working while you eat ' and therefore can be asked about work 'stuff' or if you are actually on an unpaid break

My cinema has started selling wasabi peas. Makes me all stabby.

I used to eat at my desk because I had so much work to do. Snacking wise if someone is eating sweets or chocolate then that's fine. A cereal bar, fine. Smelly food, not fine.

Luckily my workplace treats me with respect, including letting me eat at a time and place of my choosing.

I need to eat frequently as my blood sugar drops fast, and with it my mood/productivity

Biscuit cum

Don't feel sad Dyslexic, staff rooms are often grim places from what I've seen!

I eat every meal at my desk but I work from home. if I was in an office I don't think that I would be so liberal but would eat meals at my desk.

We don't have set break times or lunch hours either (shudder) so can just wander as we please.

Dyslexic, I misread your post as 'wasabi pies'. It was making my eyes water.

We have a canteen but I prefer to eat at my desk (almost always cold food). When I don't have time pressure, it's because I prefer to sit at my desk in peace and quiet and read the paper online

If I saw a colleague eating at their desk, I would not go ask then about 'work stuff' anyway...

YABU OP, many office do not have staff room, sometimes you also just want to catch up on videos, read FB, etc... For all these reasons, you will eat at your desk. As long as it is not a fondue, a full-on curry or smelly fish, that should be alright.

You can still have a proper break at your desk. That's what the internet's for. If we all have to leave our desks for a "proper break" but have no staff room, are we all supposed to spend a fortune in restaurants and cafés?

My old place of work had nowhere to eat - either the desk or your car. I chose the car.

And the way people nurse their bowels of muesli for twenty minutes, clink clink clink, completely oblivious. If they must, get it over with quickly and at least make an effort to make the clinking less torturous.

I get in 10 mins early and have porridge in kitchen. Never have lunch at desk. Would hate to subject colleagues to any discomfort in that respect.

I work in a smallish office. There is no staff room or area we could eat in apart from at our desks. We all eat at odd times as we have to go out and do jobs as and when needed. Yes there are food smells but we are all adult enough to recognise and accept the different food preferences we have. No one has ever raised it as an issue.

YABU. Even though we sit in front of a screen 100% of the time we're not allowed to take breaks at work, we are allowed to go to the toilet. I need to eat more than at just lunchtime or I can't concentrate as hard as I need to. However, I don't eat smelly food and I don't think other people should because some of it really makes me feel sick - anything hot with meat in is disgusting.

YABU. We eat all day in our office. I think if someone moaned about this we would all laugh.

Offices should provide plastic utensils and insist that the stalwart desk-eaters use them.

There is no staff room at my place so I eat at my desk. I always take a break (as I am doing now) I also have to work my lunch around the times I see my clients so could be 11.30 or could be 2.30 it's always different.

If I had a staff room I would use it though.

YABU

Either you are allowed to eat at your desk, or you are not. The restricted time request is silly.

I would prefer if people could have their full lunch in a different room, but it's difficult. A sandwich is fine, a bar of cereals is fine, so who would police that? Offices are by nature unpleasant: too cold/ too hot/ too noisy/ too much music/ not enough music/ too much talking/ too silent.

When I was junior, people used to help themselves with things from my desk, (paper, pen, nothing private) or use my phone. I hated that. Now they wouldn't dare, and the food issue bothers me much less.

most places I've worked don't have a staff room.

I agree it's basic consideration not to eat noisily or eat smelly food at your desk but sometimes people don't have a choice. Then there's the "what is smelly" problem - don't mind bacon at all, but someone's soup makes me feel ill often.

In my current place we do have somewhere you can eat so I do wish they would pop there. It's also quite relaxed.
in terms of times, I don't mind either but some people have been up at 5 and others (like me) probably somewhere round 8 so when we eat varies.

i only ever have sandwiches and salads at work, I wouldn't bring in anything that smelt of much at all IYSWIM.

I am very lucky, we are all noisy eaters in my office (phew). I admire the smelly things eaten by others. I eat breakfast at my desk, too, but that's usually before anyone else is in.

We don't have break rooms.

I''m eating at my desk now

Yabu about the fact you that you think tuna doesnt smell. It does hot or cold.

I go away from my desk for hour for lunch but some of my colleagues eat at their desk. Doesnt bother me too much.

I do snack at the desk and sometimes but rarely I have porridge at work for breakfast if I had no time at home.