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?

What time had they been there since, and what time are they working until?

Perhaps they cannot wait until lunchtime, otherwise they get too hungry?

Just because lunchtime suits you for eating, other people may have to eat at other times.

According to mn you're not allowed to eat on trains as it's smelly and offends people. You're not allowed to eat at desks because it's smelly and offends people. If you absolutely must, then you have to do it between the hours of 12 and 2 (at a push) or retreat to a breakout room (like work places are awash with those). Many people I work with (public sector) are so busy they have to eat what they can, where they can. If the mn jury had its way nobody would ever eat anything, anywhere, at any time, for risk of offending some poor soul with sensitive nostrils/ ears/ eyes.

Apparently you're not allowed apply makeup on trains either.

But I love watching people put their makeup on!

I can't bear watch people applying make-up on trains. Pulling their eyes and grimacing into mirrors. It's as bad as urinating in public. I have to move seats.

Soon you will be saying we shouldn't bite our toenails on trains!

I am in awe of anyone bendy enough to bite their own toenails.

I do, however, think that people biting other people's toenails on trains ought to be strongly discouraged.

There is absolutely nowhere else in my work to eat my lunch. I work in a city centre so no parks/benches or anywhere nice to get away to in the summer, no break room or communal area - nothing! We have a fridge and a microwave jammed into a cupboard with the photocopier, and a kettle in the office. I can either eat my meal at my desk or else squat in a corridor somewhere.

Trust me, I'd sooner not eat at my desk if I had somewhere else to go. I work in a university and I swear the academic staff here have no awareness of anything but their own needs. I can be sitting with headphones in, a plate of hot food in front of me and cutlery in both hands and they'll still ask me for non-essential things which are not time sensitive

I put my make up on on a train the other day just because of mn. I wanted to see if there was any horrified reaction, but nothing, I was gutted.

Nowhere to eat here either. I eat when I'm hungry. The guy next to me is a noisy chewer, I find something to do whilst he's chomping. Cup of tea/chat for 10mins.

I eat at 10am, some toast normally, 2pm - lunch, and I'll crack on with a couple of biscuits around 4.30 if I need too. Sometimes i eat around my meetings. I've even been caught short and told to bring my lunch to a meeting. Luckily it was only a sandwich and I'd finished half already.

If someone tried to restrict when I could eat or tried to tell me I had to perch uncomfortably against a kitchen counter to eat I'd call them more than unreasonable

Haven't RTFT but it completely depends on the environment, the hours of work and the facilities available. Where I work, there is nowhere to eat lunch other than at your desk (unless you sit in your car) and we never get chance to take our lunch break so even if there was some kind of break room it wouldn't get used. Very often I don't get chance to eat lunch until much later in the afternoon than OP would consider socially acceptable (today it was about half 2 so not too bad but it's often around 3ish) but that's usually because I've had back to back appointments or home visits. Often, if I do manage to sit down at my desk at 12pm with every intention of eating my lunch, the phone then doesn't stop ringing or I need to respond to urgent emails or someone accosts me wanting advice or consultation about a patient or something so I'm still eating the same sandwhich a couple of hours later. Noisy eating and very strong smelling food in a shared office is rude though, no excuse for that. We used to have a guy in our office who had habit of talking on the phone with his mouth full and chewing very loudly, it was gross.

I eat at my desk at any time I feel like it and I don't care whether it annoys people. People do things that annoy me but I don't say anything. It's part of life.

Vivienne you need to remove the stick from your rear end if you genuinely have such an overreaction to someone putting on a bit of mascara on a train

You honestly think that's as bad as someone pissing in the street?

Yabu

There is a small kitchen where I work in a transport office. It is not the most hygienic of places. I would not eat anything in there. My desk is much cleaner!!

There's nowhere to eat in our workplace except at the desk. And as some people do lates etc, there are always going to be people eating at different times. So yabu.

I love these threads. People diagnose themselves with misophonia at an alarming rate. Although I suppose all those people could have misophonia much like all those on MN who claim to have "narcs" for relatives.

People pissing in the street doesn't even bother me that much. As long as they are drunk discreet and it's night time/dark. I've definitely been there. DH is a bugger for doing this on every bloody country walk we go on.

Sometimes if people are stupid enough and they are you'll your diary rammed full of back to back meetings with a spare 15 mins or so at random time. So you eat when you can eat and to hell with what anyone thinks ....unless those people just be left to starve because they didn't eat in appropriate hours.

Where are all these companies that have break rooms?

Only two out of the ten plus companies I've worked for provided anywhere for employees to eat/spend lunch breaks. It was eat at your desk, a park bench or starve.

We have break out areas on every floor (11 floors) plus a large canteen downstairs.

There are no break rooms where I work in the voluntary sector, it's eat at your desk or eat in the car park, desk wins every time unless it's sunny ( not that often here in Durham! )

I always have my breakfast at work, I have a coffee before I leave the house but never want breakfast until about half nine. I eat while I'm working, we all do so I don't think we annoy each other.

Because we have to eat at our desk we tend to be mindful not to choose really smelly food to eat, the office is too small to have seven people sat there eating stinky food

Op you'd hate my office. My office had the kitchen and break out area in it. People come from their offices to eat their lunch in my office. It's so noisy and smelly, I hate it.

Veggies also smell OP. And curry commonly contains them anyway!

If you have a break room I think it would be nicer to eat there. I work in a care home and all we have is basically the landing of the stairs with two dining room chairs and a bedside table!

Myself and most of my colleagues eat at our desk. Hot food is banned on the office floor though, which is fair enough. Mainly we eat and work at same time. Lunchbreaks are a chance for most of us to run round shops, run personal errands - not really used for an actual restful break.