To think people should have breakfast BEFORE work?

[candybeek]

If you work a normal daily shift like 9-5 office hours, then I feel it's really odd people come in to work and immediately start pouring milk on their cornflakes or dashing to the canteen for a greasy fry up.
I'm in the minority at my work place that have breakfast at home before work.
I understand it if you work shifts etc but 9-5??

I find it really odd, what's next - people using the kitchen to cook their tea before they leave for work?

It's even worse as they bring their smelly breakfasts back to their desk so I have to inhale it all.

Am I on my own in this thought?

kokos That just sounds a bit....snobbish?

I don't think it's snobbish. Clearly with the decline of manufacturing the rise of the service Industry we have more people working in offices and few in factories. Surely that's common sense? I've never met anyone who works in a factory.

Do you Matching? Then why the 1950s reference to tea/coffee breaks, if you understand?

Hardly snobbish, just fact I imagine.

I am prepared to be wrong but when I have seen people describe their jobs on MN I have rarely if ever seen someone say they work in a factory.

Maybe everyone on this thread does, I have no idea.

Coffee breaks lol. It's like being in 1950

That definitely sounds snobbish.

Oven, you have it.

I'm on my lunch break BTW, away from the office.

My point was that the people I work with all live about 10/15 minutes away, all work 9-5, most of them skive off for a fry up just after 9.

Crikes!

who has a specified coffee break time in an office Ffs?

What's snobby about pointing out coffee breaks are outdated? You lot are weird.

I worked in the NHS for a spell, coffee breaks are still very much a thing there. You sound snobbish because you're implying that anyone who has a set coffee break is working in some obsolete and desperately uncool environment.

I'm with you OP - I go to bed looking forward to my breakfast! Each to his own I suppose.

Let me get this right, if you're a manager in the NHS you get into work and have specified coffee breaks? Like 10.45-11am, saves coffee break?! Really?

Or are you talking about front line staff?

candy Here's a plan:
Develop a taste for kippers on toast for breakfast (at your desk).

1. Heat them up before leaving home and put them in a food flask.
2. Arrive 2 mins before you are due to start work.
3. log on (You are now officially 'working'.
4. Nip out to the canteen to buy/ make toast.
5. Come back half an hour later to your desk & put kippers on toast.
6. Eat whilst scrolling through e-mails.
7. Leave plate at end of desk all day
8. Be happy because you have done exactly what you want to do regardless of any work ethic/ feelings of others.

Well seeing as most of the NHS is made up is front line staff and admin staff so you can safely assume that's who I'm referring to.

my Ohs office offer f ee tea and toast 7am-9am on the provision you acquire it prior to the start of shift, almost everyone eats breakfast at their desk.

i used to work 7-3. my first break was 9 and i'd eat breakfast then. my body isn't really ready to eat until i've been awake for at least 3 hours. occasionally i had to work the 12-8 shift and would eat lunch at 11:45 at my desk as the canteen would be shit by my first break. and the lunch break was at 430pm. so if i ate at 10 before i left that's quite a long time without a meal imo... and puts u on a weird pattern.
there was zero tolerance for logging on then sodding off for breakfast tho. but people are all sorts of stinky shit in the office.

I have mine at home with my toddler and then he goes to my parents or nursery and I'm at my desk by half eight. We just get up earlier than we did before we had him.. And I am at work now but this is my lunch hour! A colleague regularly eats breakfast at her desk but if she's eating she's not actually working and she'll often go out for her lunch hour and then come back and eat her lunch afterwards! Usually something with cutlery too so requiring both hands. It is a tad annoying!

Matching - although the OP is talking about a desk job, her ACTUAL question was about people eating breakfast "at work", not "at work in an office, only an office, nowhere other than an office". So yeah, other places of work are relevant to the discussion in general terms.

Yes squoosh in that case I'll repeat my earlier point that those staff are not relevant to the thread. Keep talking about them if you like though

If your eating time doesn't impact on your work time then I'd say it's fine.

I get up early, can't eat before 10am most days and get DS to breakfast club for 8. From there I have an hour commute (driving, so no food there). I get into work and will usually log on and check emails and voicemail for 20-30 mins before I even have a coffee. Should I get hungry then I have a protein shake or porridge at my desk.

But I don't come in on time or late, dump my bags and then head off to the canteen for 20 mins to get a fry up. We have one colleague who did that. They also delayed a meeting they were holding once because "I can't function if I've not eaten!" They live within walking distance to the office, are older and have no DC. So they get little sympathy because their times were majorly delayed by their eating. They had to be spoken to in the end, that if they wanted their fry up they had to build that time into their day so they still started on time.

Everyone here eats at their desks, so that's not a problem. But if you are late starting because of your eating habits that is an issue.

I'm so glad (well not for it but because I'm not alone) that there are others who just csnt face eating first thing in the morning. Everyone I know thinks I'm odd for not eating until my tea break at 11

Yes squoosh in that case I'll repeat my earlier point that those staff are not relevant to the thread. Keep talking about them if you like though'

Are you hard of thinking? How are admin staff not relevant? Admin staff work in o.f.f.i.c.e.s you know.

Elodie love it! Actually don't mind kippers so could be on to something there! At least it might get breakfast BANNED which is something I'm clearly dead against

No it's not. Everyone knows it's not acceptable for the persons on the checkout at tesco to be tucking into a sausage sandwich as they push your shopping through. Everyone knows the Gp you visit shouldn't be eating a poached egg pot as they chat to you about your medical problem. Everyone knows the barista in Starbucks can't stop making coffee to sit at the till with a crossaint.

People who sit in an office though, who are not in contact with members of the public, can of course have breakfast when they like unless their company bans food at desks or they are not doing their job (which is for their line manager to deal with)

Yeah and NHS admin staff can eat their breakfast if they like too.

I'm at the idea they all go off for coffee breaks though. What a waste of time

candy If you can't beat them, join them.
You , I and others (formerly) against eating in an office environment need to move into this century obviously!
Eat what you like, when you like!
I love kippers/sardines on toast

who has a specified coffee break time in an office Ffs?

I explained earlier I had a job in an office where I couldn't eat at my desk and with a specified coffee break time (because of clients). In the 2010's, not the 1950's.

I now work in an office where I can eat at my desk and get coffee whenever.

Even if you are only familiar with one type of office, others do exist. I know it's shocking to imagine the world outside your personal experience, but u should really try it!