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?

Disgusting, Revenant

Op sounds like a petty jobsworth. I don't think getting a new job is her main problem. I wouldn't want her working at my firm.

Oblomov did you not read my posts?
Good grief no need to be nasty ffs!!

I breakfast at work. A porridge pot or similar, eaten while at my desk and actually working, checking emails, etc, and since I tend to be in earlier than most, it's not a problem. I get up at 6am, leave home at 6:45/7am, and simply can't face food that early.

Best you get yourself a rota op. For every function. When you are allowed to: fart/burp/sneeze.
Look at your Computer for 59 minutes of every hour, no interaction with any other human being unless absolutely necessary......
schedule in every minute of your shift.
Like Andrew of of GBBO - every 5 minutes. Are you allowed a cup of tea? Who makes it? Will you be making a 'round' for others? Tea, coffee etc at 3.57pm?

I don't understand.

How can I delay starting a tedious piece of work by thirty sixty minutes if I don't have breakfast?!

Oblov you are about as judgemental as me by the looks of it. We should be best of pals! ;)

I suspect not.

I'm at work now op. They called me on my day off because they had a problem, and I've popped in, with ds2 in tow.
Someone's making me a cup of tea as I type. and a cake is being offered. we always have chocolate biscuits in the biscuit tin.
I don't think you'd like it much here!!

Well I don't actually remember saying I wanted to work with you but hey ho. Like most mumsnetters things go awry.
Now get on with your work you slackers.

Most jobs are not so fabulous that people would do them if they didn't need the money. So people sometimes squeeze in what they can, meals, online shopping, nail polishing, exercise, researching the next holiday, mumsnetting. If everybody worked full steam all the time, they could half the staff and half of us would be unemployed.

People always say their productivity skyrockets when they go freelance. That might be because of the lack of pointless meetings and distractions. Or maybe they stop faffing when it's their own time. For me, I think it was a bit of both. It does mean I can eat when I want, but I'm not paid for it now.

I want links to these jobs, especially oblomov's! Can you give me a clue? How much training is involved? I live in the sticks, so probably unlikely....

Would you really though? Each to their own obviously but that's the last place I would want to work. Done too many jobs where being called in on your day off was the norm. Bit of cake doesn't make that any better.

I'm so glad I work in a flexible company after reading this thread, the owe we doesn't care when we work/breaks taken really, as long as the work gets done by the end of the week, one my colleagues took a two hour lunch break to go pick a pumpkin on Monday! So a 15minute breakfast at the desk would not be a big deal at all

birds My last job had a lot of call-ins on days off. I guess just feeling appreciated might be nice! nobody brought me cake

Two hours to pick a pumpkin?! I hope it was a good 'un!

YANBU, though it seems we are in the minority, OP. I hate the sound and smells of people eating at their desks. I have to leave the office when my boss starts eating. She eats three meals a day without leaving her desk, drives me mad. Not only is she a slurper, she is a plate scraper too.

Whilst working nights I used to have a shower, do my laundry and even do an OU course! I can remember sitting on the bog one night working out how much my I was being paid to have a poo!!

That was on quiet nights. When it was all going wrong and I was called upon to do what I was employed to do I would count myself lucky if I didn't end up in hospital.

Breakfast eaters don't bother me.

Wannabosses on the other hand...

Where are all these laidback workplaces, can I swap?

My current work don't treat anyone like an adult and are generally fascists about timekeeping etc, but even in more chilled previous jobs this would set off the great Tea Club War over people using All the Milk in porridge etc.

Generally I need to eat before work or I might kill my colleagues though.

I only get called in once a year, or so. I don't mind. Only because my boss is away.
If I minded I wouldn't do it. I only work minutes from where I live. And I get paid handsomely for such call ins!!

The super laid back workplaces I worked at were quite exploitative.Yes, I could take a long break "as long as the work gets done" and "it's give and take". I realised after a while that companies do this as a cover for not employing enough staff. They relied on staff to never do the sums and realise they pay for the 10 min muesli slurping or 1h pub lunch with 2 hours overtime or giving up their Sundays.

Same tabbym

Not always. Maybe for some. Ours isn't like that.