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?

YADNBU if you're working in a nuclear facility. Extremely dangerous to ingest anything in the dirty (radioactive contaminated) side. Even snuff is banned. Is that where you're working?

YANBU. No excuses if they start as late as 9am! If they have breakfast and are ready to start at 9am then this is fine but if it cuts into their work time then it's bang out of order and it should be brought up with their manager.

You sound like a joy to work with Daydream.

Daydream see Pollaid's comment

What is this work time you speak of?

If I've been in meetings 8-10 then I'm going to eat breakfast at my desk

I don't get a lunch 'break'. I get lunch if / when I have a gap in the diary. Sometimes this means I haven't had anything to eat until 4pm if I've been in back to backs

Sometimes I eat dinner at my desk too!!! If we get hot food delivered then we eat all sorts of smelly food. Is that acceptable at 8 or 9pm? I'm not sure when 'work time' is - if I'm at work, I'm not allowed to eat?!

I have my breakfast when I get up, and start work at 8:30 but by 10 I'm bloody starting (I have a stupidly fast digestive system). I'll make some toast to see me through til lunch and I'll eat it at my desk, but I take that time out my lunch break even though I'll work when making it and whilst eating it.

I tend to eat my breakfast on the way to work with my 2 year old- either while driving or walking with pushchair.

It's usually a couple of pieces of toast.

People who get up early & commute may not be able to deal with eating until later when they get into work.

I think it's fine unless they are sloping off for half an hour for a fry up during working hours- that's taking the piss.

Good god are you lot still going on! Boring hell fire!

Who's holding a gun to your head and making you read?

Let me get this straight. You have come onto a forum because people having their breakfast at work bothers you enough to want to write about it? In what way does it affect you at all? Look at yourself hun before worrying what others are doing lol None of your business and I suggest if something so petty that affects you in no way whatsoever bothers you this much that you must have a pretty wonderful life. There are some major problems out there for goodness sake. What the hell does it have to do with you???

YANBU. If I can get up between 5.15 and 5.45 each day, eat a proper breakfast (usually something cooked even if it is only porridge!), make it to work by 8.45 after a 75-minute commute and not eat again until 1pm, then I can't see why other people can't.

toodles60

Aren't you overreacting a tiny bit here? This thread, and many others, is highly amusing. Thank goodness we can bother about trivial subjects, chill out!

It's fucking hilarious! You lot!

YABVU. I simply don't have time to get and eat breakfast before I leave for work. I'll buy something from the canteen, or I'll make toast.

Seriously to the people saying you must eat before starting work? I work whilst eating, it really doesn't take much concentration to eat! Amazing, but I can put food in my mouth whilst working spreadsheets.

Amazing, but I can put food in my mouth whilst working spreadsheets.
I managed that fine too. What I found impossible though was listening to something on one headphone inserted into an ear and answering the phone without hitting myself in the head

We don't have designated breaks. We're allowed to eat/drink whenever we fancy.

If I worked in a customer services dept/ call centre I could see your point. In a normal office environment I don't see what the problem is.

I don't clock watch and my boss doesn't keep a diary or my every movement.

Can't believe there are people here suggesting that the entire nhs has prescribed coffee breaks. I've worked at 4 different nhs trusts and in the offices you can have a tea or coffee when you damn well please! Lunch should usually be taken between 10 and 2 if you work a standard day, but if you work irregular hours that can be waived.

Staff on reception desks will often get a prescribed break, but only if someone comes to cover them. Likewise the clinical staff only get a break if there's enough cover and they stagger their breaks. I've certainly never seen them all down tools and march off for a break! Standard NHS break is 30 minutes for every 6 hours worked and if you work an 8 hour day you get an extra 15 for tea/coffee/fag breaks.

Yeah sure, when I worked retail you had to walk off the floor and take your 30 minutes, but when you're in an office with no break room and no nearby shops you can walk to they can't expect you to leave the office for breaks, otherwise I'd end up eating in my car!

of my every movement

Depends on the job- in my office no food or drink on the premises let alone at the desk. If you want coffee, snack, breakfast or a cigarette you wait for your break - so no breakfast at work, if you can't eat when you get up, you eat at the cafe opposite before starting work. If you want to eat in your break you can but again you leave the building and eat in the cafe or if you've brought your own the smokers will let you share their hut if you don't want to eat whilst walking around the block. We have a very old fashioned boss who has a firm no eating, no drinking, no smoking on shift policy and be at your desk on time or expect bad reviews and if you consume alcohol at lunchtime you'd better have the afternoon booked as leave or he'll sack you if you come on the premises having had a drink... It's in the contracts, his place his rules. To be fair he does tell you all this before you take the job and if you can't manage with it he says don't take the job.

"YANBU. If I can get up between 5.15 and 5.45 each day, eat a proper breakfast (usually something cooked even if it is only porridge!), make it to work by 8.45 after a 75-minute commute and not eat again until 1pm, then I can't see why other people can't."

That will be entirely down to your lack of imagination and understanding that everyone has different lives to you then, not other people's "fault".

Rhoda - no one was suggesting that the NHS workers. lab or frontline or whomever, all stop AT ONCE - we have scheduled breaks, yes, but OF COURSE they are staggered!! As I remember it from when I worked in the labs, tea breaks were 15 mins tops, starting from 10am - lose 1 or 2 people at a time, always leaving enough to cover the work. Lunch started from 12 and was 45 mins - allowing us just enough time to get to the canteen all the way across the other side of the site, queue, pay, eat lunch in about 5 mins, and then get back again. Not everyone bothered, of course, most people would bring in their own lunch and sit in the staffroom - and mostly we didn't take our full 45 mins, to allow others to go to lunch too.

I've only ever worked in one place where there was a set "down-tools" tea-break, and that was a private analytical lab - the students were sent to make everyone's tea beforehand, then everyone stopped for 20 mins, drank their tea, chatted, and went back to work. Morning and afternoon. Lunch was also a "down-tools" scenario - but this was a private lab, we weren't under undue time-pressure and of course if someone needed to keep working on whatever they were doing at that time, then they did.

You would hate me then, due to morning commute, nursery drop off etc I often eat breakfast at my desk just before I start. As a life long shift worker I can EAT anything..... left of over pizza, last nights curry etc for breakfast and frequently do

Pollaidh - so a paramedic isn't a professional? Or a 999 dispatcher? They both get prescribed breaks and I don't think anyone could accuse them of having a job where they get any other down time! They have to have their breaks for safety reasons

Funny to see all you have taken this seriously personal! Bless you mumsnetters, you never fail me! Have a chilled weekend eating when you fancy --x

Sorry wrong thread1

there's a lady I work with who does this and it drives me crazy.

We're supposed to be at desks ready to work when it hits 9 or 930 (a few start at 930). This is fine.

One lady starts at 930. She gets in from the school run everyday at about 905. She logs in. She doesn't work during this time - fine. She doesn't start until 930. You can't ask her anything about work because "I start at 930...." yet at 930 she goes off to make her breakfast.

Why she can't do this in the time she's looking at the daily mail I don't know.