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?

Wow at our place would be unacceptable to eat any other time than designated breaks
I start at 8am sharp no exceptions usually in the building 7.50 ish having done two drop offs and the normal rushing about sorting three kids out
We have no choice but to eat beforehand or we get nothing until mid morning break

I work in a job where eating wouldn't be an option. So on the days I work I have to eat early with the children. Or go without. Surely if they are being paid from 9am they should eat breakfast first. Or wait until break time? It would pee me off too. It's like people who take cigarette breaks while the non smokers carry on working. That's not fair either.

I eat breakfast (porridge) at desk

I figure that as I rarely have time to actually take my 20 min lunch break each day (nobody minds employees working through lunch and eating at desk) then it's swings and roundabouts.

YABU
Not many jobs are 9-5. i check emails at home while eating dinner etc. offices run on good will on flexibility, not 1980s rules

No breakfast at home as up at 6am. I have pastries with my 1st cup tea before 8am and always end up doing extra hours anyway...

Always have breakfast at work as I leave at 7.40 and don't want to eat at that time. I doubt very very much if many are having fry ups - yes YABU

Am I the only person who wonders if the people who have breakfast at work also have their post-breakfast morning poo at work too?! 😳

Start another thread about poo and you'll find out kenny

Haven't RTFT but completely agree. I absolutely hate this. They waste so much TIME messing about with lots of porridge, tea- it drives me mad!

If they arrive before the start of their working hours and the eating isn't unpleasant or distracting for other colleagues, then I think it's ok. Once working hours begin, then eating is more or less unacceptable. In my opinion, pouring milk onto cereal and bacon sandwiches shouldn't be eaten at your desk. I'm thinking more cereal bar, cold sandwich (with non-smelly filling), banana.

OP, do you consider chit chat between colleagues, using toilet and making drinks unreasonable waste of precious work time too and never do it youself?

People should mind their own business

Ememem84

To answer your question

Because she hates her job and is just couting minutes to be out of there (i think lots of people feel like that) why they don't look for another job? Because she has 10+ years experience of doing that crap and can't afford to take a pay reduction if she starts something new

Yes Fevdec that's exactly how I feel. How dare people have a wee & a big fat shit in work time.
Strictly no chit chat either. Lips should be sealed unless it's business talk.

FFS.

This thread is awesome.

Particularly the poster (can't remember the nam) who thinks that no professional jobs have designated tea breaks - hilariously ill-informed!

If you arrive early and have your breakfast before you are due to start then that's fine.

What's not fine is if you have a set start time and you are faffing around eating and drinking/straightening you hair??? (WTAF?) after you are supposed to have started work.

People who do stuff like that during working hours are taking the mickey.

name - not "nam"

People who object to hot breakfast

Are we allowed to get warm food for lunch? Or must we only get a cold sandwich from pret, no warm food allowed in the depths of winter?

I start work at 9 but leave house with toddler in tow at 7.30. I would need to eat breakfast at 6am to be ready in time and would still end up eating my desk as that wouldn't seemed to lunch at 1.15!

And about smells at work. I can't stand perfume some of my colleagues wash themselves with so I'll choose a smell of fry up any day over breathing in fumes (perfumes) the whole day.

CANDYBEEK,
That's a miserable picture! Well I'm going to carry on enjoying my breakfast between 9 and 9.30 while checking my emails and if i have colleagues like you I sincerely hope I'll annoy hell out of them ;)

If I'm perfectly honest I can't bear very noisy eating - there's someone at work who makes that smacking-lips/tongue noise where each chew involves said lip/tongue smacking.

I really hate it and I can't help it. It makes me want to shriek "Shut up with the lip smacking noise!!"

But I don't obviously - I just try to avoid sitting anywhere near them during break or lunch.

Everyone is welcome to eat whatever they want at their desk in my workplace and nobody bats an eyelid.

I usually eat my breakfast at my desk. However, I get in early (8.15 am, when official start is 9am), leave home ridiculously early and have no stomach for food before 7am. I also use my own milk and wash up after myself before most colleagues even get to the office. This additional 45 minutes is unpaid, but I usually go through my emails, plan my day and read the paper.

I would however, be annoyed if a colleague consistently got in bang on time, or late, and ate breakfast in work time whilst not working.

I did for a while when I had a young baby, a terminally ill mother and full time work, breast feeding and post natal depression. It took 2 minutes and was my only opportunity to eat given the combined 2 hour drives to the hospital, then the nursery before work, lunchtime breast feed and then the same in reverse after 10 hours, getting home again at 10 pm.
breastfeeding mothers have a legal right to 'sufficient rest' at work. I think 2 minutes eating would fall well within that.
I don't do it any more as things have got easier, as mum died. But at that time you would have judged me for not having the option of a meal at home.

I NEVER poo at work kenny. I find it bizarre anyone can

Some people don't have a choice on whether they poo at work or not. Sometimes you just gotta go. My mum has IBS, and the need to poo can come on very suddenly and she has to go find a loo right then.

I leave for work at 7.30 and rarely fancy breakfast at 7am. I usually have a banana and then keep oatcakes at work to eat when I get in. Or I'll have a piece of toast and then fruit at work. I rarely eat cereal now.