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?

I poo when and where I need to poo. That is sometimes at work, sometimes not. Sometimes first thing at home, sometimes not. I don't have a poo schedule. Im 'regular' but not 'same time and place every day' regular. Does that make me abnormal? Genuine question.

I always eat my breakfast at my desk.

I have a nearly 2 hour commute in the morning and if I ate before 7am when I leave I would be starving again long before 1/2pm for my lunch break.

I start at 9am and am normally eating just after this whilst checking my emails and workload for the day. I also always eat lunch at my computer so rarely have a real lunch break.

We are a relaxed office so no one minds people eating at their desks. If it's really smelly then people will eat in the kitchen.

YABU I dont see any difference to eating lunch on your desk to eating breakfast (or even dinner)
I sometimes have breakfast on my desk and if it takes me few mins to prepare no one cares, I work hard enough each day to make up for the time it takes to slice up apples and make porridge etc.

If I arrive at work early and go to my desk - for example, to change my shoes, put my handbag down, and my boss is there, she will immediately start asking me questions, before I even have my coat off. I've tried telling her "I just want to have something to eat before I start work" but she repeats the question. "I'll do that in teninutes when I start work" just gets the response "But I need it now".

So I've given up. I arrive at my desk, start work, and eat a croissant while the computer us starting up and I am checking my emails.

I did, however, have a colleague who ate a extremely garlicky home-made humus at his desk at 10:30 every morning until a regular visitor commented on "the problem with the air conditioning at the same time every morning".

YABU. I get up about 7, get to work about 8.30. I buy a croissant on my way in, and eat it with my coffee at my desk. Or do you think I shouldn't have a coffee with my emails, first thing?

Sterling, you can set your watch by my poo! I pride myself on it, and know I'm probably quite lucky.
Lots of people wait till they get to work to 'go on company time' but as a SAHM I don't technically have that option! I can't leave the house till I've been, it makes me all jittery and I feel fat.
So now you know!

I get that some people can't stomach food first thing but in our offices we have kitchen/seating areas at the end of each floor plus a canteen so I've never understood why they can't get in 10 minutes earlier and make as much fucking noise and smell as they want in there.

This made me howl with laughter ! I nearly sprayed my cuppa soup down my nose and all over my pc.

Food and eating doesn't bother me, except eating breakfast, namely cereal and milk. I had this idea that it was private. Yet any other food eaten at any other time did not bother me one jot.

Except the bloke who bought his own stir fry ingredients to make his own lunch in the kitchen. I normally don't mind the smell of warm cooking oil but being able to smell it in the kitchen when everyone else was having their lunch break was, 'a bit much'. No bother, I was on a temp job anyway.

There's gazillions of other workplace annoyances that get to me over and above the eating of food or the drinking of drinks.

I think it possibly is normal to go wherever I've just got a thing where I can only do it in my own home unless I'm going to be somewhere for days