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To think people should have breakfast BEFORE work?

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candybeek · 27/10/2016 07:07

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?

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Getnakedorgohome · 27/10/2016 07:47

I used to have a job where I started tat 8 but traffic was horrendous and there was nowhere to park if you arrived later than 7.30. I used to get up at 7 and brush my teeth then drive to work. Arrive there at 7.20 and then shower their and eat breakfast before logging on at 8. I was never late to start though, I think that is taking the piss.

Getnakedorgohome · 27/10/2016 07:47

there - oh the shame Blush

elodie2000 · 27/10/2016 07:47

Today 07:39 FindoGask Grin
Ahh....Do you go to work, pretend to start at 9 by logging in, promptly bugger off to get breakfast & make the office smell like a greasy spoon? If not, I don't know why this thread is irritating you!

Nectarines · 27/10/2016 07:50

I'm not bothered about people eating breakfast at work, but what really bugs me is the people who have cereal/ porridge every day and drain the milk bought with the tea fund money! Drives me crackers. Sometimes those people haven't contributed to the tea fund because they don't like hot drinks.

Oh god I'm turning into one of those moaners!

It is very annoying though!

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candybeek · 27/10/2016 07:50

I wish I had flexible managers Goofy! I'm not even allowed to alter my working day by 30 minutes so start 8.30-4.30 instead of 9-5!

I think I'm just too bothered about my standards which is why I wouldn't want to be seen slacking off like others do at my work place.

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candybeek · 27/10/2016 07:52

Elodie Smile

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Sidge · 27/10/2016 07:52

Depends on the nature of your work also, surely?

My mum owns a shop and had to have a word with a woman who worked for her, who would open up then sit behind the till munching on toast and a bowl of cornflakes. That's really inappropriate I think.

Basicbrown · 27/10/2016 07:55

Maybe I'm just too conscientious!

Surely if that was the case you would be so absorbed in your own work you wouldn't notice?

Basicbrown · 27/10/2016 07:57

nectarines that would be annoying. Milk is provided at many workplaces for free though.

Bitofacow · 27/10/2016 07:57

The food smells, even porridge, you make a noise - yes you do, I don't want to watch you eat, you don't clear your bowl you leave it on your desk festering.

It's the morning and I don't need it made worse by you slurping and scoffing your breakfast.

You know who you are.

Queenbean · 27/10/2016 07:58

Mumsnet really is this little microcosm of discussion around things that no one in real life ever worries about

Genuinely why is it anyone's business? Even if people at your office are meant to start work at 9am but they're still eating toast at five past why the hell does it matter. It really really doesn't.

toomuchtooold · 27/10/2016 07:58

When I worked as a postie there used to be a burger van would come round the back of the sorting office at 6 (earlier than that you couldn't stomach food). Fried egg roll and a can of irn bru - breakfast of champions!

Slarti · 27/10/2016 07:58

It would annoy me too OP if I were working while my colleagues were off at the canteen. You are both getting paid to work.

I have breakfast with the kids and then get us all ready (although I'm down to only one needing hands on assistance and one needing regular prompts these days). I do a 9:30-5:30 and can take the kids to school before commuting to work but even when I did 9-5 that just meant I had to be quicker/get up earlier.

One place I worked at would have almost all the staff chatting and drinking coffee in the kitchen from 9 till 9:30 and pretty much the same at the end of the day. It just seemed to create a culture of laziness.

cantmakeme · 27/10/2016 07:59

It is possible to eat and work! I don't get hungry until about 10am (if at all) so wouldn't try to cram in breakfast at 7:30.

I find it weird, actually, when people are really bothered by what others do at work. As long as they manage to get their job done, what is the problem? People who are always watching their colleagues and passing comments, thinking that they themselves are the only hardworking ones... they make work less pleasant.

microsnake · 27/10/2016 08:00

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ZoeTurtle · 27/10/2016 08:02

YABU. I can't stand people in offices who monitor what others are eating.

Cantusethatname · 27/10/2016 08:02

I hate hearing colleagues clank their spoons and crunch and slop their cereal. I hate it. I think they should eat at home.

AmberEars · 27/10/2016 08:03

The reason I eat breakfast at work is that I drop my DC at breakfast club and go straight on to work. It would be strange to give them breakfast first (as I'm paying for them to have it at breakfast club), and also a bit strange to eat breakfast by myself at home and say to them 'no, you can't have any'.

Thattimeofyearagain · 27/10/2016 08:04

Very judgy op, I have to take medication with food every morning, but cant drive for 6 hours after I've taken it so my only option is to drive to work THEN eat & take my medication. Hmm

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candybeek · 27/10/2016 08:05

You can be conscientious about your work and still have your eyes open. I call it multi tasking Smile

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Bitofacow · 27/10/2016 08:07

To be brutally honest I don't care why you do it. I don't care if you go to the canteen. I don't care if you eat in the car park.

I do care if you slurp and clank and crunch and slop and scoff your food near me. It's the morning, stop it!

Nospringflower · 27/10/2016 08:08

Someone who worked for me did this - not sure why as she didn't have a long commute so couldn't be about eating early etc

I didn't like it but couldn't put my finger on why. It wasn't about her hours as she did all her work but it just looked bad (to me!) Looks disorganised or something, sloppy in some way.

Anyway I didn't say anything just thought it!

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candybeek · 27/10/2016 08:10

I think I need to let my standards drop, I'm probably just jealous that people get all these breaks and I don't have any other than my lunch 30 minutes (when I leave the office to eat and take my crap with me!)

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candybeek · 27/10/2016 08:12

Same nospring I think it looks sloppy and messy.

Plus one guy eats with his mouth wide open and you can hear his every crunch at the other end of a very large office. :(

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FerretFred · 27/10/2016 08:12

You need a new job if the most exciting thing to get wound up about is breakfasting at a desk!

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