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Original poster

To find my coworker's eating habits unbearable?

56 replies

DoubleNegativePanda · 30/07/2018 20:01

Quite possibly I am but it's driving me mad. She goes out to the supermarket during our lunch hour and brings back a whole rotisserie chicken which she leaves in the container and tears into with her hands. Fingers and hands all greasy and covered in chicken juice etc and this horrible squelchy tearing sound. What on earth? This is 2018 not 1300!

It's making me crazy. I'm going to have to leave the room.

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9amTrain · 30/07/2018 20:16

Omg. Disgusting.

I'd do that when I'm binging alone in my bedroom but I would be never subject anyone else to it!

EdWinchester · 30/07/2018 20:19

Omg. yuck.

xFreePeaceSweetx · 30/07/2018 20:22

Ask her if she's going to Mumsnet that?

Theweasleytwins · 30/07/2018 20:23

Ew
A whole one? Wow

TrollTheRespawnJeremy · 30/07/2018 20:24

Kill them. Only acceptable way to deal with it.

mimibunz · 30/07/2018 20:25

Lol, sorry OP, but that’s a nightmare! Perhaps you should open a container of tuna, boiled eggs and broccoli? Or left over salmon and boiled eggs? Grin

NotNachoing · 30/07/2018 20:26

She only did this today or she eats a whole chicken every day?!

In my meat eating days I preferred to eat rotisserie chicken with my fingers, but not (ever ever) at work or outside my home! And not like a hungry medieval wench! 😂

ClandestineAdulation · 30/07/2018 20:26

Oooh, YADNBU.

Does she stay in a lunch room or at her desk etc?

BuggeringNora · 30/07/2018 20:27

Atkins diet maybe? No excuse for foul manners though!

KarmaStar · 30/07/2018 20:28

You are nbu your co worker is vv unreasonable.
I couldn't put up with that for a minute,can you ask a supervisor to request she refrains from eating in the office?

PumpkinPie2016 · 30/07/2018 20:28

YANBU - I cannot abide noisy eating Angry it sets my teeth on edge!

I had a colleague who are noisily and I ended up having to leave the room when she was eating (thankfully, I had the option to do that). If I hadn't , I think I would have ended up saying something awful.

I'm terrible though - noises generally get right on my nerves. I was once put off buying a car because the salesman had noisy breathing!! DH pointed out that we couldn't very well ask him to stop breathing but I literally couldn't stand to be in the same room Grin

Strongmummy · 30/07/2018 20:29

Grim! I assume you’ll be having a polite word

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DoubleNegativePanda · 30/07/2018 20:48

She doesn't eat a whole chicken every day. She gets one and then eats from it for a couple days in a row. It's usually accompanied by some sort of vegetable or salad. She does eschew carbs and has a protein heavy diet (fine, whatever, but don't be an animal!).

There is no having a polite word with this coworker. She is the boss's pet and very confrontational. If it comes down to me or her, he will choose her side every time without fail. There's no point in ever broaching an issue directly related to her as it will only create a bigger problem.

This is in the lunch room, we are not allowed food in any other area of the office which does make sense as it's a medical facility. I have started to go sit in my car for lunch. I wish I could afford to eat out every day!

Believe it or not it's not even the sounds that are the worst, it's the slimy fingers.

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DoubleNegativePanda · 30/07/2018 20:49

And yes, I literally do mean she can do whatever she wants and behave any way she likes and nothing will happen.

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DoubleNegativePanda · 30/07/2018 20:50

Maybe I should do the ultimate no-no and reheat a curry.

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Everyoneiswingingit · 30/07/2018 20:57

I work with someone who does similarly distasteful things like eating from a big pot of coleslaw right next to you in an 8am meeting. I just move. I always refrain from taking in smelly things for lunch like mackerel or anything very garlicky or vinegary as we have a small staffroom.

SlimGin · 30/07/2018 20:58

I'm disturbed by how much chicken she must get in her nails.

oohyoudevilyou · 30/07/2018 20:58

I thought my co-worker's fondness for eating a tray or stinking oily kebab meat at his desk (no flatbread as he's low-carbing) was grim but rotisserie chicken is marginally worse: Why can't people just have a fucking sandwich?

Chottie · 30/07/2018 21:02

OP - you have my sympathy. I share an office with someone who eats smelly dinner leftovers in the office every day. The stink is vile.....

SmileSweetly · 30/07/2018 21:09

I'd not stay in her presence while she did this....gross. Why don't you go out for your lunch hour and enjoy some peace and quiet?

GertrudeCB · 30/07/2018 21:13

Fuck me, that's foul 😷.
Try reheating Salmon in the microwave 😋

Icantgetnosleep000 · 30/07/2018 21:19

This is 2018 not 1300

That really really tickled me Grin

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 30/07/2018 21:28

YADNBU - that is most definitely not a poultry gripe, it's fowl....

[getting my coat as I type]

CrystalMethHog · 30/07/2018 21:31

Microwave cauliflower. It's worse than curry.

A coworker did this 2 years ago and I still can't look at her without scowling

lulu12345 · 30/07/2018 21:38

Oh wow this is grim OP! I sat next to a noisy eater for a year and had to get up and leave every time he brought his lunch out. It was never anything offensively smelly but he was just so fucking loud. Tea as well, was an issue. Could never drink it silently, always had to be slurped noisily and urgently.