WIBU to tip his lunch over his head?

[GraceMarks]

A guy who works in the same office as me has just warmed up a sodding fish pie in the communal microwave and is now sitting at his desk eating it. So he's stunk out not only the kitchen but the office as well, with smoked fish and cheese. It smells like feet, and not clean ones either. I feel queasy not envy

Would I be entirely justified in tipping it over his head, or maybe out of the window so I don't have to smell it any more? Does anyone seriously think it's ok to eat hot stinky food in an office?

No choice here, if we don't eat at our desks then we don't eat, I had poached eggs and nobody complained, another person had curry, another person had tinned fish.

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CCquavers you should have pointed out to your entitled colleague that you would have done exactly the same had the offending dish been kedgeree or egg and cress rolls.

He'll have been looking forward to that fishy, cheesy gloop all day. Let him enjoy it

But we DO have a choice here. There's a lunch area with tables, and we're not the sort of employer that expects people to work through their breaks. There is absolutely no need to eat at your desk, and only someone extremely self-centred would be unable to see why eating stinky food in a shared space might be a problem.

Maybe go and have a polite word. He may be really amiable and not have realized his fish pie would have caused so much angst.

What's the difference between eating a fish pie in a restaurant or at home ? Why does it only smell at work? Surely a fish pie smells like a fish pie no matter where you eat it? Food smells don't bother me at all, they might make me hungry but surely they are normal smells.

The fish pie wouldn't bother me but if someone started chewing loudly it would definitely make me homicidal.

Heating fish in communal spaces should be punishable by death, but isn’t currently, therefore I would strongly recommend carrying on with your day and doing your best to ignore.

Audrina of course you're going to get foid smells in restaurant. They are places which exist solely for the preparation and consumption of food. And what people cook in the privacy of their own homes is obviously up to them. Can you really, honestly not see why a workplace is different?

I really don’t get people who eat stinky food in the workplace
It’s not on. I don’t give a fuck if your doctor told you to eat boiled mackerel everyday.
Do it at home.

YANBU hate stinky food at work

He'll have been looking forward to that fishy, cheesy gloop all day. Let him enjoy it

Absolutely. But enjoy it in the lunch area, not at his desk. He probably comes back to the desk 'cos he wants to browse online while spooning his fishy gloop into his mouth.

People are sensitive to food smells. I once was asked to desist from eating toast at my desk in the morning (I used to get toast with coffee on my way into work, so the toast was soft by the time I got the desk, so it must have been the smell, not the noise). And once someone pointed out to me that soup smell of sweaty armpits (it's the onions, which are in most commercial soups), I couldn't smell anything else if someone was eating one. So there you go.

OP, I'd ask a manager to remind people that the designated lunch area is for eating, and that people like to work undisturbed by food smells and sounds of eating. And that it's good to take a break from the desk. Generalise it, rather than pinpoint one poor sod.

Hells bells, microwaving fish pie ruins it, its only good first time round straight out of the oven, i would leave a polite note on his desk, lurk till he’s gone for the day then do it...

A freshly prepared fish pie, no problem. It's when fish is re-heated that it becomes a crime against humanity.

I'd remove a piece of the fish from the bowl and staple it to his face.

I had a colleague at one job who heated up kippers in the microwave one lunch time. The kitchen was right next to the client meeting rooms. He and his kippers were escorted (rapidly) out of the back door or the office and he was told to eat them in the garden area. The office was an old converted house so the smell wafted up the stairs into the entire office. A very curt email was sent out by the partners later that day!

You are absolutely not BU - nothing worse than whiffy food in a large open plan office and I work in the same room as the bloke who has his slow cooker UNDER HIS DESK - he uses it every day and loves bloody onions. Not even joking

if I do have anything for lunch that might smell, I eat it in the area provided, not at my desk.

I always did hat, too Gracemarks - and if it was something like oranges, or eggs, that some people find really ^^, I'd ask if they minded me peeling my orange, unselling my egg - if they did, I'd not consume it. (Have to admit, very rarely happened that anyone said "Well . . . oranges give me a headache" or anything like that.)

Some smells really turn your stomach if you aren't the one producing them.

Baked beanz don't smell in trhe microwave what they do do however is cause a load greif if you don't remove the top off the tin, now according to ohms law and theory they shouldnt actually heat up but they do bloody explode and talk about the shit hitting the fan;!.

Well there's always Febreze air freshener... preferably the horrible floral pink one sprayed ostentatiously around him as he eats!

I probably should have put "lighthearted" in my OP, but I would have thought that could be deduced?

You must be new here.

At our work, we have a colleague who often brings in the smelliest thing to microwave (fish, curry, tangy rice, stew with lots of onions etc) and the smell filters right down to the front of the store and we often have customers sniffing the air and asking if we can smell fish/curry/chilli/onions etc.
We also have a serial toast burner who likes to stink the store out with burnt toast (I personally prefer smelling the smoked fish) :D

I work in the same room as the bloke who has his slow cooker UNDER HIS DESK

WTF!

Throw it out the window and tell him it had to go as it hadn't been PAT tested according to company policy.

you need to bring some sort of cold boiled egg with garlic dish into work

Isn't Holloway closed?
Have a word, don't you have a team meeting?

I like fish but I went on a long haul flight recently and a woman sitting next to me thought it was a good idea to eat a fish dish she'd brought from home. The fish must have been quite warm given how long it had been in her bag. When she'd finished she then placed the remains on my side in the footwell. Why she thought this was a good idea I don't know?! It seriously stunk.