School staff room

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I’m a teacher. Aibu to politely tell my colleague that his food is too smelly to be eaten in the staff room? Most of us have a sandwich but he microwaves strong smelling food every single day.

Pmsl lucky if I get 10 mins and even then I am wolfing it down!!!!!

Have you watched Black Mirror op?

Never why

She should be able to eat her packed lunch in the classroom or playground though?

Get them told. We had a dirty bastard that microwaved fish 😨🤢😨

I only pop into our staff room to make a quick coffee and then go back in my office to eat and drink due to the stink. Sometimes it's strong smelling but smells delicious and other times it's gag worthy. At least it's not fish is all I can think of.

A colleague used to microwave broccoli and stank up the whole floor.
Is it broccoli, op?

Dunno if it’s worst cauliflower

My first thought too 😅

I am amazed you actually have time to eat lunch AT ALL! I’d just be grateful for that. When I was a teacher I had no time to eat. The staffroom was a ghost town.

Do staff rooms still exist? I've not been in one since about 2008.

You're allowed but there isn't usually much time.

I agree!

Lunch is unpaid and cannot ha be directed so of course you can leave the site. It would be absolute chaos though as schools no longer pay for enough lunch supervision and they rely on teachers not leaving the site and working for free.

It’s reheating cauliflower and salmon

Don't be daft, of course they do

People can heat and eat whatever they want on their lunch break.

However there is no way op is a teacher.

Presumably you cope with food smells if you're in a café or restaurant, including strongly-smelling ones? The fact that you're in a room which you can work in as well as eat in doesn't change the smell.

Do staff rooms still exist? I've not been in one since about 2008.

Of course they do. I've worked in quite a lot of schools since 2008 and they've all had staffrooms! At my school about 15-20 teachers sit around the central tables in the staffroom and chat over lunch every day. It's really nice. I'm always interested to see what other people have brought for lunch and am sometimes a bit jealous!

EXACTLY what I thought!!

For simular reasons my child eats in his classroom with other children who find the lunch hall a sensory nightmare.

I love taking microwavable salmon into work and listening to everyone moaning. I just remind them that their Chippy runs which smell really fatty and unhealthy piss me off just as much, but i suffer in silence. Once a week they moan. Once a week I moan back!

Let the man eat his lunch

We have microwave fish in ours, it bloody reeks

Cauliflower and salmon. Yuk. Yes, I think I’d say something. That’s totally lacking in awareness.

The staff room is for eating lunch do YABU