AIBu to eat a peanut butter sandwich at work?

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Every time I take one I wonder if I’m being unreasonable to do this. I work in an open plan office. But I don’t have anyone sitting very close to me. It’s a quiet office and not one where I can reasonably ask people if they have allergies.
Is it ok for me to be eating a peanut butter sandwich in work or is it inconsiderate?? Please help 😂

Actually, not everyone wants to disclose they have a life-threatening allergy to a bunch of strangers.

You can take steps to manage your allergies, like only eating food you've brought in yourself. However, if you tell someone you have an allergy, they can use this against you. It's a very vulnerable feeling.

See my earlier post where someone put me in hospital due to having knowledge of my allergy and not believing in it. If I don't feel comfortable/safe around people, I don't tell them how to kill me... I just avoid being in situations where they could.

Clearly, no one has ever tried to use your health against you before.

You're very lucky, and I hope you stay that way.

I have serious allergies, as does my child, and we have the sense to know who to tell and when.

Your post makes no sense at all. HR might use it against her but randoms in the office she doesn't know are just fine? Sensible decision making you've got there.

When you tell HR, what do you think they do with that? Keep it to themselves? No, with an allergy, they tell every one of your allergy in an attempt to protect that. That's a whole lot of strangers at once to know how to kill you.

If you've had a negative experience of someone using your allergy against you before, sometimes it's easier to tell one or two people before you feel comfortable telling everyone else.

I'd wager any allergic reactions you and your child have had before have been down to accident or incompetence, not maliciousness.

You're not making the slightest sense.

If you truly think the best way to keep safe with an actual deadly allergy is to tell random people at random times when they may already be covered in your allergen, it's amazing you've survived this long.
And if your paranoia leads you to not trust unknown people with this info, why would some complete strangers to you be a better bet than other complete strangers to you?

@awaytofrance
Have you finished unnecessarily berating a poster for the crime of feeling vulnerable about having an anaphylactic level food allergy? There’s no need for that level of viciousness even if you disagree with her/his viewpoint.

One of the offices I work in has about 90000 page long memos for absolutely everything - including what counts as smelly food and cannot be eaten at your desk (but is OK to be eaten on a separate table directly NEXT to your desks in an open plan office), the temperature and how fully laden the dishwasher needs to be before putting it on etc etc.

About as tightly managed as you can get (with passive-aggressive teeth itchingly awful poetry)... if anywhere was likely to try to instigate an entire building peanut ban it would be this place - and they've not. Just reminders to wipe down surfaces etc.

there's no viciousness. pp made no sense, I said so. try not to thread police.

As I've said, that poster clearly has never had anyone use their allergy against them. They're very lucky.

Someone knew about my allergy, decided to test if it was real or not, and I ended up in hospital.

I don't think it's unreasonable that, having had that experience, I don't always tell everyone at once how to kill me!

Jesus Christ !