People who WFH have terrible table manners

[ChaliceinWonderland]

When friends who wfh have been to dinner at my place I notice they have bad manners- licking fingers- munching, just really unpolite and slightly socially unaware. Too much time spent alone at home with no social contact. We are talking mid late 50s.
Does anyone else notice this ?
My elderly mother is the same. No social life - really lacking in manners.

I suspect they have always had poor table manners and have been impolite in company.

Table manners are dinned in during the formative years. They don't change but poor table manners can be masked.

My wife works in a comprehensive school all day every day but still chews with her mouth open and sucks on her fingers between bites. I really struggle with noisy eaters too 😬 but she is around people all day every day and it hasn't made a difference. Never really made any type of connection like this before.

It’s not clear to me what ‘connection’ you’re making now?

OP, I agree with a pp that table manners are generally acquired in childhood, and that it’s unlikely someone has started licking their fingers and ‘munching’ just because they’re no longer eating lunch with colleagues.

It’s not specific to those who WFH.. but manners and social skills in general have definitely declined in the last 5 years.

Oh, stop taking nonsense.

Absolutely hilarious post 😂 Linking table manners to WFH 😂😂😂

This.

Lot of shite.

What about all the people who complain (rightfully so) about noisy eaters in the workplace, or people who are generally lacking in manners in the workplace? Those bad mannered people aren't working from home....

Lol

What a ridiculous thread. If these 'grubby' people are in their 50s, they can't be like this because they work from home. People have only been working from home for 4 or 5 years.

Didn't think that through eh @ChaliceinWonderland ? 🙄

Not only a ridiculous thread, but also massively ageist!

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Once we include your mother (as you did), actually the only thing all these rather odd people have in common is that they know you....

I'm glad you've raised this OP. We need to be more honest about the horrendous damage WFH has caused in our society.

Personally, everyone I know who WFH and comes round for dinner at ours whittles. At the table! Wood shavings EVERYWHERE, a lack of care and attention re the angle of their whittling knife, and they always take ages to pass the condiments.

I miss the good old days.

clutching any straws to try and get people back in the office 😂

Clearly you have a very weird bee in your bonnet about WFH.

Are you sure it wasn't their hair colour, or the type of shoes they were wearing that caused their bad manners? What about the way the wind was blowing that day?

I eat like a ravenous animal. I never did before I had babies. I got used to cramming food in between babies' demands for boob, or cuddles or whatever. I feel quite self-conscious about it. I try to monitor the speed of my eating in public. I also WFH and there may be something in this. I probably feed, rather than dine, when alone at my desk. I am a disgusting creature.

I meant, I've never made the connection between poor table manners and whether someone works from home or in a working environment, like the OP suggested.

lol - a new angle on anti-wfh 🤣

whatever next?

If they're mid to late 50s it's probably that their hearing is going and so they aren't aware of how noisy they are. I know someone like this - she doesn't work from home, but she's too tight to get herself a decent hearing aid. My dad was the same.