Colleague eating egg mayo sandwiches - to say something?

[DontGiveUp90]

As above really…my colleague is lovely but insists on eating the most foul smelling egg sandwiches for her lunch. It lingers all afternoon and makes me feel sick.

Would I be unreasonable to say something? We don’t have a break out area where she could eat them as only a small office.

I think they should carry mini scented bottles around with them like Georgian ladies!

Yes. I don't like it and that is my opinion, to which we are all entitled. Yours may differ. Is that okay with you?

Exactly. I don't think eggs are particularly offensive.

But I find the smell of bananas and clementines utterly stomach churning.

OK, so it's just water and non-nut based crackers, then?

I worked with someone who brought a tin of fish (sardines, mackerel etc) and added it to a pot noodle every. single. day.

They also chewed if with their mouth open.

One of the reasons i left. Illegal.

Be diplomatic. You don't want to end up with egg on your face.

That's doesn't follow. They are smelly. I like an egg sandwich but would not inflict the stink of them on others. Stink bombs smell of eggy and there's a reason they are called stink bombs!

So what do people think about the eggy farts that always seem to burst out freely when people eat hard boiled eggs? 😆😆

That's probably true. I do draw the line at pickled eggs though! 😬

I personally take hartshorn and a scented handkerchief everywhere.

Of course it's subjective!!!😂

And? That doesn’t mean don’t eat nuts at work. High school don’t ban nuts, nor do work places. So if someone in workplace had a nut allergy they need to manage it as an adult. The management and risk assessment sits with the adult with the nut allergy. Colleagues aren’t compelled to refrain from foods because someone else has an allergy

Yes pomanders for all the weak nosed

There is a thread wondering if losing the value of shame has been a good thing for society.

Absolutely someone imposing stinky food like an egg sandwich on their colleagues should be shamed.

“You can’t police what people eat”? Says who? If it’s in the actual office, as opposed to a dedicated eating space, with no way of opening the nearest window, then yes, that should be policed.

Only people with wonky digestion.

Eggactly.

Egg/Mayo sarnies are generally harmless, there must be a 'kicker' ingredient or by-product that aggravates the OP's olfactory senses.

@Ddakji

You can’t police what people eat”? Says who? If it’s in the actual office, as opposed to a dedicated eating space, with no way of opening the nearest window, then yes, that should be policed.

Good grief. How do you manage that? Do you want a list of banned foods pinned up alongside the elf and safety message in every workplace? Don’t you think the onus is on the person with the neurosis to find a way to deal with it? Rather than forbidding tens of people from eating what they want?

Someone eating a sandwich lasts about ten minutes, tops. Woman up and deal with it.

Did you mean to add 'reader, I married him,' ?

Well it’s cheap, nutritious, filling, pragmatic, going to fuel an afternoon of productivity.

If your colleague eats with her mouth closed, doesn’t smell of body odour, comes to work in clean clothes, has good mobile phone etiquette in the break room (times have changed and these are my gripes 🙄), a good old egg sandwich is the last thing that would bother me me.

My fave lunchtime snack was a Crusty Cheese & Onion (thick slab of raw onion) Roll with a packet of Salt&Vinegar sold up the corner shop.

Seems many MNers today would be swooning at the odour whilst getting their speed dial HR colleagues on the case...to splain something ter me.

Oh, my! I admit I am salivating!

You absolute Neanderthal 😉

@TortolaParadise perfume gives me migraine. Proper raging ones not a minor headache that goes with a couple of paracetamol. I have had to complain at work because people were spraying it in a confined office. I really am not one to fuss but my employer uses Bradford scoring and I can't afford to lose my job due to this.

Mmmmm sounds fantastic