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 love egg mayo sandwiches,
i often make them every day
i do warn my colleagues,
i had a colleague that complained when i ate an egg salad but i didnt let that stop me!

Lols I'm guessing nobody! Or maybe they were doing it on purpose to sabotage the entire workplace. I kind of felt like doing that somehow on occasions?! 🤣🫤

its like mr bean with the turkey in the microwave

What smell was this? I've never come across a smelly scotch egg.

Why do people insist on taking stinking food to the work place it’s not on
I doubt you could say much, I feel for you
I used to work with someone who ate tuna every single day

Are they home made? Egg mayo sandwiches don’t normally smell, what’s going on are they spoiled?

I like an egg mayo sandwich, pretty sure I'm not your mum 😂

It smelled like someone had passed wind. Perhaps it was because she kept them festering in her bag all morning. It was a very small office with no air-con.

Not as bad as those who heat up fish/curries in microwave. Window open, bit of vicks up the nose. Smells do dissipate though. Xxx

I once argued a friend out of packing a tupperware full of hard boiled eggs for a long-haul flight. The other passengers will never know how much they owe me.

Funnily enough I was her birth partner many years ago. Her mother gatecrashed labour ward and sat on the bed throughout eating... home made egg sandwiches.

Urgh can’t stand the smell of eggs - can’t eat them they make me feel sick i would have to move offices!

Could it be that shop bought ones aren't just freshly boiled eggs and a dollop of homemade mayonnaise? And that bought ones have been trapped in their plastic straitjackets?

One of my colleagues microwaves fish soup in the communal kitchen!

sense of humour bypass?

Although personally if I know that someone in the office has a nut allergy, I do have the courtesy to ask them if it's OK before I chomp through peanut butter on toast at the next desk.

I would literally be vomiting. My DH isn't allowed to eat egg sandwiches near me.

Hey I'm a physician. I have migraines. Food can trigger me and I had a staff reheating fish twice a week in a clinic. A little microwave in the clinic in outpatients. Reported to management who spoke to her with HR.

It is unacceptable in certain work spaces.

I don't understand why smelly foods can't be kept for home.

because a lot of us spend more than at work than we do at home - although i agree fish is on another level

How old are you 6? She can eat whatever the hell she wants for her lunch and saying it makes you sick seems overly dramatic, she doesn't have the problem here. Eggs are cheap and healthy and so she probably doesn't want to swap to something else..if she did maybe it would be tuna or salmon paste would that offend too??

Unless it’s extremely strong, it’s just the normal smell of food. Get over it. I’d prefer an egg sarnie to some overpowering g perfume.

I’d laugh and then just follow it up with do you have any other filling preferences, the odour from them egg ones is really nauseating. She may offer to move elsewhere to eat or change the filling. She also may laugh it off too, but at least she then knows.

It's not the normal smell of food though is it. Certain foods are more smelly and linger longer as we all clearly know.

We can say get over it about numerous things or we can be more considerate of each other. Occasionally having an egg sandwich is different to every single day too.

How unfortunate. Did you talk to your co-worker about her inoffensive lunch before you reported her to HR? I think there's being considerate in the face of serious allergies, and then there's this. If other foods trigger you, do you also object to people eating those around you? Where would you draw the line between people making reasonable adjustments and you needing to make your own adjustments?

Essentially, either people are allowed to eat in the work space or they aren't. Everyone has different opinions about what foods smell nice or horrible, so it's neither possible nor fair for certain foods to be excluded.

You are going to have to get over it. Open a window. I once worked with a colleague that hated the smell of oranges so they were banned from the office. It’s stupid and you know it. Don’t think you can dictate what other people can eat.