Office Microwave Etiquette

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OK, sort of related to the laundry thread...

God DAMN it, what is it with these people who are not there when their lunch is finished in the microwave?

I mean, it's not like laundry where it can take hours. How "busy" are you that you can't stand in the kitchen for FOUR MINUTES while your food cooks?

There's one person in this department who is CRIMINAL about this. She is forever putting mugs of soup or dishes of pasta or something in the microwave, and then leaving them - sometime for hours at a time.

I used to go out in the office and ask loudly enough to name and shame whose food was still in the microwave. Or else put it on a plate and deposit it on her desk. These days I just take it out and leave it to get cold on the counter. Ain't my job to be your butler/alarm.

Your office microwave nightmares here...

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

The worst is when she nukes corn, not even on a plate, just wrapped in a bit of paper - and leaves *that* mess in the nuke until the next person has to come along.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

are you tempted to eat their lunches?

― manute lol (sanskrit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

No, they're usually disgusting microwave shite.

(Maybe this is why I always stay with mine own lunch - everyone says they covet my home cooked curries from the smell.)

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

why not give their food another go round (it's only four extra mins wait for YOU)! they are not going to be larned better ways by it standing going cold obv but if it is SOMEHOW MYSTERIOUSLY CHARRED then they will think to stand by it next time

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Because I am hungry and I want mine curry NOW.

This woman would just leave her food in the nuke until it went black and charred, honestly.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

everyone says they covet my home cooked curries from the smell

I've never worked in an office where it's not been considered highly bad form to cook curry!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

People like it here because it covers the omnipresent stink of cigars from the owner.

No one's ever said a word to me about my curry that wasn't "that smells yummy" or "can I have some?"

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Burned microwave popcorn.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Woah, you have a microwave in your office?

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, we have a kettle, too!

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

I have a kettle. Microwave in office is new to me.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

we have a microwave in a shared room down the corridor, but i don't think i'm allowed to use it - its there for the flood defence people who work around the clock.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

They kinda *have* to let us have a microwave here, considering what crazy hours they make us work. (When do any of us ever get to go out to lunch? About once a month!) And also, free coffee. Yeah.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

We've got a microwave and a big hot water urn. My colleagues are a bunch of clarty buggers that never clean up after themselves and never cover stuff when they microwave it.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, I *do* absolutely cover my curry because I know what happens when turmeric meets plastic.

I clean up after myself - but the kitchen still gets in a state, even though we have a cleaner come twice a day!

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

just checked, there's no sign in the kitchen about the microwave anymore so i guess anybody can use it. it looks clean.

i did notice another sign on a nearby cupboard tho: "please note, food has gone missing from this cupboard. we are monitoring this"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Loads of people keep *breafast cereal* in the kitchen. Which means they must eat 2 of their 3 meals in this place!

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

That's a good idea.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Cereal's not just for breakfast!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's for Christmas, too.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

They do sausage butties and stuff between 9 and 10:30, i think 90% of my colleagues have 2 of their 3 meals here.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

If I had my way all office microwaves would be destroyed, especially in open plan offices without a proper closed-off kitchen like the one I worked in two years ago.

Take it from the poor sod who had to sit closest to it, your lunchtime curry/bowl of noodles/rank synthetic soup concotion smells considerably less yummy when mingled with the smells of eight other people's lunch.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

That said, it isn't a patch on

a) people who eat fish, of any description in the office
b) absolute scumbags who won't actually wash up after themselves and leave everything piled up in the sink

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

We have a persistant offender in our office that leaves her minging containers steeping in the sink, making it impossible for the rest of us to wash up properly. She's 4ft 11 of pure evil.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe she can't reach the taps?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

we have a dishwasher in the kitchen (which we share with various other companies) - there used to be a sign saying PLEASE PUT DIRTY CUTLERY INTO THE DISHWASHER but the unbelievable laziness of, it would appear, everyone on our floor has meant that this has been taken down as there is clearly no point in asking grown men and women to exert themselves to put their dirty teaspoons in a dishwasher when they've finished with them.

we also have a microwave in the kitchen but it doesn't work. i have microwaved soup in the 4th floor kitchen before though.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

When I worked for a grocery distributor, we had one microwave for 110 employees. Madness at lunchtime.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

We have a cleaner to take our dirty plates and cups from wherever they are and put them in the dishwasher. It's posh here in finance.

I sit quite near the kitchen (though it's about 20 foot from anyone's desk) and the smell doesn't bother me - unless some idiot cooks fish. We're generally quite a foodie bunch in this department - there's usually interest in unusual smelling food, rather than digust.

(Except for that unholy risotto a few weeks ago. Never having that again!)

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Rule #1 of office microwaving: do NOT microwave fish.

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

We have microwaves in our student lounges at school. My first year, this one guy - I don't know who he was, maybe an undergrad maybe a random weirdo off the street - used to come in to the lounge and microwave the most FOUL smelling fish ever. I think it was fish. It smelled like rotting garbage, like a carcass that he scraped off a dock pier, put in a tupperware dish, and warmed up. He would clear an entire crowded lounge out and then get to eat his rank filth all alone. He disappeared after first semester.

Our work kitchen is awesome - fridge, microwave, toaster, toaster oven, dishwasher, and water cooler with hot and cold taps. You can actually prepare a meal rather than just heat one up.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I generally have quite a high boredom threshold, but there's something about standing in an office kitchen watching a microwave countdown that drives me demented, so I leave things in there and go away. We have two microwaves, so it's not generally a problem, but I don't mind if people take my stuff out if it's finished.

Also, if you're washing dishes or making tea in a kitchen and someone else you don't know is standing around just waiting for their microwave to ping it creates an awkward feeling, like they're watching you or something. Well, they probably are watching you. It's better than watching an LED countdown.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

there's a kitchen with an actual stove/range down the hall from our new offices. but we share it with all the weird archietects in this buildings so we don't use it. we have fridge/microwave just for our webby selves.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I can't stand and watch the microwave countdown so i tend to nip down to the canteen for some soup and retrieve my lunch afterwards - 9 times out of ten it's still in the microwave when i return. I've never encountered hostility from my colleagues from my actions (apart from the poison dwarf and i really don't care what she thinks).

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really see what the problem with taking a dish out of a microwave is anyway. It takes two seconds. And they're not going to complain about it going cold - it would go cold (almost) just as fast if it were left in the post-ping microwave.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

It's just lazy and inconsiderate - not to mention RUDE - to expect other people to do your cooking for you or move your crap around, because you "feel awkward" watching the timer.

I feel FUCKING AWKWARD taking out some horrible dish of god knows what out of the nuke again and again to spare someone else's delicate sensibilities.

If you think it's "not a big deal" for someone else to have to take out your food, well I think it's NOT A BIG DEAL to just wait in the kitchen until it's done. It's only what - FOUR MINUTES OF YOUR LIFE.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Time is money! I've got work to be doing!

I think you're being a bit mental about this. Taking a dish out of a microwave =! "doing someone else's cooking".

And I can only ever remember leaving it in there for more than a minute or so once anyway. No one has ever taken my stuff out or been waiting there with there stuff while I swan about. But really, I don't think it would be an issue anyway.

Much MORE of an issue is people leaving their food to go mouldy and stinky in the fridge.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm never away for more than about 5 mins cos the canteen is 1 floor down and never very busy. Plus i don't faff about with bowls and paper towels - if i put anything in it's a tupperware box with the lid lifted just enough to break the seal and let the steam escape.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

My kitchen is only 20 secs away so not going back to my desk is a particuarly stupid idea.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

It's not a "bit mental" when it happens EVERY SINGLE DAY. This person has got to learn to clean the fuck up after herself because it's driving me nuts.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

a watched pot never boils, kids.

Kaet, if you're gonna be passive aggressive about it, it WILL drive you nuts. You need to either mention it, or let is slide. Getting wound up over it isn't going to help at all.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

You should pour it all over her head if it's bothering you.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Or sneak in before her and microwave an extra large potato.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

That'll show 'em.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

it's about time someone linked to this Freaky Trigger post.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

"Why are you yelling at me?"
"I'm not yelling at you, I'm just mad about X!"
"You're yelling about X, but you're yelling at me."

Couldn't you just yell at the source of the problem?

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Simple non-confrontational solution. Have lunch before her.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Do you think I *haven't* mentioned it to her?

I've said something every time I took the food out and put it on her desk, or when I used to remind her. It never did any good.

I am feeling cranky now, and this thread is not making this crankiness any better. This person is just totally scatterbrained and annoying.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

sry jst tryn 2 hlp

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

If this thread isn't making you feel any better why the hell did you start it you silly person.

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Why the hell do you troll people, you silly person?

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I ran out of billy goats gruff to annoy.

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, seriously, just take her food out and leave it on the counter. There's not much else you can do; it sounds like you have tried to speak with her or at least make a point about how irritating it is that she just leaves her food in there for ages and it's not doing any good, so get the small satisfaction of taking her food out and leaving it out on the counter for flies and coldness to creep into. Alternately, if she really leaves it in there for like more than 10 minutes at a time, grab it one day and toss it. You'll have to high-tail it out of there just in case she has remembered right as you're doing it, so don't do this at a time when you are planning to immediately use the microwave yourself.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Buy another microwave for the office.

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Get her a valet.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

FWIW I do think this is pretty annoying, I'm lucky ("lucky") in that I work in an office where lunch/drink thefts are apparently common (I've had a tin of espresso I stored in there get nicked completely, the very day I put it in there with a nice note saying people can share it with the office), so no one abandons their food in the microwave. The fridge is a different story.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Invest in a new microwave that, instead of beeping, emits an inaudible high pitch sound, summoning a friendly border collie to remove the food.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Our microwavery seems to be okay in my office - no one abuses it. The dishwasher, on the other hand... we've been informed by management that it is the staff and ONLY THE STAFF'S job to put things in the dishwasher, as the attorneys "bill their time, and don't have time to do anything like that." They don't have time to put a fucking bowl in the dishwasher, which is about ___ this far from the sink in which they lovingly deposit their mess?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand all of you with dishwashers in your offices!

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to say "actually, that kinda makes sense, that it's more economical to hire a cleaner at minimum wage to put the bown in the dishwasher than to have a lawyer at £100 an hour do it..." but then realised by "staff" they mean everyone else around them.

Which is patent freaking bullshit. No wonder lawyers are such arrogant fucks.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ally, we don't even have a SINK in our office. Everything's just left in a bowl for the cleaner to take somewhere to wash up at the end of the day. Except some things just don't get washed for days on end.

Another reason I never eat in the office unless it's a sandwich or something.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

This was said, for reference, by the same man who spends 40% of his workday (BILLABLE TIME! OH NOES!) playing solitaire on his computer with his feet up on his desk.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

I remember you saying that before luna and being like wtf? Are they children? Do they deduct the time it took them to USE the bowl from their bill? Because they fucking should.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, they are children.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, the cleaner washes people's dirty bowls for them??!

I wish I was British :D

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Very highly paid children :(

xpost

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

and bowels

We've got it made tbh.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

i can pass on the bowel cleaning, really.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Our cleaner barely vacuums beyond a small patch in the middle of the floor, let alone washes up. It's all very DIY here.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, our cleaners will actually PICK THE DIRTY BOWL off your desk, carry it into the kitchen and wash it for you.

Who says the class system is rub?

(Of course I always feel guilty, so I try to take my bowl in the kitchen and at least rinse it off.)

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

We have a dishwasher in our office, but we're not allowed to use it as it would be a waste of water. Which to be fair it would be, as there's only about 15 of us in this office, but why did they go to the trouble of buying a dishwasher and plumbing it in? Silly people.

We also have a toaster, kettle, microwave and a coffee maker. Not bad for such a teeny office!

xpost our cleaners don't clean that stuff here, we have to wash up our own stuff, which thankfully everyone is good at doing themselves.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

kate, if this happens every day with the same person, i'm guessing she gets up to put her stuff in the microwave between 4 and 7 minutes before you do. have lunch ten minutes earlier? i really don't think it's a big deal to take someone else's whatever out of the microwave - can't count the number of times i've done it - but you obviously do and she obviously isn't going to stop doing it, so try to avoid the situation.

in my last job we had the office opposite the kitchen (fridge, kettle, microwave, toaster, proper cooker with hob and oven, rat poison) so we could always smell everything everyone else was cooking, and yeah, fish in the microwave - please, please, unless you HATE everyone you work with, don't do it.

the people who pile all their crap in the sink are worse (argh no one else can wash up properly but if they want to eat anything they have to poke through all your shit to find a plate/cup to wash first ick) but even worse than them are the people throwing milk cartons in the bin WITH MILK STILL IN THEM. do you live in a cave/palace? wtf are you thinking?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Look, Em, I'm not actually looking for solutions (I can't eat any earlier, or I will end up hungry halfway through the afternoon - and it seems like she will have her crap in the nuke, no matter what time I use it) - I just want to blow off a little steam and bitch about how annoying it is.

I mean, isn't that a time-honoured tradition on ILX? Well, maybe it was in my day. Mutter mutter mutter.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, and offering apparently unsolicited advice is yet another time-honored tradition on ILX.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

All we need now is for someone to post an image that has a tenuous connection to the thread topic, and we're set.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Then comes the parody thread.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.helsinki.fi/~tsaalto/pics/funny/cats/microwave_cat.jpg

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

IM IN UR MICROWAVE
ETC ETC

― manute lol (sanskrit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

IN UR MICROWAVE
EATIN KATE'S FOODZ

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

wai 2 melt hart

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

scissors. dental floss. pen. bowl?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Leave him be, he has his own agenda.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Last year I was working at a place which had a teeny tiny microwave that was useful only for microwaving popcorn and not much more. I had to wash my dishes in the bathroom because the workplace kitchen (which was really just a counter in the mainroom) had no hot water.

Anyway, inevitably there would be a line up to use the microwave and people left stuff out, collect mold, and devolved kitchen etiquette that they wouldn't dream of having at home.

I took forgotten stuff out of the microwave all the time, but I wouldn't dare use the refrigerator because it was filled with moldy forgotten food.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Back then I also occasionally worked at a place which had a complete kitchen with stove, convection oven, dishes, pots and pans. Only four people worked there so cleanliness never got out of hand and lunches were usually pretty terrific.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

this is why i always eat a) at my desk b) away from the office. no reheated lunch is worth it.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

sunny speaking my mind above.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

i always abandon my food because i sit like 15 feet away from the microwave and figure i can get 4 minutes worth of work done while my food cooks.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

At our office, the washing-up is done by the office secretary, I think. I'm never around when it's being done.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I can't really conceive of someone else doing my washing up at work.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

My last job had a proper big break room with a dishwasher, sink, toaster oven, 2 sammich presses, 2 microwaves, 2 fridges and a coffee vending machine that actually made espresso coffee from ground beans (!!). The room had 4 or 5 big round tables too, so it was kind of like a Uni commonrooms. But then we did have about 80+ staff or something so it was needed I suppose.

Where I work now has a tiny box of a kitchen with a sink, dishwasher, fridge, sammich press and microwave that emits very strange crackling noises that makes me not want to stand near it.

I just go buy my lunch.

Pet hate tho (apart from cnuts stealing me food): as we dont have any kind of break room/couches/tables, its either go buy lunch and sit down in the food court which is full of tourists so eff that; or bring me lunch back up and sit at me desk.

So there I am sat at my desk eating a souvlaki and reading LJ or a magazine, very obviously on a LUNCH BREAK RIGHT - and my boss or some other twat comes up and starts talking at me about work while I have a mouthful of lamb and tatziki :/ GO AWAY I AM EATING.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, people who leave food in the office fridge for weeks on end are the worst. Then again I've never been exposed to this microwaved fish abomination.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Kettle is as high-tech as we get here. Fridges & Microwaves @ work is something out of science fiction to me.
Smoking room = my car.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

We have a fridge that I've never used because of teh fear of lumpy milk. Lots of people did lots of moaning about it and now there's an emptying/cleaning rota. We get a group email every Friday morning warning people that the fridge will be emptied and everyone have 30 minutes to reclaim any food before it gets binned.

We had a nice nicotine coloured microwave in the smoke room in the last place I worked. Even fish didn't penetrate that smell.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone's a winner!

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

Srsly fuck anyone who uses the microwave in a small unventilated office on a cold day.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 27 January 2011 12:28 (fifteen years ago)

The cleaner at our office cleans out the fridges every Saturday morning and it all goes in the bin, regardless of what you've left, notes left on it etc. It's annoying, but now everyone knows the rules we don't have a problem with mouldy fridges at all.

Why is there a microwave in a small unventilated office anyway? Has your place got no kitchen? Or do you mean eating hot smelly food in a small office on a cold day?

― 전승 Complete Victory (in Battle) (NotEnough), Thursday, 27 January 2011 13:05 (fifteen years ago)

Walked in to the office kitchen to find someone taking my mug of milk out of the fridge, going "what the F is this" and about to pour it away. I'd literally filled the mug up from the kitchen on the other floor about 2 hours beforehand because the massive container of milk that was in OUR fridge was about a week past its sell-by date and was smelling rank a good week before that. Being English, I'm the only person who has milk in tea and half-and-half is grim. Anyway I went "oh hey, is that my milk?" and they gave me a really weird look and it occurred to me that maybe they thought it was my breast milk or something. At least they won't be stealing it...

― Not the real Village People, Friday, 28 January 2011 02:34 (fifteen years ago)

four years pass...

Can we all finally agree that polo shirts should never be worn in an office?

― calstars, Friday, 25 September 2015 20:59 (ten years ago)

it's ok to microwave them though

― Exit, pursued by Yogi Berra (WilliamC), Friday, 25 September 2015 20:59 (ten years ago)

what if it's the front office for a polo club

― j., Friday, 25 September 2015 21:15 (ten years ago)

Front office should never be in polos in any official capacity

― calstars, Friday, 25 September 2015 21:17 (ten years ago)

Can we all finally agree that polo shirts should never be worn ~~in an office~~?

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― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 September 2015 23:56 (ten years ago)

worer I never even mitre mlud

― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Saturday, 26 September 2015 00:02 (ten years ago)

Mitre? You never her...

― "Tell them I'm in a meeting purlease" (snoball), Saturday, 26 September 2015 00:22 (ten years ago)

Fuck polos r4ever

― calstars, Saturday, 26 September 2015 01:29 (ten years ago)

Seriously

― calstars, Saturday, 26 September 2015 01:30 (ten years ago)

Just stop with this shit already

― calstars, Saturday, 26 September 2015 01:30 (ten years ago)

#DGAF

― calstars, Saturday, 26 September 2015 01:31 (ten years ago)

Where I work the management are suggesting that everyone else there wear polo shirts with the company logo on them. Most people are like no way, but there's one guy who's super into the idea.

― "Tell them I'm in a meeting purlease" (snoball), Saturday, 26 September 2015 10:04 (ten years ago)

I'm going to tell him, "you want to work in Burger King, go and fucking work in Burger King".

― "Tell them I'm in a meeting purlease" (snoball), Saturday, 26 September 2015 10:05 (ten years ago)

is that the logo on the shirt

― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Saturday, 26 September 2015 14:18 (ten years ago)

Well he has bleach blond hair, so he could be in Burger King spitting on your onion rings.

― "Tell them I'm in a meeting purlease" (snoball), Saturday, 26 September 2015 17:33 (ten years ago)

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