Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-workers

Eating lots of snacks s fine, but loudly crunchy food is v v annoying.

So you're saying that my celery and carrot sticks...ulp.

Someone burnt the hell out of popcorn at my place today. Is this now an epidemic?

It smelled like a diaper with rotten carrots in it

kkvgz: nah veggies arent a big deal, nor apples. I'm talking more really crunch chips, nuts etc.

I developed anosmia in 2010, so:

Pro: my when sorta co-worker (it's just me and 5 lawyers, so have no real co-workers) makes peanut butter and tuna sandwiches, I no longer have to smell that gnarly shit.

Con: I don't know when my lunch reeks. My solution is to stock the office with lots of what I remember being not-overwhelming apple and cinnamon air freshener and spray it if I'm eating anything except, say, plain white rice or saltines.

TBH I'd rather smell the food than some stanky fake air freshner being sprayed all about, but thats just me.

Yes, I worry about that, too. But IIRC, the apples 'n' cinnamon that I order really does smell like apple pie.

It's interesting reading this as in my office it's very common for people to eat at their desk and it doesn't really bother me in the slightest. But then I'm one of the disgusting savages myself - I just had a bacon roll. The popcorn thing is something else IMO, a step beyond.

I guess if people were eating raw fish every day I'd be against it.

My office doesn't have a break room, so eating at your desk at lunch time or having an occasional appropriate snack is not a not a big deal, but common sense serves me well and I usually don't eat stinky foods or obscene amounts of popcorn.

The only times I've ever heard shit about food in my office:

One person who kept microwaving fish (which earned a PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE NOTE from my boss that I wish I had photographed).

One woman who came by and chastised me for bringing french fries into the office because it made her want some.

People complaining about people who bring in baked goods and cookies around the holidays for the same reason.

Xp Jon, you said that she eats a normal lunch on top of all of the popcorn? Is it made up of a wide variety of foods, or does she tend to eat the same thing every day?

And here you are on a different thread posting about popcorn. This has been on your mind, hasn't it? ; )

xpost - No, she very rarely eats a regular meal. Most days its just three or four bags of popcorn a day. The only times I've seen her eat a regular kind of lunch is when we have a lunch and learn presentation brought in, then she'll eat whatever is offered.

kkvgz, I just saw the other popcorn-related post and I will just say that I really hope D3@7hdr0n3 will one day get hold of this person's popcorn bag.

:-B

xp I was asking about her lunch because I was suspecting that she has Asperger's and has a limited number of foods that she lets herself eat.

maybe she is poor and can only afford popcorn.

Definitely not the case. Not only does she get several boxes from Endless and Zappos delivered to the office each week, but she is often talking about all the lavish things she buys and vacations she takes. She's also hinted about her parents paying her rent for her, so she's not poor. I'm leaning more towards the eating disorder than anything else.

she spends all her money on shoes and popcorn. maybe she is the heiress to Orville Redenbacher

today around 4:00 my coworker said, "LOOK WHAT I BROUGHT!!!" and pulled out two bags of microwave popcorn. i've been working at this company for 4 years, and no one has ever microwaved popcorn in the office. the timing (after reading this thread yesterday) was so perfect i started cracking up to the point that she was confused, and i had one of those "how do you explain [long ilx thread] in a quick sentence to people who don't do 'message boards?'" moments.

lol

Hahaha awesome

She wasn't a coworker in the same sense that most of the people mentioned on this thread have been, but the wife of one of my clients ate nothing but cauliflower during every day I was there.

guy just started flossing his teeth while I was talking to him o_O

haha that is super ballsy

it's like the kind of thing designed to make you feel like larry david

I didn't know what to say tbh

(other than "You're British WTF are you doing with that piece of string?!" obv)

That's just rude. What a cock.

ffs, apples should be outlawed in offices. I enjoy nature's tasty treats as much as the next guy but there is not reason I should have to put up with mouthbreathing CHOMP-CRUNCH-SLURP-SLOP-CHEWCHEW-SLURP-CHOMPCRUNCHSLOPSLOPSLURP while I'm on a conference call!

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Uuughh a guy I used to work with ate nectarines (I think it was) and he'd really shlllurrrrpp at them and that sound squicks me out WAY more than crunching does. There's somehting about that quiet, persistent shlup shluurrp smak dribble chew sound that makes me want to gouge out my own eyeballs. Dunno why.

This same man also farted all day long without apology or acknowledgement which was gross.

We have this employee in another dept who is a manager that completely shirks her duties.

A few months ago, she bailed on and refused to lead a training last minute, claiming she wasn't knowledgable enough, even though she was supposed to be an expert on the material per her job description. This screwed a friend of mine into having to do it.

Later, she rejected meeting invites (future-dated ones) because they were on Thurs/Fri and she claimed she "usually gets migraines lately" on thursdays and fridays and would be out sick.

So today, I see this jackass parking in Visitor Parking. The main allure of visitor parking is that it is closest to the building.

It is however reserved for ...visitors, and some days we have a lot, including clients, who need this parking. The one time I parked there years ago, I got an email asking me to move.

She's not pregnant or disabled (there's parking for both)...she is just skirting the rules, again.

Have reported it, but she'll probably get away with it as usual...

Guess I'm just gonna have to eat more quiet-assed foods like yogurt.

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ugh this coworker of mine eats yogurt all the time, and the spoon hits his teeth every once in a while and it's like CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACKITY CLACK CLACK.

you guys all seem to want to work in an office of people starving to death (except Neanderthal who has a legit beef).

you're at a place where you spend at least 1/3 of your day there - people are going to eat. sometimes at their desk. get an ipod of ear plugs or something!

(except the popcorn 18 times a day, that would drive me crazy too)

Uh, actually most offices have, or should have, a completely dedicated room for eating! My point is that I shouldn't have to listen to your disgusting eating noises when I'm in the middle of a conference call that may already be hard to hear! If your office provides you with a breakroom or place to eat, use it! I never eat at my desk, ever.

i usually do. but i'm usually super busy. and don't you have boardrooms for things like conference calls? (tho i can see that being annoying if you're forced to do a call from yr desk).

We have two conference rooms, but they are nearly constantly booked (the partners like to use them as default offices, which is fair enough as we've got an open office plan with all half-height cubicles for everyone). But that's also the problem, since we don't even have half-height cubicles (pretty standard practice for architects), noise carries very easily.

I do not have a "place to eat". Most people in my office have doors though, which probably work well for privacy and soundproofing, should they feel compelled by the crunching of my capsicum.

you guys all seem to want to work in an office of people starving to death (except Neanderthal who has a legit beef).
plenty of people in my office manage to snack or eat meals in the office without making noises like a starved spaniel.

jon, whenever we have conference calls the host is always really strict about everyone who's not currently speaking muting their line - it's a pretty bad line.

corn nuts help with crunching yrou coworkers to death

i have not worked in an office with a dedicated place to eat since 2006.
i currently work in an open office where people eat lunch and there's never a problem. which is to say, it's not types of food that are the issue, it's the people eating them and your reaction/relationship to their idiosyncrasies. a different office won't solve that. if they eat their apples in another room, something else they do will probably end up making you irate at some point.

except for the popcorn.

truth bomb

xp truth bomb 2

someone I work with totally ripped a fart near the fridge and left me to stew in it today....will not let this go unpunished

One of the partners shits all over. one of the other partners cleans it up. Cycle of life.

He shits all. Over.

And you can see that he has swiped at it halfheartedly, but there it still is. All over.