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Old 12-01-2006, 05:06 PM   #1
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Office Etiquette - Snacks in the Breakroom, Kitchen, Office Whatever

It's that time of year again... when people bring in snacks and treats galore - either leftovers from Holiday Parties, sharing the contents of gift baskets or just bringing in stuff because they are nice.

Here's my pet peeve with this... it's the people that always cut something in half - like a cookie or a piece of cake/pie, and leave their half behind. It just bugs me... why leave the half? Maybe someone else doesn't want your half, maybe they want a whole... and now there is this stray half-piece... This is happening everyday in my office and it's driving me crazy.

So what's proper sharing ettiquette for office snacks? Anyone have any interesting tales relating to this subject?
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Old 12-01-2006, 05:12 PM   #2
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Here's my pet peeve with this... it's the people that always cut something in half - like a cookie or a piece of cake/pie, and leave their half behind. It just bugs me... why leave the half? Maybe someone else doesn't want your half,
...but maybe they do.
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Old 12-01-2006, 05:27 PM   #3
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...but maybe they do.
I used to think they might, but now I realize I'd be a hypocrite if I cared about half-a-cupcake while people are driving cars over the speed limit.
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Old 12-01-2006, 09:36 PM   #4
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...why leave the half? Maybe someone else doesn't want your half, maybe they want a whole... and now there is this stray half-piece...

This is happening everyday in my office and it's driving me crazy.
Sounds like your personal problem.

What about the person who has diet issues (weight or diabetic) and can only have (or allow themselves) a half piece? If it were me, I wouldn't take a whole piece knowing I could only eat half, and then throw it wastefully away. If it bothers you...throw it away or leave a snarky note about not cutting things in half.
WHY is it bothering you? Do you just like things neat and ordered in your world? *cough*obsessivecompulsive*cough* You cannot control everyone, only yourself and how you choose to react to outside influence.
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Old 12-01-2006, 09:48 PM   #5
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Don't think I'd eat half of something if I didn't know who cut/left it.
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Old 12-02-2006, 12:05 AM   #6
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Well, IMO, half a cookie, cupcake or any other snack food intended to be served whole, is just weird. I also would have trouble taking a half of anything left behind unless I knew who had handled it.
I think that is probably what is bothering melidasaur...the wastefulness of it. Sorta like leaving half a can of opened soda in the fridge.
...now with cake or pie...you can cut the size slice you want.
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Old 12-02-2006, 01:56 AM   #7
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Well, IMO, half a cookie, cupcake or any other snack food intended to be served whole, is just weird. I also would have trouble taking a half of anything left behind unless I knew who had handled it.
I think that is probably what is bothering melidasaur...the wastefulness of it. Sorta like leaving half a can of opened soda in the fridge.
...now with cake or pie...you can cut the size slice you want.
Precisely!!! I don't know who the other half belonged to. Who knows who's half it is... if it belonged to my office mate, I would share it with her. However, this is an office of 50 different people.

Call me obsessive compulsive or whatever, but I think that its really rude to leave a half a piece of something. If you want half, share it with someone else in the office. Don't just leave your half just sitting there.

Thank you, Hoof Hearted for understanding my point !
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Old 12-02-2006, 03:07 AM   #8
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You're complaining about somebody cutting it??? I used to lurk around the break room to find out which of the salesmen were just taking a BITE out of something and putting it back on the plate with the rest. You might think people like that have no shame, but it helps to yell just as they start to put the uneaten part down
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Old 12-02-2006, 10:24 AM   #9
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You're complaining about somebody cutting it??? I used to lurk around the break room to find out which of the salesmen were just taking a BITE out of something and putting it back on the plate with the rest. You might think people like that have no shame, but it helps to yell just as they start to put the uneaten part down
Cutting it, breaking it, dropping half of it on the floor and putting it back... I don't really now.
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Old 12-02-2006, 12:39 PM   #10
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My pet peeves with office food are limited to people eating tuna and smelling up the place, and those who leave dishes (and disgusting old food) in the sink I guess thinking fairies will come and clean up after them. People are just basically rude.

Anyone who works here gains weight; there is food all the time.
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Old 12-02-2006, 02:21 PM   #11
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You might think people like that have no shame, but it helps to yell just as they start to put the uneaten part down
I would suggest the same. And use plenty of profanity.

That's what we do at work.
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Old 12-02-2006, 05:53 PM   #12
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Old 12-02-2006, 06:45 PM   #13
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You're complaining about somebody cutting it??? I used to lurk around the break room to find out which of the salesmen were just taking a BITE out of something and putting it back on the plate with the rest.
There's one on every office eh? The guy that used to do that in our office was doing it for effect, just trying to get a reaction. I put manure-grown daisies (they were beautiful but smelled like a used diaper filled with Indian food) in his office. He admitted to trying to smell his own ass for an hour before he figured out it was the flowers.

Then the fucker snuck a head of broccoli into my trunk.... in July...
God damn I miss working with adults.... good times...
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Old 12-02-2006, 10:17 PM   #14
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Broccoli? That's the first I've heard of that being a odorificant. Details?
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Old 12-02-2006, 10:30 PM   #15
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