Does anyone else hate sitting next to people who eat at their desks? (office, coworkers)

[whateverblahblah]

I can't stand to hear swwwiiiiiissshh, glop glop glop, scrape scrape scrape when I'm trying to work. It also sucks smelling someone else's food.

Why can't people eat somewhere else?

[RbccL]

I hate it too. The worst example I can think of out of many, is the lady sitting next to me who is making a lot of fork scraping noises, and when I looked over her at her, she was actually eating a stack of pancakes with syrup.

[Disgustedman]

I always felt that one should enjoy lunch away from work. But as I have had several supervisors who ate at their desks while working I got to be glad to be an hourly worker that got to enjoy his meals.

[Just Zola]

It's not very pleasant, especially if they have a particularly aromatic/pungent food wafting round a small office with windows closed due to it being really cold outside.

Some people do prefer to eat main meals at their desk: perhaps because there's no canteen, or if there is its either too busy or too noisy. Or perhaps some people want to carry on working while they eat

It's not ideal, but I guess it's up to the office manager to do something about it if enough people complain

[1AngryTaxPayer]

I wish I had time to take a lunch.

[MLSFan]

Why can't people eat somewhere else?

don't want to get desk dirty, so have lunch at your coworkers desk instead

when they come back, they clean it up for you

[BigDGeek]

I eat at my desk all the time. I don't care if others do. I don't eat smelly food at my desk.

[the minx]

Yes. I sat in an open space next to some health nut body builder type that ate every 2 hours. If that wasn't bad enough, he was also a lip smacker.

I lasted about a week before I told my manager one of us had to move. The guy got moved to a corner next to a pillar.

[Sassybluesy]

I'm sitting here now, wondering if the people who are complaining have EVER had to share space with others, eating meals. Did you all not have family dinners, with multiple people making their glop glop glop and swish swish swish,, scrape scrape scrape noises?


I grew up in a house of 7 people...I guess I got immunized against food sounds.

[MLSFan]

Originally Posted by Sassybluesy

I'm sitting here now, wondering if the people who are complaining have EVER had to share space with others, eating meals. Did you all not have family dinners, with multiple people making their glop glop glop and swish swish swish,, scrape scrape scrape noises?


I grew up in a house of 7 people...I guess I got immunized against food sounds.

they want to pretend they are in corner offices where they can block out everything else

to the point that they wear earphones while working