Is it ok to eat fish at desk in cube farm

[laurack]

Just wondering this as I have smelled fish before (aka yesterday) from cube mate(s). I think once or twice in the past I may have eaten tuna at my desk. I don't really care for it though.

BUT I feel that stinky fish that smells extremely fishy (not tuna. Not sure what it was, smelled like rotten fish heads) should not be allowed. Maybe my nose is just too "fish sensitive"? But it really made me gag a bit. ugh

[christidee]

I think eating fish in cube land is an office no no.

[claralou]

I'm with Christie. Hell to the no.

[thedahliharpa]

I had an employee that I banned from eating hardboiled eggs in the office. Everyday with the damn smelly eggs outside my office.

[lauranicole91]

Jan 10, 2013 11:24:04 GMT -5 thedahliharpa said:

I had an employee that I banned from eating hardboiled eggs in the office. Everyday with the damn smelly eggs outside my office.

Yuuuuuck. I hate the smell of hard boiled egg!! Worse than fish in my opinion.

[kandrze1]

I'm super sensitive to the smell of fish so I say never okay in an office. I agree that hard boiled eggs are worse though! One of my student teaching supervisors ate them everyday and it always grossed me out.

[JuliaGulia]

It wouldn't bother me personally but I think if you are going to be eating in your cubicle around other people than you should be eating odorless food...

[lolaburns]

Definitely a no no.


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[thedahliharpa]

I'll volunteer to be the bish that comes around and puts an end to the smelly foods in your workplace. I also made short work of a girl who wanted to steam broccoli every day.

[dixeedeluxe]

I said no, but I wouldn't really be super angry if someone had a contained tuna sammich that they brought out (prepared) at lunch, ate it, then disposed of the trash in a can that wasn't in their cube. I'd be OK with that.

[Deleted]

Cold fish (tuna salad) - fine.
Microwaved fish - oh hell no.

I have a coworker who microwaves fish in the lunchroom - I sit across the hall. barf.

[mumegs]

Jan 10, 2013 11:36:58 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

I said no, but I wouldn't really be super angry if someone had a contained tuna sammich that they brought out (prepared) at lunch, ate it, then disposed of the trash in a can that wasn't in their cube. I'd be OK with that.

This....I have a tuna sandwich occasionally and I make it at home, keep it in a sandwich bag in the fridge until lunch time, then bring it out and eat it and throw any trash away in the lunch room. I don't think it really smells and if it does it would only be for a couple minutes I guess.

However we had some people in our office that used to heat up fish in the kitchen and it would seriously make the entire floor smell fishy, you could smell it as soon as you walked in the door. And they would do it like every day. It just stopped all the sudden so I assume someone must have said something to them, or they don't work here anymore!

[The Foozzler]

Jan 10, 2013 11:36:58 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

I said no, but I wouldn't really be super angry if someone had a contained tuna sammich that they brought out (prepared) at lunch, ate it, then disposed of the trash in a can that wasn't in their cube. I'd be OK with that.

I agree with this.

[dixeedeluxe]

Does ANYONE think fish smells delicious? I mean, I eat it and still think it stinks.

It's not like curry that is fragrant but smells good to some people and bad to others, is it?

[musiclover]

Any stinky foods eaten at work is just plain rude.

[musiclover]

I think it's just being stuck in a small confined space with someone that makes it offensive. Otherwise, I LOVEEEEEEE Fish!!!

[Deleted]

I would say I don't care what people eat. The smelly people I work with (BO and smokers) bother me way more.

[dixeedeluxe]

Jan 10, 2013 12:26:04 GMT -5 @lindy said:

I would say I don't care what people eat. The smelly people I work with (BO and smokers) bother me way more.

i work here.
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/coworkers-attacked-by-gas-645132

[Deleted]

Jan 10, 2013 12:43:53 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

Jan 10, 2013 12:26:04 GMT -5 @lindy said:

I would say I don't care what people eat. The smelly people I work with (BO and smokers) bother me way more.

i work here.
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/coworkers-attacked-by-gas-645132

Haha oh my!

I think you could maybe help this by getting him his own office or something? I work with several smelly people, it sucked really bad when I was pregnant.

[mala]

I am ss. As long as it doesn't smell I say its all good. Sudhi, cold salmon, tuna salad. Its all good.

[raynes]

I'm on the cold fish being ok train. Microwaved, not so much.

[Regina Philange]

I had tuna the other day during lunch in my teeny cube. I'm on a diet damn it.

[livinreality]

Jan 10, 2013 12:00:44 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

Does ANYONE think fish smells delicious? I mean, I eat it and still think it stinks.

It's not like curry that is fragrant but smells good to some people and bad to others, is it?

When I was pregnant in cubeland one guy ate curry all the time, I got sick everytime he ate it!

Do you have a kitchen eating area? If so then eating smelly food in cubeland is completely rude.

[geekychic]

I had a guy almost open a can of sardines during a meeting in a itty bitty conference room. He didn't because I told him if he did, I was going to banish him from the meeting.

[kkfeb04]

If I can break into hives over the perfume my coworkers wear, they can smell my delicious crabcakes. I do close the door to the microwave room when heating though.

[cat19]

Lent. Fridays. Lots of Catholics. I wanted to die.

[EnchantedSoul]

Awww man, I sent DS1 to school with an egg in his lunch. Do his teachers hate me now?

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[laurack]

I like fish to eat. And when I've a fish dinner in front of me, I'm not thinking "ew this smells gross"/blocking my nose as spoonfuls go in my mouth. So maybe it's the microwaving part? the just being at work/condensed area part? Or perhaps he was eating some strange extra stinky fish?

I usually cook salmon or seabass or something. Doesn't seem to have much smell really.

[Regina Philange]

We do have a "kitchen" but I stay at lunch to answer the phones so everyone can suck it if they complain.