Popcorn at work should be outlawed!

[Talking Hands]

I love the smell of popcorn but I used to work with a guy who heated up fried plaintains in the microwave every night around 3am and it would make me feel sick.

Yum but not at 3am pls

 

[C.Ann]

The smell of popcorn gives me an instant migraine, so either it would have to stop or I would have to resign.. A whiff of it walking by a vendor is doable, but anything more than that and I'm done for..

 

[chell]

The office I used to work in banned popcorn. Once someone was giving a tour and someone had burned popcorn. After that the rule came out and no more popcorn was allowed.

 

[winniedapooh]

I am in on the other side of two hallways...the lunch room is in the other hallway and the vent from the lunchroom (old building) goes to my office...have you even been stuck in a 10 X 10 enclosed space with the smell of some of those lean cuisine and other forzen "gourmet" meals...popcorn is like main street disney to me, lol!

 

[Cindy B]

Have you ever been around that Fillipino 'snack' balut?
If you had, you'd never forget it~

It's an aged duck egg--it has to have had a baby duck in it. I mean feet, head everything!
so it has 2 things going for it aroma & visuals

A friend of mine was making some in her apartment's yard--she burried the eggs ( you do this for a certain number of days)--& got so many complaints from neighbors, she had to get rid of the stuff!

It was so nice of one of our co-workers to bring in some of her own 'home grown' balut to compensate--gee, they even offered us some!
Out of 55 people only one took them up on it & we all know Sam is crazy!

Jean

I know about balut. We had some Filipino friends and balut is a delicacy. Apparently its known as a sexual aid! The friends who is young says only the old people really eat balut and the rest of the people think its nasty.

I can't imagine bringing around home grown balut to the office!

 

[KAMLEM]

At my old company popcorn was banned because the president didn't like the smell. I'd have to say the worst smell came from this one person. Every day he heated up leftovers and it was always something with curry. It was disgusting.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Fried????????????????????? ??????????????Plaintains???

LOL, he was from Africa and it seemed to me that's all he liked to eat!

I didn't even know what a plaintain was.

 

[joshsmom]

I don't know why people insist on ruining perfectly good popcorn by SCORCHING it to death!!!! It's very sad and it infiltrates every possible inch of our office building. Another dreaded, horrible smell is the guy who eats sardines and mustard almost daily. He heats up the sardines "just to take the chill off" before starting his meal! I think he does it to make everyone else gag!!! It's HORRIBLE!!! Now, mix the burned popcorn with the previously chilled sardines and that's a recipe for me to never want to eat in our building again!! Maybe it will help me lose weight!

 

[LoveWDW]

Food smells should not be present in a workplace. It is unprofessional. If an exhaust fan can be rigged up to remove cooking smells, or like someone suggested above, if there is a cafeteria, then these would solve the problem. I love the smell of popcorn, but not in the workplace.

 

[sweet angel]

What about people who don't leave their desks for lunch, but rely on the microwave (or sandwiches)? Should they just not eat?

 

[DisneyMomOK]

That "balut" sounds awful, something PETA ought to go after. Is it the embryo that is then killed or a baby duck prior to pecking out? I don't see how you could not have nightmares over that one. Yikes, I guess I am just too mundane when it comes to food (the older I get, the more vegetarian sounds good).

Sharon

 

[Lesleyluvdisney]

LOL, he was from Africa and it seemed to me that's all he liked to eat!

I didn't even know what a plaintain was.

NO!!! Neither do I! What is it???

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

NO!!! Neither do I! What is it???

Think a banana but not sweet. I was going to tease you about not knowing about plantains but noticed you are from Scotland. You get a pass. The cuban place by my office has fried plantains and people love them. I just don't enjoy them.

I worked one place where an attorney actually posted a memo on the microwave about not cooking smelly foods. She then went on to list the food items.

I also worked in another place where the VERY BIG BOSS hated the smell of microwave popcorn. He threatened to fire anyone that cooked it! I wonder what HR would have said.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

NO!!! Neither do I! What is it???

Glad Eeyore explained it because I probably still couldn't. BTW Lesley, I see you live in the boyhood town of my favorite author (see siggie).

 

[Disney Doll]

Every time someone cooks popcorn in our microwave, it sets off the smoke alarm.

That being said, I don't really think you have a right to dictate what others can & can't do. The smell of popcorn as a "health concern" is a bit of a stretch, don't you think?

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

In my senior year of college my apartment mate would cook the smelliest foods at all hours of the day. You'd be woken up at 6am to her microwaving week old chinese food. It was truly disgusting. Once in awhile is fine but not 3 times a day, every day. I go so fed up I took away the microwave. That stopped her.

I can understand how the smell of popcorn can get sickening after awhile. I don't think you should be fired because you microwaved some popcorn. But I can see fellow employees asking you to not make it everyday.

In my office yesterday it smelled like fresh baked cookies. It made me have the hugest cookie craving ever.

 

[Maleficent13]

That being said, I don't really think you have a right to dictate what others can & can't do.

I do have that right; that's why they call me the supervisor.

Easy fix: get rid of the microwave.

 

[ripvanwinkle]

Ugh! We had a Chinese person in our office a few years ago who would cook fish for his lunch in the microwave, and the smell would float throughout the office. I'll take popcorn anyday, thank you!

I agree with you. I'm in the same situation and the smell of whatever the heck they are cooking...fish heads or who knows what makes you almost want to barf. It's disgusting. How do they eat that crap after the smell it gives off.

 

[jbdreamer]

Every time someone cooks popcorn in our microwave, it sets off the smoke alarm.

That being said, I don't really think you have a right to dictate what others can & can't do. The smell of popcorn as a "health concern" is a bit of a stretch, don't you think?

It was a joke - that's why the was there. Like I would really tell people their popcorn was dangerous to my health.

It would be nice if they mabey had a popcorn microwave hidden in the back of the wearhouse though. Becasue the smell is very distracting.

 

[mommystieg]

I really don't like the smell of popcorn and it drives me NUTS when my cube-neighbor makes a bag Not only is it smelly but she rustles around in the bag and then she must only eat one piece at a time and then it sounds like she chews that one piece about 86 times with her mouth open