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Office food etiquette poll: When there are meeting leftovers in the kitchen, at what time of day

Posted by Andie Sep 16 '16, 10:59

is it okay to walk in there with your tupperware and start packing it up to take home with you?

we have a couple employees that do it within half an hour of it being put out.

Responses:

Depends. If you work with Chad, 5 minutes. -- nm - Roger More Sep 16, 11:20
1 hour 37 minutes after leftovers have been placed. -- nm - Baron Witch Project Sep 16, 11:07
take home after work hours. Don't be that asshat that goes in there at 4pm to stock up for home. - CQ Sep 16, 11:05 8
- it's 2pm here, i just watched two people go in and box up all the leftover sushi. -- nm - Andie Sep 16, 11:08 5
  - wait until they put it in the fridge and return to their desks, then go in and take it all out of their boxes and steal it -- nm - decline Sep 16, 11:11
  - see, those who can take; those who ponder niceties go hungry -- nm - Beaker Sep 16, 11:09
  - we've had situations like that arise here. memos have been sent -- nm - mr monkey Sep 16, 11:09
  - They need a good glove slap -- nm - CQ Sep 16, 11:09 1
    - or just order in badly-prepared fugu the next time -- nm - mr monkey Sep 16, 11:09
- but I leave work at 4pm -- nm - oblique Sep 16, 11:05 1
  - No soup for you! -- nm - CQ Sep 16, 11:06
rarely an issue here because leaving anything out on the cafe island is like dropping a cow into a pool of pirahnas -- nm - mr monkey Sep 16, 11:01
what does Lisa think? -- nm - oblique Sep 16, 11:01
as soon as the meeting is over and the food hits the kitchen it is free for all -- nm - Beaker Sep 16, 11:00 15
- see, i think it's a free for all *to eat*, not a free for all to 'take home before other employees get to have some.' -- nm - Andie Sep 16, 11:01 14
  - yep. in a past job, we had to have someone come watch to make sure that the tupperware thing didn't happen so soon.. - b. Sep 16, 11:11 4
    - why do they order so much food? -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 16, 11:19 3
      - it wasn't vast amounts over, but there was some padding because sometimes people came and went from the meetings and it wasn't clear who all would -- (edited) - b. Sep 16, 11:23
      - Two reasons - it means that everyone at the meeting has a choice, and no one is stuck with the tuna salad sandwich. - Roger More Sep 16, 11:23
      - this actually comes up here sometimes. generally speaking, every meeting has about twice as much food as is ever eaten. -- nm* - Andie Sep 16, 11:21
  - yeah, this isn't ocean salvage. -- nm - Max Sep 16, 11:08
  - I've seen so much food go to waste that way though. -- nm - Beaker Sep 16, 11:04
  - who keeps tupperware at work to take leftovers home with? :) -- nm - oblique Sep 16, 11:02 1
    - people who work in hoity-toity offices with fancypants catered meetings -- nm - decline Sep 16, 11:04
  - exactly -- nm - decline Sep 16, 11:02 4
    - Yes. Hell we just drop it by Juan's desk cause we know he's going to take it all home anyway. - Epiphany Aloha Sep 16, 11:10 3
      - So Juan is your office Chad? -- nm - oblique Sep 16, 11:10 2
        
        He's skinny as a rail, doesn't eat it at the office, just takes ALL the left overs home. He does wait until 4 though - Epiphany Aloha Sep 16, 11:15
        
        jonathan saw chad last week at the hair cutter. he says chad looks the same. the extra cash hasn't bought him clothes that fit - university of amanda jones Sep 16, 11:11
end of the day - anything earlier is just greed -- nm - decline Sep 16, 11:00 1
- yup, last one out the door has full access to it. -- nm - groiny Sep 16, 11:02

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