When preparing a meal that you intend to take with you to work, it is worth considering whether its smell will disturb your co-workers. This is due to personal culture. Our culinary tendencies should also be adapted to the conditions in the workplace. If we have a kitchen at our disposal where we can heat and eat a second breakfast or dinner, we are less limited. Just close the kitchen door and air it after eating. However, even in such cases, you should not bring food whose smell will linger at work for a long time…
Intensely smelling food at work? “It’s uncivilized”
“I try to bring food to work at home. Firstly, so as not to spend a fortune “in the city”, and secondly, so as not to eat random things that are not good for my figure,” says Weronika (name for editorial information). “I try to bring things that don’t smell too strongly, because I work in a kind of open space and we all eat at our desks. Once, a friend sitting next to me brought extremely smelly things to eat,” Weronika recalls. “Fish and hard-boiled eggs were nothing. She had a penchant for strongly seasoned sausages, so when someone came in after her meal, it smelled like a butcher’s shop,” he adds. “I think it was extremely rude. Finally, someone pointed it out to her and she stopped, but she was very dissatisfied,” says Weronika.
“The cabbage soup diet was a pain in the office”
Karolina (name for editorial information) she says that a few months ago, her colleagues from the office remembered the cabbage soup diet. “The three of us brought cabbage soup to work every day and ate it twice, sometimes three times. Of course, they heated it in the microwave. The stench of cabbage wafted throughout the office and it was torture,” he recalls with disgust. “And I don’t like cabbage. A few people noticed them, but they didn’t really care about it. Finally, we complained to our superior and he made it clear to them that their food disturbed other employees,” adds Karolina.
It’s worth thinking about others
People who bring food from home to work should consider whether its smell is not too intense and whether it will disturb co-workers. Some foods smell stronger than others, and their smell can be bothersome. So if you have a second breakfast or lunch with you and it starts to smell intensely while heating, you should stop eating it “at your desk” and use the employee kitchen, if one is available. After eating, it is worth ventilating the workplace. Food that is not suitable for eating at work due to its exceptionally intense odor includes: fish, hard-boiled eggs, cabbage in various forms, beans (e.g. baked beans), boiled cauliflower and broccoli, dishes with onion and garlic.
Source: Gazeta
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