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Post by steph08 on Dec 10, 2015 11:58:00 GMT -5
I would have said "Someone keeps eating all the candy and we can't afford to keep the bowl filled all the time." Maybe he would get the hint!
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Post by MJ2.0 on Dec 10, 2015 12:02:58 GMT -5
My boss brought in his extra halloween candy. Damn if I didn't gorge myself on twizzlers and all manners of crap. I have a very hard time restraining myself with a pile of candy right next to me. that's me 100%. I can't have any sweet (especially chocolate) goodies near me because I have zero self control. Tuesday night I ate half a pan of brownies.... so, yeah.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Dec 10, 2015 12:05:07 GMT -5
If it's in a drawer I can manage. I'm very out of sight out of mind. If it's visible, all bets are off. Even though I know it's in that drawer right there, I don't see it, I don't eat 90 pieces.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Dec 10, 2015 12:17:44 GMT -5
At home with ready snacks available, I don't eat any candy at all. We end up throwing away the tons of candy left over from the boys' Easter/parade/Halloween stashes. However, at work with the 3 pm wanna-take-a-nap-time, all bets are off.
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Post by yogiii on Dec 10, 2015 12:25:33 GMT -5
At home with ready snacks available, I don't eat any candy at all. We end up throwing away the tons of candy left over from the boys' Easter/parade/Halloween stashes. However, at work with the 3 pm wanna-take-a-nap-time, all bets are off. What?! No, find out a way to give it to someone. Mail it to Tiny or Archie even
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Post by Lizard Queen on Dec 10, 2015 12:41:34 GMT -5
At home with ready snacks available, I don't eat any candy at all. We end up throwing away the tons of candy left over from the boys' Easter/parade/Halloween stashes. However, at work with the 3 pm wanna-take-a-nap-time, all bets are off. What?! No, find out a way to give it to someone. Mail it to Tiny or Archie even Well, the stuff that was thrown away was a sticky mess &/or really old. Archie, I do have 2 big chocolate bunnies and a little bit of Valentines candy that I'm sure my boys won't miss if you're willing to brave it. (We severely limit their candy intake because they are hyper enough without getting all sugared up.)
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Post by happyhoix on Dec 10, 2015 12:44:40 GMT -5
Hogging out on candy isn't all that weird, I think a lot of people would lack the self-control in that area. The fact that he actually asked you where the candy is, or for more candy is the part I find really weird. Could be he has an entitled mind set. I worked in a lab once with a guy who thought all the female lab techs should wash his glassware for him at the end of the day because that's what women do. Got completely PO'd when we refused. How dare we Worked with another person who just liked the idea of getting free food. At that job we had a breakroom and sometimes one of us would bring in a treat and leave it on the table for everyone. Used to be, any left over treat would be there the next day, and then suddenly, they started vanishing at the end of the day. Turns out, on the days that free cookies or date bread or whatever had been left on the break room table, Miss Thief made sure she was the very last person leaving and took all the remains with her. (A co-worker checked the security cameras to catch her in the act).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2015 12:55:13 GMT -5
My boss brought in his extra halloween candy. Damn if I didn't gorge myself on twizzlers and all manners of crap. I have a very hard time restraining myself with a pile of candy right next to me. Yeah. Me too. I just discovered a big bowl of Halloween candy here at work set up for people to take. All freaking chocolate, my worst enemy. Thankfully, it's several aisles over and not something I have to walk past constantly, but I've still ran over there twice already today.
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Post by dannylion on Dec 10, 2015 12:58:50 GMT -5
People like the candy hog are not receptive to hints or signs or gentle reminders or smiley faces or anything that would convey a message to a person with a normal shame response. If there is candy, he will continue to take all of it.
I would send an all-hands email explaining that because someone has been greedy over the candy I can no longer afford to provide the treat for the office. The greedy person has spoiled it for everyone. Actually, I would probably add "Candy Hog is going to have to start buying his own candy." But I'm mean.
an all hands email about candy? I hope that was facetious. Nope. It wasn't facetious. If something was altering the office dynamic in a way that made people unhappy, we would address it and deal with it. (If you had been one of my coworkers--which you weren't, by the way, so you really don't know the context of my comment--and didn't like a message I sent, you would have been welcome to come and talk to me about it. I would have thanked you for sharing and then stared at you until you went away.)
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Post by MJ2.0 on Dec 10, 2015 18:54:12 GMT -5
Someone brought in little graham crackers covered in milk chocolate. I stopped counting after 10.
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Post by chen35 on Dec 10, 2015 19:28:21 GMT -5
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has no self control. I used to eat all of my boss' candy. I brought her more frequently because I felt bad.
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Post by zibazinski on Dec 11, 2015 6:54:03 GMT -5
Put the bowl in and out. If you're not at the desk monitoring it, put it away. If Piggy says something, tell him why.
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Post by zibazinski on Dec 11, 2015 6:56:28 GMT -5
The candy dish thing stinks. I think you'll either need to move the candy dish and/or keep it empty. Perhaps someone could suggest that the new guy help stock the candy dish? At Xmas our office gets a ton of food from various vendors. Most of them go in the kitchen. Most of these treats get consumed by the same group of 4 guys who have offices within about 20 steps of the kitchen. It's why when I get food goodies they get laid out by my office. Everyone in the office is welcome to them, but they must walk down to our area. Goodies by my office lasts much longer. But, it's the only way I can make sure that the people who actually work with these vendors actually get to enjoy some of the goodies are sent. Otherwise they get consumed before anyone in our department even get a shot at them. I wish I could put those things in the kitchen, but I can't. And i I can sympathies about the dirty dishes in the sink. We have a couple people who do that where I work (and we'd have a dishwasher so there is no excuse for leaving dirty dishes in the sink), but the worst culprit is our CEO so we can't say anything. So does someone do the CEO's dishes?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2015 7:49:16 GMT -5
When we get non-food gifts they are supposed to be a drawing. That drawings drive me crazy, because if a vendor has sent something like an ipod or something else that is more than $20 it's usually intended for the person it was sent to, not to be part of a drawing for someone who has never and will never talk to that vendor. There's a reason for that. If you accept a valuable gift from a vendor it can give the appearance of a conflict of interest, I.e. that you might choose to do business with them because they send you nice presents. Most companies let you keep items you can use in the office such as pens and calendars, but not anything more valuable. A CEO of one company I knew was very sad about turning over a case of Australian wine to the raffle, but he set a good example. As for compulsively eating candy- my mother once observed that eating a piece of candy leaves an aftertaste that you can get rid of if you eat another piece. So, you keep going. I once bought a bag of Twizzler pieces and ate them all before I got home. I never bought them again. I swear they make candy this way deliberately. Brush your teeth, drink a lot of water or eat lean protein to get rid of the aftertaste instead.
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Post by flamingo on Dec 11, 2015 10:45:15 GMT -5
All these stories make me happy to work in my office with my current set of coworkers. We have an office fridge and there are 5 us and some random part time workers who use it. NO ONE takes anyone's food/drinks. Sometimes we are so polite that things, like a 2 liter of Pepsi, get left in there for MONTHS because we forget who brought it in and no one wants to take someone else's food/drink.
Candy left out usually lasts for a week or more. Cookies and other baked goods can make it 2 days, sometimes 3, depending on how much of it there is. I definitely don't miss working places where folks felt, hey if it's not in your desk/purse/bag, it's up for grabs!
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Post by shopaholic814 on Dec 11, 2015 11:28:29 GMT -5
All this candy talk is making me hungry
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2015 11:36:57 GMT -5
Candy left out usually lasts for a week or more. Cookies and other baked goods can make it 2 days, sometimes 3, depending on how much of it there is. At my last job we got a gift package of Philadelphia-based treats from a client based there. I threw out the Tastykakes a couple of months later when they developed mold. They have so many chemicals I didn't think that was possible.
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Post by Abby Normal on Dec 11, 2015 12:07:01 GMT -5
Well, the stuff that was thrown away was a sticky mess &/or really old. Archie, I do have 2 big chocolate bunnies and a little bit of Valentines candy that I'm sure my boys won't miss if you're willing to brave it. We have a guy here who insists on taking candy home that has been given to him as corporate gifts. Fine. But he's not much of a candy eater. So he leaves it in his freezer for years. Then brings in a partially eaten box of chocolates and leaves it in the breakroom thinking we will eat it. At one time or another, all the staff have made the mistake of taking a piece. Now, whenever something shows up- we make sure we find out who brought it before trying it. He gets offended if we just toss it out (unfortunately, he's related to the owner and high enough in the food chain here to make our lives miserable), because we should be grateful he blessed up with his box of crap. So everytime someone goes in the breakroom, we take a handful of pieces and toss them in the garbage. Then he can pat himself on the back for doing something nice for the staff. He does this with other things too. Last summer, it was some potato salad his wife made. He brought us the leftovers from a family event- 6 days after the event.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Dec 11, 2015 12:43:39 GMT -5
Last summer, it was some potato salad his wife made. He brought us the leftovers from a family event- 6 days after the event.
Yum, nothing like a bout of samonella to encourage team spirit and good work ethic.
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Post by swamp on Dec 11, 2015 13:01:04 GMT -5
Last summer, it was some potato salad his wife made. He brought us the leftovers from a family event- 6 days after the event.
Yum, nothing like a bout of samonella to encourage team spirit and good work ethic. You can all puke together.
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Post by swamp on Dec 11, 2015 13:04:08 GMT -5
I miss working in a big office and having treats brought in.
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Post by Abby Normal on Dec 11, 2015 13:12:22 GMT -5
I miss working in a big office and having treats brought in.
I can send you some next time he brings some in. You'll never miss working in a bigger office again!
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Post by moon/Laura on Dec 11, 2015 13:14:56 GMT -5
Our people can sure drink the coffee/ use the hot water for tea. But make more of either? HA!
They can't wipe the counters, but use the dish soap and don't buy more. And yes, food and creamer disappear as if by magic.
Oh and I forgot about the wads of wet paper towels either on the floor or deliberately thrown against the wall above the trash can.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Dec 11, 2015 13:36:36 GMT -5
I was always getting on the students' case to make more phosphate buffer saline. We kept a large flask of it in the fridge b/c we used it for just about everything. The unspoken rule was that whoever used the last of it was to make more. Yet time after time I'd find an EMPTY flask in the fridge. First of all, why are you putting the flask back if it is empty? Second all you had to do to make more was rip open a packet and it into a liter of water, you could have used the time it took to open the fridge, take flask out and then put it back in once you saw it was empty to make more!
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Post by MJ2.0 on Dec 11, 2015 13:45:30 GMT -5
it's like having a bunch of roommates you don't like and never asked to live with. I don't really have those problems at work. We're big enough to have a department and hired cleaning staff to wipe down counters, refill the coffee pods, fix the coffee machines, re-stock the milk/creamer, re-stock the dish soap, etc. I'm gonna miss this place.
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Post by happyhoix on Dec 11, 2015 15:27:08 GMT -5
I miss working in a big office and having treats brought in.
General office protocol is that the gifts are office gifts and they get opened and shared, but once I worked for a facility manager who considered every corporate gift his and his alone. So all the cheese boards, candy, baskets of goodies, even the box of hot doughnuts that showed up immediately went into his office and then home with him in his car. Never share so much as a cheese straw with anyone. This was the same facility manager who selected his own Christmas gift and sent his admin around to get money from each of us to pay for it (She had to come around twice and ask for second donations because the first go-round didn't raise enough - he'd picked out an antique telescope that was quite pricey for an office with only 50 employees). And what, you might wonder, did he give his hard working employees - pens with the company logo on that he charged off to the company (didn't come out of his pocket). This is the same guy who got canned for paying for his wife's cell phone bill out of the company funds, and for requiring vendors who wanted to work at our facility to do free work at his home (got his whole basement remodeled into a media room that way). So his greed finally caught up with him. Karma.
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Dec 11, 2015 15:33:16 GMT -5
One place where I worked we kept a candy dish in the office for our department but the sales people would always come and scarf down our treats, so one day I put out some jelly beans. Unfortunatly for them they were the Harry Potter Bertie Bots Every Flavor Beans so they had flavors like dirt, booger, ear wax and sardine, you get the drift The other girl in the office and I cracked up when the sales people came a calling
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Dec 11, 2015 15:49:01 GMT -5
I'd kill for some chips right about now.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Dec 11, 2015 15:59:44 GMT -5
Candy left out usually lasts for a week or more. Cookies and other baked goods can make it 2 days, sometimes 3, depending on how much of it there is. At my last job we got a gift package of Philadelphia-based treats from a client based there. I threw out the Tastykakes a couple of months later when they developed mold. They have so many chemicals I didn't think that was possible. You've told this story before. Tastykakes have expiration dates. If you keep food past its prime you're going to get mold. A box of Tastykakes wouldn't last more than a week around here. They're not a health food, but they're not "so full of chemicals." You're thinking Hostess crap.
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Post by Abby Normal on Dec 11, 2015 16:16:28 GMT -5
Tastykake? That must be a regional thing. I had to google what it was.
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