Eating breakfast at work

I could eat curry the second I woke up if I chose. I have no issues eating at whatever time. Sometimes I eat at my desk if I'm running late but mostly I have something just before leaving the house. I do notice some people prepare and eat their breakfast in the companies time regularly but that's up to their managers to sort out if they find it a problem. Zero concern of mine
 
I sometimes go to the staff canteen with my manager where they serve a fried breakfast until 11am. ;)

I was also shocked to find out they close in the evenings when you'd want to grab a quick dinner and don't open again until 11pm. :(
 
I'll often have some fruit or something for breakfast, I get to work at 0730 most days and often don't feel like eating before I get there (as the regular start time would be 0900hrs and I am there way past 1700hrs I think I can do what I like with that time in terms of having a snack too).
 
Is it eating breakfast in particular you object too? Or just food in general?

If you can eat lunch at your desk (many people do), then I don't understand why you can't eat breakfast at your desk....

For the record, I don't, but I'm struggling to understand the viewpoint of OP...

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big_white_dog84 said:
I have noticed recently that a good chunk of my colleagues wait until they get to work before eating their breakfast. They wait for about half an hour after starting, then go to the kitchen and bring back toast, cereal etc to eat at their desks. I think this is disgusting and pretty unprofessional -surely the norm is to eat in your own house, then go to work ready to work? I would love the extra 15 minutes in my bed this would give me, but I am being paid to work, not to eat.
Does anyone else have this?
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I always have breakfast at my desk - although as soon as I get to work normally - park bike in bike sheds, go to canteen, get a bacon sarnie, sit down at desk and eat brekkie whilst the laptops boots up and I enter my log in details a billion times - often I've finished my brekkie before the laptop if ready for me to do some work.

I just can't eat after waking up - need at least an hour before I'm ready to eat.
 
I'm usually eating my second breakfast at my desk :o

I eat at home at about 7:15, but by 10:30 I'm starving so I have to have a munch on something. Usually a croissant or yoghurt thing from pret or the like. Although for this week I've bought cereal bars to try and get those costs down. I usually buy fruit on Mondays for the week as well which I chow down on at my desk.

It's not uncommon for most people in my office to stop at pret or somewhere and bring coffee and food in for breakfast. Some people eat cereal as well, but we don't have toasters so that's out of the question.
 
big_white_dog84 said:
I have noticed recently that a good chunk of my colleagues wait until they get to work before eating their breakfast. They wait for about half an hour after starting, then go to the kitchen and bring back toast, cereal etc to eat at their desks. I think this is disgusting and pretty unprofessional -surely the norm is to eat in your own house, then go to work ready to work? I would love the extra 15 minutes in my bed this would give me, but I am being paid to work, not to eat.
Does anyone else have this?
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Rubbish, let's hope u don't run an office
 
as with all those things common sense prevails...no smelly (yes toast is smelly), warm or "spillable" foods in any form (also everything which requires plates) at the desk during working hours etc. Eating a muesli bar for example is ok.
It's unhygienic (i recommend reading articles how clean company keyboards normally are) and unprofessional as we get lots of visitors and have high phone traffic.
Where also does the concept of "20 minutes longer" in bed becomes a company issue? There is something called breakfast and lunch, both have their place but not during working time, if you get pekish inbetween eat a musli bar.
 
Don't have a problem with it, and a number of people in my office do it. They're working while they eat, which isn't a problem whatsoever. Do you think everyone should cease what they're going and head off site, without exception, for lunch? It's no different.

Hell, most friday's we'll have a mass exodus out to the morning food van for a sausage/bacon cob for breakfast. It arrives roughly 40 minutes after everyone has started working. Problem? Nope.
 
I think the OP needs to find something important to burst a blood vessel over. Eating breakfast at your desk is common office practice in every office I've ever worked in going back over 20 years.
 
On a side note, what sort of job is this?

When thinking about a problem or a task, I will often go and sit in a different office, or go for a walk outside, or catch the river boat; just a change of environment sometimes is enough to get a different view on a problem. I don't need to be in the office, at my desk in order to "do work".
 
I eat mine at my desk (usually just a piece of fruit or Belvita heh) whilst reading emails and setting up any spreadsheets I need for the day. I just can't eat in the first hour of waking and only leave myself enough time for a shower and make my lunch before I have to go.
 
My colleagues at work do it, I personally don't myself but have no problem with it. I do have a problem with those which appear to not have washed when they woke up, cleaning all that eye bogey and shizz sitting on the desk....
 
I leave home at just after half six in the morning, that's far too early to eat breakfast. Therefore I normally tuck in when I'm at my desk around 08:00. Many other people in the office scoff breakfast as well and the only rule the company has laid down is that it must all be finished and cleared away by 08:30.

That seems fair to me.
 
tbh I've done it a few times, I'll eat before I leave to cycle in but if I'm starved when I arrive I'll have some porridge or something.
 
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