It's about time the rest of the world started catching up with what we've been talking about at The MannersCast for 2 years now.
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Office Kitchen Rules
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Interesting article, but I'm stuck on the concept of "nonharmful decoy sandwich." I can't figure out what in the heck that would be. Obviously a decoy is meant to lure or entice the other person away from your food, but how is that going to work? I've come up with only two possibilities and neither sounds very promising.
1) You have some tasty take-out from Max's Cafe and you want to divert the food pilferer attention away from it. Since the article mentions two meh varieties of sandwich, (the type that wouldn't make you gag to eat, but that you might pass up for something better,) what's to say that the bandit wouldn't shove your decoy aside to snatch your better food?
2)This is the more likely scene for me since I'm perpetually on a diet: You bring your lunch consisting of carrot sticks, nonfat cottage cheese, and an apple and place it in the fridge. In front of that you put a sandwich which would look, taste, smell, and probably even sound better than your lunch, so that the munchie thief would obviously take that instead. What you now have done is made something better for the bad guy than you made for yourself, and probably have set up a situation where you are hoping he steals your real lunch so you can eat the better stuff without guilt.
Actually I've never had anyone steal my lunch from an office refrigerator, probably because I more often bring the kind of lunch I mentioned in situation #2, and very rarely the kind mentioned in #1.
My biggest problem, when it comes to the workplace communal fridge, is that there always seems to be a huge leftover birthday cake taking up all the space on one whole shelf. I would add one more thing to the birthday etiquette list, especially for Mary in accounting who gets these things together: make sure you buy the proper size cake for the number of people you expect to attend so the leftovers don't linger in the fridge for the rest of the week.
Thanks, you guys are the best!
MichelleMu!
My sandwich would be more of a type of "bait" than a "decoy".
I would have a lunch prepared the same as always with a sandwich that looks harmless. But inside that sandwich would be a layer of mayonnaise mixed with tabasco and chile powder. I might or might not include something I scraped out of the sink drain at home.
Then we would see who was taking my lunch!
Trent
Yeah, see...that's how my mind works as well. I just wasn't sure if it's good manners to induce vomiting, even if your co-worker is nasty.
Michelle
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