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People at my work do make comments about my food but tend to say things like -- oh man, that smells great! Or something like that. We're not overly critical in my place of work, and if someone has something delicious & healthy we're very complimentary and ask for the recipe!
I would not appreciate it if someone made a comment like that guy! How rude!
Yup! People always chime in with what I am eating. When I was doing weight watchers I made the mistake of telling a few work friends. So every time I ate anything they would ask me how many points it was, etc etc. Then if I ate something not so healthy, they would make comments. It was so annoying that I eventually stopped eating around them!!
@Bostongrl25: I feel you! I am doing WW too, and while the "food check-ins" are nice to keep me on track, there are times where I want to treat myself and am made to feel guilty by co-workers.
At my old team people used to comment all the time.. and not in a nice way.. it was annoying. Now people generally don't unless it smells really good... or bad.. haha.
I think sometimes co-workers think they are helping. I have this lady at work whos is a really healthy eater and very thin.
Whenever I would eat junk she would be like "Tranquility, that's not good for you"
Not food related, I used to have a supervisor who signed up at the same gym as me (it was right beside work so it wasn't stalkerish lol).
Well, everytime he would see me eat anything bad he would make a comment about me being chubby. And then he would always grab my arms with two hands and be like "fluffy".
It got really annoying, but I know it was just because he felt comfortable with me that he thought he could do it.
yeah, i can't freaking eat fish in this joint, because sassypants over here will always stick her nose up in the air and comment on the smell (and then heat up her equally stinky food!) saying it smells rotten. honestly, it doesn't matter what you heat up - we'll all smell it for like 5 minutes - get over it.
ALL.THE.TIME.
It doesn't matter what I'm eating, there is this one particular lady (who seems to have a problem with food smell) that will always comment on my food. It can be simple things like pasta, she'll comment. And it's not a nice comment, it's mostly "what's that smell?" Sometimes, I even get comments about my coffee. ??
@minie77: our smell ladies must be twins. i have to wait til she leaves the office to run and heat up a breakfast sandwich just like OP's otherwise she'll comment on it!
one of my co-workers always comments on what I eat for breakfast. He says that a protein bar and coffee is not "breakfast" and that I'm doing myself a disservice. nobody asked you bub! Besides, I can't eat a big breakfast, it makes me sick.
Wow you're nicer than me! I just eat away whether she's there or not. She has an office, she can close her door ;-)
YES! Even people who I supervised would say things like "Is that okay for baby?" when I was eating a donut "Ummmm yes, thanks for your concern since you've got no kids/experiences I can find and I've only gained the appropriate amount of weight" haha
YES! But only from a male co-worker. He's like "what are you eating now?!" (fata**) lol. I'm like..whatever I want jacka**.
@elliestan: ugh!! We used to have a toaster until someone (I have no idea who), complained about the smell of TOAST. So, they got rid of the toaster.
@tranquility: WOW! I can't believe he would grab your arm and make those comments!
Not so much at my new job, but I do have a guy who sits near me and makes a BIG deal whenever he sees me get my sandwich out of the fridge. He's always like "You're eating a sandwich for lunch again?!" And it's like the most interesting thing in the world to him.
At my old job, I had a coworker who used to 'sniff me out' every day to see what I was eating. It was really annoying actually, I felt violated. I used to close my office door and pretend to be on the phone, but sh ewould still just shove her way in to see what I was eating. And she always wanted to know everything about it, how it was made, exactly what was in it, if I liked it. I would offer her a bite and she would run away.
I would slap some of the people making these comments! I guess I'm lucky. Almost all of my coworkers make their own food, so if anything we try to one up each other. "oooh you made cabbage and beans? I have chicken bouillabaisse today....I'm fancier." (but all sarcastic and in good fun) Or we smell good things and ask for recipes :)
In the early 90's, I worked at a place that was mostly women. All they did was talk to each other about how many fat grams they were eating, had eaten the night before and were planning on eating. Argh, so annoying!
@tranquility: Did you grab him around the head and say, "Asshat"?!
huh well yes, but it has never offended me, I work with quite a few obese women (250+) who tell me all the time that if I keep eating the way I do (healthily) that I may blow away. I just laugh.
My current job is not bad about it - people will be friendly sometimes and tell someone their lunch looks tasty, but that's fine.
My last job was RIDIC. Like over the top diet talk, food criticism, people talking about calories and dieting and good foods and bad foods. I was dealing with disordered eating at the time, so at first I was totally into it and it was a great way to bond and then later I had to shut it off entirely and basically tell people to can it if they started saying that stuff to me. Oh, and even when I was recovering I still like healthier food than most (and I'm lactose intolerant so I never shared in the pizza or ice cream treats we occasionally got) and I would get a lot of positive attention for it which totally creeped me out.
These people were ridiculous - the guys in the office were even worse than the girls. They got competitive about cholesterol levels - there was one guy who had hereditary hypercholesteremia (or whatever it's called where genetically you have very high cholesterol regardless of what you eat) and they would mock him for it. But the most over the top was when they brought in a scale and started weighing each other during the workday!!
omg yess!! I think people get board and just look for something to talk about.. idk but its really annoying at times.
now i usually eat at home, or if i eat with my friends from grad school, it's just comments about how cheap or expensive something is, since we're all living on small stipends. in my old job, most people used to just talk about what someone's lunch was if it looked particularly good and they wanted to try different area businesses. like, when a new salad shop opened up and i became obsessed with it, people asked me about it a lot since they wanted to know if it was worth trying. one older lady would sometimes say inappropriate things to me and one other girl who was engaged about things we shouldn't eat or we wouldn't fit into our wedding dresses. everyone else was kind of horrified about that though!
@mmsva: Meh. I figured it doesn't matter what he says. He is balding and sweats while he eats. I can be squishy all I want lol.
Ugh yes. What really annoys me is the hypocrites. The lady next to me is always commenting saying "Oh I can't eat that, I'll have to spend more time at the gym" Or "I can practically smell the grease" about things that other people around us are eating. The whole time I'm thinking...I hear you get up and go to the vending machine and crinkling opening bags of chips and cookies all day but I don't say anything. It's not my or your business!
There's another lady who always brings in cookies and things and pushes me to eat them, saying things like "You're so young and thin you can just breathe and burn that off." Ummmm no, I run multiple times a week for quite a few miles to burn that off.
i had a coworker at an old job always comment on what i ate. she was older and watching her weight so she'd wistfully look at whatever i was eating and commenting on how nice it must be to be able to eat all that and not worry about the weight. it was really annoying. i dreaded having lunch with her [she did it with everyone!]
I generally eat really healthy, and eat a lot of healthy snacks at work. I currently work with 2 girls who aren't very healthy at all, so I get a lot of comments about my green tea, spinach smoothies, etc.
Like "OMG, you don't need to lose weight, you hardly weigh anything now!" Umm, I like the way this tastes. I like eating healthy. I eat plenty of healthy fat in a day - just because someone is eating a vegetable instead of a bag of F***ING cheetos doesn't make me anorexic. It makes me smart. So go suck a hard boiled egg, you tramp!
Sorry....
Every day at work my coworkers begin to talk about working out and dieting. It was a good conversation the first time... but every day?! Come on y'all, we have to find something else to talk about. It doesn't help that two of them go on these weird diets every month and complain about not being about to have sugar, or bread, or whatever it is for that month. And then if I say anything there's always someone who comments, "Girl you don't have to watch what you eat.. be thankful!" It's not that I don't watch what I eat, it's just I refuse to be a slave to food, and I also refuse to talk about it while I'm eating. Whatever happened to dirty gossip during lunch? Baha! :)
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Is it just me, or do any of you find others (esp. coworkers) are constantly commenting on each others food?
I have a breakfast sandwich on my desk that is made w/ turkey sausage and egg whites & my male coworker walks over and says he is "on a see-food diet" so I laugh at the corney joke, and ask why. He responds w/ "I'm looking at your food because I can't eat it." I explain that is turkey sausage and egg whites - and he proceeds to say "well I'm watching what I eat, got to keep the fat off" So I jokingly told him, "I feel sorry for you if turkey sausage & egg whites are too fatty!"
So I'm curious is it just my work environments, or do you ladies find that in the work place people are overly critical of what others eat? Do you get the constant unsolicited comments about your food?