I work in a small office, with an even smaller lunch/break room. Is it too much to ask for my co-worker NOT to bring fish for lunch every week?
Don’t get me wrong – I love fish. It’s versatile, it’s tasty, it’s good for you – there’s plenty to like. However, I don’t like having to smell fish all afternoon. Even my clothes smell. I don’t think it’s professional that clients walk into the office and are greeting with such an overpowering smell.
I know, I know – my co-worker has the “right” to eat whatever the hell he wants for lunch. But doesn’t common courtesy/sense tell you to save the overly fragrant meals for home?
—Girl Growing Gills
This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2010.
Did you actually ask her not to or are you just hoping she’ll read this bitch and figure it out that it is her?
Fish smell doesn’t get into your clothes unless you’re handling the fish… Besides, most fish doesn’t have that strong a smell once cooked.
Fever, I have to disagree to an extent. I don’t know what it is about microwaves, but they seem to make a lot of types of fish absolutely reek. Whenever I make fishcakes (and I use different fish depending on what’s available and fresh) my microwave stinks to high heaven. I don’t understand why, but there we are.
This Bitch smells fishy…
I reheat haddock, salmon, and pollock all the time… I never smell that overtly “fishy” smell. Granted, the odd time I have cod, the place bloody reeks like Newfie feet, but that’s expected. In either case, it’s never gotten into my clothes. I think the OP just needs a new plug in her ketchup dispenser.
GROSS
♫ I was a cook
and she was a waitress
Down at the Salty Sam Seafood Café
and somewhere ‘tween the clam juice and the seaweed salad
some little shrimp just lured her away
Oh, I lobster and never flounder
He wrapped his line around her
and they drove off in his carp
Oh, I lobster and never flounder
I octopus his face in
Eel only break her heart
I said, “Just squid and leave me
for that piano tuna
if you want to trout something new”
She was the bass I ever had
Now my life has no porpoise
Oh my cod, I love her, yes, I do
Boy, I swordfish she’d come back to me, I shore’d a whale of a time.
You know she’d just pull that ‘Not tonight, I’ve got a haddock’ routine.
You’re probably right. But y’know, I’ve kelped her picture in my walleye just for the halibut. I wonder if she’s still got mine in her perch?
Did you..you say ‘perch’?
Yeah, I’m afraid so.
That’s good. For a moment there, I thought I was losing my herring.
Well, we bass squid all this seahorsing around before these people out here go into a state of shark.
Yeah, if we get out of here alive, it’s going to be a…mackerel.
Frankly scallop, I don’t give a clam. ♫
maybe they are bringing it to feed your pussy,nyuk,nyuk.but then again,maybe they just don’t want you around at snack time.
hkm,that was too cool.
This happens at my workplace from time to time. Not often, but every now and then. One particular colleague re-heats fish and the whole lunch room smells.
I suspect he’s not buying overly fresh fish, however…
I was actually self-debating this the other day.
I used to eat tuna right out of the can at my desk but used to also work off hours so it was only two others around me that had to endure the tuna smell… after a week, I asked if they minded to which they replied they did not.
Those were good times…
but now that I’m thinking of getting on the protein bandwagon again I’m concerned I’ll be pissing the people off sitting around me.
I know I CAN if I want to but it’s best not to anger your colleagues all the time…
any suggestions? kitchen/’lunchroom area fair game?
to be fair, I’m not nuking it… just opening a can and shoveling in.
and to include OP, should it be ok even if we were to nuke it?
Alternate it with egg salad sandwiches and you’re good to go.
“I reheat haddock, salmon, and pollock all the time… I never smell that overtly “fishy” smell. Granted, the odd time I have cod, the place bloody reeks like Newfie feet, but that’s expected. In either case, it’s never gotten into my clothes. I think the OP just needs a new plug in her ketchup dispenser.”
If you’re the one handling, cooking, and eating the food you’re not going to notice the smell as much as other people. I do agree that its pretty unlikely for it to be noticeable on your clothes. That doesn’t mean that its not gonna make people who don’t like fish want to throw up all over the place.
I like fish, but not nuked fish.
I have cabbage soup for lunch. Bet that smells great 😉
Hey zzz, which do you prefer….self-debating, or mass-debating?
It’s hard to decide, really…
certain foods should be banned from the work place..absolutely….and perfumes…