Has anyone checked the office fridge lately? How deep is the mold?

How about top ten places to graze on appetizers

Good one. I'll put it on the list. EL

- noxious odors
- rhythmic crunching
- post-prandial methane
- eructation not followed by laughter
- walking away from the microbewave for 10 minutes after leaving a three-minute wave job in the cooker then acting miffed when you return and your meal is no longer in the wave
- not wiping up after an explosion in the microbewave
- having a job or work ethic that forces you to eat at your desk
- keyboard as sink trap (most annoying to techs who you call to fix your computer) (they can be cleaned, you know)

Fish in the microwave!

Workplace - my sardines and brussel sprouts

Weddings - a small, intimate gathering at anywhere quiet and private.

I like your conciseness, but I should have said she wants restaurant suggestions for her reception. EL

Burnt popcorn!

Ugh. Workplace food sins abound down here. Have I mentioned I work in a room with ONE window? One? Singular? That is never opened? If anyone brings so much as a particularly aromatic sandwich to their desk, everyone gets a whiff.

But I can deal with it. What I HATE (yes, caps was necessary) is when people get Chipotle (or something equally smelly) for lunch and then leave their burrito/bol/taco leavings in the little wastepaper basket next to their desk. Thanks, now I'm going to be smelling slowly rancid-ifying burrito all day. That's awesome. Just take it and throw it away in the kitchen for crying out loud, it's not like it's far!!!

/end rant.
//glad it's Friday, can you tell?

How about Top 10 places with great bread?

Ah, a subject near and dear to my heart. EL

TwoToedSloth, I can unfortunately go one better on you.

(Sensitive stomach trigger alert)

Brushing your teeth at your desk after eating, then spitting the results into your deskside garbage can.

The keyboards, I mean, not the techs. Don't try to clean them.

The keyboards, I mean, not the techs. Don't try to clean them.

You've not met our techs, jl. Sometimes, they do need cleaning.

@Jupiter:

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!?

Ugh...why. If someone in my office did that my easily grossed out and germophobic boss would probably either fire them or staple their mouth shut. That is absolutely disgusting.

Do something like top 10 ten wine list, or wines by the glass. best bread would be easy but I doubt if there are more than 5-7 that make their own bread. or the places that you can't skip dessert, no matter how big the prevous course was. it's supposed to be spring, according to Marty Bass, how bout the best places for lunch or dinner outside. Top ten places to eat while watching the O's, it's almost that time again

Zevonista, I hear ya, but my point wasn't that they don't need cleaning. What I said was, "don't try".

Since someone already got the popcorn fiasco and the unattended microwave... banana peelings. UGH!

Perhaps the current economic situation will mean the end of the "me, Me ME!" ethic that the above behaviors (and others yet unmentioned.) typify. Personally I doubt it, but hope springs eternal in the human breast. (The squirrel breast too, since they keep hoping my DW will throw out some more peanuts when there are still uneaten ones out there.)

Leaving one ice cube left in the ice cube tray intead of refilling the tray.

We have three ice cube trays in our office freezer. There is at least one repeat offender who takes ice cubes from each of the trays when they are running low so that person doesn't have to refill any of them, leaving them usually with one cube in each.

Mary, maybe the ice cube offender at your office also works at mine, where we have people who, when someone brings in cake, will leave a tiny sliver (approx. 1-inch and 1/2-inch) on the plate at the end so they don't take the last piece and have to wash up.

And those are surely the same people who empty the coffee pot at 8:45 in the morning and can't be bothered to brew a new pot (and we have this automated, idiot-proof brewing set-up).

We have like 8 ice cube trays in our freezer. The last time I went to get ice, every single one was empty. Grrrrrr....

Back when I was a (quite clean) tech person, a woman on the help desk brought in fish for lunch that she microwaved. The stench of this meal was VERY overpowering and nauseating, and we all pleaded with her to please take it to the lunchroom. She refused. The woman was the first one let go when the downsizing started about a week later.

Had to be the fish.

jl, I know what you mean about the keyboards. They are not place mats.
Quite a few times we would get calls about faulty keyboards. The user would leave out the fact that they had spilled about 8 ounces of coffee (cream and sugar, of course) on it.

How about a Top Ten on places to go for a leisurely weekend brunch or breakfast buffet?

How about top ten places that have the best free or inexpensive appetizers/eats for happy hour?

In college I almost lost an eye over not filling up the ice tray. It is a long that involves a spring day, a keg of beer and a glade candle.

RoCK, beer makes bad ice cubes.

RoCK,
Did you perhaps go to Towson and attend the Friday afternoon beer bashes in the Glen?

Live bands and 25 cent beer assured that I would not be attending my 3pm English class on Fridays.

Mr. McI would be appalled.

Food sin?

Is that like working for Catholic Charities and bringing in doughnuts for the office next Friday?

"- noxious odors- rhythmic crunching
- post-prandial methane" jl, no doubt, you've worked in my office.

In addition we have a cafeteria where it's rumored that if you like something, you should never let them know because in that case, they'll never have it again!

Mary, the single ice cube left in the tray trick is infamous. And one that's happened everywhere I've worked and in my own home until I got an icemaker.

No, I went to Hampden-Sydney, an all male college in rural Virginia where half of the students look like Chris Kimball and the other half look like Chris Farley.