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rules for food at your work

Fullmetal Chocobo

Fullmetal Chocobo

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Is there a rule for food at your work? Such as food in the fridge has to have your name on it? Or if food is open (like candy or chips), then it is fair game? Or do you have a rule where no food or drink is allowed at all?
 
Originally posted by: randal
If you didn't bring it, don't touch it. Period.
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The ONLY exceptions to this are:

- Bowls of candy that are explicitly said to be for public consumption by the owner of said bowl. (This occurs on co-workers' desks and is separate from food in the fridge.)
- You are part of a food sharing plan with a co-worker where you alternate weeks to bring in food for both of you and the food you are taking is food that they brought for you.

ZV
 
fridge gets cleaned out two fridays out of the month. this excludes things that last like jelly, butter, etc.
 
No rule, but if stuff in the fridge isn't yours leave it alone. On desks large bags of chips, boxes of cookies, sunflower seeds, packs of gum etc... are generally fair game for a walk by snacking.
 
When I worked in an office, there were two rules:

1.) If you didn't bring it, don't touch it.
2.) The fridge will get emptied and cleaned every Friday after 5pm, regardless of its contents.
 
1. No food or drink in the lab (even in clean areas 🙁).
2. No food/drink refrigerators in the lab (only chemical refrigerators/freezers).

This pretty much sucks, since now there is one fridge in the one break room for our department, which has 45 labs and about 300 employees. They also recently installed a security camera in the break room to keep an eye on people who were apparently pillaging the fridge.
 
I've never mistaken community food for individual food.

It's almost always clear when someone brings stuff for the whole team to eat.
 
All food and drinks must be kept in the break room. Any food/drinks found in the locker room result in corrective action up to and including termination. Refrigerators are cleaned out nightly. Any opened food/beverages left in the refrigerator or on tables are thrown away as our sanitation crew passes through (approximately every 30 minutes).
 
Dont touch other people's food...Not only did someone take my tuna salad from the fridge, they did it TWICE and stole teh tupperware that it came in! a$$holes
 
whatever lands on the front table is fair game. Other than that, if you didn't bring it, it isn't yours. We do not put names or anything on the bags, but that is the common idea.
 
Originally posted by: Garth
When I worked in an office, there were two rules:

1.) If you didn't bring it, don't touch it.
2.) The fridge will get emptied and cleaned every Friday after 5pm, regardless of its contents.
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Yep... this is how Union Pacific is. 5pm friday comes around and even a sealed 20oz bottle of Mt. Dew is tossed 🙁.... Blanket rule to keep mold down
 
I made a rule a couple places ago when I actually used the fridge. Every Friday we threw everything out unless it had a name and a date on it and was from that past week. Then it got one week more. Otherwise, everything went in the trash.

People are too inconsiderate of others and people would use the fridge as if it was their own and stock it up thinking they could have a months worth of food in there. Even though there were 2 fridges for 300 people.
 
Close the door to the microwave/fridge room so not everyone has to endure the smell of your tuna melt being nuked.
 
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