So for at work lately I have been diligently packing my lunch everyday. This has been motivated by a couple of factors, namely the café downstairs charges an arm and a leg for a half cup of anything lately, I want to improve my cooking skills and have been making recipes out of a new cook book I own (I’ll do a post on that latter) and I am trying to eat healthier. Well anyway today I brought for lunch some chicken catachatorie and some frozen vegetables with some baklava I made for desert. At 12:30 pm I went into the break room got my food out of the fridge and put the vegetables in the microwave to defrost/cook. I put the chicken catachatorie on top of the microwave to wait on deck while the former was being nuc’ed. Some others filed into the break room during this and started assembling there lunches and a line quickly formed for the microwaves. Well one co-worker noted that I had my vegetables in the microwave and my chicken on deck and did not think this was right. I was asked why I did not microwave them together to which I responded that I prefer to microwave them separate because one is frozen and one is not and my previous experience with doubling up dishes on microwaves is that you have two dishes with hot and cold spots or one steaming and the other luke warm. In a huffy tone said co-worker responded that I was creating problems in delaying the rest of their (her) lunch’s and that it would shorten their (her) eating time so that they (she) would have to burn their (her) mouth eating because their (her) food would not have time to properly cool be for they (she) had to eat it. It was mighty selfless of her to stick up for a room full of people who either did not care or did not care enough to say something (note: I have been in the later category many times on break room etiquette breeches). I stayed silent after this partially in shock. When my vegetables finished cooking and she was still huffing about it I offered in what I hope was my most politest tone, To me it sounded like sarcasm but she bought it, that I would be perfectly content to let her go ahead of me next for the microwave and I would eat my vegetables while she heated her food, which she accepted. What I can’t figure out is how 50+ year old women gets away with throwing tantrums over having to wait in line to use a microwave I though we all learned how to wait our turn in grade school? Anyways........Whatever!
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I learned a long time ago that some people just HAVE to have SOMETHING to whine about. If it isn't one thing it's another. Very nice of you to be diplomatic about it. Don't know if I could have been so nice!
So I forgot to add this to the post but when I got back to my desk another co-worker who was present for the altercation sent me this:
Co-worker: I just wanted to say you handle lunch very well
Me: Thanks! That was interesting…
Co-worker: No joke!!!!!! What you did was WOW because I don’t know if I would have handled it that way and I’m a nice person..hahhahhaha
OK - first of all....I'm so darn proud of myself for finding the link to your blog (pats self on back). Secondly, you're an excellent writer. That was a very easy and enjoyable read. Now, for the whole lunch room alercation...having been a witness (i hope i won't have to show up in court), i was VERY taken back by her reaction...stunned almost. That woman sure knows how to change the mood in a room. Everyone was all chatty and then she started ranting and all head went down and there was a room full of awkward silence...but nobody "had her back." I felt that mediation was necessary, much like grade school. It was very nice and mature of you to take it all with a grain of salt and let her "cut." I knew you were irritated though. Sorry you had to be the target for all that. Tomorrow's another day. I just hope there's not an e-mail to everyone explaining microwave etiquette - hahahahahaha
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