I dislike people setting meetings during lunch hour, especially when lunch is not provided. Like, there's 24 hours a day, 8-12 hours are spent at work, can't they just choose some other time? Their reasoning is that these people are so busy at other times and lunch hour is the only hour they have the time to have meetings. But isn't meeting also part of work? So you said you're busy? Busy what? I see Facebook on one of the Windows tabs. Don't tell me you're busy networking.
It's not good that these people are nice enough to welcome you to bring along your food to meetings so as kill two birds with one stone. What other better way than to meet, present your work and eat all at the same time? But then, they don't know that Asians bring the most horrendous smelling food to work. Okay, not horrendous in a bad way. But food smelling so strong (or good) that others can't resist. C'mon, don't tell me an ang moh's sandwich smells and tastes better than an Asian's hokkien mee or even last night's dinner: Hainanese chicken rice. Go back to Malaysia and no one will ever want you to bring nasi lemak into a meeting room and eat while talking to your clients!! Unless you meet and dine at a restaurant, that is. That's the reason why BHP Billiton just recently set up some guidelines on work etiquette and one of them is not to have lunch at your desk!
So when I don't want to bring food to the meeting room, and start drooling over the smell of others savouring their meal, my stomach starts to rumble. And then everyone looks at me in one kind of way. Some polite ones giggle, other not so polite ones laugh out. "Someone's hungry!", a person says in sarcasm. You know, I can control myself not farting in a room full of people; I can always cover up my yawn when listening to someone boring talking or even try not to burp in front of strangers but I can never control my stomach from rumbling. If you can, please teach me! Worse is that the rumble continues on and one every 3 minutes, making me feel so embarrass and awkward.
Why do people even laugh at someone else who is hungry? It's as if the sound of your stomach rumbling is as prohibited as the sound of you farting.
I may not be complaining if I'm the kinda person who takes morning tea at 10 am. But due to the nature of my work, I only get to eat lunch at about 12 pm at the earliest or 3 pm at the latest (sometimes none at all). Worse is that I sometimes start my day at 5 am. So imagine my brain dying for some glucose from 8 am til lunch time.
So now, when there's a meeting at 11 am, I am forced to munch on some biscuits 15 minutes before because having lunch at 10 am is too early for me.
It's not good that these people are nice enough to welcome you to bring along your food to meetings so as kill two birds with one stone. What other better way than to meet, present your work and eat all at the same time? But then, they don't know that Asians bring the most horrendous smelling food to work. Okay, not horrendous in a bad way. But food smelling so strong (or good) that others can't resist. C'mon, don't tell me an ang moh's sandwich smells and tastes better than an Asian's hokkien mee or even last night's dinner: Hainanese chicken rice. Go back to Malaysia and no one will ever want you to bring nasi lemak into a meeting room and eat while talking to your clients!! Unless you meet and dine at a restaurant, that is. That's the reason why BHP Billiton just recently set up some guidelines on work etiquette and one of them is not to have lunch at your desk!
So when I don't want to bring food to the meeting room, and start drooling over the smell of others savouring their meal, my stomach starts to rumble. And then everyone looks at me in one kind of way. Some polite ones giggle, other not so polite ones laugh out. "Someone's hungry!", a person says in sarcasm. You know, I can control myself not farting in a room full of people; I can always cover up my yawn when listening to someone boring talking or even try not to burp in front of strangers but I can never control my stomach from rumbling. If you can, please teach me! Worse is that the rumble continues on and one every 3 minutes, making me feel so embarrass and awkward.
Why do people even laugh at someone else who is hungry? It's as if the sound of your stomach rumbling is as prohibited as the sound of you farting.
I may not be complaining if I'm the kinda person who takes morning tea at 10 am. But due to the nature of my work, I only get to eat lunch at about 12 pm at the earliest or 3 pm at the latest (sometimes none at all). Worse is that I sometimes start my day at 5 am. So imagine my brain dying for some glucose from 8 am til lunch time.
So now, when there's a meeting at 11 am, I am forced to munch on some biscuits 15 minutes before because having lunch at 10 am is too early for me.
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