There is a reason Office Space is such a popular movie or why posts from bloggers about office things are linked by everyone. Take the latest example from Tomato Nation - hilarious and true and sad. Updated later to add the following teaser.

Food gets fetishized at work, possibly because communal breaking of bread is one of human society’s strongest signifiers of acceptance and unity, but probably because everyone is kind of bored. I know that’s how it worked at my last office job before this one. A discussion of the comparative merits of yellow candy corn versus brown would have lasted two seconds in a workplace where the employees actually had enough to do. We, however, belonged to a union, so obviously the debate lasted for an hour, and someone actually went out and bought a bag of each in order to settle it.

We spend a lot of time thinking about food here, too—where to get lunch, what to get, what time to get it, whether to order it in or go out for it, do we want Mexican, does anyone else want Mexican, no thanks I got a sandwich already, what kind of sandwich, ham and cheddar on rye toast with champagne mustard, ooh where’d ya get that, deli on the corner, hmm maybe I’ll get that instead except I’m not hungry yet, what are you getting, nothing I just had a scone, on and on it goes all day. Either someone is eating, someone is fantasizing out loud about eating, or someone is admiring something someone else is eating. Or we’re filling the time we don’t spend eating by going out for coffee, rationing ourselves a snack, buying gum, refilling our water bottles, biting our nails, and otherwise just trying to get to the part of the day where we go home and start dinner.

Remember when I talked about our lunches at my office? Just like this. No longer, however, because LW left - she was the office cruise director. Anyhoo…

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1. This is too funny! It’s absolutely true in my office.

   Posted by Princess Jami  on  10/20/05  at  03:29 PM

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