tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29046284.post1547333071603709718..comments2023-05-20T06:06:39.949-04:00Comments on Cynical Nymph: Food BusinessCynical Nymphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12601814894895238102noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29046284.post-58868624298877309952011-08-30T07:32:03.327-04:002011-08-30T07:32:03.327-04:00This happens a lot at my work. Everyone is freaki...This happens a lot at my work. Everyone is freaking obsessed with food. Every time a morsel comes out: <br />"Ooo, what do you have there?" <br />"Gosh, that looks healthy." (celery)<br />"Morning tea time, is it?" (muffin)<br />"Ooo-hoo, feeling naughty huh?" (anything not on their diet)<br /><br />I put it down to people being repressed about food, and have taken to wearing my headphones while I'm microwaving my none-of-you-god-damn-business-soup.<br /><br />The problem is when it gets snarky - I moved to a new department a month or so ago, and was put in a desk where my back is to the boss but he has a full view of me and my desk at all times. I graze all day, on olives or crackers or whatever (so sue me), and apparently he noticed. Occasionally he'd walk by and f**king smirk and say something like "Still eating, Elly?"<br /><br />Point being, I told someone this after I got especially pissed off one day, and they looked all shocked and told me that this amounted to harassment, and bossman could be reported for it. You could probably tell your friend the same thing.Ellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16487499563108742196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29046284.post-26117811044331206622011-08-19T20:38:59.213-04:002011-08-19T20:38:59.213-04:00Thank you thank you thank you.
I've been work...Thank you thank you thank you.<br /><br />I've been working in a bakery for about a month. Every single day I listen to people obsess over what they're going to eat, which whatever, that's their business, although it tends to make me sad--but then some of them will ask about my diet, speculate over how I manage to "resist" all the "fattening pastries," etc. The other day a (male) customer caught me eating a bagel and went on a long monologue about how cutting bread products out of one's diet is the best way to lose weight.<br /><br />Someday I'm going to break down and scream that I pretty much only eat when I'm at work, and they're ruining it for me. Arrrrrrgh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29046284.post-82978447071494406612011-08-18T09:35:21.025-04:002011-08-18T09:35:21.025-04:00Vianki, believe me, I get the same impulses with m...Vianki, believe me, I get the same impulses with my husband. Part of that, I think, is due to my own issues with food, but part of it is definitely due to the totally pervasive suggestion of meddlesome ownership that the current body and food culture foists on us in little insidious ways, all the time. So I think when you have your own issues with food, whichever angle they approach from, that quality of ownership gets an extra little boost, you know? Sitting over here with my prestigious Armchair Psychologist degree, I'd hazard a guess that my friend's boss, on some level, wishes he could be eating those doughnuts, or feels superior because he is not eating those doughnuts, or something else that's totally irrelevant to the fact that a doughnut is basically just the precise kind of energy my friend's body needs.<br /><br />PF, trufax indeed. Down with food commentators everywhere. :pCynical Nymphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12601814894895238102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29046284.post-76743172794510284762011-08-18T09:15:34.444-04:002011-08-18T09:15:34.444-04:00Thanks, CN. trufax all around.Thanks, CN. trufax all around.Personal Failurehttp://foreverinhell.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29046284.post-62446926857053716792011-08-18T00:05:25.209-04:002011-08-18T00:05:25.209-04:00Omgosh. I don't know if it was your intent (or...Omgosh. I don't know if it was your intent (or maybe it was?) but I am properly and thoroughly chastised. :(<br /><br />I have my own eating issues but in addition to that my husband is overweight. One of my major emotional/eating issues is that i have it in my head that if I lose weight, he'll lose weight (by osmosis? diffusion? magic?) and so whenever i see him drink/overeat/snack/etc I make comments. I am simultaneously thinking "oh F, he's fat enough, wtf is he eating that for?" AND "NOooooo don't eat that! If you eat, i have t starve to punish me/you/the world" and "Man, I wish i could just tuck into food without guilt like that" AND "Oh golly, if he is "allowed" to I can too but if I start I won't be able to stop" and on and on .... and inevitable I end up making some comment. <br /><br />Suffice to say i'll try to stay out of his business. (And mentally disassociate it from my own.)Viankihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05448313526908566361noreply@blogger.com