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Let us begin with a cautionary tale from Ester Bloom, aka Aunt Acid, internet-age advice columnist at The Daily Dot.

At my last office job, there was a woman who vocally disapproved of other people’s lunch choices. Let’s call her Betsy. The office was a small non-profit. None of us made much money, so lots of staff members brought food and ate either at their desks or together in the kitchen. Our food choices were thus public, and subject to Betsy’s scorn. “Oh, you’re drinking Diet Coke while pregnant? Don’t you know that’s bad for the baby?” And “Oh, you’re eating tuna, again? Don’t you know how that smells?”

If there is guiding principle through the minefield that is office lunch etiquette, says Bloom, it is this: “Do not be a Betsy.” And so, in the interest of ensuring our collective un-Betsy status, here are seven crucial tenets for surviving the tyranny of the office lunch with grace.

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