In most cases I restrain myself from passing a judgement on obsessive eaters.
In recent weeks though, I have become severely agitated when I go to my classroom which has a sign right on the door reading "NO FOOD OR DRINK" and people insist on bringing their dinner or their snacks in and eating them in front of everyone while people are trying to do their work and socializing while they eat. The classroom should not be treated like their living room.
They almost seem to be testing their limits. The teacher lets them get away with it and the school has ignored the complaint I sent to them.
I find the sound of them chewing their food revolting, offensive and distracting. Sometimes the sound of the food sloshing inside their mouths gives me chills down my spine.
The cafeteria is just right in walking distance, a place where if I see them eating, I refrain from evaluating them.
They also have option to take their food outside, a place where I can easily mind my own business.
Not only do people insist on bringing food into class but also continue to eat for extended periods of time. They go get more food after they finish what they have.
Unless it's a small class with a mutual agreement about food, eating in front of people is disgusting and disrespectful.
if you 'just have to eat in the classroom', you better have a medical condition. As heartless as this sounds, it's not my problem that you work 900 hours a week raising 20 kids you adopted from Zimbabwe and this is the only time you can eat. That's a deficiency of your scheduling. Your problem, not mine. Don't make it mine.
Gosh, with compassion levels like this, I just can't wait to see YOU as a nurse.....
My husband has said he can tell which of his students have little or middle-sized kids because they're the picky overly rigid rules oriented ones. The ones whose theme song is, "It's not fair"
Only the ones who haven't progressed beyond being children themselves. Any decent parent is busy teaching their children that life isn't always, or even usually, fair, and their success is up to them regardless of that fact.
Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
And you're STILL yelling even though you've been asked several times to stop. Posting in large, bold font is internet yelling. Please desist.
They are not yelling using all caps they are using a larger font this sometimes happen because the OP has chosen it and sometimes the device chooses it
They are not yelling using all caps they are using a larger font this sometimes happen because the OP has chosen it and sometimes the device chooses it
So you're saying it might be irrational to repeatedly call it rude behavior? But I'm sure OP would NEVER do anything that some might irrationally find to be rude.
Our classroom has the no food and drink sign. Professor said right at the start that only applies when we are doing a lab not lecture.
That's said if I snack I open it when she is not talking and dump whatever the snack is on a paper towel. No rummaging in the bag.
Even if you can't sit up front, move your seat. Or better yet politely let the person know, in private, that it distracts you. They can't fix it if you don't let them know and they probably won't fix it if your hostile.
So you're saying it might be irrational to repeatedly call it rude behavior? But I'm sure OP would NEVER do anything that some might irrationally find to be rude.
Technically speaking, using all caps is indicative of yelling. Not large fonts.
Technically speaking, using all caps is indicative of yelling. Not large fonts.
Technically speaking, it's still annoying. So I find it rude. Much like OP finds eating in class annoying, and thus rude. We all have our pet peeves. If OP can call us rude for violating his/hers, we can call OP rude for violating ours.
Our lectures almost always start before noon and continue until early afternoon...that means I'm gonna eat, as is 75% of the rest of the class. We've yet to have an instructor or professor who cared.
Specializes in ICU, Radiology,Infectious Disease,Forensic Nursing.
Haha speaking of disgusting sounds, what about someone who needs to blow their nose but doesn't get a tissue. I wanted to scream during my final because the person next to me kept sucking up their snot every couple minutes for almost two hours. It was distracting and I wanted to barf.
oh yeah because after all the years of prereqs and waiting lists SO many people will do that....right.
duskyjewel
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Gosh, with compassion levels like this, I just can't wait to see YOU as a nurse.....