Thou shall mind thy manners. If you can help yourself, try not to be nuisance in the break room. You would not want someone to eat your fabulous homemade cookies, would you? This includes everything from food to dishes. Do not, under any circumstances, take something that belongs to someone else without asking them. We know it can be hard folks, just stand by the microwave and watch it. The biggest smelly food crime of the office? Probably burnt popcorn. No one wants to smell fish while they are trying to work. Thou shall not make smelly foods. Any seafood is pretty much a winner for this category. The workplace is not the place to vent about how lazy and miserable you think your boss is save that for cocktails with your best friends. You never know who is behind you or who may overhear you. Thou shall not gossip. Nothing nice to say? Keep it away from the break room.
If you are the last to use something, replace it. Thou shall not be lazy. Ever been frustrated because the last person to use the water forgot to change the cooler? We all have. Do not leave your dishes to sit in the days until the next quarterly meeting. There are no office maids sister you are an adult. Thou shall not be messy. Please, oh please, clean up after yourself.
Here are some simple, common sense and easy to follow commandments to follow when you are in the office break room. It also helps to make sure you have a stress-free break, much needed of course. It increases respect around the office and can help keep overall harmony. Break room etiquette helps ensure that we have smooth interactions with our office mates. What flies in the break room and what is a no-go? We are sharing some rules for probably one of the least talked about aspects of office life: the break room.īelieve it or not, you need break room etiquette whether the rules are spoken or unspoken. Surely that was not you gossiping in the break room and getting busted at the same time. Are you new to the office and have no idea where to put your food in the fridge? Maybe you stirred things up a bit by heating up some tuna and smelling up the entire office. We imagine that you work hard and cannot wait to get your hands on that delicious lunch hour or that could-not-have-come-at-a-better-time fifteen minute break. Welcome to the real world! Maybe you have just landed your first job in the workforce (congrats!) or maybe you have been a member of the club for a while now.
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