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[NegroNinja]

If the guy was just being (overly) friendly as a co-worker and interested in my meal, then i'd consider it a bit strange if he'd actually go and smell my food. I'd probably comment on it with a joke like that he shouldn't put his entire nose into it or something and leave it at that.

Coworker laughs, you laugh, you eat your fucking lunch and you actually don't antagonise half your coworkers by making a big scene about it. Interacting with other people must be like pulling teeth for germaphobes.

Where did OP antagonize though? From what I read all he did was give him the lunch back and bought another. You guys act like he tried to fight him or something. If You invade someone's personal space, especially food that isn't yours you shouldn't be surprised when someone doesn't appreciate that. Like I said maybe he should've addressed it after work or something idk but if it was me it would have also been addressed right then and there.

 

[SubScorpianZero]

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Great job selectively finding one of the few posts that agree with what you did when 95% of the rest of the thread is calling you out for being extremely rude.

Exactly...

Were you just looking for validation making this thread?

 

[Mr. Robot]

Pretty extreme reaction considering that someone else made your food... with their hands, their filthy hands.

And for some reason this thread reminds me of the movie Along came Polly

 

[Vandiger]

You got some issues OP.

 

[ironcreed]

I would be pissed if a stranger put their face in my food

 

[Sane_Man]

I'm sometimes aghast at the questions people ask on here. Surely deep down you know the answer? Of course you overreacted and were insanely rude to what sounds like a mega nice guy. You probably hurt his feelings.

 

[Arcteryx]

Where did OP antagonize though? From what I read all he did was give him the lunch back and bought another. You guys act like he tried to fight him or something. If You invade someone's personal space, especially food that isn't yours you shouldn't be surprised when someone doesn't appreciate that. Like I said maybe he should've addressed it after work or something idk but if it was me it would have also been addressed right then and there.

OP straight up said in the OP:

I immediately go "Well you can have that one and get me another one. I don't want your nose hair and breath and boogers in my food."

If that's not antagonizing, then I don't know what is.

 

[crimzonflame]

Seriously is there ever a case where someone asks GAF if he/she overrated and the thread is not a backfire?

 

[Calvero]

We do a little back and forth about how he already ate and I wasn't going to eat that so he can just have it and he leaves my cube. I wait for a minute and put the container of food on his desk and go back to buy another container for myself.

what the fuck is this passive aggressive shit for? just throw it out. leaving it on his desk after he said no is unnecessary.

 

[Kieli]

Your co-worker needs to respect personal space.

You need to learn to chill with the bacteria 'n stuff. We too clean in the Western world, mate. Need to do some more mud wrasslin to build up our immune systems, yea.

 

[entremet]

Man, a backfire for the ages.

 

[30yearsofhurt]

Gee OP. You chucked a hissy fit about someone smelling your food.
Welcome to your new job where all your co-workers talk about you like your some sort of weirdo behind your back. Where no-one will want anything to do with you. Where even your chances of promotion will be hindered because you 'don't get along' or aren't a 'team player'.
No-one wants to work with people like this and you did it to yourself.

 

[esmith08734]

Yup, rude on you. You'll do 100 things more germ-filled in a day.

 

[Fusebox]

Guys I sniffed this thread, I was up real close to it.

 

[Son Of D]

Guys I sniffed this thread, I was up real close to it.

Go make OP a new thread now. He won't want the sweat from your fingertips in this one.

 

[Kralamoonard]

Is this another GAF thread where OP asks for advise whether he's in the wrong and proceeded to ignore 90% of GAFs advice and picks out one post to agree with whilst being obtuse about the situation?

Yes, yes it is.

 

[Chie Satonaka]

what the fuck is this passive aggressive shit for? just throw it out. leaving it on his desk after he said no is unnecessary.

Now, this is actually something I can agree with. I wouldn't have done this.

 

[TigerKnee]

Bit overreacting

If someone smelled my food and said it smelled good, I would ask if they wanted some

 

[esmith08734]

Guys I sniffed this thread, I was up real close to it.

Take this one and make us a new one then.

 

[chrisPjelly]

Guys I sniffed this thread, I was up real close to it.

FUCKING GROSS. You've tainted the purity of this thread, make us a new one

Spoiler

We're just ribbing you OP

 

[Fenderputty]

Hard for me to believe the OP is a real post. I'm pretty sure he's putting us on.

GAF germaphobes are hilarious.

 

[PsychBat!]

Great job selectively finding one of the few posts that agree with what you did when 95% of the rest of the thread is calling you out for being extremely rude.

I am also waiting for OP to take the L.

 

[Mr. Poolman]

Trust me, you will be the talk of the office for quite a while.

 

[notworksafe]

Yeah you should apologize to this dude for being a passive aggressive dick and also a weirdo.

 

[Goldenroad]

Now, this is actually something I can agree with. I wouldn't have done this.

Nobody would. You'd have to be some kind of sociopath, and then to go on a forum and pretend like there was nothing wrong with your actions. This is why I'm pretty sure OP must be lying.

 

[Murder. She Wrote]

Great job OP, the dude will secretly hate you forever now.

 

[Kieli]

Wait, he didn't even touch the food? Just the lid?

OP, bruh. Chill.

 

[John Kowalski]

is op 4real

op are you 4real?

 

[RichiRamjag]

Guys, Arnold picked his food up. You don't handle someone else's food. Super weird.

True, but you don't act like a maniac in the workplace either.

If I was him I would have been like "oh you want some new chicken?" And then proceeded to punch you twice with that 1-2 and been like "there's a two piece, here come the biscuit" then give you that swift left hook to the temple.

Haha, I'm done.

 

[TheJLC]

Huge overreaction man.

 

[FloatingDivider]

Man, a backfire for the ages.

Op best start looking like this.

 

[Ampersands]

I thought about this and have concluded that the only reason OP acted so aggressively is because he already doesn't like the guy. Sniffing the food must've been his "third strike" so OP let him have it.

If it were an attractive person, I bet OP wouldn't have done a thing.

 

[Metroidvania]

Honestly, my first thought was that I agree that someone you barely know going up and picking up your lunch to smell it close-up is pretty weird.

However, you going to his desk and putting your food there, and the insistence that he buy you a new lunch is not going to do you any favors in your workplace.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Wait, he didn't even touch the food? Just the lid?

OP, bruh. Chill.

He opened the lid.

 

[Wensih]

This sounds like episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. I'm half expecting a continuation of this story where you see him at an upscale restuaraunt and take some shrimp off his meal three weeks later.

 

[30yearsofhurt]

For OP:

I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here

 

[MattKeil]

It would never, ever occur to me to even care that someone sniffed my food. Everything we touch is covered in a fine patina of feces. You breathe your co-workers' dead skin cells in for hours every day. Get a grip, OP. I mean yeah, it's weird that he opened the lid to sniff it, but to not eat it afterward, let alone cause a scene like that? In the words of Charlie Sheen, "Your problem is you."

 

[MikeDip]

You overreacted and should have apologized.

Man some peeps have no social skills

 

[esmith08734]

Op best start looking like this.

I see things don't take long around here, lol.

 

[Geezer]

The guy opened the lid, that's fucked up. I don't mess with people's food and I don't expect anyone to mess with mine, I despise it when they do.

 

[Stormhammer]

i definitely don't want someone i barely know to just grab my food, open it and start taking a whiff of it. but yeah, the whole putting it on his desk and talking about his boogers being on it.. I dunno man. Just a good "hey man, don't touch my food" in a joking way could've saved you from this dumb shit.

You overreacted and should have apologized.

Man some peeps have no social skills

and touching someone else's food, opening it and taking a whiff doesn't scream "skilled socially" either

 

[Alligatorjandro]

You overreacted and should have apologized.

Man some peeps have no social skills

Yeah like the guy who opened someone else's food.

 

[rjinaz]

You weren't wrong to be upset OP. Boundaries were clearly crossed. I would have been upset as well. I may not have eaten it.

However, there are certainly better ways to handle this than essentially freaking out and making demands, it's just some food. You could have just said calmly," Hey I really don't like people touching my food. Sorry". I think I would have let it go personally, and made an effort to keep my food away from him in the future and not have said anything unless he did it once again.

All you really did was get a reputation of kind of being a dick here, and word tends to spread in the professional world because people love talking and gossiping about coworkers especially those they don't like. This seems like a guy that is easy to get along with so that's even worse if most others like him. All because somebody sniffed your food.

 

[Replicant]

Both of you are out of line. But then again I'm not a germaphobe so I don't fuss over things people may have touched.

 

[fastford58]

Sounds like the most socially awkward work place ever.

And now I know this place exists.

Thanks op.

 

[triplestation]

id have felt the same

thats gross

 

[Shamrock7r]

An overreaction OP. It's ok to tell him you don't want him sniffing your food but demanding he pay for a new meal is over the top silly.

I wouldn't have used those words specifically, but if someone went to my desk, picked up my food, and proceeded to put it that close to their face, there would be problems and buying me new food would be the least of that person's concerns..

Lol you wouldn't have done anything.

 

[OverBlood 3]

American Psycho business card comes to my mind

 

[Hazmat]

Watch out tomorrow. He is going to be waiting for you when you come in with lunch.

Now I just want his coworker to tell "I can smell your lunch!" and then later fling some chicken grease at him.

 

[GDGF]

I'm gonna guess that you have some kind of undiagnosed mental tick and got set off. It happens. I've seen folks react to stuff like that before. It's not normal though. You should definitely apologize to the guy. Say something like 'My bad, man. When it comes to stuff like that I'm more neurotic than a Woody Allen marathon,' and laugh it off. Offer to buy him lunch. That way he feels better and you feel better.