Comments on: What A Bowl By Your Desk Says About You

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:08:37 +0000

I think these jerks who have candy bowls are evil. Leaving out candy around people trying to lose weight is like leaving a refrigerator full of booze around the Betty Ford Clinic. Or it’s like leaving a bowl of crack around coke fiends. I typically leave after this person in the evening, so I empty the bowl in the trash every night before I leave. Maybe I can hit them where it hurts the most; in the wallet.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:59:58 +0000

Use by/Best before dates – I am a stickler for them. Can’t let things gets too close to code – so I eat/drink them.

That’s my reason and I am sticking to it.

By: MikeL

MikeL — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:03:51 +0000

In my office we have the crawlers. They wind their way from cubicle to cubicle through the day looking for candy and munchies. On Fridays they go trolling through the building looking for the special events with food. They remind me of Wally in Dilbert with about as much productivity.

By: Niall in Brisbane

Niall in Brisbane — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:31:11 +0000

I used to have a big cookie jar shaped like a cop where you pushed back on his head to reach in and get cookies or, as it came to pass, candy (or as we call them here, lollies). Each time you pushed the head back ‘the cop’ would shout, “STOP, MOVE AWAY FROM THE COOKIE JAR”. It had no effect. That is why I got to nearly 100kg and why I don’t have the jar any more. Or maybe that was because my boss got cranky with the cop yelling at everyone to move away from the cookie jar? On second thoughts he would have been more mad with there being no cookies or candy left for him. Anyway there is no more jar and I way 10kg less. I would weigh even less but I haven’t found a way to avoid wine, beer, rum, whisky and corn chips. A great shame I am not allowed to keep bowls of them around my desk.

By: Cold in Seattle

Cold in Seattle — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:41:52 +0000

I don’t have a file cabinet full of candy. But I do have a shelf reserved for bags of it. I also have a bowl. It’s filled with delicious candy adored by all co-workers who find excuses to visit me. But it’s a very strategic set of delicious candy. It’s the kind that everyone else loves and I don’t. Kit Kats and Nestle Crunch are not allowed in my candy bowl. Everything else is welcome!

By the way, there’s a guy that keeps apples in his bowl. No one ever visits him.

By: AK Chick

AK Chick — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:28:53 +0000

I have no bowl. I also have no office. I have a cubicle. I also have no willpower, hence no bowl. Coworkers have bowls. With candy. I do partake. :)

Thank you to Franky for the link on the married couple. That is so awesome. And kinda weird! :)

By: pokeyspence

pokeyspence — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:38:20 +0000

I work with nurses who always have potluck’s, trail mix, cinnamon rolls, and more around. I am working hard to lose wt, but I am weak and I love to eat. I need to lose a few more pounds by spring so I can come out of hibernation light and fleet footed not the lumbering oaf I typically am. Hoping to do my first Marathon and Century next year in preparation for an Iron Man in 2012.

By: bronsont

bronsont — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:20:26 +0000

Has bowl, keeps it stocked, but with sugar free Crystal Light hard candies :-) Best of both worlds!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:32:35 +0000

No bowl on my desk – If its there it must be eaten!

By: cece

cece — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:34:02 +0000

We have an alarm system at our office that can lock you in if you do not have the right code to get out…if you come in over the weekend. We have a joke in our office that is someone gets locked in over the weekend that they could survive for days on the candy that people have stored in their jars!
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