Maybe, as a joke, you could take all the microwave popcorn packets out of the building.
The irony! It burns!!!
ETA: What’d you think of those pics?
Santo Rugge , I thought so too. And thanks for the pictures. Amazing.
Heh. I was staying at an extended stay hotel on a work trip a couple of years ago and decided to pop the complimentary bag o’popcorn. Set the timer and sat down to listen for beeps while looking at some work. :rolleyes: Of course, I totally forgot about the popcorn until the entrie room had filled with dense black smoke. That was embarrassing and dumb.
I woould be for a workplace ban on microwave popcorn entirely. Even if it’s not burnt, the entire office reeks of the fake butter smell for hours. And it’s not even a particulalry healthy snack; just go get a can of Pringles or something instead.
In my wife’s office, popcorn and fish are banned from the microwave. At my work the breakrooms are generally well separated from the cubicles, so it’s not much of an issue. That’s especially good because, despite the dozens of types of free soda and juice, the only freely-available food product is popcorn.
Photobucket please.
This is an example of progress in western civilization. I’d like to add that the cooking of broccoli in a communal microwave is offensive. The burning of broccoli in the communal microwave in the break room across the hall from a very pregnant woman’s office is a crime against humanity. It’s been more than twelve years, Eleanore, and I still haven’t forgotten.
We had a co-worker do that. Same co-worker also did it with ham and bacon (I don’t mind the smell of bacon, but when you have business clients come through the door and the place smells like a cheaper diner).
President decided that an office that smelled like pork was too much and created the rule: “Microwave may only be used to re-heat leftovers. No cooking.”
Popcorn is banned since one idiot set off the fire alarm for the whole building.
Great…now I can’t get “Ryan Started The Fire” out of my head…
And for fuck’s sake dispose of your goddamned banana peel OUTSIDE!
Tell her you would really enjoy the taste of her liver but respect and professionalism prohibit you from digging through her guts with a letter opener.
Someone was cooking turkey bacon in our break room this very morning. They didn’t burn it though and it smelled lovely.
Popcorn burners are assbitches though.
Hmmm. Do we work at the same place? This leads to our fearless leaders sending around emails threatening to take out all microwaves the next time anyone burns popcorn. This in a building of 4000 people!
Oh, man! Amazing! That’s a lot of damage for such a tiny little bone-headed mistake!
I suspect you wouldn’t have enjoyed the chilli dried cuttlefish I was eating in the office yesterday. My coworkers made me hermetically seal it up, and pledge never, ever to bring it into the building ever again, on pain of death.
Do you mean any popcorn or do you mean Orville Redenbacher and similar brands – the pre-"butter"ed kind. Because I’m with you on the flavoured crap. It smells terrible and the smell lingers forever. Whenever I hear the sound of popcorn popping I have to close my door immediately and keep it closed for some time.
I find that normal unflavoured popcorn has virtually no smell at all, though.
On our microwave at work, there’s a big notice on the door:
DO NOT COOK POPCORN
DO NOT COOK FISH
IF EITHER IS FOUND COOKING HERE,
THIS MICROWAVE WILL BE TAKEN AWAY
THIS MEANS YOU
Guess who has to sit next to the dimbulb that cooks fish at least once a week? And when we, her gentle cow-orkers, make loud comments about how that food STINKS, and who could be so dumb as to not notice the WARNING SIGN, she just laughs in a manner most simple-minded and jolly, because “[we] guys are so funny!”
Thank bog, she’s leaving here next week. Fuckin’ retard.
I agree on the smell of burned popcorn. It’s awful. People need to learn to stand by the microwave and take out the popcorn when it’s a couple of seconds between pops or you can smell it burning.
As for those who don’t like the popcorn smell at all, I’ll stop making popcorn when you stop making coffee. 
Deal.
I don’t drink coffee, either.