# This fellow in my office.... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 22, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fellow-in-my-office/807236 "2018-01-22T20:12:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fellow-in-my-office/807236/21 "2018-01-23T09:03:09Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > Oh, that makes Waayyyyy too much sense. > > Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk SHHHHHHHHHH, come on man, you know they’re watching, listening, SURVAILING! Their agents are everywhere, enforcing the rule of “Things that will/must NEVER be done”. It’s not even safe to think about this stuff! Didn’t you hear about that guy from Operations that came up with a different more streamlined and profitable procedure for dealing with excess plastic knives in a dream he had last month? ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fellow-in-my-office/807236/22 "2018-01-23T14:35:13Z")
I just summon my chi force and shout “kaiyah” and pierce the flimsy plastic with my weapon like fingers, but to each their own. ---
**Author:** ![Clark\_Cello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Clark\_Cello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_Cello)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fellow-in-my-office/807236/23 "2018-01-24T13:38:59Z")
Wouldn’t eating a pre-packaged meal be a “worse” offense than wasting a single plastic knife? If you are going to be outraged, wouldn’t it make more sense to be outraged that he didn’t bring in a PB&J or something? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fellow-in-my-office/807236/24 "2018-01-24T14:42:20Z")
> [@Clark\_Cello](#): > > Wouldn’t eating a pre-packaged meal be a “worse” offense than wasting a single plastic knife? If you are going to be outraged, wouldn’t it make more sense to be outraged that he didn’t bring in a PB&J or something? I bet if he did, he used one knife for the PB and threw it out, and then another knife for the J and threw it out. Sounds like something he would do. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fellow-in-my-office/807236/25 "2018-01-24T14:44:38Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I bet if he did, he used one knife for the PB and threw it out, and then another knife for the J and threw it out. Sounds like something he would do. After you lick the PB off, you’re not supposed to stick it in the J. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fellow-in-my-office/807236/26 "2018-01-24T17:10:36Z")
I don’t like using the plasticware, and I also see the waste going on. About once every five years, I go to Walmart and get a bunch of cheapo pot metal flatware. When I say cheap, I mean like it’s 88 cents for a bundle of four forks or spoons. I buy about six bucks worth and fill up our flatware drawers at work. I use them exclusively in lunch preparation and put 'em in the dishwasher. It takes about five years for them all to eventually disappear, and then I replace them with another batch. It’s nice to use a metal knife and fork on my plate of leftover reheats at work. That plastic stuff bites. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fellow-in-my-office/807236/27 "2018-01-24T18:02:30Z")
> [@StraightTalk](#): > > I’m in the kitchen about to heat up my lunch. This fellow comes in, takes a plastic knife out of the drawer, pierces the plastic film of his frozen entree, then throws the knife in the trash. The knife gets about .5 seconds of use before it is thrown away. > > Really?!? You can’t just lift the corner of the film and not add another plastic knife to the landfill? Well, that story went off in a different direction than I was expecting. I was expecting the whole “Did he now see me preparing my lunch? He couldn’t wait his turn? Now I have to wait five minutes for his stupid frozen meal to heat up? I was there first! It’s common office courtesy!” Because that’s what bothers me. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fellow-in-my-office/807236/28 "2018-01-24T18:20:41Z")
^ I’m pretty sure we all originally thought that was the direction. I know I did. ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fellow-in-my-office/807236/29 "2018-01-25T21:00:16Z")
Instead of worrying about the waste, consider that every knife he throws away allows you to feel just a little bit superior. That has some value. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fellow-in-my-office/807236/30 "2018-01-25T22:36:47Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > While I agree with your sentiment, the instructions say to cut the film, so raising the corner isn’t an option for me. Why you go lettin’ your lunch be The Boss of You? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fellow-in-my-office/807236/31 "2018-01-25T23:55:51Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > The building my school is in is about 25 years old. For 25 years, people have been buying packs of assorted cutlery and putting them in the cabinet in the teacher’s lounge. The knives get used at a fraction of the speed of the forks and spoons, but people keep buying the assorted packs because you can’t generally buy “spoons and forks” or something. No one ever throws out the knives because they are perfectly good. We have THOUSANDS. Boxes and boxes. It’s comical. We have napkins in the same quantities. It seems like half the people bringing anything from home to the potluck decide they can also bring napkins. So every party we get like 6 more 6 inch cubes of napkins, and use 2 inches tops. And since things went electronic, the rows and rows of file drawers from the ancient days sit empty, so we can continue to grow our strategic napkin stockpile for another couple generations. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fellow-in-my-office/807236/32 "2018-01-26T01:30:24Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > We have napkins in the same quantities. It seems like half the people bringing anything from home to the potluck decide they can also bring napkins. So every party we get like 6 more 6 inch cubes of napkins, and use 2 inches tops. And since things went electronic, the rows and rows of file drawers from the ancient days sit empty, so we can continue to grow our strategic napkin stockpile for another couple generations. Yes! I have a Party Drawer in the bank of file cabinets where the last paper is dated from five years ago. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fellow-in-my-office/807236/33 "2018-01-26T01:32:12Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Why you go lettin’ your lunch be The Boss of You? I don’t want Stouffer’s mad at me. They control the mac and cheese. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fellow-in-my-office/807236.md?page=1)