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It’s often said that freshmen can gain 15 pounds during their first year of college due to their increased intake of alcohol and fast food. But the same can happen in the workplace with the availability of candy, homemade treats, Girl Scout Thin Mints, snacks, and office party leftovers. While I can’t blame every one of the 20 pounds I’ve gained while working at the Press-Tribune (despite my active lifestyle) on handouts alone, I’m sure they’ve contributed significantly/Randy Lavorante, 2C Etc. More here.
Question: Do you have too many snacks and treats available at your workplace?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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toadman on March 13 at 3:11 p.m.
Yes.. my workplace is evil in this regard.
Cabbage Boy on March 13 at 3:18 p.m.
“Do you have too many snacks and treats available at your workplace?”
No, as an IT guy, there is never enough…
JeanieSpokane on March 13 at 3:28 p.m.
Candy e.v.e.r.y.w.h.e.r.e.
Liz on March 13 at 8:48 p.m.
I work at home, so no.
THE most diet unfriendly environment I ever have worked in though, was a hospital.. Nobody, but nobody, pigs out at work like a bunch of nurses (no, I am not a nurse). One of them is always bringing in some homemade decadence. And that isn’t even counting the goodies that grateful patients gift the nurses with (which they then put out for the rest of the staff to inhale so they don’t have to take them home)