Office culture
Two funny articles from this weekend’s New York Times. The first, When the Food Critics Are Deskside:
Never mind that his boss, Stephen Viscusi, who runs his own headhunting firm in Manhattan, would prefer that employees not pollute the workplace with lunch. “Bringing food into the office dynamic makes things too familiar, more like the free-for-alls that might have taken place in your family kitchen growing up,” Mr. Viscusi said.
At Redfin our lunches are catered in three times a week and with no lunch room we all eat our desks or in one of the two conference rooms. Last Friday we had Longhorn BBQ which was great but really smelled up the office. To celebrate such a meaty lunch I bought some beers. I assume that drinking and eating at your desk would not fly at most New York businesses :).
The next article, When Flirting at Work Is Flirting With Trouble, is humourous because there has been a wee bit of inter-office dating here even though our office is very small!
Q. You often see two colleagues flirting with each other in the office, and their behavior offends you. What can you do?