Is there any law / health and safety rule I can enforce in my office for noisy eaters?

Question

We do not have a separate canteen area in our small office, so most people eat their lunch at their desks. I feel sick at listening to some of them, does anyone know if there's anything I can do about it? Thanks

Answer 1

Pass an ordinance requiring all personel to be fed through IV and only IV. If that doesn't work, break all their jaws so they have to be wired shut thus having to drink their meals. Happy eating!

Answer 2

Legally I don't think you've got any leverage...have you tried just nicely asking them to be less noisy? You'd likely get a lot better result that way anyway (and not have people annoyed with you) than if you tried to enforce some noise law or ordinance without having let them know you were being bothered.

Answer 3

Wear headphones and listen to music.

Go out to lunch, and listen to people eat at a restaurant.

Go to a zoo, and give the animals the names of your co-workers. Then, the next time you hear them eat at their desks you can imagine that that's a hippo, or a monkey, or penguin, etc. and feel good about it. Just don't get carried away and throw food to them...

Answer 4

If it's over 10 decibels of background noise then it's cause for complaint but we can't think of any well known laws that pertain specifically to noisy eaters. Sorry.

Answer 5

yes, it's called the 'Smash em in the mouth with a cricket bat' regulation and comes under the Health and safety at Work act 1974.

Answer 6

Get used to it. My boyfriend chews with his mouth open, I've called him on it more times than I care to count. As repulsive as it is, I finally decided it's not worth the battle. If it's that distracting, put on some music or something. You can't change people who were brought up to be pigs.

Answer 7

It's disgusting, we have someone in our office who slurps and chews with his mouth open, he licks his fingers making the worst sounds. We all dread him eating an orange as he cuts it in 2 then shoves half in his mouth and chews the flesh out with orange juice dribbling all over his shirt.

Answer 8

No dear, there are no piggy eaters laws unfortunately.. You should put up a sign, "please close your mouth while eating, violators will be shot"..I am only partially kidding;-)

Whats worse is in a restaurant and your sitting next to a piggy eater..I try not to look.. I want to slap them!

Answer 9

Shariah are in simple terms commandments, muslims have faith each and every prophet had their very own commandments, so Moses had his very own shariah, Jesus had his very own shariah and so on.. Shariah regulation via it particularly is nature can in elementary terms be carried out upon muslims. because it fairly is recognition of Gods rules, in case you're actually not muslim then those rules do not shop on with to you as you have not ordinary Gods sovereignty. it fairly is western media that portray Shariah regulation in a manner that muslim desire to enforce it upon non muslims. They combination the penality equipment (hud) to make it look like muslims are wanting to hold their punishment rules to western society. Jewish people are allowed to have their very own divorce rules, yet whilst muslims call for his or her real to Islamic divorce in accordance to Shariah then they are extremist and oppressive over women and so on.. all the slanders come out so as that the undertaking or those calling for shariah regulation are silenced. in a similar fashion Jewish people who die are legally exempt from submit mortum IF the kinfolk pay for MRI/CT scans and so on. whilst muslims ask for this comparable real, then they are calling for 'shariah' regulation. Shariah regulation is in simple terms having the flexibility to stay via the ethical rules we've faith in, which do not contradict western rules, yet in elementary terms make it stressful for us to prepare our 'non secular freedom'.

Answer 10

what aobut public nuisance?
or disturbing the peace?
or creating a difficult work environment?
or interfering with your peace and comfort?
if that doesn't work
try talking to them
next see your boss
next get another job if you simply cannot stand it!