Next to the bagels is a bagel slicer, which I'm sure you've all seen. It bears a vague resemblance to a guillotine.
This morning I noticed there was half a bagel in the slicer.
As I sat looking up patient info on a lounge computer, I watched 3 docs come in for bagels. They each took the abandoned half out (which sounded hard as a rock when they set it on the counter), slice their own bagels, THEN PUT THE STALE HALF BACK IN THE SLICER!
It was still there when I went to round. For all I know it will be there when I retire.
Isn't it against Office Ethics to eat a bagel someone else has sliced? The slicer may have intended it for later! Your docs were just being considerate.
ReplyDeleteMy mama always told me 'leave (communal) things you use exactly as you found them'. Looks like they listened to their mamas well. ;-)
ReplyDeleteAlessa nailed it.
ReplyDeleteI would spray shellac it and write on it, "HEY! It's cold out here, Please put me back"
ReplyDeleteUsing those, I end up with a smashed bagel that may or may not be fully cut (usually not). Even plastic knives work better.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a sociology experiment... Bet if you put a "Don't eat this, it's not yours" sign nearby it would be gone in a heartbeat.
ReplyDeletegloria is right.
ReplyDeleteThe ethics and compliance authority of both bagels and offices may come down on you like a ton of bricks for even brining this up.
Seriously Doc, you should know better.
I work in engineering at a South Carolina hospital and we gladly eat anything left out by the docs, leave the orphaned half for one of them there.
ReplyDeleteBizarre. I wonder what thought process was involved in putting a stale half bagel back in the slicer??
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