Confiscated Donuts in Panama City (video)

[Alicia Leonard]

I like it when people bring us treats at work, but it definitely contributes to unheathy eating and wasted food.

Given the major issues with obesity and bad nutrition and the related health issues in this country, we should be applauding someone who is at least trying to do something about the problem.

Personal responsibility and ignorance of food labels/nutrition is the problem, imho.

I don't want donut nazi going through my lunch and telling me what to eat. That would get on my nerve and prompt a new job search.

Or I would just start packing heat in my lunch box :scratch:

I'd like to see this man try and get between me and a donut or a piece of chocolate during certain days of the month.

 

[scooterbug44]

He's not going through their lunches, he is making the vending machine snacks healthier and asking workers not to bring in vast quantities of unhealthy food to share w/ their coworkers.

You'll note that it even says in the article that the guy brought the donuts in JUST to violate the policy, not out of the goodness of his heart. :roll:

I'd like to see this man try and get between me and a donut or a piece of chocolate during certain days of the month.

I think that would fall under the category of risky behavior. Hopefully he knows the unhealthy consequences of messing w/ a cranky woman's chocolate/sugar fix!

 

[Smiling JOe]

The Director of the Health Dept also stated in an interview on the radio, that his employees could bring in any food to share with their co-workers.

 

[Alicia Leonard]

He's not going through their lunches, he is making the vending machine snacks healthier and asking workers not to bring in vast quantities of unhealthy food to share w/ their coworkers.

You'll note that it even says in the article that the guy brought the donuts in JUST to violate the policy, not out of the goodness of his heart. :roll:



I think that would fall under the category of risky behavior. Hopefully he knows the unhealthy consequences of messing w/ a cranky woman's chocolate/sugar fix!

Health Department director Dr. Jason Newsom has been praised, criticized, heralded and lampooned for his policy regarding food at the Health Department, including recent healthy changes to the available vending machines and a policy that dis-courages (some say bans) employees from bringing unhealthy snacks to share.


I pass up a lot of treats at work and I like the healthy vending products.

But, he took them and kept them until he could throw them out. I'd say that's banning. One step away from, stay outta my lunch box, Donut Nazi

I agree the other guy is up to no good, but my boss GIVES us donuts so I'm spoiled but I don't work at the Health Dept. either

It's not a bad idea to not accept outside gifts to err on the side of caution and I know in the past our H.D. didn't accept gifts.

The article gave me the impression that he is strongly discouraging this type of eating.

 

[ShallowsNole]

There are valid reasons for dictating what people eat while at work. I might agree that food that the public sees you eat while at your desk should probably be healthy, neat and in small bites if you work at the health department. We have the neat and small bites rule here too; that's just customer service. If you are in close proximity to the public or to other co-workers, really smelly foods or those that some people find repulsive are not good. I haven't viewed the video, but I'm sure the Bay Co dude took Diet Coke away from his employees, which would probably send me into quivering withdrawals, or fall asleep in mid-afternoon.

But, if I am at lunch, either in the back of the office or certainly if I leave the office, do NOT tell me what I can and can't eat. I'll be as considerate as I can, but if you don't like it, don't sit by me.

 

[Alicia Leonard]

There are valid reasons for dictating what people eat while at work. I might agree that food that the public sees you eat while at your desk should probably be healthy, neat and in small bites if you work at the health department. We have the neat and small bites rule here too; that's just customer service. If you are in close proximity to the public or to other co-workers, really smelly foods or those that some people find repulsive are not good. I haven't viewed the video, but I'm sure the Bay Co dude took Diet Coke away from his employees, which would probably send me into quivering withdrawals, or fall asleep in mid-afternoon.

But, if I am at lunch, either in the back of the office or certainly if I leave the office, do NOT tell me what I can and can't eat. I'll be as considerate as I can, but if you don't like it, don't sit by me.

No diet coke, no sugar and an office full of women. It's about to get ugly up in there :shock:

 

[Mango]

We have the neat and small bites rule here too; that's just customer service. If you are in close proximity to the public or to other co-workers, really smelly foods or those that some people find repulsive are not good.

Small bites, Ok, I could do that.
Neat? I'd be fired in an instant.

I agree about what is eaten in front of the public, especially at the health Dept. would be setting an example, but I think there is a fine line. What if you didn't eat breakfast, but now your employer bans blueberry muffins and says you have to eat a bran muffin instead?

 

[ckhagen]

Most employers don't let you drink a beer in the break room... I don't really see how this is any different. If you don't like the policies at your workplace, don't work there. We pay taxes to the health dept to promote healthy eating (ever been lectured about diet when going in there for something like WIC or Medicaid?)... I wouldn't hire a personal trainer who didn't work out. If they can't practice what they preach, if only on HD ground, they become pretty ineffective.

 

[wrobert]

Most employers don't let you drink a beer in the break room... I don't really see how this is any different. If you don't like the policies at your workplace, don't work there. We pay taxes to the health dept to promote healthy eating (ever been lectured about diet when going in there for something like WIC or Medicaid?)... I wouldn't hire a personal trainer who didn't work out. If they can't practice what they preach, if only on HD ground, they become pretty ineffective.

The personal trainer, in the van down by the river.

 

[Matt J]

Most employers don't let you drink a beer in the break room... I don't really see how this is any different. If you don't like the policies at your workplace, don't work there. We pay taxes to the health dept to promote healthy eating (ever been lectured about diet when going in there for something like WIC or Medicaid?)... I wouldn't hire a personal trainer who didn't work out. If they can't practice what they preach, if only on HD ground, they become pretty ineffective.

I think that's taking it to the extreme. Doughnuts don't impair your judgement. I don't think you'll ever see a headline like this:

Local Cop blows .12 on pastry bag.

On the same note I don't want a 500lb. nurse telling me what constitutes "unhealthy" living.