In this day and age, I think anyone who burns popcorn at work....

[LynneSin]

should be automatically FIRED!!!!

I can't think of a worse smell and it'll hang here for the next 2-3 hours. Come on, microwavable popcorn is NOT new technology. We should all know that the recommend times on the bag of popcorn were based on Microwave Technology from the Reagan Era. Most brands of Microwavable Popcorn should NOT be popped for longer than 2:23 minutes (I have this down to a science). And what disturbs me even more is these idiots will put the popcorn in the microwave, set the timer for four minutes AND THEN LEAVE THE FUCKING BREAK ROOM for 10 minutes. MONITOR the damn stuff to make sure it's not BURNING!!!

:mad:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. I think you should be automatically fired.

I dunno why. :crazy:

[Richardo]

2. LOL! 2:23 is my exact time too...

Pop Secret Homestyle :9

[LynneSin]

3. Pop Secret Kettle Korn

But works for Orville & Shop-Rite's own brand too

[tekriter]

7. 2:20 for Act II Light Butter...

with 40% less artificial butter-flavored grease.

[LynneSin]

9. I don't like ActII, but it's better than Jolly Time

I'd rather eat burnt popcorn than Jolly Time done right

[Lavender Brown]

4. It could be worse

Someone here once reheated a salmon burger in the microwave and the whole place smelled like hell for a month.:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Misunderestimator]

5. They should be immediately microwaved....

talk about a stench permeating the office though... :puke:

[dr.strangelove]

6. Nothing worse than that burned popcorn

smell lingering in the office. I swear I almost divocred my wife for burning popcorn at home.

[Loonman]

8. Wait 'til some lamebrain burns fish in the micro

Smokes/stinks the joint up, closes the doors to the kitchen in hopes people might not notice it, then acts like a petulant child when you tell them they should not do that for several obvious reasons.

Professionals, my ass.

[Commendatori]

10. Not fired, but skinned alive and

thrown into a wading pool full of pickle brine and ketchup.

I agree with you completely.

[tekriter]

25. mmmmm, pickle brine...mmmm

:9

[DS1]

11. popcorn burners should be fired, people that make it well should

be forced to compensate the rest of the office that wants to leave work from the point of 'microwave "I'm done" ding' forward. At full salary. Because I sure as shit don't want to smell your fucking popcorn when I'm at work. If you find work is so fun you think you need some goddamn stinky ass fucking popcorn to enjoy it, you're not working hard enough.

and a big FUCK YOU to the office administrators that buy it in the first place!

[DS1]

12. this isn't to say I don't like popcorn...

It's ~your~ popcorn I don't like. Unless we're sharing it, and I already like you O8)

[LynneSin]

14. DS1, if we worked together I would always share my perfectly...

...popped 2:23minute popcorn with you.

Heck after that rank I'll share my salad, lunch money, tea, bottled water and tampons hidden in my desk drawer with you too!!!

[DS1]

16. I can actually smell some wafting down the stairs

good thing I didn't take my usual dump :evilgrin:

[Jesse_W]

13. Funny... I thought you meant people who make popcorn at work...

I work at a movie theater. When I saw this subject line, I thought you were talking about us. We try not to, but we burn popcorn all the time. That's not the bad part, thought.

The bad part is when you have to try and fill up a popcorn bag while new popcorn is popping. Grease is hot! But that's nothing compared to melted sugar. According to the guy who trained us, melted sugar can burn through cloth, and leaves permanent scars. He had some to show us.

Now, that's a serious irritation.

[LynneSin]

15. No, that popcorn is fine

ususally I'm only in the lobby temporarily and the smell doesn't linger into the theater room I'm in. And OUCH on that sugar :cry:

BTW, welcome to DU!! :hi: You said you work in a movie theater - will they be showing Fahrenheit 9/11 at yours??

[Jesse_W]

18. F 9/11

Yes!!! The Pacific Theater's Culver Stadium 12, in Culver City, Los Angeles County, CA. If anyone wants to go, let me know privately.

(And thanks for the welcome to DU!)

[phillybri]

17. I second that emotion...

Lump them in w/ people who fart in elevators!!!

Kill 'em all!!!

[Heddi]

19. Anyone who re-heats seafood in the microwave at work........

should be strung up by their fugging TOENAILS.

A job I had a few years ago had a rule on the micro about popcorn. You MUST stay with your popcorn while it is being zapped. If you burn your popcorn, you must never cook popcorn again.

Apparently, someone had put some popcorn in the micro for some crazy amount of time---5 minutes or something?? Anyways, the popcorn caught on fire, caught the microwave on fire, and part of the counter.

The dimbulb who was the owner of the popcorn moved the stuff in the kitchen so that you couldn't tell it was burnt and never even TOLD anyone that the microwave caught on fire!!!

BUT----there wasn't a rule about re-heating seafood...I wished there was.

A rather nasty and unhygenic lady I worked with went to lunch one day and got a fish dish. Later that day she heated up the fish in the micro. P-U!

The next day she heated up the heated-up leftovers of the fish. DOUBLE PU!

The day after that she heated up the heated-up heated-up leftovers of the fish. TRIPPLE PU!!!

That office (and a sizeable office at that) stunk like fucking rotten fucking fish for a fucking MONTH!

Die, seafood re-heaters, DIE!

[catzies]

20. The Great Popcorn Paradox

When it's cooked properly, nothing smells BETTER.

When it's burned, nothing smells WORSE.

[LynneSin]

21. But when it's cooked properly, it makes me hungry

thus the dilemma!!!

[underpants]

22. ........................................popcorn

(Hey, hey, hey!) Baby, baby, try to find

[CrownPrinceBandar]

23. I betcha it was the "Cackler"...............

God! I hate her.

[LynneSin]

24. no, I don't think she eats

She's like a 40 something Mary-Kate Olsen, if you know what I mean

[name not needed]

26. Perfect timing!

I tried it on a bag of Orville Kettle corn, perfect! :)