May 13, 2025 • 5 mins
Workplace etiquette expert and the CEO of Today's Professions Consulting and Development Julie Jones joins us to discuss workplace etiquette after a worker cooked a raw steak in a public microwave at the office.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How don't know, do you feel a little pent up
when it comes to your job or maybe having to
come back into the office is causing problems with people.
This is West Michigan's Morning News. Steve Kelly, Bradmakita, workplace
etiquette expert CEO of Today's Professions Consulting and Development. Julie
Jones back on with us today. Julie, thanks for doing
(00:20):
this today.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hi, thank you so much for having me so.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
The reason I bring it up is that there is
a viral argument going on about some jackwagon that threw
a raw steak in the microwave work and ruined the
day of a lot of people that are working. But
I don't know, I mean, there has to be some
sort of posted sign now, I guess moving forward about
(00:46):
what to put in and what not to put in
the microwave.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Right, there are so many things going around about workplace
etiquette and about food. I mean, there's so many things
in the microwave that's huge. You know, people he fists
in the microwave, popcorn, you know, burning popcorn in the microwaves.
And then of course the raw steak. It went viral,
you know, it just it has to do with just
(01:11):
think about what you're doing and how does it impact others.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
And that's that's my point, Julie, is the fact that
you know, how do you how would you go about
that that happened in the workplace to address it for
a first time and then multiple defender because to me,
I think the rest of your staff doesn't have a
lot of patience with this if it's just someone trying
to do pranks all the time.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Right, And I honestly don't think this is a prank.
I really think that this is just somebody who who thought,
you know, I want to eat healthy, I want to
eat a steak, and just didn't know the difference and
just put it right on the plate. I mean not
even not even on a plate, but just put it
on the rot history you know, glass plate that comes
with a microwave that really you know, get into some
(01:58):
food borne illnesses there. You hitch your other coworkers at
risk with things like that. And so I would handle
that as a manager, somebody who's over the office, just
to call that person in and just explain that to them,
you know, because I really don't think that people really
think about that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
And to the bigger point, we've talked about gen Z
about a lot of kids out there graduating from college
or taking jobs right out of high school and their
soft skills are not strong. And you started this segment
but talking about thinking about other people at work, and
they're not. So maybe there just needs to be more
onboarding about this stuff, right.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You know, we've been at home for a while, and
so people are now going back into the office and
so we've been in our own environment and we don't
really have to think about that. So there's going to
be a learning curve. There's going to be a bridge
to coming back and teaching people how to be how
to function in an office where there's other people there
(03:03):
and think about the odors think about and we talk
about we talk about crunching, you know, people crunching ice
in a cubicle next to you, or tapping a pin
or talking too loud. All of these are things that
are coming out right now that we really have to
have the conversation about how do we function in an office,
especially in the open office where there are other people
(03:26):
trying to work.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And apparently now we just have to assume that these
things aren't communicated. I don't know where you draw the
line right right, loud music, you can't listen to it.
What other complaints are you hearing from other workers in
the workplace about? And is it just these younger people
or are us older folks lapsing too?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, it is us older people too, because there's people
taking food out of the refrigerator that don't belong to them.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Nope.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So you know, you think about bringing your lunch and
you're excited, you cook something over the weekend morning, you
take it, take the leftovers to your to the office,
and you go at lunch and it's gone. That's a
huge one, and it's it's really I think it's just
us coming back to the office and just not thinking
(04:16):
about other people, and we really need to have conversations
around what does it look like. I think companies are
doing more of the team building exercises now. They're calling
people like me to come in and be that jumping
off point for conversations because it's easier for somebody from
the outside to come in and talk about it than
(04:37):
it is for somebody on the inside.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I can totally see the older generation to being a problem,
you know, entitlement, right, Like some people have an office,
some people don't Okay, I mean sorry, right right.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I don't think that that we're also I don't think
we're very tolerant either. I think we just kind of
expectations of this is the way we're supposed to do it.
The younger generation can be in. They have a completely
different way, so we're mixing the generation.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I feel the same way. I have no patience for
the especially the younger. I am pod at them just
for coming in. That is Julie Jones Workplace Etiquette Expert.
Great stuff. As always, thanks for your time this morning.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Thank you for having me. It's always a pleasure.
How don't know, do you feel a little pent up
when it comes to your job or maybe having to
come back into the office is causing problems with people.
This is West Michigan's Morning News. Steve Kelly, Bradmakita, workplace
etiquette expert CEO of Today's Professions Consulting and Development. Julie
Jones back on with us today. Julie, thanks for doing
(00:20):
this today.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hi, thank you so much for having me so.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
The reason I bring it up is that there is
a viral argument going on about some jackwagon that threw
a raw steak in the microwave work and ruined the
day of a lot of people that are working. But
I don't know, I mean, there has to be some
sort of posted sign now, I guess moving forward about
(00:46):
what to put in and what not to put in
the microwave.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Right, there are so many things going around about workplace
etiquette and about food. I mean, there's so many things
in the microwave that's huge. You know, people he fists
in the microwave, popcorn, you know, burning popcorn in the microwaves.
And then of course the raw steak. It went viral,
you know, it just it has to do with just
(01:11):
think about what you're doing and how does it impact others.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
And that's that's my point, Julie, is the fact that
you know, how do you how would you go about
that that happened in the workplace to address it for
a first time and then multiple defender because to me,
I think the rest of your staff doesn't have a
lot of patience with this if it's just someone trying
to do pranks all the time.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Right, And I honestly don't think this is a prank.
I really think that this is just somebody who who thought,
you know, I want to eat healthy, I want to
eat a steak, and just didn't know the difference and
just put it right on the plate. I mean not
even not even on a plate, but just put it
on the rot history you know, glass plate that comes
with a microwave that really you know, get into some
(01:58):
food borne illnesses there. You hitch your other coworkers at
risk with things like that. And so I would handle
that as a manager, somebody who's over the office, just
to call that person in and just explain that to them,
you know, because I really don't think that people really
think about that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
And to the bigger point, we've talked about gen Z
about a lot of kids out there graduating from college
or taking jobs right out of high school and their
soft skills are not strong. And you started this segment
but talking about thinking about other people at work, and
they're not. So maybe there just needs to be more
onboarding about this stuff, right.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You know, we've been at home for a while, and
so people are now going back into the office and
so we've been in our own environment and we don't
really have to think about that. So there's going to
be a learning curve. There's going to be a bridge
to coming back and teaching people how to be how
to function in an office where there's other people there
(03:03):
and think about the odors think about and we talk
about we talk about crunching, you know, people crunching ice
in a cubicle next to you, or tapping a pin
or talking too loud. All of these are things that
are coming out right now that we really have to
have the conversation about how do we function in an office,
especially in the open office where there are other people
(03:26):
trying to work.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And apparently now we just have to assume that these
things aren't communicated. I don't know where you draw the
line right right, loud music, you can't listen to it.
What other complaints are you hearing from other workers in
the workplace about? And is it just these younger people
or are us older folks lapsing too?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, it is us older people too, because there's people
taking food out of the refrigerator that don't belong to them.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Nope.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So you know, you think about bringing your lunch and
you're excited, you cook something over the weekend morning, you
take it, take the leftovers to your to the office,
and you go at lunch and it's gone. That's a
huge one, and it's it's really I think it's just
us coming back to the office and just not thinking
(04:16):
about other people, and we really need to have conversations
around what does it look like. I think companies are
doing more of the team building exercises now. They're calling
people like me to come in and be that jumping
off point for conversations because it's easier for somebody from
the outside to come in and talk about it than
(04:37):
it is for somebody on the inside.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I can totally see the older generation to being a problem,
you know, entitlement, right, Like some people have an office,
some people don't Okay, I mean sorry, right right.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I don't think that that we're also I don't think
we're very tolerant either. I think we just kind of
expectations of this is the way we're supposed to do it.
The younger generation can be in. They have a completely
different way, so we're mixing the generation.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I feel the same way. I have no patience for
the especially the younger. I am pod at them just
for coming in. That is Julie Jones Workplace Etiquette Expert.
Great stuff. As always, thanks for your time this morning.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Thank you for having me. It's always a pleasure.
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