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Let me tell you, if possible, about my work environment. It's 952 paces (average 3 feet per pace) from my desk across two ware houses to a tiny break room where the microwave is. It takes eight minutes to walk it. Of course the break room is crammed with people at lunch. Heating food generally used up another 10 minutes as you gotta wait on people in line. So there's 18 minutes of a 30 minute break before we even walk back.
The rules say no food is allowed in the warehouses, yet, we risk our jobs every time we want hot food to walk through with our cold food, then back with our hot food - which isn't very hot anymore by the time we get back to our desks. Plus carrying a hot container has other risks.
Added is the risk that we drop our food... This hot plate's arrival today was especially sweet because just today, the guy who gets a 1 hour lunch and is allowed to leave the property during work hours to go buy hot food or whatever he wants to eat - while us peons suffer and starve - he said, "I would ask for a new printer before a microwave oven for our department." We have a printer, it works. He just wants a fancier one, and would let his crew eat cold food or get fired to eat hot food during our 12 hour shift, before he would supply us with a microwave. Ya, he's a real piece of dweep this one.
So I bought this thing. I chose it in particular because as a soft sided bag I have more options for food container sizes and shapes. It arrived today while I was at my crappy job. Soon as I got home and unpacked it, I put a dish of soup in it and plugged it in. It seems to work amazing and forgive me for gloating, but I cannot wait to take it with me tomorrow and eat fresh hot food at my desk while my co-workers turn green with envy.
I plan to keep this item at work, and carry my cold food in my lunch box as usual, heating it at work (because i carry a lot of other stuff in my lunch box as if it were a purse and still need that bag for it all). This is an amazing idea. So here's a swift kick in the shin to the A-Hole who will not submit a request for a stupid microwave for the nine people who eat cold sandwiches every day while he leaves site to go eat good food. I wish I could infest his chair with lice.
December 2019 · Home and Kitchen · verified purchase