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City of Seattle may ban microwave popcorn
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by Victoria Revay | June 14, 2007 at 11:17 am
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Burning microwave popcorn at Seattle City Hall has forced so many building evacuations that now the city is actually considering banning the product. [After all, it's hard to know how many minutes [exactly] it takes to pop the perfect kernel. And I personally have a hard time shutting off the nuking device before burning my Jiffy Pop.]Seattle Facilities Director Pedro Vasquez says burning microwave popcorn could be a huge problem in the future, so this is why the memo went out to all the employees. He says the City just wants its employees to follow this simple rule: listen to the pop to know when to stop.
Popcorn is not the easiest thing to cook. Who knows if it's really two, two-and-a-half or three minutes? An unsupervised bag can destroy productivity for all your co-workers.
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at 11:29 on June 14th, 2007
Perhaps I am being unfair in saying this, but if City Hall employees have such trouble paying attention to when their popcorn is ready, my confidence in their overall competence in attention-intensive tasks is not inspired. I'd prefer to think of this as management run amuck rather than a building-ful of people that can't concentrate for two and a half minutes.
at 12:05 on June 14th, 2007
AH! I agree with the city. While I don't want to beat my coworkers with a stick when they burn their popcorn...I loath the smell. People should just buy already popped popcorn and save the noses of their coworkers!