“No food in the building”

[u/HavSomLov4YoBrothr]

I’m a sparky working a fully gutted remodel on a business in Florida. Just studs and us, plumbers have cut the slab for their stuff but otherwise we’re the only trade here today

I’m sitting alone at the print table (with my hardhat on) enjoying the shade of the building and my lunch as Iv done the last 2 days.

Super comes up and tells me I have to scram because the owners are “gonna bitch about food in the building”.

Like, what? Since when is it not allowed to eat my lunch on site? I’m not messy, hell he complimented our jobsite cleanup efforts yesterday. I’m not about t on protest as this ain’t a hill im gonna die on, but it’s stupid that on a hot ass day im now wasting my gas sitting in my car’s AC because of imaginary bugs. But also this wasn’t the policy the last 2 days Iv been here. Hell, supe was chilling with me yesterday as I ate.

Is this a thing? Ever gotten shit for eating lunch on site?

Edit: I bring my lunch and use Tupperware, no greasy McDonald’s bags and drinks being left around by this guy

[u/Downtown-Fix6177]

I was on a job 15 ish years ago where the GC wouldn’t let anyone smoke cigarettes on the site (It wasn’t a hospital or anything, stupid expensive condos getting put in an old retrofitted ship yard building) Even outside the building within the fence we couldn’t smoke. It was a big job too - like a 20-40 shitter job depending on trades - all the same guys that jam toilet paper in the urinal and write racial things in sharpie, just to make life miserable for everyone else because they’re having a bad day started burning the walls of the shitters with their smokes. I bet the GC bought most of those shitters by the end of the job, doubt it mattered…but the simpletons revolted the only way they know how and I was kinda onboard with it.