Comments on: Notice: This is a ‘candy optional’ office

By: Jenn

Jenn — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:37:36 +0000

My weekend job has a candy bowl set out for Halloween. I love to screw with people by saying “no!” when they politely ask for something that they are obviously free to take/do. Most people just take/do it anyway. I get a couple of looks of disbelief on occasion.

By: Vickysf

Vickysf — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:15:06 +0000

I put free M&Ms on my desk, and yes, I hear a lot of the “uh, I just want a little treat”, all shamefacedly, like I’m their mother and will scold them. I don’t care. Just eat the damned candy and shut the hell up!

By: Uhh

Uhh — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:46:44 +0000

Are they vegan?

By: makfan

makfan — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:59:37 +0000

We had a candy lady at a previous job. I did contribute some bags to her stash – people seemed to like peanut butter M&Ms so I bought those once in a while.

By: makfan

makfan — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:57:39 +0000

Mine was “Learn about your behavioral advertising choices from NAI.”

By: divaandwriter

divaandwriter — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:05:12 +0000

Charlie, my answer when people complain about the candy that I put out (or complain that I don’t have any) is that they are welcome to buy some, bring it in and put it on my desk. Nobody ever takes me up on that suggestion. Strange.

By: Tatterdemalion

Tatterdemalion — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:25:43 +0000

I think you can pull off trick-or-treating as an adult only if you do something weird and subversive. When I was in my late teens I didn’t have anything to do for halloween one year so I went around knocking on doors and giving people glass beads – muttered some peculiar-sounding words at them and bowed and walked off.

By: Allthatglittas

Allthatglittas — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:06:19 +0000

mine is for head and shoulders shampoo. sigh.

By: lily

lily — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:54:38 +0000

When my lab class was doing an activity with operant conditioning, we had to come up with a task for the other students to do, only giving them hints by telling them to have an m&m. My task was to take candy from one of these such candy bowls. Oh the looks I got.

By: thorobreeder

thorobreeder — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:09:28 +0000

LOL I put out sugar-free candy for that particular reason… just to watch the self-proclaimed superhealthy diet-freaks flock to it and take a few pieces. a few times per hour. then I take the toilet paper out of the bathroom. haha good to be queen.

By: pony girl

pony girl — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:38:08 +0000

I don’t get any ads.
Guess they know that I have no money.

By: Adriana

Adriana — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:30:23 +0000

I don’t think I’d mind. If you dress up and want to invest the time trick-or-treating rather than just spend $3.50 on a bag of candy, then more power to you, I guess. The cost of the humiliation has to be worth a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.

By: lownote

lownote — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:04:30 +0000

Mine’s offering to let me in on Britain’s hottest diet tip to lose 3 dress sizes in three months…

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:04:32 +0000

Speaking of taking advantage, last Halloween I thought it maybe a little shady when a mom came around trick-or-treating for her infant (who clearly couldn’t eat on the candy), but then – no joke – a grown woman came to my door to trick-or-treat for her dressed-up CHIHUAHUA. How messed up is that?