DEAR MISS MANNERS: What is the proper office microwave etiquette, normally? And how does COVID change this?
GENTLE READER: The basic rules are: Take turns, do not cook smelly food, and clean up after yourself. COVID recommendations would also mandate maintaining a safe distance in the break room -- so probably only one person in it at a time. Fortunately, Miss Manners finds that that distance also helps with the smelly food rule -- in the very likely event that it gets broken.
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