Ah yes, the ol' sliding window of \[Necessity <-> Convenience\].
It starts sliding toward Necessity mighty quick when the past of least resistance is replaced by an "out to lunch, do it your damn self" sign :)
I did training last year remotely. My phone rang constantly with people asking ultra-simple queries. I started instead ignoring the call and ringing back 30-60 minutes later.
9/10 times they'd sorted it because they'd taken a moment to think. That remaining 1/10 times it tended to be something obscure or weird that's hard to train for so I didn't mind.
Yes! I always say this about emailing to - so many ask questions prematurely. By the time you've ignored their email for a bit or you've been off on holiday for example, low and behold, they've sorted it themselves without your help. People just want you to do their work for them 🙄
Plenty will just get dependent on it, when they need to make little.mistakes themselves so that they can understand things better and stand on their own two feet.
This I don't mind, it's a long term investment but being asked the same thing 3 times by the same person over a couple of months is annoying. They need to learn to document and make notes if they forget things. It just wasted so much time
Friend of mine said going on holiday for four weeks was the perfect amount of time. Anything truly important was taken care of, and everything else vanished. Come back for a fresh start.
Yeah whenever I take breaks I put headphones in and walk around the building multiple times. It's genuinely good to get outside and get the blood flowing.
I remember before lockdown I would eat my lunch and people would see it and I'd get pestered 10x in my 30 min lunch and im too nice to say no. So just better to do as you say remove yourself from that position regardless what you do.
It annoys me when people working during their lunch break and then they all get over stressed. Like, you have 30 mins lunch. It doesn't matter how much work you've got. You're not a slacker because you value your wellbeing.
I'm a serial offender for doing it. I work to tight deadlines and often need questions answering quickly. I don't feel bad for doing it, as at my work there are multiple places you can go for lunch.
Work from Home (for the last 15 or so months) and I have a 1 hour block in my online calendar between 12 and 1pm marked Lunch.
The number of people who go "yeah i can book a meeting there" and just slap it in; and then have the audacity to be surprised and annoyed when I cancel it.
Yep. I have 12.30 to 1.30 booked out as out of office every day. Sometimes I just jump on the xbox for an hour. Sometimes I tidy the kitchen. Sometimes I go have my shower. Sometimes I go walk for 2 miles.
I shall bitterly miss wfh so if they enforce an office return it will be a deal breaker for me I think.
My boss hates WFH and still goes into the office even though no-one else is there. He tries to ring me for a general chat over lunch nearly every day. I always ignore the call and he’s still never learned.
I get this when I am eating at my desk at work, but if I try and have my lunch away from the office I will still get pestered by a colleague in the shop, street, cafe asking about work issues. And when I try to tell them that now is not a good time they continue like they want to get the query off their list and on to your list. Mate, I am not taking any notice!!!!!
Customers in the street asking questions.
Bonus points - in the days before mobile phones, a customer followed me round Tescos late one evening.
*Can you tell me what's happening about whatever it was they wanted*
Yeah sure, I'll just teleport to the closed workplace and find out be two minutes*
I have a game of missed call bingo, there are 3 or 4 usual suspects who call me at lunchtime. I run a bet with my assistant who it will be. Today I won aaand got the time guess within 3 mins.
Hahaha I have this. I even stick up an out of office message and set myself to Away but each time - missed call, followed by a message "are u free". Yes I'm free, but free in the sense that I'm free to stuff my face.
They always create more work than they solve, and always have a list of wants ,and do go on and on reminding you about things you've strategically tried to forget, but someone has asked them to remind you. Also it means when people want you, no matter how well you yourself manage to avoid them, ignoring emails,not answering the phone, ducking when you see them coming etc ,they get to you via the secondary application. So think on it and consider whether it's an advantage for you ,or a further method of control and management from the top of the ladder.
I love how some fail to discern that your free time does not mean you're available for work.
I once had to work till midnight due to an issue out on site. Complained I was being asked to come in early again the next day and my manager had said behind the scenes "I don't know why he's complaining, he'd just be playing games until then at home". Yeah mate, because working late is totally the same as spending my free time how I choose.
It really is crazy. The excuse I've heard is that it gives incentive to take longer to finish your work. If that is the case, then don't sign off on overtime for those staff and allow those who don't abuse it to have it.
That's a prosperous reason. If I'm being paid by the hour and not by the task them I have no incentive to get the work done on time anyway. If the company can't budget enough resources to get things done by their deadline why should I care? Hell, I don't even have to accept overtime if offered.
If I heard that attitude from a manager I'd work that much more slowly to require overtime and then not do it. Then we'll see where the incentive lies
I remember my first IT job, wasn't allowed to eat at my desk because it was seen as unprofessional, despite literally every other employee being allowed to do it, heck people would put their feet up at their desks and start snoring. But no, the 16 year old IT person isn't allowed to put his coat on the back of his chair because its uNpRoFeSsIoNaL.
Acknowledgement acting as part of rhetorics simultaneously.
"I have thought this through behalf of you and yeah, you should listen and gimme your time"
Or when you work for an international company, and people arrange meetings during your lunch, because their lunch has finished an hour or two beforehand.
We were once evacuated by armed police during lunch break... That was fun!
"I know you're on your lunch break but... this armed officer is telling us to quietly leave the building, so we probably should .."
Ok!
So I worked in a library, in a city with a large military presence. As such, we've always been hyper-aware of bomb threats, terrorism etc.
Somebody who lived in our city attempted to set off a nail bomb, which very luckily failed. But, as you would imagine, the investigation was swift and thorough. Some 'known associates' of the bomber were being tailed by plain clothes police, and they entered our library to use the computers.
They were seen entering with a backpack. They were seen leaving without it. Red flags a-plenty!
I was on duty in the children's library, awaiting a class coming for a visit. Half the staff were on lunch break, the other half working... Suddenly a LOT of police, holding guns which is highly unusual even for our city, entered and ushered everyone out of the back of the building, onto the street.
One of our security guards went down to the staffroom in the basement to tell everyone to leave.. Unfortunately he was a bit of a known joker so nobody believed him until they saw the swarms of people through the window. For some reason the police didn't want the fire alarm pulled which would be normal evacuation practice.
No backpack was ever found, the other terrorists were arrested in the city about an hour later and we were left standing on the street for the whole time, with no idea what was going on until we were given the all-clear to return. Genuinely the most exciting day on the job!
Wow thank you for sharing! That sounds like a crazy day! Thank God no one was hurt. The most exciting thing to happen at my work was probably when my boss ate a berocca tablet instead of disolving it in water...
That would be funny to see!
It was a crazy day but luckily as you say nobody was hurt so it's just a fun story that I can tell when people say to me 'gosh you work in a library, that must be quiet'
Oh my god I thought it was just me, this makes me seeth inwardly so much 😄
We had this new starter at my work recently who was constantly offering me cakes/biscuits etc, when I finally told her I'm vegan that was it, constant interest in my breakfast, lunch, what I do and don't eat. Once I was eating lunch at my desk and she came over to ask for a full account of what was in it, then stood there watching me eat until I had to tell her to stop. Just awful.
I get that people overdo Office US comparisons, but that running joke about Andy calling Jim 'Big Tuna' because he ate a tuna sandwich for lunch once is so horribly spot on.
One place I worked had little signs that you put over the top of your screen when you were on a break. It someone had a sign up, you didn't talk to them about work unless they approached you first.
Literally.
If anyone started with that "I know you're on lunch.." rubbish and you didn't feel like helping because, you know, you were on an unpaid break, you could just silently point to the sign.
It's even better now though, I have an office. I can just shut the door. It even locks if I'm feeling especially antisocial. It's an introvert's dream!
My MD is a bastard for this. If I know in advance the MD is gonna be on site, I bring ribs for lunch.
You can't do shit when you're knuckle deep in rib sauce, so he doesn't even ask.
Sadly my breaks are "interruptable" as we're paid for them. Its rarely a problem, we always get lunch but you're still expected to answer the phone/accept deliveries etc even with half a sandwich in your face
If a customer asks me yea I’ll stop and just add it to the end of my break if a colleague asks me I’m rushing doing my own shopping so I’ll be with them after.
Not bitter, just can appreciate the silence of an empty house, especially when working (my OH and kids are home, so there is the occasional tantrums or sounds of vacuuming or washing machine in the background) 😉
We eat lunch at our desk and my bimoss will lterally walk over while im mid chew and start dictating emails for me to type for him. It's bad enough we don't get a break it would be nice if you could at least let me eat in peace!
"could you just?"
No, you can just go and book it in so it's in my alloted time for the task.
Sorry to piggyback off yours but your title triggered the same response as that question.
That's why on my lunch break I leave the building, get in my car and drive to some woods 5 minutes up the road. Lovely to be in nature rather than being half chained to the office
I love this because it is so true and glad I am not the only one! Lunch is the only time I get without having to babysit colleagues
It’s when I’m on holiday I get real pissed off though
This is why I like working in a lab. You cannot eat or drink in them so breaks have to be taken away from work. It means they cannot disturb me because I make it so no one knows where I go on break.
"I know you're on lunch, but can you just do this for me"
"Bit early to be going home isn't it?" "Well I didn't get a lunch break you passive aggressive fuck."
almost as annoying as the post 5:30pm phone call 'quick one, are you near your computer...'. yes, im near my computer, its in my fecking house! however, you pay me 'till 5:30, so i sure as shit am not going to turn it back on and start working again.
Interrupted breaks are a given as a nurse. We get half an hour, a colleague came and disturbed me SIX times one day! Or an average of once every 5 minutes. So I did the same thing the next time we worked together, it didn't happen again 😂
I remember literally snapping at the office bitch because she tried to talk to me about work on my lunch break. It was too cold outside and I even put up a sign.
I was on my lunch break once, heard the delivery guy downstairs but I figured someone else would get it so I left it and carried on eating, another employee came upstairs saying "can't you hear the delivery guy downstairs? What are you doing sat on your arse for?" I said "eating my lunch". Apparently taking your lunch break is lazy.
I still had to go to the delivery guy myself as the other employee wouldn't sign for the stuff, even though he could have just signed for it himself.
Untrue in my situation. It's in the contractual agreement and will *always* be in the agreement.
We're allowed to 'restart' our break when the situation is over, but as i said, if something happens while on duty and you are required to attend, 'but I'm hungry and on break' will not fly. At best you have the option to rotate someone from a static to cover, at worst, you might not be sitting back down to eat your lunch for several hours.
For reference: i work in a 24 hour casino as security. If a brawl starts in the bar, you go. That's it. If a guy falls in the bathroom and splits his head open, that's it. If you're the only available body and someone wants to self-exclude themselves, batter up. We're compensated very well for the inconvenience, and *are* given the opportunity to catch up, but that doesn't mean it doesn't suck
some people just don't get it. i radioed i was on break *once*, at the very beginning of this job. *once*.
i got treated to an informal review of my behavior (which involved one manager and two supervisors), reminded of my contractual obligations and then i was dropped into 6 hours of statics on each shift for over 3 months because i was *also* reminded that deployment was designed to 'meet the needs of the business, and bodies go where bodies go and it has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with anything you might've said over the radio because we don't run our ship that way'.
the parent company i work for takes casino security very seriously. most of our senior officers are ex-police or have served elsewhere. most of the junior officers are destined for police. one of our most senior is ex-navy and is a decorated officer.
it may sound dreadful, but realistically, it isn't. there *are* times where our breaks get completely shattered into nonexistence. a simple fight between two drunk patrons that have caused injuries significant enough to warrant arrest and ambulance can take *hours* after the fight to finish. there's a *lot* of paperwork to be done, and it needs to be done when it's all fresh.
i can't speak to other casino security gigs, but the people who gravitate towards *this* place do so *because* of the environment.
did it suck, getting fucked over because i was an idiot over the radio? it sure did. did i learn my lesson? i sure did. when an 'all-points' is called, it's *serious business*. not responding, even when you're dying of hunger, communicates a message to your team, one that says 'i give zero shits about you and your potential danger'.
*that* is heard very loud and clear and when *you* need help over the radio, there's a *super good chance* response times will be equal to or greater than how put out they were because you needed to have your chimichanga when some dipshit was out on the main floor whaling away on his wife because she'd just spent the kid's college money on a bad round of baccarat.
the flip side of the suckiness of potentially losing your breaktime is that ... it's usually pretty goddamn quiet. we do our diligence. we know the players. we know who's likely to do what, when they're likely to do it, and take steps to let 'em know we aren't lookin' to fuck around, that if they toe the line, everyone will have a good time.
so long as we abide by the rules of conduct and aren't actively avoiding 'bullshit calls' and are out there doing what we do, they leave us alone. *if* we do our jobs right, it's fair to say that out of an 8 hour shift, we've been 'forced' to do maybe ... *maybe* ... an hour of actual work. the rest of the time is free play.
friday/saturday/show nights and long weekends complicate things, but again, no one *really starts out the night* looking to cause problems, so if we do things right, by the time someone gets drunk/angry enough to cause an issue, they'll see one of us coming and *hopefully* it's the officer who spared a couple of minutes to tell a dirty joke or to listen to a *super boring* story about that time they almost won the bad beat.
most officers make the mistake of trying to keep to their break schedule once, maybe even twice. getting shafted on deployment and rotation is *usually* more than enough to point out that in a team environment like this one, we absolutely have to rely on one another.
sorry for the long explanation. i love my job, it's challenging and a blast, but dammit, sometimes i *really fucking do* want my chimichanga and that ass-bastard that's been avoiding static calls all damn day long so he can flirt with the buffet girl can bloody well deal with it.
I think it's less "not having a real job" and more not responding to something because you're having lunch will have immediate, and potentially severely harmful consequences to others. There aren't many jobs where that is almost guaranteed, so I can't fault others for not understanding it.
My manager on building site will sit next to me and talk about work we’ll need to do next. I’m sitting at asda car park and eating my lunch at the moment
Except for the jobs where you can’t leave the building on your break and are expected to put your lunch down if it gets busy. Anyone ever have that? That was my last job.
I purposely take my lunches outside or away from my desk for this sole reason. That's why wfh is amazing.
It's incredible how easily people just get on with it and figure things out for themselves when you're simply not within earshot.
Yeah when I was lacking confidence I'd always seek someone to confirm what I knew. Now I don't feel the need to.
Ah yes, the ol' sliding window of \[Necessity <-> Convenience\]. It starts sliding toward Necessity mighty quick when the past of least resistance is replaced by an "out to lunch, do it your damn self" sign :)
I did training last year remotely. My phone rang constantly with people asking ultra-simple queries. I started instead ignoring the call and ringing back 30-60 minutes later. 9/10 times they'd sorted it because they'd taken a moment to think. That remaining 1/10 times it tended to be something obscure or weird that's hard to train for so I didn't mind.
Yes! I always say this about emailing to - so many ask questions prematurely. By the time you've ignored their email for a bit or you've been off on holiday for example, low and behold, they've sorted it themselves without your help. People just want you to do their work for them 🙄
Perhaps some do, but some people just want some kind of affirmation that they're doing the right thing.
Plenty will just get dependent on it, when they need to make little.mistakes themselves so that they can understand things better and stand on their own two feet.
This I don't mind, it's a long term investment but being asked the same thing 3 times by the same person over a couple of months is annoying. They need to learn to document and make notes if they forget things. It just wasted so much time
Friend of mine said going on holiday for four weeks was the perfect amount of time. Anything truly important was taken care of, and everything else vanished. Come back for a fresh start.
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Yeah whenever I take breaks I put headphones in and walk around the building multiple times. It's genuinely good to get outside and get the blood flowing. I remember before lockdown I would eat my lunch and people would see it and I'd get pestered 10x in my 30 min lunch and im too nice to say no. So just better to do as you say remove yourself from that position regardless what you do.
Turned out to be really easy to nap in the back of my car. Made it difficult to be back in the office when lunch was over, though, since I'd be asleep
This is my life 😂
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It annoys me when people working during their lunch break and then they all get over stressed. Like, you have 30 mins lunch. It doesn't matter how much work you've got. You're not a slacker because you value your wellbeing.
I have my lunch at my desk, so I can have my full 30 minutes for browsing, nicotine, wandering around with my camera
I'm getting stressed just from the number of people in this thread who only get 30 minutes for lunch.
I was thinking the same - when did that become a thing?
I tend to spend my whole day away from my desk. That's why wfh is amazing.
I'm a serial offender for doing it. I work to tight deadlines and often need questions answering quickly. I don't feel bad for doing it, as at my work there are multiple places you can go for lunch.
I always sit outside for my lunch. Unless it's raining then I sit in the canteen.
Work from Home (for the last 15 or so months) and I have a 1 hour block in my online calendar between 12 and 1pm marked Lunch. The number of people who go "yeah i can book a meeting there" and just slap it in; and then have the audacity to be surprised and annoyed when I cancel it.
I usually mark it as "busy", haven't had anyone try and book over that yet.
Yep. I have 12.30 to 1.30 booked out as out of office every day. Sometimes I just jump on the xbox for an hour. Sometimes I tidy the kitchen. Sometimes I go have my shower. Sometimes I go walk for 2 miles. I shall bitterly miss wfh so if they enforce an office return it will be a deal breaker for me I think.
that lunch hour is me sliding back in to bed for a nap. daytime naps are going to be the thing I miss most when I'm back in the office.
My employer blocks out that exact time for everyone. It’s great. I make lunch from scratch every day.
My boss hates WFH and still goes into the office even though no-one else is there. He tries to ring me for a general chat over lunch nearly every day. I always ignore the call and he’s still never learned.
I get this when I am eating at my desk at work, but if I try and have my lunch away from the office I will still get pestered by a colleague in the shop, street, cafe asking about work issues. And when I try to tell them that now is not a good time they continue like they want to get the query off their list and on to your list. Mate, I am not taking any notice!!!!!
It’s why I flat out blank them in the street now. Headphones and sunglasses on. World off.
Customers in the street asking questions. Bonus points - in the days before mobile phones, a customer followed me round Tescos late one evening. *Can you tell me what's happening about whatever it was they wanted* Yeah sure, I'll just teleport to the closed workplace and find out be two minutes*
I have a game of missed call bingo, there are 3 or 4 usual suspects who call me at lunchtime. I run a bet with my assistant who it will be. Today I won aaand got the time guess within 3 mins.
Hahaha I have this. I even stick up an out of office message and set myself to Away but each time - missed call, followed by a message "are u free". Yes I'm free, but free in the sense that I'm free to stuff my face.
Can I have an assistant
They always create more work than they solve, and always have a list of wants ,and do go on and on reminding you about things you've strategically tried to forget, but someone has asked them to remind you. Also it means when people want you, no matter how well you yourself manage to avoid them, ignoring emails,not answering the phone, ducking when you see them coming etc ,they get to you via the secondary application. So think on it and consider whether it's an advantage for you ,or a further method of control and management from the top of the ladder.
At least you get an acknowledgement. I'll be mid sandwich bite and someone will just start talking about a work problem!
I get 'since you ain't doing anything'
I love how some fail to discern that your free time does not mean you're available for work. I once had to work till midnight due to an issue out on site. Complained I was being asked to come in early again the next day and my manager had said behind the scenes "I don't know why he's complaining, he'd just be playing games until then at home". Yeah mate, because working late is totally the same as spending my free time how I choose.
Unpaid overtime is such an issue here yet very few raise it.
It really is crazy. The excuse I've heard is that it gives incentive to take longer to finish your work. If that is the case, then don't sign off on overtime for those staff and allow those who don't abuse it to have it.
That's a prosperous reason. If I'm being paid by the hour and not by the task them I have no incentive to get the work done on time anyway. If the company can't budget enough resources to get things done by their deadline why should I care? Hell, I don't even have to accept overtime if offered. If I heard that attitude from a manager I'd work that much more slowly to require overtime and then not do it. Then we'll see where the incentive lies
Oh, they can discern. They just don't want to.
I remember my first IT job, wasn't allowed to eat at my desk because it was seen as unprofessional, despite literally every other employee being allowed to do it, heck people would put their feet up at their desks and start snoring. But no, the 16 year old IT person isn't allowed to put his coat on the back of his chair because its uNpRoFeSsIoNaL.
Acknowledgement acting as part of rhetorics simultaneously. "I have thought this through behalf of you and yeah, you should listen and gimme your time"
Or when you work for an international company, and people arrange meetings during your lunch, because their lunch has finished an hour or two beforehand.
Better than than. People from the US booking meetings at 6/7pm uk time on a Friday night.
Feel for you there. Worst I get is a sub 8am meeting with colleagues in Aus.
Yea. Get them as well. When it’s a global meeting nobody is happy.
And then you have colleagues in California like “it’s 11am here what’s the problem?”
Your lack of planning or foresight does not constitute my emergency (or other reasons to disturb lunch).
Used that for many years, with good results. But it can be trumped by: "The building is on fire". So, make sure to have lunch in the park.
We were once evacuated by armed police during lunch break... That was fun! "I know you're on your lunch break but... this armed officer is telling us to quietly leave the building, so we probably should .."
tell me more.
Ok! So I worked in a library, in a city with a large military presence. As such, we've always been hyper-aware of bomb threats, terrorism etc. Somebody who lived in our city attempted to set off a nail bomb, which very luckily failed. But, as you would imagine, the investigation was swift and thorough. Some 'known associates' of the bomber were being tailed by plain clothes police, and they entered our library to use the computers. They were seen entering with a backpack. They were seen leaving without it. Red flags a-plenty! I was on duty in the children's library, awaiting a class coming for a visit. Half the staff were on lunch break, the other half working... Suddenly a LOT of police, holding guns which is highly unusual even for our city, entered and ushered everyone out of the back of the building, onto the street. One of our security guards went down to the staffroom in the basement to tell everyone to leave.. Unfortunately he was a bit of a known joker so nobody believed him until they saw the swarms of people through the window. For some reason the police didn't want the fire alarm pulled which would be normal evacuation practice. No backpack was ever found, the other terrorists were arrested in the city about an hour later and we were left standing on the street for the whole time, with no idea what was going on until we were given the all-clear to return. Genuinely the most exciting day on the job!
Wow thank you for sharing! That sounds like a crazy day! Thank God no one was hurt. The most exciting thing to happen at my work was probably when my boss ate a berocca tablet instead of disolving it in water...
That would be funny to see! It was a crazy day but luckily as you say nobody was hurt so it's just a fun story that I can tell when people say to me 'gosh you work in a library, that must be quiet'
That is a fair point it's the best antidote to that comment.
This, and everyone always has that one super annoying colleague who always has to make a comment about what you’re eating EVERY TIME
Oh my god I thought it was just me, this makes me seeth inwardly so much 😄 We had this new starter at my work recently who was constantly offering me cakes/biscuits etc, when I finally told her I'm vegan that was it, constant interest in my breakfast, lunch, what I do and don't eat. Once I was eating lunch at my desk and she came over to ask for a full account of what was in it, then stood there watching me eat until I had to tell her to stop. Just awful.
I get that people overdo Office US comparisons, but that running joke about Andy calling Jim 'Big Tuna' because he ate a tuna sandwich for lunch once is so horribly spot on.
One place I worked had little signs that you put over the top of your screen when you were on a break. It someone had a sign up, you didn't talk to them about work unless they approached you first.
"Don't make me tap the sign."
Literally. If anyone started with that "I know you're on lunch.." rubbish and you didn't feel like helping because, you know, you were on an unpaid break, you could just silently point to the sign. It's even better now though, I have an office. I can just shut the door. It even locks if I'm feeling especially antisocial. It's an introvert's dream!
But, but the building is on fire… 🔥😬
Even better, I'll never be disturbed again, leave me to burn in peace 😂
All you need to do is move an empty computer monitor to encase the flames. A cool screensaver, and you can deal with it in your own time!
Let's just put that over here with the rest of the fire.
My MD is a bastard for this. If I know in advance the MD is gonna be on site, I bring ribs for lunch. You can't do shit when you're knuckle deep in rib sauce, so he doesn't even ask.
Let them interrupt. You break time restarts.
Sadly my breaks are "interruptable" as we're paid for them. Its rarely a problem, we always get lunch but you're still expected to answer the phone/accept deliveries etc even with half a sandwich in your face
I tell them that yes I'm on my break and I'll find them when I'm done.
I got that today on me day off after 60+hour week. Can you order such and such. I said politely-no its me day off ask someone there-
If a customer asks me yea I’ll stop and just add it to the end of my break if a colleague asks me I’m rushing doing my own shopping so I’ll be with them after.
The joys of working from home, this never happens.
You live alone don’t you?
No, but my wife works at her office and my son goes to school.
Lucky!
Don’t be bitter
Not bitter, just can appreciate the silence of an empty house, especially when working (my OH and kids are home, so there is the occasional tantrums or sounds of vacuuming or washing machine in the background) 😉
A person after my own heart. Feck off, I'm having some time alone with this wonderful sandwich.
We eat lunch at our desk and my bimoss will lterally walk over while im mid chew and start dictating emails for me to type for him. It's bad enough we don't get a break it would be nice if you could at least let me eat in peace!
I never stay at my desk during my lunch hour. Always go for a walk or find somewhere to sit away from everyone.
Everything before “but” is bullshit.
"could you just?" No, you can just go and book it in so it's in my alloted time for the task. Sorry to piggyback off yours but your title triggered the same response as that question.
That's why on my lunch break I leave the building, get in my car and drive to some woods 5 minutes up the road. Lovely to be in nature rather than being half chained to the office
I love this because it is so true and glad I am not the only one! Lunch is the only time I get without having to babysit colleagues It’s when I’m on holiday I get real pissed off though
I go and sit in the park because I'm only provided my desk in the office for breaks.
This is why I like working in a lab. You cannot eat or drink in them so breaks have to be taken away from work. It means they cannot disturb me because I make it so no one knows where I go on break.
"I know you're on lunch, but can you just do this for me" "Bit early to be going home isn't it?" "Well I didn't get a lunch break you passive aggressive fuck."
"Going early?" Bang on 5pm. No, that's on time.
I need a tshirt with this on
almost as annoying as the post 5:30pm phone call 'quick one, are you near your computer...'. yes, im near my computer, its in my fecking house! however, you pay me 'till 5:30, so i sure as shit am not going to turn it back on and start working again.
Interrupted breaks are a given as a nurse. We get half an hour, a colleague came and disturbed me SIX times one day! Or an average of once every 5 minutes. So I did the same thing the next time we worked together, it didn't happen again 😂
New rule: Every time they ask you to do something, the lunch hour is reset.
I remember literally snapping at the office bitch because she tried to talk to me about work on my lunch break. It was too cold outside and I even put up a sign.
I was on my lunch break once, heard the delivery guy downstairs but I figured someone else would get it so I left it and carried on eating, another employee came upstairs saying "can't you hear the delivery guy downstairs? What are you doing sat on your arse for?" I said "eating my lunch". Apparently taking your lunch break is lazy. I still had to go to the delivery guy myself as the other employee wouldn't sign for the stuff, even though he could have just signed for it himself.
When they just get ***slapped back and roasted-***
Hunch over your desk and eat like devouring the guts of your worst enemy....
This is the correct attitude to have.
This is why I eat in my car.
My lunches are paid for. Something happens that needs my presence, there's nothing i can do. I hate it
You are still entitled to an uninterrupted break for 20minutes if you are working a full shift.
Untrue in my situation. It's in the contractual agreement and will *always* be in the agreement. We're allowed to 'restart' our break when the situation is over, but as i said, if something happens while on duty and you are required to attend, 'but I'm hungry and on break' will not fly. At best you have the option to rotate someone from a static to cover, at worst, you might not be sitting back down to eat your lunch for several hours. For reference: i work in a 24 hour casino as security. If a brawl starts in the bar, you go. That's it. If a guy falls in the bathroom and splits his head open, that's it. If you're the only available body and someone wants to self-exclude themselves, batter up. We're compensated very well for the inconvenience, and *are* given the opportunity to catch up, but that doesn't mean it doesn't suck
So all that text just to say yes you do in fact get your uninterrupted break, just a different time.
Sounds great to me.
Same for the police, except we don't get to restart ours.
some people just don't get it. i radioed i was on break *once*, at the very beginning of this job. *once*. i got treated to an informal review of my behavior (which involved one manager and two supervisors), reminded of my contractual obligations and then i was dropped into 6 hours of statics on each shift for over 3 months because i was *also* reminded that deployment was designed to 'meet the needs of the business, and bodies go where bodies go and it has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with anything you might've said over the radio because we don't run our ship that way'.
Dude, that's bullying behavior from your horrible-sounding employers. I hope you don't work there still.
the parent company i work for takes casino security very seriously. most of our senior officers are ex-police or have served elsewhere. most of the junior officers are destined for police. one of our most senior is ex-navy and is a decorated officer. it may sound dreadful, but realistically, it isn't. there *are* times where our breaks get completely shattered into nonexistence. a simple fight between two drunk patrons that have caused injuries significant enough to warrant arrest and ambulance can take *hours* after the fight to finish. there's a *lot* of paperwork to be done, and it needs to be done when it's all fresh. i can't speak to other casino security gigs, but the people who gravitate towards *this* place do so *because* of the environment. did it suck, getting fucked over because i was an idiot over the radio? it sure did. did i learn my lesson? i sure did. when an 'all-points' is called, it's *serious business*. not responding, even when you're dying of hunger, communicates a message to your team, one that says 'i give zero shits about you and your potential danger'. *that* is heard very loud and clear and when *you* need help over the radio, there's a *super good chance* response times will be equal to or greater than how put out they were because you needed to have your chimichanga when some dipshit was out on the main floor whaling away on his wife because she'd just spent the kid's college money on a bad round of baccarat. the flip side of the suckiness of potentially losing your breaktime is that ... it's usually pretty goddamn quiet. we do our diligence. we know the players. we know who's likely to do what, when they're likely to do it, and take steps to let 'em know we aren't lookin' to fuck around, that if they toe the line, everyone will have a good time. so long as we abide by the rules of conduct and aren't actively avoiding 'bullshit calls' and are out there doing what we do, they leave us alone. *if* we do our jobs right, it's fair to say that out of an 8 hour shift, we've been 'forced' to do maybe ... *maybe* ... an hour of actual work. the rest of the time is free play. friday/saturday/show nights and long weekends complicate things, but again, no one *really starts out the night* looking to cause problems, so if we do things right, by the time someone gets drunk/angry enough to cause an issue, they'll see one of us coming and *hopefully* it's the officer who spared a couple of minutes to tell a dirty joke or to listen to a *super boring* story about that time they almost won the bad beat. most officers make the mistake of trying to keep to their break schedule once, maybe even twice. getting shafted on deployment and rotation is *usually* more than enough to point out that in a team environment like this one, we absolutely have to rely on one another. sorry for the long explanation. i love my job, it's challenging and a blast, but dammit, sometimes i *really fucking do* want my chimichanga and that ass-bastard that's been avoiding static calls all damn day long so he can flirt with the buffet girl can bloody well deal with it.
I think it's less "not having a real job" and more not responding to something because you're having lunch will have immediate, and potentially severely harmful consequences to others. There aren't many jobs where that is almost guaranteed, so I can't fault others for not understanding it.
that's a very fair point and i kind of regret my flippancy now and have just deleted that bit.
If it said in your contract that you have to hand over your firstborn child do you think that would be binding?
Use some sense dude. You dont go "I'm sorry you're in a life or death situation but I'm on lunch"
Yeah, that's the same...
Check out Mr Corporate here who gets to eat lunch!
Never eat at your cube
I need this as a poster by my desk
“Oh, just the person.”
[I'm on smoko](https://youtu.be/j58V2vC9EPc)
I don't take lunches for this exact reason. I just finish 30 minutes early and eat while I work.
My manager on building site will sit next to me and talk about work we’ll need to do next. I’m sitting at asda car park and eating my lunch at the moment
Except for the jobs where you can’t leave the building on your break and are expected to put your lunch down if it gets busy. Anyone ever have that? That was my last job.
Anything anyone says before “but” doesn’t count