I'm sorry but...

[fingertrouble]

...eating at your desk at work is fucking disgusting.

Especially when your work colleagues are eating horribly smelly food and have to sit through them burping and gobbling their slop noisily at high speed like some fucking pig at a trough.

And you can't escape because you work next to them...

Sad thing is the employer subtly discourages you from going out to lunch, but if I was a boss it would be mandatory, I don't want to work in an unhygienic environment with half-eaten food and smelly distracting dishes. The closest I get to that is a croissant in the morning - maybe a few crumbs but not smelly or distracting, but I'd prefer to have a nice leisurely breakfast on my own, but then I'd roll in about 11am :-D Breakfast can be a tradeoff, but everyone should get a break and lunch outside.

In fact I have a real problem eating in public; I don't like it; especially on tubes or trains, I feel really embarassed and only do it when literally it's the absolutely only way. Even then I feel bad if there is a lot of people around and really self concious.

Just saying like.

Comments

Yummy

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

I'm a spaniard working in England and I agree with you that eating at your desk is disgusting and filthy in general.

I have 1 hour for lunch (unpaid!) and we all go off the office to eat somewhere. It's shocking for us to eat at the desk - all companies in Spain must, by law, provide microwave, sink, a room for eating and such

Re: Yummy

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

My lunch is unpaid too, but I still take it :-D

Re: Yummy

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

I meant i have 1 hour for lunch but it's not included in my schedule

i work from 9 to 19 and it's only 9 counted hours

Re: Yummy

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

ooh that's a long day...no I'm a freelancer so any time I take off is unpaid.

Re: Yummy

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see
The people working here got 20 minutes paid for lunch... The fact is that they go to buy the food and spend 1 hour at least... hehahahahahah

In the US...

[ursine1.livejournal.com]

In the US lunchtime isn't paid, at least not for "exempt employees" (salaried). Every state has its own work rules. For the last 25 years that I worked, there was no required schedule when you had to be at your desk, you just worked until you got your job done. Companies, at least in California, have to provide a "break" room like in Spain.

Chuck