Comments on: Why I Never Bring My Lunch To Work

By: Yankee 49

Yankee 49 — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:18:23 +0000

In these economic times, I bet there are more and more folks brown- bagging it and are far less frowned upon for doing so.

However, you should never eat your lunch, brown bag or takeout, at your desk. You want everyone to know that you take a lunch hour and value it.

Depending upon where you work or whether or not there is a lunchroom or cafeteria there, if not and want to brown bag it, you can still go to a park to eat in the warm weather or in an atrium of another big office buidling where corporate people sit and gather. (I’m mainly talking about the big city.)

And you can always go to the corporate or building’s cafeteria for all companies in the building.

If you want to buy your lunch, you can buy it in the cafeteria. In cold weather cities I’d opt for that than rather eating at your desk or braving the wicked weather.

Eating at your desk is isolating, messy and foolish as you’ll be dumped on by other workers asking you to cover for them or giving you a lot of extra work if the supervisor or co-workers assume you never take a lunch hour. And spending a lot of extra money you may not have, or eating something unhealthy that will only bulge your waistline is silly.

You can socialize in the cafeteria with people from other companies, too.

But do make a point of going out once every couple of weeks with friends and co-workers. You just don’t have to do it everyday.

And you can always give folks the illusion that when you decide to brown bag it, that you’re meeting friends or clients.

By: R

Thu, 13 May 2010 19:51:24 +0000

Don’t ya think it’s more likely that management eats out because they have more money and aren’t on a budget? I doubt they got to where they were because they didn’t pack lunch (they might have before they moved up).

But you do have a good point about how it’s important to socialize. Someone at my job ate my packed lunch today

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By: Funny about Money

Funny about Money — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:05:37 +0000

My ex’s law firm did not ALLOW associates (or partners) to brown-bag. They had a rule saying you had to eat lunch out. Everyone was expected to belong to a specific downtown business club, and most of them ate there (in the early days most of the downtown eateries were greasy spoons–that, mercifully, has changed).

The theory was you’re not making any rain when you’re denning in the lunchroom or eating over your desk.