Lunch breaks!

[Psychotic]

Let's talk lunch breaks. What do you do? Where do you go? When do you have it?

I leave at 12:30 every day. With an hour lunch, this breaks the day into halves. Others at my office who go out later tell me I am wrong for this leaves a shorter afternoon so less time 'til hometime. You get a longer morning though, suckers!

I go home as my new home is literally a 4 minute drive (yeah I am a lazy smurf, 20 minute walk? NO THANK YOU!) from my office.

When I lived further away I'd either go to somewhere like Maccy D's or KFC, or if I brought my own lunch I used to park in the car park of a local hotel. (there is literally nowhere else to go! no parks or anything and it was obviously very quiet at that time of day) I'd put my iPod on, kick my shoes off and just relax in my car for a bit or read a book.

Now you! Reveal to me your doings!

[Freya]

My lunch is from 2:30-3:30. I drive home. Its about 10 mins away but I really don't like staying at work when I don't have to. I usually go home and have soup, salad, or a sandwich. Its less time since 20 mins is driving but ugh I don't want to be here. Sometimes I go buy lunch if I'm too lazy to go home.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

What are lunch breaks? O-o;

[Psychotic]

What are lunch breaks? O-o;

Aren't you a chef?

[Pike]

Lunch usually occurs somewhere between 9:30am and 10:00am. I usually just buy something and then sit around and either mess around on my phone or watch whatever movie is playing on the breakroom TV at the moment.

[Shauna]

My lunch break happens between 4 and 5pm erry day. It's only supposed to be 30 minutes, but I can take extra time because I come in a half hour early, leaving me lots of doing nothing time. I usually get something from Sainsburys, but if I take the fancy, I'll go to Subway or something. I bring my sandwiches/noodle pots/whatever I decide to eat back to my desk and I browse EoFF or I read some book on my Kindle.

It is not a bad time.

[noxious.sunshine]

Sometimes breaks don't happen.

Pretty much every chain restaurant I've worked at, if we got super slammed and were already scheduled to work a double shift, we wouldn't get a break at all.

The 1st Mexican place I worked at, the owner -made- us take a break - 1 at a time - for 2 hrs (there were only like 7 of us total anyway). I'd either sleep in a booth in the back or go out to eat somewhere w my ex and drink sangria and stuff.

[theundeadhero]

I don't exactly have meal times. Food is when I remember to eat that day.
Today it was about 11:00am because when I was out I saw an Arbys and was like I'm gonna eat there.
Yesterday I didn't eat anything all day. I never stopped to think I should eat I guess.
The day before I had some hot dogs at about 10:30pm.

[Denmark]

I go out and get food somewhere between 11:30 and 12:30. depending on when I get back/how sociable i'm feeling that day, I'll either eat alone or with my coworkers (the whole company is like 7 people). if I'm back too early, don't feel sociable, or have a bunch of work to get done, I'll just stay in my office during lunch, usually on eoff/facebook/twitter/etc. our company lunches can be fun but often last over an hour whereas I can slack off for 30-45 mins and still have more overall productive hours.

[Jess]

I work right next to the town centre, so usually I'll run into town to do any errands/shopping that needs doing, grab some lunch and then go back to my desk and browse the news websites for whatever is left of my lunch hour. Lunch is anytime between 12-2 but I prefer to go early because I'm usually really hungry by then.

[Rantz]

12:00 is the standard time and an hour is the standard length, but it's all very flexible. The only "requirements" (nobody's really keeping track) are that the lunch break is at least a half hour and that we don't work longer than 5 hours without breaks.

It takes me about 20 minutes to bike home so while I can fit it in during lunch, it's not really worth it. Most often I bring lunch with me or get it from a nearby lunch place, in which case I usually eat either at the office, or if the weather allows down by a nearby pond.

So in short, I get a regular lunch break during which I eat lunch.

[Sephex]

11:30 to noon. I usually eat a small meal and browse the internet at work until it's time to go to work again. *starts sobbing uncontrollably*

[Jessweeee♪]

Haha, I prefer to take the later lunch too. I still feel like I've divided the day in half because the morning is always insanely busy in a pharmacy so the time goes faster. I usually pick up a thing of microwaveable soup before leaving the store and then go home for an hour because I'm a two minute drive away. Unless it's a weekend, then I only get a half hour and I just chill in the break room.

[Shiny]

I eat lunch pretty much whenever I want. It will be before I start work or sometime after. My shift is from 1pm to 9pm.

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

Well, at my old unit it was eat when you can as quickly as you can. At my new unit lunch is between 1100-1300. Two hour lunch break. You know, to break up the monotony of hardly doing anything at all anyways.

I try and busy myself with going to the gym or something.