Lunch poll

kate51485 · February 2010

So all the ladies in my office are in a tizzy because our bosses turned the lunch table into a meetings/conference only area. I think it's hilarious but I never eat with them anyway. What do you do?

laurenclaire1386 · February 2010

My boss's wife cooks every day. (We work out of his home.) It's free and delicious.

kate51485 · February 2010

I remember you telling us that, and I am still jealous, LC

SarahPLiz · February 2010

I eat at my desk. In fact, I just had a DiGiorno 200 caloroie pizza serving. I used to go to the cafeteria to get a to go box and eat outside with a friend, but her position was eliminated last month, and the cafeteria food is way too good. I haven't been this semester at all, trying to stop eating so much at lunch time.

If I ate in the breakroom, I couldn't Knot while i eat!

betrothed123 · February 2010

I typically don't eat lunch, but if I do I eat it at my desk while I continue to work.

Pirata13 · February 2010

At my desk because the people in the break room are obnoxious. Once in a while a co-worker and I will go out for lunch, which is nice.

georgia_bride09 · February 2010

I'm sort of anti-social, so I either eat at my desk, or if I go out for lunch, it's usually with my mom, who works in another building on base. I don't really like eating with work people.

Brie2010 · February 2010

I shut the door and eat in my office. If I leave my door open I'll get bombarded mid-bite.

AlexiaANDRobert · February 2010

I eat at my desk, or use lunch time to run errands and just eat while I'm out.

I hate eating at my desk because then it makes me day feel so much longer. I usually get to work at 7, and don't leave until 5 or 5:30, so it's just a lot of hours sitting inside in front of a computer.

bbyckes · February 2010

I eat at my desk. It's just easier. On occassion, I'll join my suite mates in an off-site lunch, but that's fairly rare.

Morfudd · February 2010

We have a really big common room where students, staff, and some professors come to eat lunch, with one long table down the middle. It has tea and coffee and a microwave, and I usally go there for lunch. It's a bad place to study, though...

If I'm working in the specialty library, I'll just eat my lunch out by the lockers, or go down to the coffee shop on the first floor to buy a cup of something hot and caffeinated.

Sometimes I go to a pub with a friend with whom I'm collaborating on some projects, if we're desperately in need thereof.

mandysmear · February 2010

my desk lately because ive been so busy. but mostly the same people eat in the lunch room together.

kate51485 · February 2010

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[QUOTE]I shut the door and eat in my office. If I leave my door open I'll get bombarded mid-bite.
Posted by Brie2010[/QUOTE]

I love when people start asking me to do something while they see me shoving food in my face, then they stop and say, "Oh are you still at lunch?"

<span>No dipwad, I just happen to be stuffing my mouth at 12something for the fun of it.

I wish I had a door.</span>

goheels05 · February 2010

I'm surprised so many people eat at their desk. Not be be all "mom" on you, but eating at your desk is really unhealthy.

sarabellam · February 2010

We aren't allowed to leave to building for lunch. Sometimes I eat at my desk, sometimes I eat while on lunch duty (making sure the low-life freshmen don't vandalize the snack machines and checking all hall passes), sometimes I eat in the math office. Depends on how anti-social I am feeling at the time.

Mrs_AF · February 2010

I work from 9am to 1pm and then go straight to class until 6 or 7, so I usually eat at my desk so I can get work done.

On the plus side, it keeps me from spending a lot of money going out to lunch.

kate51485 · February 2010

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[QUOTE]I'm surprised so many people eat at their desk. Not be be all "mom" on you, but eating at your desk is really unhealthy.
Posted by goheels05[/QUOTE]

Unhealthy because you are just sitting there digesting and not moving around at all? I'm intrigued.

BecW2be · February 2010

I eat at my desk unless I can meet up with Heels. She makes lunch magical. We have our own mean girls table and Heathers polls and everything.

crfische · February 2010

I used to sit and work with my co workers until I decided over time that I don't like most of them. So now I eat at the table, and then go into my office and "catch up on paperwork."

tannymcgee · February 2010

i eat at my desk, almost always. i work in a really small office so there isn't really anyone to lunch with. i do go out and take a walk/run errands usually before i eat.

suedoe · February 2010

I'm surprised so many people eat at their desk. Not be be all "mom" on you, but eating at your desk is really unhealthy.
Posted by goheels05

Its unhealthy because of all the bacteria on the keyboard and desk itself. I can't eat at my desk. No food is allowed in the call center, but we do have a very nice break room with tea, coffee, microwaves,and reffidgerators. We also have a flat screen tv in there as well. So, I just eat with whover is there at the time. It's usually the same few people.

arbolita · February 2010

Unless we go to the first floor or another area of campus, there's no option here other than to eat at your desk.

mandapanda78 · February 2010

I almost always go out with the same person. Other people in the office make fun of us for it.

kate51485 · February 2010

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[QUOTE]Its unhealthy because of all the bacteria on the keyboard and desk itself. Posted by suedoe[/QUOTE]

Well, I wash my hands right before I eat. I'm not rolling out dough on my desk or anything, my food does not touch the surface at all. I wipe down my keyboard/mouse/everything a few times a week with an antibacterial wipe, and I'm the only person who sits here...so I'm not seeing how this is any worse than being in any other public place or even at home?

Bubbalub · February 2010

When I bring lunch I eat at my desk. I used to go in one of the conference rooms so I could read and relax a bit, but those got converted into an area for testers and the music/audio recording studio, with only one conf. room left that has been jam-packed with meetings lately.

Otherwise I got out, get food, run errands, etc. Sometimes alone, sometimes with other people. I also periodically go to the Humane Society to sit with the dogs and then eat at my desk when I get back.

Brie2010 · February 2010

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[QUOTE]I'm surprised so many people eat at their desk. Not be be all "mom" on you, but eating at your desk is really unhealthy. Posted by goheels05 Its unhealthy because of all the bacteria on the keyboard and desk itself. I can't eat at my desk. No food is allowed in the call center, but we do have a very nice break room with tea, coffee, microwaves,and reffidgerators. We also have a flat screen tv in there as well. So, I just eat with whover is there at the time. It's usually the same few people.
Posted by suedoe[/QUOTE]

I'd rather ingest my own germs from my keyboard than the communal germs of my various co-workers pawing at the microwave and community table.

betrothed123 · February 2010

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[QUOTE]I shut the door and eat in my office. If I leave my door open I'll get bombarded mid-bite.
Posted by Brie2010[/QUOTE]
I'll admit I do this to my coworkers, but it's because no one in my department takes a lunch. If do eat during the day you're doing it while still on the clock (the coworkers I do it to rarely even put in their 8 hours daily, so I don't feel bad at all).

As for the germ thing, if I eat I usually have a granola bar, hold it by the wrapper, and don't set it down on my desk, so I'm not too concerned.

georgia_bride09 · February 2010

Ditto kate. I clean my work area fairly often, so I don't think it's any "dirtier" than anywhere else I'd eat. I know it's cleaner than the nasty common areas around here.

Bubbalub · February 2010

ugh, I had my new (horrible) manager walk right into my cube, behind my chair, and pick up my WiiMote then ask "So, what do you have to show me right now?" all while I had a plate of food in front of me and the fork halfway to my mouth. I just about lost it with him right then. Especially because I get paid hourly, not salary like most people, so I have to technically clock out for lunch and don't get paid for that time.

kate51485 · February 2010

I'm still wondering if Heelsy was talking about a germ standpoint or a nutrition one?

goheels05 · February 2010

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[QUOTE]I'm still wondering if Heelsy was talking about a germ standpoint or a nutrition one?
Posted by kate51485[/QUOTE]

Oh, sorry, I was talking about germs. Your desk is filthy. It's worse than eating while sitting on the toilet, from what I have heard.

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