Lunch question

[Cheese]

Lunch break question, when at work.

Do you:

a) Take it during the middle of the day.

b) Take it early.

c) Take it late in the day so when you get back you only have a couple more hours to work.

d) Do nothing between 11am and 4pm and if the boss asks you what you're up to tell him you've just started your lunch break.

e) Other, please explain

[thebazzla]

b. take it early i finish (work) at 11.30 am so i have it around 2pm:yup:

[Barbarossa]

I tend to take it in the middle of the day :mellow:

[Cheese]

I wasn't very clear :(

I meant your lunch break at work . . .

[Alien5]

d, is the cleverest option but a combination of c & d is the best way to waste the day. sometimes i would go to mac donalds or the cafe before work,start work at 4pm, then after about an hour, go to get munch from the shop or mc's again as the boss would leave at 5:30ish, then go for an hour break at lunch time, i did because i could.

[manker]

Other.

I never do any work between 12 and one - which is when the girls have their lunch-break. I usually fanny about on the internets. I don't eat at that time, tho'.

If I do eat, then I'll go home or to my Mam's for food when I fancy getting out of the office for a bit. Either that or survive on coffee till I go home for dinner.

I used to eat rolls, crisps and chocolate in wurk but decided I'd end up fat like Bo if I carried on :dabs:

[Cheese]

The cleverest option (which I just though up) would be to skive all day and if you're not caught out (and thus have to use the lunch excuse) then leave work hour/half-hour early saying you can because you skipped lunch. :sage:

[manker]

I wasn't very clear :(

I meant your lunch break at work . . .
FFS.

Well I'm not editing now :snooty:

[manker]

d, is the cleverest option but a combination of c & d is the best way to waste the day. sometimes i would go to mac donalds or the cafe before work,start work at 4pm, then after about an hour, go to get munch from the shop or mc's again as the boss would leave at 5:30ish, then go for an hour break at lunch time, i did because i could.
Fuck off, Allen, you've been unemployed since 1987.

McDonalds wasn't even invented in the UK back then.

[Alien5]

The cleverest option (which I just though up) would be to skive all day and if you're not caught out (and thus have to use the lunch excuse) then leave work hour/half-hour early saying you can because you skipped lunch. :sage: they banned us from using that ( lunch at the end of the day) excuse. but then again we had no boss for many years so they made one of us supervisor. :ghey:

fuck you, ive only been on the dole for 2 years, i left the job im talking about in 2003 after 5 years. then i worked in m&s over christmas 2 years ago.

[Cheese]

The cleverest option (which I just though up) would be to skive all day and if you're not caught out (and thus have to use the lunch excuse) then leave work hour/half-hour early saying you can because you skipped lunch. :sage:

Or you could not go home early and save up for a five hour lunchbreak for Friday afternoon. :yup:

[Barbarossa]

Some days I don't have a break :idunno:

[manker]

Some days I don't have a break :idunno:
Yes, mate. But that's a Saturday and a Sunday when your missus makes you do all your chores.

That's okay, tho', as you've all week doing feck all in work to recover :01:

[Cheese]

Speaking of chores, I will have to do some tonight before Crabgirl gets back. Will also have to give the cat 5 cans of cat food this evening to make up for forgetting to feed it all week.

[manker]

It's a pity she's not away for longer - cats eat their own feet if they're hungry enough, you could have posted pics or a video.

Just a few more days would have done it :no:

[manker]

fuck you, ive only been on the dole for 2 years, i left the job im talking about in 2003 after 5 years. then i worked in m&s over christmas 2 years ago.Just noticed your edit.

I'm sure you said before that 1987 was the last time you worked - and that was only because they threatened to take your benefit away.
Labour's been molly coddling you work-shy doletards.

[Cheese]

The bright side of not feeding the cat (other than potential self-cannibalism) is I won't get shouted at for not emptying the cat litter tray.

[Alien5]

i was only 13 in 1987 :o

[Biggles]

i was only 13 in 1987 :o

Lazy sod! Starting your employment that early is a disgrace.

[manker]

i was only 13 in 1987 :o
You're prolly lying about your age too :dry:

Too much time on your hands, that's your trouble.

[Alien5]

i was only 13 in 1987 :o

Lazy sod! Starting your employment that early is a disgrace.

does a paper round count? :ermm:



i was only 13 in 1987 :o
You're prolly lying about your age too :dry:

Too much time on your hands, that's your trouble.

im not lying, ask me anything about the 80's or something.

[Biggles]

Lazy sod! Starting your employment that early is a disgrace.

does a paper round count? :ermm:

Only if you delivered the right papers to the right house

[manker]

i was only 13 in 1987 :o
You're prolly lying about your age too :dry:

Too much time on your hands, that's your trouble.

im not lying, ask me anything about the 80's or something.Should 80s be apostrophicised.

[Alien5]

yes but the 1980s shouldn't.

[Barbarossa]

Oh noes! :no:

[Barbarossa]

Some days I don't have a break :idunno:
Yes, mate. But that's a Saturday and a Sunday when your missus makes you do all your chores.

That's okay, tho', as you've all week doing feck all in work to recover :01:

This weekend we have to go shopping for a new washing machine :emo:

[manker]

:lol: poor AllenS.

I'll stop now.

===

Watched Lost and Supernatural in HD on the telly last night :smilie4:

[Alien5]

:) wanker

[Alien5]

new episode of lost airs tonight.

[sumvell]

skip it

[thebazzla]

^^^
what lunch or lost

[Something Else]

I don't get a lunch break. :pinch:

[thebazzla]

I don't get a lunch break. :pinch:well you should demand one :huh:

[Alien5]

thats illegal.


Rest breaks - a break during your working day

If you're an adult worker (that is, over 18), you'll normally have the right to a 20 minute rest break if you're expected to work for more than six hours at a stretch.

A lunch or coffee break can count as your rest break. Additional breaks might be given by your contract of employment. There's no statutory right to 'smoking breaks'.

The requirements are:

* the break must be in one block
* it can't be taken off one end of the working day - it must be somewhere in the middle {cheese)
* you're allowed to spend it away from the place on your employer's premises where you work
* your employer can say when the break must be taken, as long as it meets these conditions



http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/WorkingHoursAndTimeOff/DG_10029451

[cocalait]

Skive all day.

[Squeamous]

I take it whenever possible, but it's best at lunchtime when everyone's out 'cos then you get some privacy.

[C-mos]

my lunch is very early :D

[Something Else]

thats illegal.


Rest breaks - a break during your working day

If you're an adult worker (that is, over 18), you'll normally have the right to a 20 minute rest break if you're expected to work for more than six hours at a stretch.

A lunch or coffee break can count as your rest break. Additional breaks might be given by your contract of employment. There's no statutory right to 'smoking breaks'.

The requirements are:

* the break must be in one block
* it can't be taken off one end of the working day - it must be somewhere in the middle {cheese)
* you're allowed to spend it away from the place on your employer's premises where you work
* your employer can say when the break must be taken, as long as it meets these conditionshttp://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/WorkingHoursAndTimeOff/DG_10029451

Fuck them, if I listened to those twats i'd probably be fighting a war or doing some other cuntishness.
Not having a lunch break doesn't bother me at all.

[Squeamous]

I used to work right through and leave an hour early without even taking my break, but my boss eventually put a stop to it because she said I had to have at least half an hour for lunch under employment law. So I started taking my half hour break entitlement at lunch time and still left an hour early.

[Alien5]

I would rather take a break than work all day. everyone needs a break benchez, i think your boss is a cunt. in every job I've had its been up to the manager/supervisor/boss to say "its break time" or "you can go for break at ...0'clock."

[Barbarossa]

Yeah, but what do you know, what you know about working would just about cover half a sheet of A4 :dabs:

In big writing :dabs:

[manker]

Just because Allen's virtually unemployable now after being on the dole for so long, it doesn't mean that he's not a valuable member of society.

Oh, hang on ... .

[Alien5]

how do measure how much i know about work? I've tried a lot of different jobs. the longest job i had was for 5 years, that was long enough for me.

i know when to take a lunch break. :happy: ...and try to take more if you can get away with it.

[Something Else]

I would rather take a break than work all day. everyone needs a break benchez, i think your boss is a cunt. in every job I've had its been up to the manager/supervisor/boss to say "its break time" or "you can go for break at ...0'clock."

I am the manager/supervisor/boss. :pinch:

Am I really a cunt. :cry:

[Alien5]

maybe you should employ me - then you can take a lunch break :)

[Barbarossa]

how do measure how much i know about work? I've tried a lot of different jobs. the longest job i had was for 5 years, that was long enough for me.

i know when to take a lunch break. :happy: ...and try to take more if you can get away with it.

Big school doesn't count as a job :shutup:

[Something Else]

maybe you should employ me - then you can take a lunch break :)

Free on Saturday. :unsure:

7 squids an hour, after tax like. :01:

[manker]

maybe you should employ me :)

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

[Alien5]

that was the easiest job interview ever.

[Something Else]

that was the easiest job interview ever.

Is that a yes. :unsure:

[Alien5]

yeah i'll try it for one day, if i don't like it then im not coming back next week. :mellow:

[Something Else]

No lunch-break. I may send you out to get us some food though.

[Alien5]

thanks boss, no problem boss, yay im not an unemployable doletard anymore.

[manker]

Picture the scene, Allen turns up for work in the antique furniture shop;

Allen: Alrite, boss. So what should I start with, a bit of restoration on that fine teak drinks table - or would you like me to order all of the pending deliveries into an automated system for ease of reference.
Ben: Errr, I felt sorry for you cos Barbie was taking the pish. There's no job.
Allen: kthxbai

Set fades and switches to Allen alone in his bedroom at his Mam's house with razorbaldes poised and Fallout Boy playing softly in the background.

[Barbarossa]

Oh yes blame it all on me why don't you. :O

Allen knows where I live ffs, :pinch:

Well, at least the town anyway...

[manker]

It's always you, well, either you or JP.

You're the harshest harshists on the bored.

[Alien5]

yeah, watch out Barbie, me and benchez might badly restore the outside of your train station. we know what town you live in.

[Barbarossa]

I'm flouncing off in a huff :snooty:

Not really, I'm just going home because it's hometime

[Barbarossa]

yeah, watch out Barbie, me and benchez might badly restore the outside of your train station. we know what town you live in.

I don't own the town, I just live here :ermm:

[Alien5]

I dunno what house you live in do i? :idunno:

[Fromagepas]

Just ask for the baby who's good with remote controls. He lives with her.

[ShadowsServant]

The middle of the day, I usually get hungry at 1pm...if I've not eaten my work is the last thing on my mind.

[Busyman]

e

I take lunch, if I can, between 11:30am-1pm.

If it gets too late, I don't take one.

I pretty much buy my lunch at any of the various dives downtown. If it gets too late, I may as well save my money and eat at home.

[Squeamous]

I don't understand people who buy their lunch at work....I just can't get on with people like that. Not that I'm judgemental or anything....

[Busyman™]

I don't understand people who buy their lunch at work....I just can't get on with people like that. Not that I'm judgemental or anything....

What's the problem?

[Aaxel21]

I like to take my lunch around 1am when i work nights and around 12pm when i have off from work

[Spider_dude]

1pm everyday, usually.

[Alien5]

I like to take all my breaks at once, halfway through the day.

[bergstein]

I take it noontime

[GeeGeeGee]

Skive all day.

[Cheese]

Strangely, I now take my lunch breaks at 12. And a second one at 2pm.

[Snee]

Strangely, I now take my lunch breaks at 12. And a second one at 2pm.
Do you actually eat much by 2pm, though?

We've got a similar setup, by which I mean we have a long break around 2-3pm, and one at noon. Noon is for lunch, the other is mostly for cookies.

We also generally take a bit of a breakfast, around 10.

[Snee]

never eat meat, try be human...

Good going. Keep it stupid.

[MCHeshPants420]

Strangely, I now take my lunch breaks at 12. And a second one at 2pm.
Do you actually eat much by 2pm, though?

We've got a similar setup, by which I mean we have a long break around 2-3pm, and one at noon. Noon is for lunch, the other is mostly for cookies.

We also generally take a bit of a breakfast, around 10.

I'm on a diet so I don't eat much anyhow, just 2 apples and a nutritional milkshake. Lunch breaks for me are more a time when I don't need to minimise my Facebook when the boss walks by ...

[Seedler]

I eat lunch at noon, but I know cheese takes it in the arse all in one setting.:dabs:

[MCHeshPants420]

I eat lunch at noon, but I know cheese takes it in the arse all in one setting.:dabs:

Awesome,let's see if I can counter.

Your mom takes it in the arse all in one setting.

Oh yeah, sick burn.