[Food] Do you take an actual LUNCH HOUR?

Postman Pat · May 24, 2022

Most days I do, currently enjoying lunch.

Will usually eat something whilst watching TV or sometimes walk round the block if it's nice.

I do sometimes check Slack or emails just in case world has gone mad, but usually just chill out for a bit.

I get pretty peeved if someone books meetings over lunch.

Springal · May 24, 2022

I’ve pretty much always WFH’d , I might take a full hour if I take the dog out, but more likely to take 30mins and maybe some 15mins dotted around to run errands or just do something else

Psychobilly freakout · May 24, 2022

Cheeky Monkey said:
When working nights my ‘lunch’ consists of a 30-45 minute power shower in the firm’s gym facility.

The whole purpose of a power shower is to speed the process up, Jiminy Christ, I do not wish to guess what your doing for an extra 25-40 minutes in the shower on nights on your own....

:tosser:

mothy · May 24, 2022

Psychobilly freakout said:
No never, from the moment I get to work anywhere between 8:30 - 9am I work through solidly until 5 or just after, I simply do not get time, occasionally I will walk to the shop and get something to eat, but mainly I eat at the desk. I am usually on my own since another member of staff retired and the boss has not replaced him.
I often wonder am I entitled to an hour a day and could I claim that back over 12 years.

You finish at 5. You lucky lucky *******

BBassic · May 24, 2022

hans kraay fan club · May 24, 2022

Yes, always.

Either to meet my wife somewhere for a coffee, or to pick her up from the shops, or to come home and chill out for a while.

Lucky to work 5 minutes from home.

BBassic · May 24, 2022

Postman Pat said:
Most days I do, currently enjoying lunch.

Will usually eat something whilst watching TV or sometimes walk round the block if it's nice.

I do sometimes check Slack or emails just in case world has gone mad, but usually just chill out for a bit.

I get pretty peeved if someone books meetings over lunch.

Top Tip: book yourself a recurring hour in your own calendar at the time you usually take lunch.

I've got three of these in my calendar: a half hour at the very start and very end of the day and then the lunch hour.

It's flexible of course; if someone gets in touch to ask if I can attend I usually do but it's absolutely cut down the amount of inconvenient meetings.

jackalbion · May 24, 2022

When I'm in the office I usually take a lunch hour as I go for walk around Kings Cross down the canal, and then come back to eat. When I'm at home I eat and work, check for some non league, send a few emails to Paul Barber, you know the usual stuff.

beorhthelm · May 24, 2022

Tom Hark said:
Meeting scheduling software killed the concept of any kind of lunch break at all for many. In fact for some it killed the concept of a break to get any work done between meetings. So work somehow became something do be done after work on the train and/or at home in evenings and at weekends

ever thought to schedule meetings to cover lunch, or to do that peice of work you want to finish?

birthofanorange · May 24, 2022

Postman Pat said:
...sometimes walk round the block if it's nice.

I hope you're not an actual postman, else it doesn't seem much of a break, to me.

Thunder Bolt · May 24, 2022

I only ever had 30 minutes unless it was something special. When I worked flexi time, I liked getting in early, taking my lunch break at 12, and leaving at 16.30,

Thunder Bolt · May 24, 2022

Frutos said:
We can take more if we wish, but a 30 min break is the minimum expectation.

Our overall manager once told a fairly senior staff member off after discovering that said staff member had worked through their supposed lunch break the previous day.

It is a legal requirement to be away from the desk for 20 minutes minimum, unless there is an emergency/

https://www.acas.org.uk/rest-breaks

thedonkeycentrehalf · May 24, 2022

It varies depending on my work schedule. I block out an hour each day but this often gets ignored by people trying to setup meeting but will always take a minimum 30 break, but sometimes it is earlier or later than the traditional lunch time. I try to take an hour at least once a week as it is good to get away from wherever I am working

It works both ways as if I have something to do in the evening - such as an Albion game - it allows me to finish earlier

Marty McFly · May 24, 2022

Has varied on the job. At some places I have taken 2-3hr lunches in order to fit in some kind of exercise (yoga, climbing, bike ride, swim or gym), whilst others have been a quick 15-30min scoff - enabling me to leave a tad earlier!

I'm currently able to set my own hours and typically work 7.30-11, before taking an exercise break and then working 13.30 - 17.00. Works well for me, but perhaps not for everyone!

zefarelly · May 24, 2022

Taybha said:
It's odd that most people in offices who sit on their arses all day still seem to get a lunch hour when people who do real work get far less.

Having done both, the break is usually the opposite of the work !

timbha · May 24, 2022

Don’t get me started on the ones that heat, then eat their lunch whilst chatting to colleagues and then go for a full hour lunch.

Often the ones who said they came in early (to heat and eat their f****** breakfast and chat to their mum on the phone)!!

AmexRuislip · May 24, 2022

I'm actually entitled to an hour and half lunch break, due to working hours etc...
Never actually complete the whole lot, as get bored.

Badger · May 24, 2022

Yes. I've always made sure I get that hour every day.

When I was in the office I used to go for a walk or go to the gym. If the weather was crap I'd go and sit in a coffee shop for an hour. Since working from home I still try and do that walk, go for a run, or run some errands.

I've never understood people who just work through the whole day without a proper break. I honestly think I get more done with that hour break to take my mind away from work.

There is the odd day when it's packed with meetings or there's a software release when I don't get that full hour. It's very much the exception though.

happypig · May 24, 2022

During my entire career I almost always took the allotted break, the exception being if I got stuck on something that I couldn't leave and had to finish; on those occasions I would finish early.
Now I'm retired and can do as I like I tend to stop for food then carry on doing whatever I was doing before (today I'm stripping out some fitted cupboards)

stewart12 · May 24, 2022

i've never worked anywhere with an hour for lunch- always half an hour

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