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I've just had a two hour lunch.

If you take a long lunch where you work, does anyone care?

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

nope. i just had 1.5 hrs in the 'sausage pub', the Bishops Finger in Smithfields.
Besides, its friday afternoon.

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

big it up all the slackers

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm taking a two-week breakfast.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

depends what time i take it.. take 12am-2pm, no-one cares.

take it 1:30 -> 3:30, probably a couple of raised eyebrows.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

that's 1:30->3:30 PM.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

and 12am should have been 12 NOON.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

If I'm back later than 1pm there's trouble because I cover someone else's lunch break. In fact, everyone else's. I am usually the only person here between 1 and 2.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

so presumably there's a big spike on the graph of yr ilx usage then ;)

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Not really. I am fairly blatant even when there's other people here. 1 to 2pm I use for making personal phone calls, ha.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a strict 45-minute lunch break. From 12:30 to 1:15. And I have to be back by 1:15 because the person who covers the phones for me leaves for her lunch at 1:15. It's lame.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I just had a two hour lunch too! Went to the restaurant in the basement of St Paul's with a client for a nice 3 course lunch and some wine. Now I'm a little tipsy and wasting the rest of the day... Yup, I'm a productive fella 'round here.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

it never matters roudn here. i get in around 9:30 or 9:45. muck about the internet. read news etc. then 1.5 to 2 hour lunch and out PRECISELY at 5:01

i don't actually know how they can afford to have someone like me on payroll. but i'm not going to ask.

Which brings me to another - related question - there are always articles about how people are working harder and longer hours but apart from a few people who are obsessed most people i know arent workign longer/harder. even people i know corporate america dont seem to do these crazy hours that i read about in articles. now i am very lazy so maybe i naturally gravitate to lazy people. but in your experience are people you know working long crazy hours?

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Really. used to do the long hours in the 90's .. Then had the epiphanical WTF... Cut down to exactly 8 hours per day. Long days are for suckers.. You're not getting paid, go home.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

exactly. and once i was in my 30s i didnt even have the energy for it. i wanted to have a life outside the office and that meant not devoting all my energy to projecting the value to be derived from our new global marketing strategy. rather be drinking white wine on a sunny terasse

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

People are only expected to put in long hours because they do it.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

If you take a long lunch where you work, does anyone care?

Nope, my parents (read: bosses) are in Japan so they wouldn't know if I took a long lunch or a quick bite. That said, I can't leave the shop so long/short lunch, it's not much difference for us.

Apparently we (Belgians) are one of the hardest working fewls on this planet. I'm part of those idiots.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i've just had a four hour lunchbreak!!! i spent it on my desk, eating ham and going on ilx.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Do Americans go out for liquid lunches as often as the UK'ers? I've never been on one in my life.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i just had a soup

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

(but real liquid lunches only once in like few months)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

They theoretically care if I'm longer than an hour. 95% of the time I'm on time, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes i go to the bookstore at lunch for about three hours. no one notices. i think...

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I could possibly get away with a longer-than-an-hour lunch break, but.. like maybe only 15 minutes longer, because these people seem to notice my habits much more than i realize.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

Liquid lunches - yes definitely. but i once asked an american client if she wanted wine with her lunch and she laughed in my face. so i drank perier and made a mental note to only book mid-morning meetings with yanks.

i don't know about english canada but in quebec you can drink at lunch without anyone raising an eyebrow.

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

the only time i had a liquid lunch was when i worked next door to a brewery for a couple months. i only did it once and it was with a college age coworker.

in my workplace its definitely looked down on. I dont see the big deal about 1 drink.

that said, i can take over an hour lunch.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

My lunch break is 30 minutes only, but today I'm skipping it to make a tiny bit of overtime.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I tend to eat at my desk and half the time I'm asked to do stuff while technically on my lunch hour. So I don't feel guilty about extending it a bit on occasion.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

do people in the UK still have (liquid) lunch at the Pub or is it only characters on Coronation St that do that?

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i just went to the pub, had a pint of bishops finger, at the bishops finger (see above)

had a 3 hr lunch break last fri drinking, but with the most of my office. came back, did an hour of work, then left

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i could use some pub grub. like a big plate of mashed potatoes. i don't think i could find it for under $20 in downtown chicago though.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

This year, I have worked an average of 50-60 hours a week, most of them spent sitting and reading. And most of my lunches are done on the clock, at my patient's house. So now you know why I haven't been on ILX much.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

We often have pub lunches at my work - I dont drink tho, daytime drinking makes me too sleepy. I only get a half hour lunch technically but if I go 45 mins now and then no one minds.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

fools!

look, the key to taking a long lunch is:

a) going out by yourself
b) waiting until five minutes after everyone else has gone out to leave

this way no one really knows how long you were gone. If anyone happens to ask you can just say "don't remember when I left but it was awhile after you guys did." You could almost get two hour lunches every day out of that. Usually I keep mine quick, but I've used this strategy before when I need to go somewhere out of the way.

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I was going to answer "one hour, exactly, every day" before I remembered that actually I quit working last week. I can take an all day lunch now!

― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

some colleagues of mine went one better on Friday and didn't come back from lunch at all.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 19 September 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

they got murdered?

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 19 September 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

no they went straight from the restaurant to the pub where they stayed for the remainder of the afternoon 9after which I joined them) and the evening as well. And they had lunch at the company's expense too, pfft.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 19 September 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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