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Who has time to eat this when you've got unimportant things to
attend to at your cubicle? (AP photo)
Working in an office cubicle opens up many opportunities to overhear other conversations taking place between coworkers. To celebrate this occurence, over the next few months, Dudley B. Dawson will feature some of the best conversations overheard in his office and provide his own commentary.
Title: 'Long lunch' must be a relative term
Female Coworker #1: Hey, are we going to take a quick lunch today, or a 30 minute lunch?
Female Coworker #2: It's Friday, let's do a half hour lunch! (Said with excitement)
Female Coworker #1: OK, I just needed to know because I'm filling out my timesheet and needed to know how much time to take out for lunch.
Dudley B. Dawson's comments:
Not only do these women treat Friday as a special lunch day (pet peeve #312), but they apparently believe using the alotted 30 minutes for lunch is somewhat of a special treat. And yes, they would use the word treat to describe a 30 minute lunch.
Somehow, I've been stuck in a work environment in which people have been brainwashed into believing that lunch is something you do at your desk while working. Even worse, it's often a time reserved for meetings that involve bringing your "brown bag" to the meeting. But that only happens once in a while, because a "brown bag" meeting is a special treat.
But that isn't the worst part. Female Coworker #1 is so anal about completing her timesheets, that she needs to know if she'll be spending 30 minutes eating lunch or whether she'll spend 10-15 minutes. Hey lady...just fill in every day with 8 hours and press submit like EVERYONE else does. No one cares if you're going to eat lunch for 10 extra minutes. There's already a fine line between prisons and workplaces. You don't need to make it worse.
It's conversations like this that make me wish I was living in a van down by the river. I hate every last one of you.
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Overheard from the Cubicle is a recurring article appearing in Dudley B. Dawson's Life in the Cubicle column.
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