I eat at my desk currently, except for one or two days a week when I go see my old co-workers upstairs and we eat takeout.
I eat by myself because the group that eats together down here knows each other really well and is loud and sometimes vulgar. I feel on the edge of them anyway and I really don’t like the style of conversation.
But I’m switching offices soon and will be eating alone near a different group, who I think are pleasanter because their boss sits right in the same area. I’m looking forward to it.
Group. I always head down to the building cafeteria with a couple of my regular lunch partners only to find that our group balloons to something like 10 or 11 people. It gets hard to find room down there with that many.
I used to take it at my desk and surf the dope, but the team I’m on right now is very social so I take advantage of that.
I eat alone, yeah, with nobody else.
I eat alone, yeah, with nobody else.
Yeah, you know when I eat alone, I prefer to be by myself.
I’d rather eat alone. Then I can read, relax, do what I want without having to talk to anyone. My lunch break isn’t really long enough for socialization.
Lunch is the only meal that I eat in the company of others.
My favorite spot is in the break room next to the window. I have one coworker that is my guaranteed lunch partner, but the same cast of characters will come into the break room while we’re eating and join us for a few minutes at a time.
Most of my coworkers eat alone in their cubicles or offices. I’m introverted and love surfing the web, but I can’t imagine spending the whole day in front of the computer. My mind would quickly fry.
I usually am eating lunch between offices (home and DownTown), so I eat at my desk in my home office while I’m packing my briefcase for the afternoon. If I’m running late I eat my sandwich on the drive down. Sometimes I will go out to eat lunch with my daughter or my husband. Although I enjoy having lunch with other people when I’m in the mood, usually I prefer to be alone.
There are generally only two of us working here at one time, so I almost always eat alone…in the back room, nice and quiet, but crappy seating and practically no room. When I do wander down to the food court to eat, it’s with a book and I sit by the windows, as far away from others as possible. If someone I know stops by my table and wants to join me, I’m generally delighted. But mostly, a lunch break is time for me to stop having to be friendly and helpful and sociable and chatty…and I can truly relax. But sometimes? It would be nice to have someone to eat with.
almost always alone. I have a wierd schedule and want to eat when I want to eat. I also bring a healthy lunch and there’s no group area to eat. Plus it’s my 15 minutes during the work day to unwind, surf a little before going back to the grind.
Alone at my desk. I read websites or play solitare. Sometimes I jump between the two.
Even for the Christams party I return to my desk with my plate. We have a cafeteria but I don’t think I have ever eaten in it.
I just like my solitude. Its my hour to relax and unwind from the mornings work. I don’t want to sit with others discussing their familys or their weekend plans. I am just not that much of a social person at work.
Alone, at my desk, reading the Dope. I wouldn’t eat lunch with my boss if you paid me, and my co-worker has been off sick since before xmas…I’m just billy-no-mates!
We’ve just been given the privilege of not having to take the official lunch half-hour if we want to work through the break…we are given a 15 minute paid break instead!
So, I eat my lunch alone at my desk then wander around and see what everyone else is eating and comment rather rudely on their choice of cuisine.
Typically alone, sometimes going out to a restaurant, but usually eating at my desk. It’s the one time of the day when I can surf wherever I want without worry, so I take advantage of it.
See, my point was that I really couldn’t refuse my supervisor’s expectation to eat lunch with her…because she was my supervisor. It was a bad dynamic. It wasn’t that we didn’t get along (at least until the end, but that is another story) but I would have liked the opportunity to gripe about her to others, or even just talk to others during my lunch break. I’m not saying you have the same situation, but you might. It’s sometimes hard to see things from the other side.
I work in a kindergarten, and the adults eat in the office. Everyone in the preschool room eats at the same time except for the one leading Circle Time. One day a week, theoretically, I’m eating alone, but in practice someone from the toddler room usually has some work to do in the office. The other days I’m surrounded. Sometimes I’d really like to just eat in peace, especially when the Little Heathens have been especially noisy all morning like they were today
I tend to eat with a group. These days it is a group of 3-5 people and we play spades for an hour. It is Engineers and IT people, so a good smart group and we talk a lot about movies, tech, sports, house repairs and wotnot. Similar to SDMB conversations actually.
We play mini-quoits in the warmer months sometimes. Then the group will get even larger.
I really enjoy these lunches, before this group, I was hanging out with the controller and another programmer and we would go out to eat most days. We talked mostly sports. Still good, but not as fun and more expensive.
Part of the reason I love my new(ish) job so much is that I eat lunch with a big group of people almost every day. It’s a great way to blow off steam, and we always discuss our cases and issues, so I can always bend someone else’s ear and get advice on some of my tougher ones. At my old job, I ate lunch at my desk almost every day. It sucked.
Yeah, every day I sit down and have the mid-day meal with my regular group. Their tastes run more toward PB&J, whereas I prefer my ham and cheese sandwiches on whole wheat, but we’re able to accommodate pretty much everyone’s requests – even Whatsit the Youngest, who is partial to strained peaches and oatmeal, but will have nothing to do with anything even remotely resembling a mashed pea.
Alone. The three guys that I work with go home for lunch. It’s too much of a drive for me to go home (and a waste of gas). I do have a little fridge in my office. You can really make a very passable ruben with a microwave.
I rarely eat alone. Most often I eat with people whose positions are parallel to mine, so we get to bitch about our bosses and subordinates both But we only devote hald our lunch break to that. The rest of the time we talk about just about anything.
