New job - already fed up with unhealthy ‘working lunches‘

You’re on six figures and you call folk ‘hun’ and sign off with kisses. You’re having a laugh.

Fine, I'll assume you don't want to respond in any meaningful way. You can have the last word just saying "no, you" as that seems to be all you want out of this.

Ditto

Well that’s good then! I suppose it’s better than being on the sanctimonious side

Employees in UK are legally entitled to 20 mins break for every 6 hours worked. I will never understand why workers put up with shit like this. Working through your lunch break as a directed and regular thing? Nah. Unionise and tell your employer to f**k off.

Have your hot lunch at 11or 3. You are being a drama queen.

Could you possibly use an insulated food flask. You could heat up your lunch before leaving in the morning and they will keep it warm for up to 10 hours

Ball's in your court I'm afraid.

I underestimated the pure vitriol being slim and successful would result in.

OP you have been very rude about the size of your colleagues and that is what most posters are pushing back against. You do you. But you sound awfully judgemental. As others have said…just bring your own food! It is so simple.

”Are you going to eat the Greggs lunch?”
”No I’m on a special diet so have brought my own food”

🙄

Says you calling your colleagues 'podgy' because they're a size 14-16 😆

Can’t you just do an extra hour in the gym on the dreaded Greggs day? Or whatever successful skinny woman do to offset the calories?

Thank you for this thread, it’s genuinely made me chuckle.

Maybe giving into the temptation of beige food occasionally would be good for you?

Fucking hell, aren't you a delight. We get it - you're skinny, been head hunted, 6 figure salary. Righto 😂

This can't be a serious post.

Says the woman who is commenting on the size of her colleagues…

Surely you just take one of your meal prep dishes and heat it up in the microwave while everyone is tucking into their Dominos?

Yeah but it’s the principal , OP works for large presumably profitable company, my bugbear is the ‘let them eat cake attitude’ that the financial elite have towards the masses on a small scale . I know I’m being extreme but that’s what it really boils down to

There's no harm in speaking to the person who organised it and asking what other options there might be. Gregg's and Domino's seems exceptionally limiting for those eating healthily. In fact just quality wise it's not great even if you like pizza and sausage rolls.

Maybe you could ask what the budget was and come up with a few suggestions of what's available locally? And also ask the others as if they're on your side I can't see why they wouldn't opt for a place that at least offers gluten free stuff, salads, vegan or halal or just a wider selection. It could even be from a supermarket surely?

Once a month! And I worried I was being precious being annoyed about having to reduce my rest period between shifts to nine hours to start early tomorrow - 45 min drive either way and shower/food/sleep/getting ready in morning all need to be done within that nine hours.

Big hello to all the latecomers. Thread got bit slow and congested with all the porkers clogging up the internet with their sausage roll dust and free radical carbs

@AliceSeal has been banned . Her skinny Arse has sashayed out the door

Your options:
1 suck it up for one meal a month
2 don't eat anything
3 take something cold in. You'll can work something out within your macros for one meal a month so that's a rubbish excuse
4 if you insist on having a warm lunch, eat it before or after the meeting
5 take something in a thermos to eat during the meeting
6 suggest healthier options although understand that other people might like this ritual more than you dislike it
7 ask to extend the meeting so you can use the microwave but know you'll be seen the same way as many on here see you. If I was in your team I couldn't care less what you did/didn't eat but I'd possibly be pissed off if you extended an already long meeting and insisted everyone waited round for you while you messed about with a microwave.

As a senior member of staff, you'll know that sometimes you just have to go with the flow and do what your team want to do.

Surely you can just stick your massive salad in the fridge and share it with your thin mates whilst those fatty size 14s get stuck in to the pizza. That’s if you have any mates?

Re read & then come back

I'm another one that can't work out why you can't solve this for yourself, particularly as you seem to have a relatively senior role. You don't have to eat the lunch that's out on at all and no one will care if you don't eat it and have something else instead but it doesn't need any attention, just have your usual lunch and if needs be have it earlier or later

It’s one meal a month!

ONE meal out of NINETY!

This is not making anyone obese. Unclench.

Prep something healthy you can put in a hot flask

You don't really need to reread your comments becuase you keep posting the same one.

Look, no companies are forcing anyone to eat provided lunches. Do you actually want to respond or are you just going to post again that "companies shouldn't force people to eat junk"? Because they're not.

Cupasoup? 🤣