To think people should have breakfast BEFORE work?

[candybeek]

If you work a normal daily shift like 9-5 office hours, then I feel it's really odd people come in to work and immediately start pouring milk on their cornflakes or dashing to the canteen for a greasy fry up.
I'm in the minority at my work place that have breakfast at home before work.
I understand it if you work shifts etc but 9-5??

I find it really odd, what's next - people using the kitchen to cook their tea before they leave for work?

It's even worse as they bring their smelly breakfasts back to their desk so I have to inhale it all.

Am I on my own in this thought?

Queen - because your colleagues don't want to be forced to listen to you eat?

They're in the canteen, you're on Mumsnet.

Same amount of work is being done, probably.

is this why I cant get an answer from tax credits? because they are busy eating breakfast when they should be answering the phone?

Today 09:13 Queenbean- why can't office workers wait for breaks/ lunch? Why should we have to? confused

Lunch break
Coffee break

Some of you are starting to sound a little weird about this...

Well quite queenbean

Although it depends what we have on, because a lot of office workers don't just sit tapping away all day elodie. Or do you need me to explain what a 'meeting over lunchtime' or a 'customer conference call' is? Jeez I really hope you don't teach my dc.

"Same amount of work is being done"

No, because i am not doing any work because I am being distracted by the noise YOU are making

I don't get coffee breaks. Or lunch breaks.

No one says to me "ok it's 11am, you've got 15 minutes to go for a coffee".

Because I am a grown up and manage my own workloads.

Or maybe I should flip things around - I don't get 6 weeks off work over summer so can't see why anyone else should. Therefore all teachers should start going to work over summer holidays just because I don't get the time off either.

They're in the canteen, you're on Mumsnet.

Maybe they are in the canteen and on mumsnet, who knows?

Cow I have an office so I can assure you that none of my colleagues can hear me "chomping away"

Queen - I am working at my desk. I don't want to listen to you eat. Please go somewhere else or wait for your break. Why am I bu?

I can't face food first thing. Mornings in my house are stress filled affairs with dc with SN. I take toast soldiers in to work and eat them as I do so don't need to stop working.

Today 09:13 AnnaT45 I think you'll find most office jobs don't have breaks!

Against the law. Your employer has to schedule in breaks.
Nurses/ doctors rarely get theirs - another thread

Queen - OK I don't care. Eat away.

Basic
I think I'd quite like your job. Sounds really slack very flexible.

Nope, there's 8 of us here, we all eat at our desks, I'm sure if there was an issue it would've been raised by now

i care,
Do some work

It is actually really unhygienic

I'm on maternity leave at the moment but I always left home at 5:30am got to work for 7:30am and had some toast and a coffee with some of my team while going over bits and bobs. I was lucky to leave the office by 8pm most days so I needed my breakfast as i never knew what time my lunch would be and it was a bloody long weight until dinner.

Provided the same amount of work is being done and nobody is stuffing there faces all day and not working then I don't see the problem.

One time when I was doing an interview (it was a 8:30am interview) and the lady come in and I started with the questions and she was sitting eating an croissant as she missed breakfast. Since when was it acceptable to eat in a job interview??

elodie we are entitled to a lunch break of course but not coffee breaks? So if I'm hungry or thirsty outside of lunchtime I can't have anything? I find this all a bit weird, we are all adults! And to those who don't like food sounds or smells do you never eat out ?

^Basic
I think I'd quite like your job. Sounds really slack very flexible.^

oops, it didnt copy the crossing out

Are the office workers on here at 'work' ?

I'd stay with that job. You seem to have managers who condone employees slacking off and doing minimal work!

Of course. I don't get why people don't use their coffee breaks & lunch break to eat. Surely that's what they're for?

What breaks? I don't have official coffee or lunch breaks. I manage my time, my work, my cases as I see fit. Some days if i'm stressed, I bugger off out for an hour for lunch. Others I work right through because I have deadlines. Sometimes I go in a bit late and finish a bit late.

Not all office jobs have set breaks and lunches.