To think if you organise a business meeting at 11am that you provide lunch

[lizziemun]

Yesterday dh had to go a meeting in London, which started at 11am.

When he got home at 4pm i could tell from his grumpness mood that he hadn't had lunch.

Is it a man thing that if you have a meeting over lunchtime 11am to 3pm that organise lunch even if it is to send someone to get sandwiches.

I admit i might be being unreasonable, but am 38 wks pg so may not be thinking straight.

YANBU, I would have thought that they could have provided sandwiches and water.

I would have thought they would either provide lunch or at least say, let's take a break for lunch (ie go and buy yourself a sandwich matey we are too mean to feed you). Did no one else at the meeting eat? Were there not even biscuits? Your poor DH.

I think if you organise a meeting at 11am you don't necessarily provide lunch, however if it is known that the meeting will go on until 3pm, then yes you should provide or organise lunch, or have a break for people to go and get some.

my work have just decided if they send you on a course they no longer give you lunch either tske your own or go and buy some. I've got to go on a 2 day course in Aril and involves me taking the dd's to my mums at 6.20am and not getting home till 7 in the evening normally I'd let the extra travelling time go but since they are being tight so strict about lunch I am having the 4hours additional travelling each day back as an extras day holiday

When I was working and there was no sign of any lunch I would say brightly "I'm so hungry now, I can't think striaght - how about we break for half an hour to get some sandwiches?" It worked every single time (and the next time lunch was always provided!).
I hate all this macho "I don't need lunch" lark.

Whats the point of starting a meeting at 11? It will just have started then its lunchtime anyway. Why couldnt it have been arranged for say 1pm to allow people to have lunch first? Its called common sense!

"Lunch is for wimps" ?

LOL InTheScrum

Puddingchops

I don't know why they stated at 11am. I can only think that because people where travelling into london for the meeting.

BTW I didn't mean that they should have provided a set lunch, i meant why didn't they either send someone get sandwiches or break for lunch/coffee. I have worked in offices where i've been given a list and money then gone and bought lunch for a meeting.

To be honest i don't dh thought about lunch as he would have been engrossed with the technical side of the meeting (setting up a network/datacentre). It would have been only when he stopped and his blood sugar level dropped he would have thought about food.

Plain silly to have a meeting right across the middle of the day without feeding people or letting them go and feed themselves. I bet none of them were thinking that brilliantly towards the end of the meeting, poor things.

yanbu -its happened to me a few times and I think its just wrong... wtf do they think they are achieving by this?

In my experience, it is only ever the women who say 'I'm starving!'. Then men will also admit that they are. They are otherwise too worried about looking like a big girl's blouse