Eating breakfast at work

[T84]

I usually get in 15 minutes early to have some crumpets or something, I don't feel up for breakfast when I've just woken up.

[Muzzer]

I have toast about 9.30

I don't like eating first thing, and the bread in our canteen is

[ZesPak]

blindswelledrat said:

ZesPak said:

[Well, it's just that a regular day starts at 8:30, and I can arrive at work at 8:00, eat comfortable and start working at 8:10. My employer prefers this above me arriving at 8:30 like everybody else.
Who wins by having me in the car an extra 15 min? I gain at least 15minutes without the need of rising earlier.
]

Sorry, missed your point. You weren't clear that you were doing it in your own time.

No problem, of course it's for my own, I'm also self employed (I work as a subcontractor) and it helps me to always be in time very well without wasting too much time (I work in retail quite often so I can eat in my car in front of the door when it's not open yet).
I just wanted to say that instead of eating within 15min after waking up (which I don't really like), I can eat after driving for an hour, even saving me half an hour on commute.

I don't condone eating after batching/when you should have started working, but then the same applies to people who think it's acceptable to go out and smoke for six minutes every hour (they don't seem to realize that's about 10% of their time).

[alfa pint]

I try and run to work as often as my ageing legs allow, cycling the rest and only taking the car in on a Monday and the odd Friday.

My workplace has a shower, so at least I have limited changing facilities, but I find I can't run in on a full stomach in any comfort, so I have breakfast bars / bananas in my drawer which I'll eat with a cup of coffee. I'm at work at the same time - what difference does it make if I have a snack in the morning vs having a bag of crisps mid-morning like some of my fellow lard arse employees?

I can see the issue if you're eating curry or something a bit ripe and smelly in a shared workplace, but a bit of breakfast, eaten quietly?

[Great Pretender]

I sit beside a shower. At work.

Worse still, I get people walking past me in their towels. At work.

Madness.

[Penny-lope]

I am the supervisor at the Breakfast Club within my school

Hmmm toast, and warm pancakes on Friday

[RedWhiteMonkey]

Great Pretender said:

I sit beside a shower. At work.

Worse still, I get people walking past me in their towels. At work.

Madness.

Are you a swimming pool attendant?

[Rach*]

ZesPak said:

blindswelledrat said:

ZesPak said:

From another POV:

I eat at work for a very simple reason:

Leaving at 6:45 could get me at work at 8:00.
Leaving at 7:00 could get me at work at 8:30 at best, often 8:45.

So a quick bite at work rather than at home saves me an easy 15 minutes of traffic, if not more.

Not that I care one way or another, but that's the worst excuse in the world. What has it got to do with your emplyer that you would need to get up 15 minutes earlier to eat breakfast like everyone else in the whole world?

Well, it's just that a regular day starts at 8:30, and I can arrive at work at 8:00, eat comfortable and start working at 8:10. My employer prefers this above me arriving at 8:30 like everybody else.
Who wins by having me in the car an extra 15 min? I gain at least 15minutes without the need of rising earlier.

It's win-win for everybody.

Edited by ZesPak on Tuesday 16th November 14:15

I do the same, leave home extra early to avoid the traffic but have brekky when I get here, company pays for milk too yum.

[Frankeh]

Don't eat breakfast.

I live off brunch and then dinner.

[Great Pretender]

RedWhiteMonkey said:

Great Pretender said:

I sit beside a shower. At work.

Worse still, I get people walking past me in their towels. At work.

Madness.

Are you a swimming pool attendant?

You'd think so wouldn't you?

[Deva Link]

Great Pretender said:

RedWhiteMonkey said:

Great Pretender said:

I sit beside a shower. At work.

Worse still, I get people walking past me in their towels. At work.

Madness.

Are you a swimming pool attendant?

You'd think so wouldn't you?

Do they wander over to a corner of the office to get dressed?

[Great Pretender]

Deva Link said:

Great Pretender said:

RedWhiteMonkey said:

Great Pretender said:

I sit beside a shower. At work.

Worse still, I get people walking past me in their towels. At work.

Madness.

Are you a swimming pool attendant?

You'd think so wouldn't you?

Do they wander over to a corner of the office to get dressed?

I'm actually not sure. I suspect the individual(s) (I can think of only two or three) splosh back to their desks and get dressed. It's quite distracting when you're in deep thought and all you can hear is some middle-aged, desperate-to-get-fit-again, fat bloke showering a few feet behind you. Naked.

>shudder<

[alfa pint]

Great Pretender said:

Deva Link said:

Great Pretender said:

RedWhiteMonkey said:

Great Pretender said:

I sit beside a shower. At work.

Worse still, I get people walking past me in their towels. At work.

Madness.

Are you a swimming pool attendant?

You'd think so wouldn't you?

Do they wander over to a corner of the office to get dressed?

I'm actually not sure. I suspect the individual(s) (I can think of only two or three) splosh back to their desks and get dressed. It's quite distracting when you're in deep thought and all you can hear is some middle-aged, desperate-to-get-fit-again, fat bloke showering a few feet behind you. Naked.

>shudder<

Matelot?

[pad58]

Every day..apart from sunday.


A sausage and bacon baguette.

Cos i'm in a butchers shop,I know most buthcers do.

[snowy slopes]

when i used to travel to work, i used to get in earlier than i needed so i could eat my breakfast and be ready to start work at the designated time. Like a lot of people, i cant stomach food straight away in the morning, so by the time i got to work, i was ready to eat something, but on my time, not the company's

[Marf]

TonyRPH said:

My employer condones this.

As does my current employer - we have a works canteen which has a cereal/fruit bar and lays on a full english.

My previous employer did too, we had £6 per day to spend at Ocado. Paid for lunch and breakfast each day with some to spare.

[snowy slopes]

Marf said:

TonyRPH said:

My employer condones this.

As does my current employer - we have a works canteen which has a cereal/fruit bar and lays on a full english.

My previous employer did too, we had £6 per day to spend at Ocado. Paid for lunch and breakfast each day with some to spare.

Ahhhh the joys of working for ocado. Mind you, i must have worked there some time before you did, as when i worked there, there wasnt much of a canteen, well not for night shift anyway. Did you work there in hemel, or after it moved to hatfield??

[Marf]

snowy slopes said:

Marf said:

TonyRPH said:

My employer condones this.

As does my current employer - we have a works canteen which has a cereal/fruit bar and lays on a full english.

My previous employer did too, we had £6 per day to spend at Ocado. Paid for lunch and breakfast each day with some to spare.

Ahhhh the joys of working for ocado.

I never worked for Ocado, just had a very good benefits package at my previous company

[inman999]

Thank fk I don't work in an office anymore.

[snowy slopes]

Marf said:

snowy slopes said:

Marf said:

TonyRPH said:

My employer condones this.

As does my current employer - we have a works canteen which has a cereal/fruit bar and lays on a full english.

My previous employer did too, we had £6 per day to spend at Ocado. Paid for lunch and breakfast each day with some to spare.

Ahhhh the joys of working for ocado.

I never worked for Ocado, just had a very good benefits package at my previous company

Right okay, i'll go back to thinking about boobies Sorry to bother you