Do You Tell People You're Going For Lunch

Riddle101 · 23-01-2017 02:41PM #1

Before I go on lunch, I usually tell the more senior members of staff that i'm going on lunch. I do it as a polite courtesy to let them known i'll be away from my post. I work at a desk where i'm mostly answering phones, so I think it's only right to tell them i'll be going on lunch and won't be around for a bit. Although it doesn't seem like I have to tell them. They don't seem to care either way, but I do it anyway.

What about other people? Do you tell people you're going on lunch? or do you just think "F*ck it, i'm entitled to my lunch break and i'm going on it. I can't be bothered telling anyone".

Liam McPoyle · 23-01-2017 02:42PM

We don't close for lunch so its courtesy to tell colleagues that you are taking it to ensure there is cover if the need arises.

duffman13 · 23-01-2017 02:43PM

If I haven't got a defined time for lunch id normally let someone know, it's a bit of courtesy to let people you work with know you won't be at your desk for an hour

GalwayGirl26 · 23-01-2017 02:44PM

I'm a teacher- so our lunch is a set time, bell rings, go to staffroom.

However, if we want to leave the school, we have to sign out at reception, and then sign back in (marking the time in both cases). Apparently, it's a fire safety thing, but honestly it feels like we're being monitored along with the kids.

Stravos Murphy · 23-01-2017 02:46PM

I am on a drip and wear a nappy at work never need to leave my desk.

jimgoose · 23-01-2017 02:53PM

No, because I've been a salaried senior engineer who manages my own time for a long time, and having to go in for any of this "An bhfuil cead agam dul amach??" bollocks would culminate quite quickly in someone being kicked through a window.

GalwayGirl26 wrote: »

...if we want to leave the school, we have to sign out at reception, and then sign back in (marking the time in both cases). Apparently, it's a fire safety thing, but honestly it feels like we're being monitored along with the kids.

Nonsense. I've never encountered that, and been in and out of big American shops all my life.

corner of hells · 23-01-2017 02:56PM

jimgoose wrote: »

No, because I've been a salaried senior engineer who manages my own time for a long time, and having to go in for any of this "An bhfuil cead agam dul amach??" bollocks would culminate quite quickly in someone being kicked through a window.

GalwayGirl26 wrote: »

...if we want to leave the school, we have to sign out at reception, and then sign back in (marking the time in both cases). Apparently, it's a fire safety thing, but honestly it feels like we're being monitored along with the kids.

Nonsense. I've never encountered that, and been in and out of big American shops all my life.

Ohhh look at you with your fancy workplace windows .

Calahonda52 · 23-01-2017 02:56PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Nonsense. I've never encountered that, and been in and out of big American shops all my life.

The poster is a teacher, do they employ them in shops in America: Trump will sort that, as you call it, "bollocks"

KERSPLAT! · 23-01-2017 02:57PM

I do so the rest of the team are aware, nothing to do with management.

jimgoose · 23-01-2017 02:57PM

Calahonda52 wrote: »

The poster is a teacher, do they employ them in shops in America: Trump will sort that, as you call it, "bollocks"

What are you talking about? I'm talking about being treated like an adult in a workplace. I have never encountered the requirement to "sign in and out" of a place of work except a school.

MrMorooka · 23-01-2017 02:58PM

jimgoose wrote: »

No, because I've been a salaried senior engineer who manages my own time for a long time, and having to go in for any of this "An bhfuil cead agam dul amach??" bollocks would culminate quite quickly in someone being kicked through a window.

Nonsense. I've never encountered that, and been in and out of big American shops all my life.

You probably have to use an access card to get in and out of the building/through turnstiles, and that is saving that information somewhere. It could be brought up if needed. So don't be so confident that you're not being tracked like the teacher signing in and out- it's just more advanced. I'm an engineer too and I can't stand people like you who seem to be so arrogant and ungrateful for the amazing conditions they have at work in comparison to so many others.

kfallon · 23-01-2017 02:58PM

I only tell them when I'm going for a shíte!

jimgoose · 23-01-2017 02:59PM

MrMorooka wrote: »

...I can't stand people like you who seem to be so arrogant and ungrateful for the amazing conditions they have at work in comparison to so many others.

Jaysis!! :pac::pac::pac:

ChikiChiki · 23-01-2017 03:00PM

Just get up and walk out the door at any time. It doesn't matter as I'm not micro managed. Occasionally if I need to discuss something with a colleague I'll ask them to join me.

Used to have a boss who rostered it and would call you out for being back from lunch a minute or 2 late. Nightmare to work with and staff morale was low as they were treated like children.

corner of hells · 23-01-2017 03:02PM

Goose, Fallon , Morooka detention.

Del2005 · 23-01-2017 03:08PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Nonsense. I've never encountered that, and been in and out of big American shops all my life.

We have it in my company that you need to inform someone if going off site in case of evacuation, so we then don't need to send people looking. Never had any issues with it and no one has ever been pulled up for informing that they are going off site.

I usually ask everyone around who's going for break.

Laois_Man · 23-01-2017 03:18PM

My manager is based in the US and he's not even at work yet himself when I'm going out for lunch. It only becomes an issue really if the fire alarm goes off and there's a roll-call at the assembly point.

23-01-2017 03:19PM

Only if I'm asking someone if they want to head out to the shop with me to get a sandwich or sit down in one of the lunch rooms to eat. We have no set lunch time and people head off when ever they want for lunch no such thing as having to inform someone that you are going or where you are going. I'd head home for a half day without telling anyone never mind going out for lunch.

Swiping in and out at the front door takes care of any fire evacuation situations, surprised its not done similarly in other places.

Lorelli! · 23-01-2017 03:23PM

Riddle101 wrote: »

What about other people? Do you tell people you're going on lunch? or do you just think "F*ck it, i'm entitled to my lunch break and i'm going on it. I can't be bothered telling anyone".

Most jobs I've worked in were either a set time for everyone or you could choose your own break time. Sometimes its not part of the culture or necessary to tell anyone youre going for lunch so it's not really that you can't be bothered but in most of my experience, it would be pointless and the boss would be like "ok...eh what are ya telling me for?"

I was working in a lab before and it had the worst set up. You got 30 mins exactly for your main break. They were very strict on clocking times and the clocking machines just so happened to be situated as far away as possible from the canteen???!! No one went out for lunch because you didn't have enough time so the canteen was always packed and you'd end up queuing for ages. Then you'd have, oh all of about 7 minutes to sit down, relax and eat your lunch whilst constantly checking your watch!

kerryked · 23-01-2017 03:26PM

Think it all depends on what kind of job you're in.

If some of your colleagues are going to be waiting for you to come back from lunch so that they can go (in retail for example) then I think it's common courtesy to let them know you're going, unless there's a roster for break times.

If you're working in an office where most of your work is 'independent', to a degree, then I think there wouldn't be any need to tell your colleagues you're off to lunch.

Dravokivich · 23-01-2017 03:30PM

I work best alone. Who am I to tell anyone I'm going for lunch?

Lux23 · 23-01-2017 03:30PM

I tell my team, but that's because they are right beside me but I think I always mentioned I was off out when I worked in a smaller company.

Walter H Price · 23-01-2017 03:31PM

Yeh id say it to my team as im heading out every day usualy followed by "does anybody want anything" if im going in shop or that.

Glenster · 23-01-2017 04:25PM

Nah, quit being so clingy.

What do you want me for? If its incredibly urgent I'm on the mobile; if its important you should have thrown me a meeting request; if its horsesh*t, leave me alone.

Glenster · 23-01-2017 04:30PM

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Used to have a boss who rostered it and would call you out for being back from lunch a minute or 2 late. Nightmare to work with and staff morale was low as they were treated like children.

In fairness, as a team leader, there is nothing more irritating than people taking 65 minutes for lunch, three 15 minute coffee breaks a day, arriving in at 9.05 and always having their bags packed and computer turned off at 4.59.

Someone who games the system like that is just soul destroying.

ongarboy · 23-01-2017 05:28PM

Glenster wrote: »

In fairness, as a team leader, there is nothing more irritating than people taking 65 minutes for lunch, three 15 minute coffee breaks a day, arriving in at 9.05 and always having their bags packed and computer turned off at 4.59.

Someone who games the system like that is just soul destroying.

Leaving the office at 5pm??? ...ah to work in the civil service....

razorblunt · 23-01-2017 06:06PM

Glenster wrote: »

In fairness, as a team leader, there is nothing more irritating than people taking 65 minutes for lunch, three 15 minute coffee breaks a day, arriving in at 9.05 and always having their bags packed and computer turned off at 4.59.

Someone who games the system like that is just soul destroying.

As a team leader, I hope you'd appreciate the quality of work, not quantity.

neonsofa · 23-01-2017 06:18PM

ongarboy wrote: »

Leaving the office at 5pm??? ...ah to work in the civil service....

Are civil service not on flexi time?

Glenster · 23-01-2017 06:30PM

razorblunt wrote: »

As a team leader, I hope you'd appreciate the quality of work, not quantity.

He's not Mozart. The job he's doing is either right or wrong. I'm not going to break down in tears at the elegance of his spreadsheets. I want it done right for at least the hours he's contracted to do it in.

If his work was done flawlessly it'd be grand, but its not. I don't expect it to be but I also don't expect him to down tools the second he hears the imaginary whistle in his head everyday.

Bambi985 · 23-01-2017 06:31PM

What's all this "going for lunch" mallark. I'm lucky if I get the chance to get up from my desk to heat some food in the microwave most days

Capt'n Midnight · 23-01-2017 07:01PM

Eau de toilette was supposedly invented for use by officers on French galleys. The oarsmen weren't allowed to go to the little boys room due to the chains. So I'm guessing they didn't go out for lunch either.

Do You Tell People You're Going For Lunch

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