Do you stop work for lunch?

[spaniel ears]

Lunch is one knee on the steering wheel one hand holding the phone and the other hand jamming food in my face rushing to the next fire!!!!!

I used to be a big fan of the one knee steering method when I was a puppy, until one day I was doing about 60mph down the motorway whilst stuffing a Big Mac down my throat, so tasty was it in fact that I failed to notice the copper on a motorbike right alongside me about 2 foot away. Luckily for me he was on a call so he just gave me an angry scowl, gestured at me to put the burger down, then sped off. A lucky escape, so I figured I might not be so lucky next time and the bastards will take some money off me and put points on my license, so I stick to something that doesn't need 2 hands to eat it these days if I can.

[gwaddle]

Sorry, but there isn't a service call so important that it won't wait for 20 or 30 minutes whether I eat or not I take a break. Of course I was young and foolish once too, not so much anymore.

[MadCityCopy]

My work gives the tech's "30 minutes" to eat. But it seems everyone here brings in there lunch. I try and snag something in between calls. As we bascily get paid for the more calls we make. My last company gave me an hour which was amazing. Had time to eat and relax for a bit.

[mrwho]

Our working ours are 9:00-12:30 and 14:00-18:30, which basically means we have 1:30h for lunch. Most of the times I use them for lunch a relax a bit before heading back to work, although there are days where I prefer to get some work done.

[zaza]

personally l started working at 8:00 in morning ..at 12:00 l stop lunching with my family ..next l take some tea ..at 13:00 l do my prayer after there at 14:00 l continue my work to 18:30 l finished there ...but sometimes l finished at 18:30 and l come back still later time for urgently reparation to copiers ..

[MrCrowly]

1 hour lunch 12-13 is a must...i will starv without food

[xeroid]

If "down" calls are up I try to take them with a roll thru lunch. Many customers appreciate service during the lunch hours when the equipment is more idle. I like having time in the bank for early departure to help beat the traffic home. If down calls are still up I lose the time and it resets the next day.

[CanonSco]

Normally eat 1 handed whilst driving somewhere.

Or no handed if its a big pizza

[michaelc]

I dont get paid for my lunch and I always take an hour. My company insists we take it though. I think more of a law thing than anything else.

[jermyth]

1 hour lunch is manatory. State regs and helps keep me somewhat sane. If I could skip on somedays to leave early or the like, sure I would. But the boss says take lunch or he gets in trouble with the state when the audit.

[lky1978]

sometime my client ask go lunch together

[mrwho]

Sometimes I find it difficult to stop lunch for work.

[mrfixit]

Funny you ask, just had to leave my job because they expected me to work through an unpaid lunch hour and stay an hour late with no compensation at an account that was an hour and a half away from my house and my wife works nights so I have to be home to watch the kids. It worked out though, I can collect unemployment because they won't dare tell that story to the unemployment people.

[jeffreyclay]

Re: Do you stop work for lunch?

At Xerox lunch was always mandatory and a grand event with all area Techs gathering together sharing ideas for an hour and a half or more, those were the days, however at Canon it was the complete opposite, 45 minutes for lunch but you can`t afford to take it because there was a mandatory 4 calls a day, now I am told it is 5.

We are allowed an unpaid hour for lunch but have been discouraged from taking it to "keep our numbers up".

[michaelc]

Re: Do you stop work for lunch?

what time do you finish work though?