Working lunch?November 18th, 2005 @ 5:07 pm
I reminded The King that I would be home late tonight from work. I was going to have to make up for the long lunch I was planning on taking.
As stated before, I work in construction. Construction Management, so don’t think I’m outside hammering nails. Needless to say I work with very few females. Today the ladies decided to all go out to lunch together to a fancy restaurant. I knew we would be a long time and since I usually work through lunch, I would have to make up the time.
The King informed me that I should get paid for this lunch.
“It’s considered a ‘working lunch’ if you have to go with people from work that you don’t like!”
Good point.
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Avorie
said,
November 18, 2005 at 7:39 pm
I second that thought!
Corinne
said,
November 19, 2005 at 5:42 am
:) Been there, done that… and it sucks… hope you didn’t have to stay too late!
Nancy
said,
November 19, 2005 at 7:18 am
I’m with The King on that. Lunches where you don’t enjoy the people you’re with should not have to count against your personal time.
Lizzie
said,
November 19, 2005 at 2:03 pm
I wish I had known that rule at my last job!
Mabel
said,
November 21, 2005 at 9:31 am
I totally agree, but for me it’s never worked that way. Even when it was a meeting over lunch, because it was in a restaurant I was told “you ate lunch, didn’t you?”. My response was to skip lunch in the future and eat a snickers for when I got back to the office. I hate working more than necessary.