You’ve been in the office since 7.30am. The only thing that has got you through a morning of wiping your boss’s ass and ignoring your colleagues’ social problems, is the cling-filmed flattened ham sandwich that is sweating in your bag.
So take a break. Get some fresh air. Clear your head of the woes the morning delivered. Or so the productivity/zen/Human Resources fiends will have you do – but we all know the truth, it’s best to eat at your desk:
1) Your desk is nearer
Well, where else is as near to where you are right now than where you are right now? Why waste precious lunch-time seconds dragging you tired carcass to a ‘shared eating area’?
2) Efficient
There is nothing more demoralising than a tasty morsel of hard earned lunch falling from your hand on to the wasteland of the canteen floor. Well, eat in your cubicle and your handy keyboard will catch these fragments – simply empty it on to your desk and sprinkle the otherwise wasted food onto your sandwich. The ultimate condiment.
3) Socialising is overrated
Who actually needs to have proper conversations with their workmates at lunch? That is what the water-cooler is for surely. Who do these people think they are.
4) Better concentration
We all know that it is much easier to keep your concentration going for 10 hours straight, than to keep trying to get ‘back in the zone’ every three hours after an inconvenient break. And to think all those people who read mountains of ‘development books’ fail to spot this…
5) It’s just, well, a bit more hardcore isn’t it
I know it. You know it. Your boss certainly knows it. There is nothing that says ‘Office Hero’ more than declining that trip to Subway with a nonchalant “can’t today guys – need to get these important things done”, then spending the next hour on Craigslist.
And what do I do? Well, I really don’t like the canteen…
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