A few months ago I ate my lunch here. It’s some kind of famous garden I think. About a ten minute walk from St. Paul’s station and it next to Bank of America…does this ring any bells??
Anyway…it was a pleasant warm day and I just wanted to find a place to sit and enjoy the sun.
Why is it that clingy colleagues always want to lunch together? It’s a concept I honestly struggle to understand. My first job was in a clothing retail store…Gap. Our lunches were scheduled by our managers. In order for the shop floor to run we couldn't lunch together so it was a case that you go when you were told. I was the type of person that went totally comfortable in my own company. For me I would rather take a long walk and get lost in my thoughts than spend my time in the company of a colleague I don’t even like ;). My second job was working as a Saturday library assistant. On the first day, at lunch, my 3 girl colleagues decided it would be nice to take me to one of their houses for lunch. Imagine my horror! I know the gesture was sweet, but all I wanted to do was go to Waitrose, pick up a sandwich and call my dad to tell him about my day so far! It was even worse because the girls parents were in the house. There I was eating off their food! I seriously don’t roll like that. The shame.
Don’t get me wrong, lunching with people you like and consider friends is ok. It’s just when you are with a colleague that is consistently pessimistic, someone you don’t like, someone that hates their own company…that’s when that one hour of preciousness becomes a waste.
Some days I just like to come to places such as my picture…read my book, talk on the phone. Spend time with God. Have you ever tried listening to some preaching during a break? Or reading some verses in the bible? It honestly puts things in perspective especially if you are just having one of those days.
So choose wisely before you take a lunch break. The best ways I've learnt to dodge unwanted company are:
1) say you have to visit 3 banks and you know you don’t have time to eat.
2) rush out pretending to be on the phone
3) say you are meeting a friend or your mum.
4) say you are working through lunch and leg it as soon as they go to lunch being sure not to go in the same direction they leave in!
Anyway…it was a pleasant warm day and I just wanted to find a place to sit and enjoy the sun.
Why is it that clingy colleagues always want to lunch together? It’s a concept I honestly struggle to understand. My first job was in a clothing retail store…Gap. Our lunches were scheduled by our managers. In order for the shop floor to run we couldn't lunch together so it was a case that you go when you were told. I was the type of person that went totally comfortable in my own company. For me I would rather take a long walk and get lost in my thoughts than spend my time in the company of a colleague I don’t even like ;). My second job was working as a Saturday library assistant. On the first day, at lunch, my 3 girl colleagues decided it would be nice to take me to one of their houses for lunch. Imagine my horror! I know the gesture was sweet, but all I wanted to do was go to Waitrose, pick up a sandwich and call my dad to tell him about my day so far! It was even worse because the girls parents were in the house. There I was eating off their food! I seriously don’t roll like that. The shame.
Don’t get me wrong, lunching with people you like and consider friends is ok. It’s just when you are with a colleague that is consistently pessimistic, someone you don’t like, someone that hates their own company…that’s when that one hour of preciousness becomes a waste.
Some days I just like to come to places such as my picture…read my book, talk on the phone. Spend time with God. Have you ever tried listening to some preaching during a break? Or reading some verses in the bible? It honestly puts things in perspective especially if you are just having one of those days.
So choose wisely before you take a lunch break. The best ways I've learnt to dodge unwanted company are:
1) say you have to visit 3 banks and you know you don’t have time to eat.
2) rush out pretending to be on the phone
3) say you are meeting a friend or your mum.
4) say you are working through lunch and leg it as soon as they go to lunch being sure not to go in the same direction they leave in!
Haha.....saying all this...beware of becoming an unsocial seclude! You want to make friends at work so the occasional lunch with your people should be done ;-)
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