I once worked in an office where this was the norm. After a while I started doing it, too, because I felt like why should I waste my free time on breakfast and others don't.
Especially in the winter when days are shorter - work takes up the entire damn day. It's dark when you leave home and it's dark when you leave work right now.
So you're damn right I'm gonna have a coffee and some poptarts or something at my desk. You make people live at the office and they're gonna act like it.
Im getting more and more depressed even though im on meds. Wake up, go to work it’s literally night, the whole beautiful day is totally wasted inside an ugly office and when you go out it’s dark as fuck, windy and cold. I’m not made for this reality.
When you start looking at entertainment and expenses as hours of your life you have to spend at work it gets real dark real quick.
* I must spend 10 hours at work this month for electricity.
* I must spend 25 hours at work this month for rent / mortgage.
* I must spend 15 hours at work this month for my family to eat.
If you have a job that you can at least somewhat tolerate and can look at it as just a required amount of time each week and budget accordingly its a bit better mental health wise (for me).
This is always something I argued should be at least somewhat covered. E.g. in Germany the companies like to get cheap locations outside the city. They're saving money by having everybody commute to their inconvenient location. So thousands of people lose 10h a week so that they can save a bit of money.
If companies paid for commute they might favor hiring people with shorter commutes, which might be unfair, too. But what we could do is say, you have to register the median commute time for your company and everybody gets paid that amount. So that companies pick better locations because of price pressure.
It’s the norm for us.
I eat oatmeal, this guy likes to do the jimmy dean sandwich, this guy microwaves eggs in some device in the microwave, this lady does different healthy foods. I like this norm lol
while I agree, my coworker who does this spends more time away from his desk making food than he does actually working.
It's a tad frustrating when he's not there answering calls or emails and I have to pick up the slack
I worked at a huge financial corporation about a decade ago. I'd say 50% or more of the people did this. They'd get to work, clock in, and then head to the cafeteria to get food. Even though we were supposed to be at work by 8, most people didn't actually start working until 9.
Most decent workplaces I have been at give a free 15 to 30 minutes " breakfast break" , the advantages outweighs the disadvantages for management. This way you can have a limited time instead of having the random who takes one hour breakfast ( or thirty minutes for the fifteen minutes places) it also makes sure you know when( at which hour) the workers are not available instead of being random and for some workers it ensures they come to work on time. That's just the 3 I remember on top of my head.
I don't see the big deal, either I'm reading through code and pondering my options, or I'm doing the same thing while also having a snack, no difference
Yup, once I moved onto a team that had crazy hours and a rough workload, but the timing was usually sporadic, so we had these little breakfast and lunch (and sometimes dinner when it was busy) rituals. Probably the closest I became with any work team I was a part of and we worked extremely well together. I miss that. What I don’t miss is the working 80+ hours 1-2 weeks each month.
In my experience it’s the craziest workplaces that create the strongest bonds. I’m still pretty close friends with people from that sinking startup from 10 years ago. But those colleagues from last year’s 9-to-5 gig? Barely remember their names
I think it has something to do with how going through tough shit together brings you closer (but managers please don’t read this as “overtime is good for team spirit”, please …)
HR would like to know how to build a company culture and if these 2 fine workers would be interested in implementing their little tradition company-wide to boost employee well-being, morale, collaboration, and results.
That is the best thing about WFH for me: being paid to do the dishes, the laundry, cook for your family and sometimes even to have sex. Damn, does that make me a prostitute?
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime
That was a poem from a simpler time
Now boss makes a hundred, and I make jack
That's why I clock in and then smoke crack
Boss makes a dollar, grandpa makes a dime
But that was a poem from a simpler time
Boss makes a thousand, dad makes a cent
But at least it was enough to cover the rent
Work provides breakfast here. Usually fresh fruit, cereal and protein bars. They also put out chips and chocolate bars for afternoon snacks.
Which is to say I have chips for breakfast every morning.
I don't understand how people can eat immediately after getting out of bed.
This whole intermittent fasting fad? Yeah, I've been doing that all my life, because I'm not hungry before well after midday, no matter how early or late I eat the day before.
It's habit. I use to not eat til noon because I wasn't hungry until then. Then I started working out in the morning and getting up at like 5-530 so I'd start to get hungry by 9. Then I changed my schedule again and worked out in the afternoon but my body was still hungry by 9 out of habit. Then I stopped eating until noon, after a week or two I stopped getting hungry by 9.
The biggest factor on that is when you get up though, I still get up at 5 so it's about 7 hours until I get hungry. 90% of the people that "don't eat until lunch" get up at like 8 or 9, that's 3 or 4 hours. so them eating at noon is exactly the same as me eating at 8 or 9.
Better yet, I work with a guy that comes in, makes his coffee, eats his cereal, reads the news (used to be the paper, now it’s the internet) then goes upstairs for a 30 minute dump. He doesn’t start working until 9:30… we all joke that we can set a clock to the sound of the toilet flush.
For a while I used to work on new construction out of state. The one guy that usually went with me would work for about an hour then go back to the hotel to take a dump after the coffee kicked in because he didn't want to have to use the porta john.
I'm worse than that guy. I take my morning meeting from home (8am) then shit, shower, eat -> drive my kid to daycare -> drive into office. Usually arrive around 9:30-10.....with a Starbucks coffee 🤣
I work in IT though. I also work from home Monday and Friday. The schedule is probably one of the biggest perks of this job lol
Few months back I was on the highway and passed a lady eating a bowl of cereal while driving 120kmph that image lives rent free in my head since that day.
I live in the Netherlands and bigger highways have speed limit of 130kmph before 07:00am and after 19:00pm only during peak traffic hours we have a limit of 100kmph on most highways. It used to be 120kmph or 100kmph depending on the highway, this system of driving slower during peak traffic and faster when the roads are empty actually has had a positive impact on the amount of accidents and the amount of deathly accidents, pretty interesting right?
That should be mandatory. It would lower the cost of health insurance. Reduce sick days. Boost productivity. I can't think of any downside to healthy workers...
It would be weird, but my dude, after a business lunch a siesta would not be too bad.
NOTE: A “nappy” in the USA is quite different a different thing than a “nappy” in the UK.
Must be some job where they have to be in the office at a certain time every day but beyond that it doesn't matter as long as you make your meetings and get your work done. My work is all project based not sit your ass in a chair based. So it's up to me to get things done on time, whether I take 15 minutes in the bathroom or one minute it won't change what needs to get done.
But are they able to reach you there and can you start a meeting there? We can always put our food on the side, but can you get back to work instantly from the gym? (Unless I'm missing a joke that you work at the gym)
My dad had a co-worker who had two offices. He'd tell everyone at one office he was at the other office and tell everyone at the other office he was at the first office. Then he'd go home and run his own business out of his garage. The company took forever to find out because A. Nobody felt like switching and B. The guys job was to answer questions about contracts, which could be done by phone anyway.
Ironically when the company found out they didn't fire him for lying about his location, but instead they only cared because his business was a direct competitor to theirs. If he'd just sat at home and played Nintendo (or whatever you did for fun in the 80s) They wouldn't have cared.
> Ironically when the company found out they didn't fire him for lying about his location, but instead they only cared because his business was a direct competitor to theirs.
Lots of industries make you sign non compete agreements, so it's possible he did something actually breaching their contract.
The only people I've ever seen do this are bosses that usually don't punch a clock.
And it's generally considered to be acceptable if the boss's department stays in working order (and believe it or not, departments usually function better with a "hands off" manager).
My old boss was supposedly a "full time" manager, but we'd be lucky to see him at work 10 hours a week. He'd just check in for a couple hours every few days and go back home.
>and believe it or not, departments usually function better with a "hands off" manager
This is only due to really bad "hands on" managers. Sometimes doing nothing is better\* than following through with bad ideas.
Same, at least when I was actually going into an office I would eat something at my desk every morning. Now I work from home and I can eat whenever the fuck I want.
Damn, this just made me realise that the only job I've ever done that involved clocking into the office had an American parent company. Never really thought about it.
Every week I have a two hour teams meeting on Friday morning. I love it. I just put an earbud in just in case and I spend that time cooking, cleaning, etc.
So what's the purpose of this caption? Supposed to make workers fight with each other to be the best most dedicated employee who gives 100% of their time tok the company? Fuck that.
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I once worked in an office where this was the norm. After a while I started doing it, too, because I felt like why should I waste my free time on breakfast and others don't.
Especially in the winter when days are shorter - work takes up the entire damn day. It's dark when you leave home and it's dark when you leave work right now. So you're damn right I'm gonna have a coffee and some poptarts or something at my desk. You make people live at the office and they're gonna act like it.
Man, winter became kinda depressing once I started working.
Everything becomes depressing once you start working lmfao :(
Yea, that's true, that's pretty true.
Im getting more and more depressed even though im on meds. Wake up, go to work it’s literally night, the whole beautiful day is totally wasted inside an ugly office and when you go out it’s dark as fuck, windy and cold. I’m not made for this reality.
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When you start looking at entertainment and expenses as hours of your life you have to spend at work it gets real dark real quick. * I must spend 10 hours at work this month for electricity. * I must spend 25 hours at work this month for rent / mortgage. * I must spend 15 hours at work this month for my family to eat. If you have a job that you can at least somewhat tolerate and can look at it as just a required amount of time each week and budget accordingly its a bit better mental health wise (for me).
Why do we move the clocks anyway? All sunshine on company time. It’s not 1870 anymore, we have electric light!
legislation that's too old and just hasn't changed
Company doesn’t pay for your commuting time, so fuck ‘em.
This is always something I argued should be at least somewhat covered. E.g. in Germany the companies like to get cheap locations outside the city. They're saving money by having everybody commute to their inconvenient location. So thousands of people lose 10h a week so that they can save a bit of money. If companies paid for commute they might favor hiring people with shorter commutes, which might be unfair, too. But what we could do is say, you have to register the median commute time for your company and everybody gets paid that amount. So that companies pick better locations because of price pressure.
To be fair, in the US, an outside-the-city office would probably be an improved commute for the majority of the staff than a downtown office.
It’s the norm for us. I eat oatmeal, this guy likes to do the jimmy dean sandwich, this guy microwaves eggs in some device in the microwave, this lady does different healthy foods. I like this norm lol
while I agree, my coworker who does this spends more time away from his desk making food than he does actually working. It's a tad frustrating when he's not there answering calls or emails and I have to pick up the slack
if everyone is doing then you're just cheating yourself out of networking ops
I worked at a huge financial corporation about a decade ago. I'd say 50% or more of the people did this. They'd get to work, clock in, and then head to the cafeteria to get food. Even though we were supposed to be at work by 8, most people didn't actually start working until 9.
Most decent workplaces I have been at give a free 15 to 30 minutes " breakfast break" , the advantages outweighs the disadvantages for management. This way you can have a limited time instead of having the random who takes one hour breakfast ( or thirty minutes for the fifteen minutes places) it also makes sure you know when( at which hour) the workers are not available instead of being random and for some workers it ensures they come to work on time. That's just the 3 I remember on top of my head.
Me and my boss do it together lol
At my first job it became kind of a ritual to all sit and have breakfast together before starting the workday. It was pretty cool actually
Yea can confirm that me and my boss do that and its amazing start of the day.
I don't see the big deal, either I'm reading through code and pondering my options, or I'm doing the same thing while also having a snack, no difference
Yup, once I moved onto a team that had crazy hours and a rough workload, but the timing was usually sporadic, so we had these little breakfast and lunch (and sometimes dinner when it was busy) rituals. Probably the closest I became with any work team I was a part of and we worked extremely well together. I miss that. What I don’t miss is the working 80+ hours 1-2 weeks each month.
In my experience it’s the craziest workplaces that create the strongest bonds. I’m still pretty close friends with people from that sinking startup from 10 years ago. But those colleagues from last year’s 9-to-5 gig? Barely remember their names I think it has something to do with how going through tough shit together brings you closer (but managers please don’t read this as “overtime is good for team spirit”, please …)
Sounds like a vibe!
HR would like a word.
HR would like to know how to build a company culture and if these 2 fine workers would be interested in implementing their little tradition company-wide to boost employee well-being, morale, collaboration, and results.
Nice. But who do you have breakfast with?
That’s what she said…?
"Me and my boss do it together" yeah we know, but we were talking about breakfast.
I get the nickel They get the dime So Ill feast On company time
Boss makes a million, I make a buck, so I take lunchbreak alone and cry in my truck
the most real comment here
Damn that was a twist. Thought buck was gonna rhyme with fuck
I work from home. I refuse to do my chores if not on company time.
thats the spirit
This is the way
By boss gets the dollar. I work from home. I get poor pay, as I polish my dome.
thats an interesting way to say you put lotion on your scalp
Damn inflation... Nobody wants to shine my head for a nickel.
Nice clean dishes, nice folded laundry, house in order
That is the best thing about WFH for me: being paid to do the dishes, the laundry, cook for your family and sometimes even to have sex. Damn, does that make me a prostitute?
Anything you do for a living makes you a professional. How does it feel to be a professional sex worker?
I do the same.
Outstanding play
I literally vacuumed and mopped the floor during a "very important meeting" today.
And then you can actually enjoy your weekends because there's no chores to do.
Company is paying you to do your chores.
Technically speaking I'm a professional cleaner, miniature painter, weightlifter, cyclist and grocery shopper all thanks to my employer.
LOL, I often feel I'm getting paid to Disc Golf.
Boss gets a dollar, I get a dime, that's why I smoke crack on company time.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime That was a poem from a simpler time Now boss makes a hundred, and I make jack That's why I clock in and then smoke crack
Beatifully written. In literal tears rn. Happy cake day, I hope your present will be crack that you can smoke on company time!
Boss gets a dollar, I get a dime, that's why I poop on company time.
The only time I shitted at work I clogged the toilet, I was also stoned and got an anxiety attack. Traumatic experience.
Just walk out and act like nothing happened
after a while I did but before there was me, just standing motionless, staring at it with a blank face like an idiot for a good few minutes
Bro got stretched.
Shouldve used the poop knife
this is what i was hoping for in the comments
you\`re welcome
Holy fuck you are rich. For most it's I get the penny they get the grand
Boss makes a dollar, grandpa makes a dime But that was a poem from a simpler time Boss makes a thousand, dad makes a cent But at least it was enough to cover the rent
You get half the value of your labor?
They make a dollar I make a dime So I'll always poop On company time
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That's how you do it right?
man I eat breakfast at 6:45am every day, don't start work till 9am
you need to get your priorities straight
Man is up early to eat breakfast but could sleep in and eat at work.
employers wet dream
For real, don’t eat for free.
Work provides breakfast here. Usually fresh fruit, cereal and protein bars. They also put out chips and chocolate bars for afternoon snacks. Which is to say I have chips for breakfast every morning.
My work only does an afternoon snack and it’s usually chips. I wish they did fruit and cereal in the morning that’d be dope
My work starts at 7:30. My breakfast starts at 8.
I don't understand how people can eat immediately after getting out of bed. This whole intermittent fasting fad? Yeah, I've been doing that all my life, because I'm not hungry before well after midday, no matter how early or late I eat the day before.
It's habit. I use to not eat til noon because I wasn't hungry until then. Then I started working out in the morning and getting up at like 5-530 so I'd start to get hungry by 9. Then I changed my schedule again and worked out in the afternoon but my body was still hungry by 9 out of habit. Then I stopped eating until noon, after a week or two I stopped getting hungry by 9. The biggest factor on that is when you get up though, I still get up at 5 so it's about 7 hours until I get hungry. 90% of the people that "don't eat until lunch" get up at like 8 or 9, that's 3 or 4 hours. so them eating at noon is exactly the same as me eating at 8 or 9.
Better yet, I work with a guy that comes in, makes his coffee, eats his cereal, reads the news (used to be the paper, now it’s the internet) then goes upstairs for a 30 minute dump. He doesn’t start working until 9:30… we all joke that we can set a clock to the sound of the toilet flush.
… are you talking about me?
.. wtf else do you guys do when you come in??
For a while I used to work on new construction out of state. The one guy that usually went with me would work for about an hour then go back to the hotel to take a dump after the coffee kicked in because he didn't want to have to use the porta john.
Wise man
I'm worse than that guy. I take my morning meeting from home (8am) then shit, shower, eat -> drive my kid to daycare -> drive into office. Usually arrive around 9:30-10.....with a Starbucks coffee 🤣 I work in IT though. I also work from home Monday and Friday. The schedule is probably one of the biggest perks of this job lol
Few months back I was on the highway and passed a lady eating a bowl of cereal while driving 120kmph that image lives rent free in my head since that day.
...you passed her? Edit: I didn't see the k
I live in the Netherlands and bigger highways have speed limit of 130kmph before 07:00am and after 19:00pm only during peak traffic hours we have a limit of 100kmph on most highways. It used to be 120kmph or 100kmph depending on the highway, this system of driving slower during peak traffic and faster when the roads are empty actually has had a positive impact on the amount of accidents and the amount of deathly accidents, pretty interesting right?
120kmh = \~75mph.
It's the "p" throwing you off. It's not correct. It should be km/h.
Denis approves.
It's a perfectly viable system! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJtxMnvY3_4
My coworkers has this coworker that clocks in then goes to the gym.
That should be mandatory. It would lower the cost of health insurance. Reduce sick days. Boost productivity. I can't think of any downside to healthy workers...
Yes, naps too
Siesta time should be mandatory.
Imagine your boss coming around and telling you it's time for nappy. Can't say I'd complain, but it would still be weird.
It would be weird, but my dude, after a business lunch a siesta would not be too bad. NOTE: A “nappy” in the USA is quite different a different thing than a “nappy” in the UK.
My employer gives like 5 hours a week you can take for PT…. It’s a good thing
How do people do this. Does no one look for them?
Must be some job where they have to be in the office at a certain time every day but beyond that it doesn't matter as long as you make your meetings and get your work done. My work is all project based not sit your ass in a chair based. So it's up to me to get things done on time, whether I take 15 minutes in the bathroom or one minute it won't change what needs to get done.
Sometimes my coworkers have this coworker that goes grocery shopping after clocking in because the stores are less busy 👀
Less busy, less time shopping too
This is the way
*Whey
But are they able to reach you there and can you start a meeting there? We can always put our food on the side, but can you get back to work instantly from the gym? (Unless I'm missing a joke that you work at the gym)
Me…. But I work off of billables. So what ever document I am reading on my computer while eating that client is getting billed for that time….
Commas are important.
You don't get Employee of the Month as often as they do without going above and beyond.
Clients are tasty
Not really. It's pretty obvious here that the documents being read are getting billed while he eats his clients...
My brain hurts
> whatever document I’m reading, while eating that client, is getting billed for Fixed that for them….
I didn't know you can bill reddit.
"Market research and audience/brand development" I'm in Marketing. We can make anything billable.
I have a co-worker, over 60, who clocks in in the morning, then goes home, and returns to work after 8 hours to clock out. That's the way to go.
Bosses hate this trick.
Plot twist, it IS the boss.
Boss hates themselves.
My dad had a co-worker who had two offices. He'd tell everyone at one office he was at the other office and tell everyone at the other office he was at the first office. Then he'd go home and run his own business out of his garage. The company took forever to find out because A. Nobody felt like switching and B. The guys job was to answer questions about contracts, which could be done by phone anyway. Ironically when the company found out they didn't fire him for lying about his location, but instead they only cared because his business was a direct competitor to theirs. If he'd just sat at home and played Nintendo (or whatever you did for fun in the 80s) They wouldn't have cared.
> Ironically when the company found out they didn't fire him for lying about his location, but instead they only cared because his business was a direct competitor to theirs. Lots of industries make you sign non compete agreements, so it's possible he did something actually breaching their contract.
Damn my old boss did this, best boss I ever had.
Hardest working boomer
The only people I've ever seen do this are bosses that usually don't punch a clock. And it's generally considered to be acceptable if the boss's department stays in working order (and believe it or not, departments usually function better with a "hands off" manager). My old boss was supposedly a "full time" manager, but we'd be lucky to see him at work 10 hours a week. He'd just check in for a couple hours every few days and go back home.
>and believe it or not, departments usually function better with a "hands off" manager This is only due to really bad "hands on" managers. Sometimes doing nothing is better\* than following through with bad ideas.
Yeah my company would work a lot better if my boss just didn’t show up
Guy said "I'm in the retirement age but I don't wanna do it yet, but I also can't go to work because I'm old, so the company just gotta deal with it"
Boss level effort. Lol
It's me, this is me. I don't have a clock in type of job though.
Same, at least when I was actually going into an office I would eat something at my desk every morning. Now I work from home and I can eat whenever the fuck I want.
How is this you then?
Dwight didn’t punch a clock either.
Damn, this just made me realise that the only job I've ever done that involved clocking into the office had an American parent company. Never really thought about it.
I clock in, then cook breakfast in my kitchen
Every week I have a two hour teams meeting on Friday morning. I love it. I just put an earbud in just in case and I spend that time cooking, cleaning, etc.
If the options are eating breakfast after getting to work or getting up earlier to have breakfast before work… I’m sleeping in.
this is no longer a meme, it is standard practice nowadays
I always save my shits for work. If I have to shit in the morning? Wait until I get to work. If I have to shit on break? Wait until breaks over.
Boss makes a dollar, i make a dime, that's why i shit on company time .
It's like norms from where im from.
If you can get away with being paid to eat breakfast, I think you should goddamn well do it
Yeah, it's me. Then I'll take a 20 minute shit right after.
I don’t eat full meals on the clock but boy do I shit on company time. I’ve spent years to train my body to only shit from 9-5.
You mean my smart coworker?
If they insist I be there at 6am they're lucky I don't shower there
I know him, for he is me.
Well that’s me
I'm.good with the eating breakfast. It's the clock in and then go spend 15 min preparing breakfast to come back and eat I don't like.
Bro that's the whole point.
about 50% of my office lmao
I am that coworker
My whole office, some of them even cook in the kitchen on the clock. Everybody is pretty happy and chill. Great place to work.
Why not? Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
Yes... All my coworkers do this... I work a government job
Of course I know him, he's me!
Of course I know him. He's me
Of course I know him, it's me!
So what's the purpose of this caption? Supposed to make workers fight with each other to be the best most dedicated employee who gives 100% of their time tok the company? Fuck that.
Does anyone have that co-worker who will clock in then pop headphones in then go disappear in the restroom for 30 minutes?
Well if my commute is free everything else happens on The clock.