Can someone explain to me why so many people enjoy free work lunches? A friend of mine, who is in her late 40s, posted how excited she was to get the meal in this picture catered by work. If it's not this, it's a tray of sandwiches or something...
Maybe I'm being a dick, but someone serving me this as a "perk" of my job at 50 years old would trigger a complete existential crisis in me. Is saving $5 at lunch so exciting that it's a thrill to sit at your desk and chow down on this?
depends on the catering company. if it's some premium shit that actually has choices and tastes good it'd be nice.
If it's some sodeaux or w/e it's called I'll pass
well seeing as how you don't even buy your own food yet, let alone pay rent, why you don't "get it" is perfectly understandable.
Oh, I must have stumbled upon OP's personal blog, astounding! What a faggot!
This post is too deep for the majority of this board, which is predominantly made up of of NEETs, to fully comprehend.
My father works for an energy company that has had catering for all their staff for decades. The company did a study in the late 80s and found that it actually saved money since people took far shorter lunch breaks, and often talked about work during lunch. Of course when your employees are engineers, lawyers, and project managers making 6 figure incomes, they're time really is so valuable that it becomes cost effective, most companies don't have that.
i've worked for home depot for 4 years now. no company i've worked for randomly gives us food as much as they do. its not generally high end and might be something as mediocre as dominos or blimpies, but having someone do something nice for you - even if it isn't great - is a nice touch.
the store manager went to a nice bakery and got all ~140 or so people in the store a pie last thanksgiving. that was pretty awesome.
I make plenty of money to buy my own decent lunches, and take some time away from the office to take a break midday. I don't have to get excited about a few dollars saved for lunch.
This is part of the problem... I'm talking about from an employee standpoint, not a business standpoint. If I owned a business, I'd love the additional productivity and expectation that no one will be "wasting" my labor costs by taking a full lunch hour. I'm sure the food costs for most companies don't outweigh the production of their workers for that time saved.
As an employee, this wouldn't excite me. This food looks miserable, like middle school cafeteria tier.
If a small thing like this would trigger an existential crisis in you, you have far larger problems, my friend.
That said, I'm suspicious of any company that caters breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They do this to make you work longer hours and harder. It's one part of drinking the kool-aid for the "company culture" Fuck that cult like shit.
>tfw I work for a great company that doesn't make me feel like I have to drink the company kool-aid
We had a catered pre-Thanksgiving party though. It was dank as shit.
Are you 12? Free food is the best man. Come on