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[Cockles & Whelks]

Why the fuck would I want to lunch over Zoom with the cunts who are probably ready to cancel me at slightest misdemeanor for a salary rise?

'I've never met my team but have lunch with them weekly'

Some firms are encouraging staff who are working from home to take their lunch breaks together.

www.bbc.co.uk

This is right up there with the open plan office

 

[triplestation]

gtfo with that shit

 

[nush]

Or you could Zoom Lunch with one of your actual friends.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Thats just fucking weird but I can see the reasoning behind it. I too sometimes miss crunching on some junk shit at the office with a few coworkers.

 

[Peggies]

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Nah. The work colleagues I care about, I keep in touch with outside of work hours.

 

[GymWolf]

I feel lucky to not even knowing what a zoom lunch is...

 

[dr_octagon]

 

[AV]

Lunch? God no, I'm enjoying being able to cook at home for lunch.

I work at a small business where everyone likes one another, all the guys play games online together out-of-hours and we do catch-ups with the others every few months. Works great.

On that note, if you're unhappy in life and work for a big company, take a pay cut to work somewhere smaller with people that act like human beings. It pays dividends. My "boss" is just a slightly older and more experienced version of me and I'm basically self-managed.

 

[LisaMariaMartin]

fuck, no.

 

[Aurelius]

God, no.

 

[nush]

I feel lucky to not even knowing what a zoom lunch is...

It's like a video call where you're all eating but the mic picks up all the chewing sounds, except you don't have to put up with the smell of somebodys microwaved fish lunch.

 

[GymWolf]

It's like a video call where you're all eating but the mic picks up all the chewing sounds, except you don't have to put up with the smell of somebodys microwaved fish lunch.

We need to do this between gaf members.

 

[Swaff]

Haven't had the opportunity to work from home through this whole thing but even if I was I don't think I'd want people watching me eat on camera.

 

[ValiantTraveler]

Sounds like something women would enjoy. I'm sure it's not a guy who suggested the idea.

99.99% of coworkers in the current corporate world are not your friends.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Why the fuck would I want to lunch over Zoom with the cunts who are probably ready to cancel me at slightest misdemeanor for a salary rise?

'I've never met my team but have lunch with them weekly'

Some firms are encouraging staff who are working from home to take their lunch breaks together.

www.bbc.co.uk

This is right up there with the open plan office

Zoom is a big mistake of all time.

I hate this app

 

[danowat]

I don't zoom anything, email and phone is enough, I don't need my workmates seeing what I am wearing or where I am sitting!

 

[Aesius]

I'm a contract worker for a company and don't have to participate in any of the mandatory fun bullshit. It's great. They do Zoom "happy hours" and then post screenshots of everyone toasting their webcams while holding beers or glasses of wine or whatever and it just looks awful.

 

[K' Dash]

I spend most of my day on a zoom call with my team, the thing is, we're mostly of the same age and have same interests. When I have to code anything complex or need to think the approach to make a new feature I just drop the call for a couple hours and come back later.

Also, why do you always feel obligated to turn on your cameras?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

On that note, if you're unhappy in life and work for a big company, take a pay cut to work somewhere smaller with people that act like human beings. It pays dividends. My "boss" is just a slightly older and more experienced version of me and I'm basically self-managed.

Why would that not be the case for a larger company?

 

[AV]

Why would that not be the case for a larger company?

I'm not saying the two are mutually exclusive, though I'm more talking about smaller companies being more likely to have you work with human beings rather than corporate robots - and a human being, in my experience at least, is more likely to trust you to be self-reliant.

 

[MayauMiao]

I stick to email and group chats, pretty sure no one I know would want this nonsense.

When I have lunch I'd be tuning to cat videos.

 

[TheContact]

lunches for me means getting AWAY from work

 

[EverydayBeast]

Zoom is low key a monster

 

[BadBurger]

God no. I even sign out of Teams and put my phone into do not disturb mode while I take my lunch.

 

[Nester99]

Zoom is wack.
Talk on the phone like a champ

 

[AJUMP23]

Why would I want to do that?

 

[Halo is Back]

I feel lucky to not even knowing what a zoom lunch is...

How has your hibernation been?

 

[Kev Kev]

shit, no

 

[Relativ9]

People are just fucking weak these days, "support at this weird time"? The fuck you need support for? Sitting at home and working at half capacity? I get that some people are lonely, but if lunch if your colleges was really such a major and important part of your human-to-human interaction then these "weird times" are the least of your problems. The fact that this company delivers "lunch boxes" to all their employees it's like aren't they at home? Don't they have a kitchen? It's funny, I would've thought that the pandemic would've done away with a lot of the crying fake company shit but it seems to have made it even worse. My fiance has to sit in endless meetings on Zoom where everyone is expected to just be there while working, having to overhear whoever the most chatty kiss-asses are as they talk about every minute mundanity of their lives. Me on the other hand talk to my team once or twice a week, and that's usually over short discord messages.

 

[Pejo]

shit, no

Zoom group shitting to replicate that public restroom feel next?

 

[Amory]

nah. sometimes we do zoom beer hours after work, though, if we want to catch up

 

[Virt McPolygon]

I can see why some would like to do it if they're lonely or bored. But it shouldn't be forced on anyone that doesn't wanna participate.

Personally, I only went to one last year and it was more of an end of the year/holiday catch-up meeting. Otherwise, I'm not gonna go out of my way to be social with coworkers lol especially when I have the freedom to make my own lunch at home.

 

[Tesseract]

not opposed to meetings / conferences but there's no fucking way i'm using zoom

use microsoft teams or google meet

 

[INC]

Do u zoom shit together as well?

 

[Stilton Disco]

I like everyone I work with, but they can all fuck right off when I'm on a break and eating.

Honestly though, the fact that some people are so sad and lonely, that they want to do this, is a terrible indictment of how badly society has broken down over the last couple of decades.

 

[dr_octagon]

Do u zoom shit together as well?

we log in together, we log off together

bad middle, senior, executive management 4 lief

 

[Pakoe]

I don't even want to zoom normally, fuck outta here with lunching together.

 

[Ovek]

 

[ThatGamingDude]

We don't Zoom at my job at all because it would quickly devolve into this sort of shit



We wouldn't get work done lol

 

[-Minsc-]

Why the fuck would I want to lunch over Zoom with the cunts who are probably ready to cancel me at slightest misdemeanor for a salary rise?

'I've never met my team but have lunch with them weekly'

Some firms are encouraging staff who are working from home to take their lunch breaks together.

www.bbc.co.uk

This is right up there with the open plan office

The cubicle office is COVID safer, probably. So says my assumption.

 

[casablanca]

Zoom lunch no. But zoom after work beers for sure.
Slack/zoom only communication created a lot of frustration since lockdown/curfew.
I manage a team of 12-15 people and the job is pretty stressful. Having an hour or two talking about anything but work really helped to ease tension.

 

[Kimahri]

Fuck no. I love social distancing.

 

[Porcile]

What about the traditional lunch wank? Are people doing that on Zoom too?

 

[Halo is Back]

We don't Zoom at my job at all because it would quickly devolve into this sort of shit



We wouldn't get work done lol

This is the equivalent of a real life shit poster who never grew up

 

[ThatGamingDude]

This is the equivalent of a real life shit poster who never grew up

*Thinks of all the company chats I've been in working in IT*
Uh yeah totally

 

[teezzy]

Do I look like a farnsgoth to you, OP?

 

[bronkonagurski]

I get enough human contact throughout the day via email, calls, etc. Lunch time is my time.

 

[Halo is Back]

*Thinks of all the company chats I've been in working in IT*
Uh yeah totally

The first step is admitting you have a problem

 

[Corgi1985]

Fuck no. My work actually tried to get an after hours coffee zoom thing where if you want to hang out with coworkers after 5 on Friday you can. Fuck that. I'm not your family goddammit. I have a family just pay me. Gully fuck.