Company lunchroom?

Question

I'm temping at a large corporation. Out of all the workers having lunch in the lunchroom, I have yet to see upper management eating there. I imagine some of them can expense their lunches (at least if it involves a client), but don't they ever "brown bag it" at work? It seems like they are loathe to be seen among the rest of us commoners.

Answer 1

Executives rarely take lunch.... if they do, it's when they can fit it in between meetings, but not at the regular lunch hours.

Answer 2

Several good answers have already been placed, but here are my thoughts. In my office, the managers and above are all basically putting in 10 hours a day or more with almost no breaks. They will very often be in lunch meetings, or taking new clients to lunch, or simply eating at their desk while they keep working. Yes they will sometimes have the benefit of the company paying for their lunch, but when you think about it, their necks are the ones ultimately on the line for missing a deadline or upsetting a client. I personally don't want that pressure. It really doesn't have anything to do with them not wanting to be around the "lower" employees, they simply have more important things to do, even if they don't really want to do them.

Answer 3

I would imagine a lot of them worry about getting too close to any one of you, that it might be taken inappropriately.

I know I worked in an office with a mother-daughter-in-law combo and the DIL was a snot-nosed brat. She demanded she get the best assignments and she'd call in sick for days on end if she didn't get them.

She took three days at her daughters high school prom to "prepare" for it.

Of course, the rest of us despised her and her relationship to the boss.

Managers are under a lot of pressure to be disciplinarians as well as worker bees for their managers. I would imagine all that pressure would make you want to go have a nooner in a cheap motel to get away from the office for a while.

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

Where I work, the management all go out to eat. They pay for it themselves, but they want to get out of the building. I think they go out so they can plot the untimely demise of someone's career. I just hope it's not mine! LOL!!

Actually, it's nice to get out of that atmosphere, actually relax. When I eat in the breakroom, it's like I never really HAD a lunch hour because I was in the office the whole day. Plus, people can come and find me and ask me stuff so I can't really relax anyway.

Answer 5

My spoil time is certainly too short for me to sense delicate leaving the development altogether, yet I do make a element of attempting to pass to the breakroom while no person is there, or while that's in basic terms human beings i do no longer artwork with. the final element i choose is to sit down with one among my coworkers and rehash our artwork or, even worse, gossip from our departrment. How is that a spoil? i could as properly stay on the clock for that, for all of the rest it brings. We even have a television in there, and while i pass by employing myself i will turn it off. while i pass while everyone else is in there, some fool sitcom is on, or some nasty communicate coach like Maury or Steve Wilkos. How anybody can relax listening to all that screaming ghetto mess is previous me.

Answer 6

They are probably working through lunch, and that is proably why they are "upper management"

Answer 7

Sweet.

Answer 8

And your question is......?