[Sheriff Rhys Chatham]

Ah, I was figuring it was one of those corporate things.

[afterthefact]

Originally Posted by Glice

Totally agree. It's what I do though. Maybe I'm a poseur, but I'm a very well-read poseur.

in that case, right on my brutha...

[afterthefact]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Rhys Chatham

Ah, I was figuring it was one of those corporate things.

everything is corporate, there is no use trying to avoid it. just don't be a part of it, and you are safe.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by afterthefact

everything is corporate, there is no use trying to avoid it. just don't be a part of it, and you are safe.

Yeah... I'm not part of the man because I do my job really badly. That'll learn the bastard.

Selling out was one of the best things I ever did.

[Rob Instigator]

I feel for ya gmku

Here at the law firm where I work I am always eating lunch by myself. when we used to get the NY Times I would buy some lunch,a dn sit i our lunch room reading the NY Times and the Houston Chronicle. However that had to end because people will not leave me alone. they always want to talk to me and it never has anything to do with what I am reading nor do they have consideration for a man reading the paper and shit.
then I would go eat lunch wityh my best friend and we would have fun and talk and enjoy lunches, but noe am back to myself at my desk, eating lunch at my desk.

I work with a bunch of squares. man, L 7 weenies.

it is terrible, and being in dwontown hosuton there is no way to sneak off at klunch and go to a record store or something like that.

[gmku]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Rhys Chatham

Ah, I was figuring it was one of those corporate things.

Ha. Yeah. But at least it's a university and not GM or some other greedy bastards. Although I'm not always sure there's that much difference.

[Savage Clone]

Wow, I have been spoiled.
At one of my old jobs, I was just two blocks from home, so I went home for lunch every day. Best solution ever.
At the record store, I worked with a workaholic who sort of created an environment such that I never had a normal "lunch break" the entire time I worked there. There were only two of us and a dog there all day anyway, so it wasn't like I had any "office culture" to deal with.
I think I would have a hard time in your situation, gmku. I am usually "the weirdo" at most jobs, and prefer to keep my worlds of work and socialness apart.

[gmku]

So guess what I did at lunch? I buys meself a back pack. Been wanting one for a while, saw a sale. I'm trading it for my old soft-leather brief case. Now when I walks to work or across campus I don't has to feel like such a corporate stooge. Now I can feel like the old weird guy who never grew up and left campus.

[Savage Clone]

Sounds better than hollow conversation with office dorks.

[Pookie]

I work in a small shop & we only have one person at a time going for lunch. That's why I'm always on here during lunch. Then again I'm talking to people all day and enjoy the peace.

[gmku]

My dream job is working in a record or book store. I think I could be really happy doing that.

[Pookie]

Originally Posted by gmku

My dream job is working in a record or book store. I think I could be really happy doing that.

I started working for an independent bookstore who went bust & were bought up by a larger company & we've now been bought up by Waterstones & so are by far the biggest bookstore chain in the country,

Stil, I run a bookstore & really enjoy it. I spend every day surrounded by, and talking about books.

[Rob Instigator]

There is no money to be made any more in independent record stores. The ones in Houston (which used to have dozens of independent record stores) that are still around are scraping by.

it is sad.

books rule.

[acousticrock87]

I feel ya. Tough I am just a kid who doesn't know exactly what the hell he's talking about yet. But I work in a fileroom at an office building where pretty much everyone is older than me, and always go to lunch alone. And I always hated getting to the table first in high school. I would "forget something in my locker" if I got there first, just to avoid that. I have a really great fear of being alone, but I think it's an important fear to get over. If you can be happy alone, you can be happy in any situation. So I try to make the best of it when I am. Doesn't always work, though.

[krastian]

Yeah I'm not really trying to eat with my coworkers.....I'd much rather eat by myself and enjoy my lunch instead of having to pretend to enjoy talking about stuff that I don't care about. I'm a loner Dottie....A REBEL.

[screamingskull]

awww, i'd go to lunch with you gmku!!, and im young and female, we aren't so scary and really its more irretating when guys are too shy to ask you out to lunch than when they do and are all nervous in front of you.
thats cute. try asking someone if they want to get coffee, you never know they might have been waiting for you to ask them??

i work in an art shop that sells big prints of famous paintings and frames etc, i eat my lunch with a guy who works i the shop opposite mine, he never asks me to lunch i always ask him, but i can tell he wants to be there with me.

[Danny Himself]

Aw, man- you're the coolest oldish guy ever too.

You need a monkey friend.

 

[acousticrock87]

Originally Posted by screamingskull

i work in an art shop that sells big prints of famous paintings and frames etc, i eat my lunch with a guy who works i the shop opposite mine, he never asks me to lunch i always ask him, but i can tell he wants to be there with me.

Haha, giving him false hope, then. That's great.

[screamingskull]

Originally Posted by acousticrock87

Haha, giving him false hope, then. That's great.

no, i'd totally go out with him if he asked me!, but he never has, and i dont think i could carry on having lunch with him if i asked him out and he said no.

[acousticrock87]

Well he probably feels the same way. Doesn't that stuff just suck? Trick him into asking you.

I don't know how, though. Maybe play charades or something and act it out...