Subj : What's "lunch"?? (was: Personal connections) To : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp From : rem642b Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 10:09 pm > From: Ulrich Hobelmann > You guys didn't eat lunch? I don't know what you mean by "lunch" in that context. My work situation wasn't like high school when we had a class from 8-9 then another class from 9-10 then another class from 10-11 then another class from 11-12 then a less-than-one-hour break when the cafeteria was serving **LUNCH** which was the only food available all day there, then another class from <13-<14 then another class from <14-<15. At work at Stanford IMSSS, we had flexible hours. Except when there was a scheduled meeting, we came to work whenever we could, and worked as late into the night as we felt like, except in the Winter when the steam plant was turned off at a certain time and my office, with bay windows, got unbearably cold within about 10-20 minutes after steam-off. Whenever one of us got hungry, we logged out, locked our office, and went somewhere nearby to get a snack, then came back. The nearest food place was some vending machines across the street in another building. The burritos, with microwave oven, were usually the best food available. I never once saw a co-worker there at the same time I was there, and only rarely saw some stranger from another building there. When I went to get food from the vending machines, I didn't bother to give my eating-time a specific name such as "lunch". Obviously your question is meaningless in regard to socializing with co-workers, the topic of this sub-thread. .