Lunch Break??

[Phill Fenton]

Nah! you’ve got me confused there? (?)

I usually scoff a couple of rolls while checking my email – or in between rainshowers when outside working. But Lunch Break – that is an unusual concept. It implies a break while you partake of lunch. Why is this? Surely time is money when you are self employed. 😕

Perhaps “Lunchbreak” is a luxury enjoyed by “Employees” a group of people who have no concept of what it is like to have to survive in the real world – everything is provided for them and they can be “ill” suffer serious illnesses such as “Sickness and Diarhoea (sickness alone or Diarhoea alone seems to be a very rare ocurrence 😉 ).

Suddenly it’s all come back to me . – I know all this because I used to be a manager in a Brewery where not only did I witness these concepts first hand – but I myself was an “Employee” and used to enjoy the priveleges of “Lunchbreaks” and ilnesses such as “Sickness and Diarhoea”.

[Kevin.Beck]

The Luch Break. I can just about remember them.

When I was a young lad, we had them at the place where I worked. Well I thought of it as work, but I vagely remember we just did something for an hour then had a walk about, chatted to a few other people there.

I can even remember, I was ill one day, so I didn`t go in to that place we called work. Oh how we laughed. 😀 😀

But that was such a long time ago. I can`t even remember when the law was passed that banned them.

How many of you older chaps can remember that tradition called HOLIDAYS.

[Robert Lambie]

yep… lunch break is a bad word in our place. 😆 😆

the most common time for bringing the subject up in our place, just so happens to be at the end of a journey. its weird.. ill explain.
e.g. last week, we drive (i mean i drive) to a job in the city of edinburgh.. an hours drive. do the job that takes about 30-40 mins.. then say anyone hungry.. nah rob! they reply. back in the van and back into traffic.. both go for a wee sleep “god bless the wee soles” while i curse and swear and zig-zag through traffic for another hour.. finally home. i wake them and say right start loading those other signs on the van.. and i walk into the work to see if there are any messages left for me. none, so i go back into workshop to see how the guys are going.. not there? 30 mins or so later they toddle round the corner eating chips… im standing there fuming.. and they say …WHAT? 😡 😡

[Henry Barker]

Lunchbreak!….I can echo alot of the above sentiments…and then they built a McDonalds locally which meant picking up a takeaway, and sitting here taking a bite and continuing to work. 🙂

But….after 2 stomach ulcers, I decided to take a real lunch in the local out of town shopping centre, we actually stop for an hour, the day goes much better I feel much better, and we get a breather.

I stopped eating Losec for the stomach too!

[signscript]

sorry everyone but youve lost me here, having spent all my working life working in either hospitality (where i spend my lunch serving you with yours) or working for myself where i have a sarnie at my pc, im not quite sure what your on about… i do remember having lunch breaks at school, are they a bit like them??

[Fat Bob]

Hi

Dont Know whats the matter with you lot I always stop for at least an hour for lunch I mean What are you thinking your body needs food to survive So every day I get up have a cup of coffee a pint of milk 4 shreded wheat and out in the vehicle at 4 am this keeps me going till lunch at about 1 pm– 2 pm back for a little graft till 9 pm then home for tea. lok at the old comp for 2 hours do some designs 2 hours down stairs bit of supper whatch a bit of telly write a few letters pay some bills ah 3.30 am time for breakfast.no work to day off for an audition for fray bentos………..I will eat all the pies. before lunch 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆

[John Singh]

Crumbs Bob!!
If I had 4 shredded wheat on Monday morning it would see me through to Saturday 😆 😆 😆

John

[fluidedge]

Tip:

Fix sales appointments for lunchtimes, give prospects a quick shufti round the workshop, then take for a pub lunch.

Whatever you spend, keep the receipt for your vat return, then add it on to his next job! After all, what’s £20 between signmaker and customer?

You get a decent feed, earn some new business, and get away from the shop for an hour.

PS – Not a good idea to beat them at pool until after the 5th or 6th job.

[Mike Brown]

…aye! – you were lucky, there were sixteen of us living in just one dustbin…me’ dad used to thrash us every morning and again at night…we used to have to lick the road clean outside our bin and then work 23 hours a day……..etc……etc….. 😆