Break Room Awkwardness

    No matter what my job is when I have a break I don't like spending it in the break room instead I like to leave and get fresh air. It still feels like work even if I'm just eating lunch. It has nothing to do with loving or hating my job because I have had both types of jobs and still feel the same. The other day I went to Panera for lunch and I was going to eat it there but the line took forever so I decided to take it back to work and eat it quickly in the break room. Turns out one of my managers had the same lunch time so I was stuck in the break room with her. Usually the TV is on so it's no so silent but for some reason that day it was off. She was sitting there looking at the news on her phone and I was across the table eating my salad looking at my phone.

    The problem with eating salad when it's so silent is that it sounds so loud because of the crisp lettuce. I hate hearing others chew especially when it's silent so I was doing my best to eat extremely quietly but if you've eaten a salad you know that's very hard to do! It was so awkward I promise you. At one point my manager left for a minute and I just shoved my face with my loud food. Plus the fact that we weren't talking was adding to the awkward silence filling the room. Never eating in the break room again!

    Let's talk about the fridge in the break room. Ours is always full which doesn't make any sense to me because I never see anyone carry anything in with them. Where does all that junk come from? The only thing I put in the fridge is my lunch leftovers which I tend to leave overnight because I forget to bring them home but I solved that problem. I've been putting my car keys in the bag with them and have yet to leave my lunch there since.

    Now what are people cooking in that microwave that smells so bad? It smelled like someone died the other day. I walked in there with another coworker and we wanted to walk out due to the horrid smell. What smells so bad and why would you eat something so stinky? I hope they used a breath mint or gum after...

Have you ever had an awkward lunch at work?