Over half of workers regularly skip lunch on the job due to high food costs, increasing job pressure

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• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The concept of packing a lunch still escapes people, it seems. Buying lunch everyday was expensive BEFORE the prices shot up

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  • unitedwithme@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Packing a lunch still costs money, just not as much as eating out. Skipping a meal is free.

    I get it, some days I’m too busy, others it slows down an hour or two before I leave so I hold out until home. Days I do eat lunch, if I go out, I don’t feel so guilty bc I’ve not ate out all week. Otherwise I often pack leftovers that don’t get eaten.

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    • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Skipping a meal is free.

      Only in monetary terms. I’d assume that the overall cost is negative.

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    • mirshafie@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Packing a lunch costs time, and it’s probably not going to be as healthy as what you could get at a restaurant.

      I’m pretty thankful that my workplace has a restaurant with cheap but good food.

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    • edible_funk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Depending where you eat out it could be quite a bit cheaper than making your own lunch. Food has gotten ridiculously expensive, but the local diner will still give me three fried porkchops, two scoops of mashed potatoes and gravy, and a side of green beans or corn with a soup or salad for thirteen dollars. You’d be hard pressed to get all that for that cost made at home.

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  • Ninja876@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ramen, PB&J, etc was my goto for lunch. On Fridays I would go out to lunch w/ the team but not everyday like they did. Saved a ton.

    Did the same thing on the road and pocketed the per diem… Send off diner was about the only time I went out and I could expense the meal. I was hosting the client after the project was complete per my management.

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the last 10 years the price for a club sandwich has increased by 50% where I live in western Europe. Far more than inflation.

    So yes it was relatively expensive but now it’s really expensive.

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• CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wish they would have mentioned in the title that this is US workers. I’d be curious to see how that compares to cultures where lunch is more revered.

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  • DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pretty sure it’s close to 0% in the EU. Definitely is in my country, and it’s among the lowest quality of life ones.

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• Malica@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Jesus fucking Christ it’s turning into the great depression out there :(

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    hey but the govt is reporting “4.5% unemployment rate”

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    • Malica@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Trump doesn’t allow accurate numbers ala North Korea.

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• LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t take a lunch because a) if I skip lunch I get to leave earlier and b) I don’t get that hungry when I’m occupied so I find it preferable to snack mid morning and mid afternoon while I work.

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• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I skip lunch so I can leave earlier, not for any financial reason.

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• stickyprimer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  By far the biggest thing I miss about working in the office, as opposed to from home, is the free lunch. That’s such a no-brain perk for any company that can afford it. Saves everyone the time of leaving to go to restaurants,builds morale when they all eat together, and it’s cheaper to feed a large group of people all at once than to send them off individually to retail.

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• MrFahrenheit@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Jokes on them, I’m skipping lunch because I’m fat.

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• whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Jokes on them I’m just not a lunch person. I snack through the day more.

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• almost1337@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At my old job when I was responsible for keeping SaaS services running I would frequently skip or work through my lunch, but I would also leave 30 minutes early.

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