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daywane:
eat with them.
I eat with my boss and there boss often, we just do not talk about work. many times my boss will try and say after lunch I need.... I stop him and just say. I am eating and off the clock. Hows the wife and kids?
CheffoJeffo:
Strange ... I was initially baffled by the question, then I see responses like ark's. Seems awfully 1970s to me.
When I was a grunt, I often ate with management. When I was management, I always tried to eat with the folks who worked for me. Now I'll eat with any employee or client that I have the opportunity to.
drventure:
It's not anything. Keep the topics of conversation appropriate (work is fine, but gossip, complaining, bitching about other coworkers etc, definitely isn't) and it's no big deal.
Talk projects, talk customers, etc and she'll be fine.
It's also fine to shrug off lunch, sometimes. Do it wrong or too much though, and she'll come off and "better than thou" and that won't help any office situations at all.
The thing I always keep in mind, is that if you're in a typical 9-5 or worse office situation, you're spending as much if not more time with those people than you are with your family or friends. If you make it adversarial, work will just end up sucking more than it already does<g>
Silas (son of Silas):
--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 08, 2010, 06:13:39 pm ---I don't go to work to make friends, and if I'm sitting around eating with a coworker, I feel like I'm enduring uncompensated time on the clock. I also don't eat out a lot on weekdays, and don't really feel obliged to spend $9 on a salad in the middle of the week.
:dunno
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I completely agree. Any time I have ever let my guard down at work it has come back to bite me. When I was younger, colleagues that I considered friends have repeatedly stabbed me in the back for the sake of promotion.
Damn right on the cost too. Why the heck would I pay 10 bucks for some dog chow that I wouldn't eat anyway, just to spend time with people I only spend time with because I am paid to.
CCM:
--- Quote from: Silas (son of Silas) on August 09, 2010, 07:43:50 am ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 08, 2010, 06:13:39 pm ---I don't go to work to make friends, and if I'm sitting around eating with a coworker, I feel like I'm enduring uncompensated time on the clock. I also don't eat out a lot on weekdays, and don't really feel obliged to spend $9 on a salad in the middle of the week.
:dunno
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I completely agree. Any time I have ever let my guard down at work it has come back to bite me. When I was younger, colleagues that I considered friends have repeatedly stabbed me in the back for the sake of promotion.
Damn right on the cost too. Why the heck would I pay 10 bucks for some dog chow that I wouldn't eat anyway, just to spend time with people I only spend time with because I am paid to.
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Wow! You two must be a joy to work with... sheesh
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