It seems a lot of people absolutely despise the idea of spending any of their free time with their coworkers, even something as measly as a lunch break that you're basically stuck at work for anyways. I could understand it if your coworkers were particularly nasty to you or something like that, but it seems that a lot of people have fine relationships with their coworkers and still would rather sit in a car alone to eat lunch rather than having a conversation at a table or go home after work and watch TV rather than get a beer or coffee.

I can understand people want to hide or whatever, but why is that such a widespread phenomenon now? It wasn't always like that as I understand. From a lot of what I've read and heard, fairly intimate relationships between coworkers were much more common. It seems like if we're talking about the general breakdown of society or the decay of the labor movement, this is an obvious symptom that doesn't seem to have anyone's attention. So what gives?

  • invo_rt [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    As a habitual lunch car sitter, I do it because I need time to decompress. My job is stressful. If I'm around coworkers, we just talk about work. Also, my coworkers go out to eat for lunch daily which costs money and is a huge calorie intake I'd prefer to avoid. Not to mention losing half my lunch to driving back and forth to wherever the place would be. Plus I just saw them for 4 hours and I'll see them for another 4 hours once my lunch is over. It's more time per day than I'm awake with my significant other.