Manager refuses to let employees eat at workstation, employee books the conference room and eats their lunch there every day: ‘I'm sitting alone at a twenty-person table’

"I have a very important meeting in the conference room, my lunch is waiting."

Every office has a different set of rules when it comes to lunch. Some require each employee to take their lunch separately, to keep operations efficient, while other offices see the social importance of letting coworkers enjoy their lunches together. Then there are workplaces that truly don't care when, where, or how their employees take their lunches.

This workplace, apparently, has a policy that forbids employees from eating at their workstations. Not lunch, not tea, not even a granola bar. For years, this policy was disregarded, but a new manager recently decided to bring it back. Now, every time an employee is caught with any type of food or drinks near their desks, they get written up. For an employee who prefers to eat their lunch alone as they continue to work, and has been doing it since day one, this policy can get really frustrating.

Luckily for this employee, they found a way around the policy. The office's conference room is always empty during lunch, and there are no rules against anyone eating there. So, every day from 12 to 1, the employee books the 20-person conference room all to themselves, grabs their laptop and lunch, and enjoys some quiet work time while they eat their lunch.

Obviously, the manager found out about this soon, but technically, there was not much for her to do. The employee followed every single one of her rules, and there was nothing in the policy that indicated they were doing something wrong. Still, the manager refused to let it go and reported the employee's lunch behavior to the big boss. Keep scrolling to see how that turned out.

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My office has a strict "no food at desks" policy. So I started eating lunch in the conference room. The one they use for client calls.

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Should this employee find another way around the ‘no food at workstation’ policy, or should they take this opportunity to actually enjoy their lunch break?
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