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>Food is also big draw. Now I have to worry about what I eat every day and make my food LOL

• TeMPOraL 5y ago
  That does indeed sound like a trivial problem to solve. Pick a local restaurant and treat it as your new cafeteria. Come lunch time, go there. Ideally, your employer would compensate you for the office benefit you're missing (at least when talking about pandemic-induced forced WFH), but WFH is likely already saving you more money, so you can probably afford it anyway.
  • fabioborellini 5y ago
    It's not that trivial to have a one-hour lunch break if the local restaurant is 30 minutes away, near by the closed office. In some countries the suburbs have very few services. Also, if the subsidized commute costs 3 euros a day it is also not trivial to spend 14 euros for lunch.
    • midrus 5y ago
      Do we really need this baby sitting? Are we seriously complaining of working from home, not having to commute, and cooking our own food is a problem? In the age of groceries delivery from a click on my phone. I just can't believe it. World is going to hell and were like crying babies that can't prepare a meal by themselves.
  • jusssi 5y ago
    The available selection could be a problem. Near my home, there's a sushi place, two pizzerias, a Subway, a chinese and some cafes that don't really serve anything I'd call lunch. After 1½ years I'm sick of all of them. I've been ordering from further away, but that costs 50-100% more, and many types of food lose quality in transit. Compared to the 30+ places reachable by foot within 45min lunch break at the office (and having real people to talk with while eating), WHF has really destroyed my lunch breaks.
    • thorin 5y ago
      Assuming this isn't a troll, I guess learning to make a sandwich or a salad is not outside the realm of possibility.
      • blueflow 5y ago
        A increasing fraction of people in the western world are unable to cook and/or prepare food. So probably not a troll.
      • nextlevelwizard 5y ago
        Neither of those are actual meal
        • thorin 5y ago
          ??? Generally in the UK people don't have a 3 course catered meal in the middle of the day!
      • jusssi 5y ago
        Looks like I to explain the background a little bit more to be not mistaken for a troll. I know how to prepare meals, in fact we make over 90% of our dinners ourselves from ingredients. Having something else for lunch is for me an important escape from our own cooking, for both the effort and the taste. Not that it's bad, just that it also gets repetitive. We also have the small child aspect to consider for the stuff we make at home, he's a bit picky (e.g. only eats fish in a soup or fishfingers) so we can't quite do the variety we'd like. There's nothing wrong with a quick salad or sandwich occasionally, but that gets boring too. Same for yesterday's leftovers, we usually make our dinners for two evenings, if I eat also the same stuff for lunch in between that's a bit too much. Edit: Now I'm curious, is wanting to eat lunch out really such a weird thing it could be nothing else than a troll?
        • thorin 5y ago
          Generally 99% of people I worked with in IT (UK) over the last 20 years either make a sandwich for lunch, eat leftovers or eat at the work canteen which isn't free and normally isn't great either. They have their main meal in the evening. Of course people have the occasional lunch out but it's normally once or twice a month. In big cities of course this is often pretty different. I used to eat lunch at the canteen fairly often out occasionally have leftovers. Since covid I'm at home and normally make a sandwich or salad with whatever is in the fridge.
  • mytailorisrich 5y ago
    It takes 10-15min to prepare your own lunch at home... There's no need to blow tons on money on eating out or ordering all the time.
    • nextlevelwizard 5y ago
      What kind of food you make in 10minutes? Are you calculating also doing dishes? What about the time that goes into deciding what you are eating or are you eating same thing every day?
  • nextlevelwizard 5y ago
    Any local delivery food costs 2-5 times as much as the office caffeteria and I can only get fast food delivered. Jumping into a car and driving to actual restaurant would take way more time and cost 3-4 times more.
    • midrus 5y ago
      Comments like this make me understand why the world is going to hell. Mankind is doomed.
• birdyrooster 5y ago
  No Machine Learning cookies?! I can't handle all of these decisions!