How long is your lunch break?
 

Thinly veiled brag post, but I'm curious as to how long your lunch break is.

I believe the standard is one hour? But that some people work through lunch, some people eat at their desks?

Do white collar and blue collar jobs have different lunch lengths? I heard somewhere it's half hour for some people.

When does your lunch start? 1PM? 12:30PM?

My lunch is from 12:30PM to 2:30PM. It is a decent lunch hour.

Do Americans eat sandwiches for lunch every day?

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i set my own lunch break unless i have to work around meetings

typically take an hour and eat at my desk while surfing the internet

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Once we left the office and drove to a theater to watch Borat over lunch. BEST DAY EVER.

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Fifty seven minutes.

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I typically take a pre-lunch from 11:30-12 PM and shoot the [censored]/eat lunch. We have a cafeteria/catering service that comes in daily. At 12 PM we go to the local bar and gambool on Golden Tee.

This summer I played 9 holes of golf with a co-worker during lunch break.

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Standard is 11:30-1pm, but that usually stretches into 2 hours, and if I feel like taking more or taking it at a different time it's not a problem.

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I usually take about 15 minutes.

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I've never really worked in an office job for an extended period of time but I don't understand the idea of a defined lunch break for office workers. Or a defined workday for that matter, my mom's office requires people to be there between some key hours of the day so they can schedule meetings accordingly but other than that it's work whenever you need to to get your job done. I think that's how it should be, people are on salary anyway.

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If people in America have long lunch breaks for their jobs, it's usually not just for eating lunch, but accomplishing something outside of work (even if that's recreation). Nobody here takes 2-3 hours to eat a leisurely lunch, it's just not in our culture.

Fortunately for me I don't have a real job or required work hours, so finding time for lunch is pretty easy. That is if I happen to be awake at lunchtime. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Most days I take 45 minutes to eat and shoot the [censored] with coworkers in the conference room. sometimes I eat at my desk when it's busy. sometimes I go to a cigar lounge and smoke. sometimes on a slow day 8-10 of us will go to a bar or restaurant and have a 2 hour leisurely lunch, apparently despite the fact we're in america.

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however long it takes me to stuff something down my gullet (10min or so). i work in an understaffed busy pharmacy and we don't really have breaks, just sneak away quick when we have a chance.

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garcia,

i eat whatever i feel like so i occasionally eat a lunch-type sandwich for breakfast:

peppered turkey, munster cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, dijon, salt/pepper, olive oil on a hero.

but a real breakfast sandwich is:

everything bagel, fried egg, meat product of your choice, hot sauce!

however a delicious sandwich is chix parm on a hero, or a meatball sub on a baguette!


in a nyc finance job, lunch break is the 15 min it takes to grab lunch and get back. add 20 min to eat and read online newspapers and catch up on rumors.

15 min for a espresso/coffee run. the timing across asset classes usually goes as . . ..

2:30 PM for commodities
3 PM for FX and Fixed Income
4 PM for equities

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I took a 3 hour nap on my bed with my dog curled up next to me today....I guess you could call that my lunch break, since when I woke up I decided I was hungry and should eat lunch. I ate a turkey sandwich with provolone cheese between two pieces of toasted whole wheat bread

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usually 45 min to one hour. sometimes longer... sometimes no lunch depending on work..

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i had turkey, salami and provolone melted on an onion bagel during my lunch break today, [censored] was bangin yo

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MANDATORY 1 HOUR UNPAID

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I skip lunch so I can get off an hour early and start drinking sooner.

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30 minutes if it's scheduled (unpaid), 10 minutes if not (paid).

And I'm normally a very slow eater. This is the one thing I hate about my job. Aside from all the other things.

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2 hours of breaks per 7 hour shift ldo.

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On this site having to work a real job means you have no right to thinly veiled brags. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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My lunch is from 12:30PM to 2:30PM. It is a decent lunch hour.

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Are you French?

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If I go to one of the cafeterias at work I will take about 45 minutes to an hour. I go out a lot and that usually takes 1-1.5 hours. Occasionally I will go home and play with my dogs which usually takes about 2 hours (I live 5 minutes from my job)

The crappy manual labor jobs I had in high school had anywhere from 0-20 minute lunch breaks.

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This summer I got an hour for lunch which was way too long since it wasn't long enough to go to the gym and I eat in like five minutes. Sometimes I'd go home and take a 30 minute nap.

Other times, I would just bring my food to my computer and that way I could basically take a break for the rest of the day. I'd just sit online until someone noticed and then the hour clock started as "I just started lunch"

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My lunch is from 12:30PM to 2:30PM. It is a decent lunch hour.

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that's a pretty long lunch. are you sure it isn't dinner?

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I work at a large agency where workers are typically away from their desks. I often eat at my desk, but I think I could easily get away with a 4 hour long lunch break if I really wanted to.

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1 hour, but I've got no problem working through lunch since I get paid overtime. Plus I pack and eat my lunch at my desk the three days I'm in the office.

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I usually take one hour. If I'm going to afternoon meeting at our other offices, I'll take an hour and a half and have lunch with friends I haven't seen in awhile. Otherwise, I'm eating lunch at my desk and surfing the interwebs.

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i eat while i trade. i dunno, i'm always paranoid that i'm gonna miss some huge move.

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I get to work at 9:30.
I take an hour lunch most every day, longer on Fridays usually.
I leave work no later than 5:10 and usually earlier.
I get paid 40 hrs a week.

Yay me.

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I'll again post when it's over.

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an hour usually, but i never take the whole hour

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An hour usually, unless we start drinking. If it's just a couple beers we're back in our offices napping after 90 min. Sometimes we don't make it back to work. Oops.

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we get 1/2 hour. I usually make it 35-40 mins. This is unpaid. Chipotle today seems like a good choice. I will be going there in a few minutes.

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My lunch is from 12:30PM to 2:30PM. It is a decent lunch hour.

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Hehe, the stock market is closed from 12.30 to 2.30. So I get to lunch!

Thanks for the input. I think lunch should be longer so you eat in the first 30 minutes and then take 30 minutes to sleep off the lunch-induced sleepies.

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I usually run at lunch and then eat afterwards at my desk. So any where from 60-90 minutes including changing/showering/etc.

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1 hour, usually 11:30 - 12:30, but nobody's keeping track of me so it can go longer if necessary.

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7:30am to 4 pm

See my avatar <-------

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1hr lunch, and it is scheduled for the same time each work day. No deviation!

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Standard is 11:30-1pm, but that usually stretches into 2 hours, and if I feel like taking more or taking it at a different time it's not a problem.

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Yeah - standard.

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As a chef, my lunch hour is always different. Sometimes, I don't get a lunch hour. Other days I do. Sometimes you have to eat on the fly.