i certainly agree with most of your assessments. My only objection might be the cost of lunch at work. Sure if you eat at the company cafeteria or a local pub or other place charging for the meal; but I believe most people have the ability to simply bring a packed lunch from home (either a sandwich or leftovers from supper the night before and a piece of fruit, etc)
I agree its barmy, ive always had packed lunch since school. Its stupid to waste money at starbucks to get morning cofee on way to work, whats wrong with thermos from home, or wait till work. and going out at lunch to get expensive food, mad.
im not saying I agree with it, im saying that people do waste money on it.
I knwo lads straight out of college with huge student debts on lower rung of job aldder would go out to pub lunches with otehr people in office just to show they werre sociable and try and get promotions, they also competed with each otehr doing large amounts of unpaid overtime, the managers took advantage basically to see who was desperate to get the promotion, diabolical behavior from employers.
I came in at 8 an hour before everyone else ( IT department, we got most work done when office monkeys werent there to get in teh way) and yet even tho left at 5, i got told I should hang on unpaid in case there were any problems. How long I asked only need to give my wife a time to collect me, thinking they meant 15 mins, no, they meants several hours unpaid every night, ******** to that. so they sacked me on christmas eve
