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• Nicola

  27 April 2010, 8:36AM

  Nicola

  Nope, I hate eating lunch at my desk. I definitely need to get away, have a chat and properly rest my brain. I also hate filthy desks, keyboards full of crumbs and sticky mice which eating at your desk every day inevitably leads to! Also, as you mention, desks are far from hygienic dining tables!!

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• Sarah

  27 April 2010, 11:47AM

  Sarah

  I don't really have a choice about where i eat lunch, my office does not provide us with anywhere to eat lunch other than our desks. I do get out for a quick 15 minute walk to the shops, so that's something at least.

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• Caroline

  27 April 2010, 12:41PM

  Caroline

  There is nothing more revolting than sitting at someone else's computer only to discover it's got crumbs wedged in the keyboard. I vote for lunch out.

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• James

  27 April 2010, 9:35PM

  James

  8 hours? More like 18 for me. I'm possibly the worst culprit - can eat all 3 meals at the desk answering emails/ tweets or writing invoices/ searching for recipes in between bites. Hmm - maybe I should slow down a bit?

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• drusilla

  28 April 2010, 12:12PM

  drusilla

  A day or two off is called for, I think, James! I guiltily admit to eating my lunch at my desk as I'm reading this! But I keep my desk spotlessly clean, never eat anything crumb-y over my keyboard. And I occasionally do the odd bit of work there too... ;-)

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• Caity

  28 April 2010, 2:37PM

  Caity

  I'm guilty too I'm afraid! But I don't answer my phone and normally read the paper or my book so tend not to get bothered. No where really around here to go, especially in winter. Do normally get some fresh air for at least 10 minutes tho unless it's completely chucking it down!

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• Eva

  28 April 2010, 5:34PM

  Eva

  I wouldn't want to eat at my desk, even though now I don't work. I once had a boss who took the view that if you are in the building you are on duty, so I made a point of leaving the building for a whole hour even it was chucking it down and freezing cold. Hubby eats at his desk, at home after a full day's work, then he complains that his office, this is the one at home, isn't clean!

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• kittendothroar

  28 April 2010, 10:04PM

  kittendothroar

  I normally eat in our staff room or if its nice then on a bench in the grounds...I work in a hospital though and eating at the desk would be a definate no no!

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• miniminx

  29 April 2010, 3:27PM

  miniminx

  since i work at home a lot of the time, my 'desk' is the kitchen table....does it still count? ;)

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• Stavros

  29 April 2010, 6:08PM

  Stavros

  I eat my desk an unfortunate 4 days a week, only fridays do I have the luxury of a half day, and hence a full lunch! However, I do always spend 20 mins of my 30 walking to the shop and back, can't understand why my colleagues always remain inside the stuffy office! Maybe I should request some picnic benches outside - might mean I save 20 mins a year on dismantling my keyboard after getting something stuck underneath the space bar!

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• samjf25

  1 May 2010, 10:07PM

  samjf25

  I'm afraid it's lunch at my desk for me as well, when i have time to eat it that is! we have nowhere to eat lunch away from our desks, and work in a village with nothing much round it either!!

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• angelicasfoodcorner

  25 May 2010, 11:36AM

  angelicasfoodcorner

  I had to use the office of a colleague the other week and along with his office came his computer... oh the horror that met me! I am usually not very easily put off by filthy things, but this man's keyboard had me wanting to scrub my hands with a steel brush under boiling hot water for days. It was like there was a kind of sticky, oily, dirty layer of dirt on all the keys and I can still feel a chill down my spine when I think about it. I was grossed out to the point where I had to go get a wet paper towel, some soap and scrub-scrub away! He has not thanked me for cleaning his keyboard, but I hope he noticed it!

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• Natasha

  31 May 2010, 8:07AM

  Natasha

  Me too, drusilla! i eat at my desk ALL the time but my desk is extremely clean - wipe down before i start my lunch and wipe down after i finish - no crumbs/stickiness of anykind. And living in Dubai, i have the opposite problem in that it's too hot to go outside!

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• LizMacau88

  31 May 2010, 8:14AM

  LizMacau88

  I once spilt a glass of red wine over my keyboard -- does that make me a slob or a sophisticate?

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