If you eat lunch at your desk, you are an NPC

If you can’t step away from your desk and eat lunch in the break room/or at a table outside, then you are an NPC. Wall Street won’t collapse if you step away from your desk for 30-40 minutes. I only write this because I’m tired of hearing/seeing/smelling my coworkers eat their food at their desks. Hearing their eating sounds. Their dead eyes looking at the screen thinking they’re looking productive. It disgusts me. Stop being an NPC. Step away for a little bit.

That’s all. Thank you for attending my Ted talk

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Yah man I’d totally rather spend an extra 30 minutes eating w/ some chode, who judges people on where they eat, over 30 minutes of extra sleep (please god someone put fentanyl in my eyes they burn)

 

Dont disagree OP but the true NPC of NPC moves, and doesnt apply to banking really, is being strictly adherent to the 9-5 schedule.

As in come in at 9am on the dot, go to lunch right at noona and come back right at 1. Leave right at 5.

Basically a child at that point and treated as such

 

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