How often are your lunch breaks spoiled by meetings?

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Never. My boss would never think of scheduling a meeting at lunch. I did go to a few trainings where they called it a working lunch but they had it catered so that was fine with me - lol. I would hope that managers are more cognizant of the fact that people need breaks during the day and lunch is a time that should not be messed with - lol.

Not very often. I have had to either take an early lunch or late lunch to accommodate the schedule of a key player in an important meeting, but so far this year I've only been called once to "cut it short" and get back to the office for an unexpected -- and irate -- client that needed calming down. My manager is pretty good about realizing that 8 hours of the work day belong to the company and the other 30 minutes is mine.

I put a time block on my calendar so that my lunch breaks are not interrupted. I need that time to myself to get through the day.

Every day!

This question is triggering because I don't remember the last time that I got a lunch break to myself. When I work from the office, my direct reports come to my desk and ask questions. At home, I get Slacks even if I'm offline.

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