My team never used to have lunch meetings, but then a new person joined and started setting lunch meetings (and new folks who joined after him follow suit). I decline and propose a new time that is NOT lunch and when everyone is free -_-

Thoughts on how to handle this/call it out? My work life balance is pretty 💩 because of COVID/work from home so having an actual lunch break would be nice

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Speak with your project manager and block lunch as a team. Include the analysts in the invite. It’s not really sustainable.

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Block off lunch time on your own calendar, then not everyone is free anyway.

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Cut that off ASAP, don’t let in longer. Be explicit about protected time

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Do you guys have a team meeting? This just sounds like a misunderstanding so I’d bring up the concern with your PM and ask if this could be announced at the next meeting

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Funny thing is the person that started a culture of lunch meetings is just below my manager so 🙄

Everyone has lunch at the same time? What time is lunch?

Yeah, I don't think about a standard lunch hour and work with teams/clients across several time zones. Wouldn't bar off X hours in a day because it is noon somewhere.

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