Reader Which, in turn, is an anti-perk. I worked at a place that offered free food. I still took my lunch break and wandered over to the gas station for half an hour to grab a hot dog and a Monster. The point of that break wasn't to eat. It was to get as far away from my miserable open-plan office gulag as possible so I didn't go mad before five o'clock.Couldn't quit that job fast enough.I'll power through lunch without a break these days, but it's because I have my own office, to which I can take free food back to eat at my desk while I get work done.For introverted or neurodivergent (or both) workers, there is NOTHING worse than being "inculcated with the culture." Some people may enjoy that, but not me.

Reader Which, in turn, is an anti-perk. I worked at a place that offered free food. I still took my lunch break and wandered over to the gas station for half an hour to grab a hot dog and a Monster. The point of that break wasn't to eat. It was to get as far away from my miserable open-plan office gulag as possible so I didn't go mad before five o'clock.Couldn't quit that job fast enough.I'll power through lunch without a break these days, but it's because I have my own office, to which I can take free food back to eat at my desk while I get work done.For introverted or neurodivergent (or both) workers, there is NOTHING worse than being "inculcated with the culture." Some people may enjoy that, but not me.

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