What is the saddest lunch you've ever had at work?
no lunch
expired chips out of the trash that the vending machine guy was throwing out
or
a plain loaf of bread
>>7880112
That just looks like the leftovers of poor home cooking, which is still better than what's served at most fast food and fast casual places.
Lunch from a vending machine is really rock bottom.
>>7880112
This eaten with a broken plastic spork
>>7880112
>pic related
qt auditor made fun of me
>>7880163
That looks like something lazy parents would feed a three year old for lunch, before throwing half of it away because even a three year old knows better than to eat that shit.
>>7880163
That stuff is no too bad.
>>7880173
im sorry
>>7880176
I've been there. Out of ideas, not giving a fuck then suddenly eating something totally pathetic (and overpriced). I've eaten canned pasta cold out of the can with a plastic spoon before I learned it sometimes a little thinking ahead to save you from such degradation.
>>7880112
Alone
>>7880163
This stuff is alright, it's just really fucking expensive for what it is.
>>7880214
got it for free and it was a few months expired so i didnt mind
>>7880214
Maybe the fish is, but there's no excuse for that fruit salad and cookie. That's just prison level shit.
>>7880220
the cookie was really tasty, it made me happy.
For about 6 months when I was poor I ate a single cold can of Campbell's Chunky Soup each day for work.
>>7880228
did you not have access to a microwave at work?
>>7880229
No, and only half an hour to eat. Local Kroger had a sale and coupons so I got them for less than a buck a can. I liked them thankfully but it was pretty dim in retrospect.
Thankfully hunger and poverty make you appreciate things more.
They cost like a dollar for 500+ calories.
I season them sometimes.
>>7880173
I used to love this shit and ask my parents to buy it for me all the time.
Your post made me sad.
>>7880231
when i was a kid my dad would make me eat moldy bread that had green/blue specks to not waste it and now i buy the 4 dollar whole wheat healthy ones and it makes me so happy
>>7880248
You had it worse than me. I was only poor in my late teens, my childhood was beyond ideal. But you took the lesson like I did which is good. I shop conservatively and try not to waste a single damn thing.
>>7880232
Nice with hot sauce or bbq sauce. I take a bag of canned beans sometimes and use old KFC bbq sachets
>>7880253
yeah when i was in my teens we weren't poor but my dad was still a shithead, but facing poverty as a kid made me so terrified of ever being poor again and now on my way to making 100k a year and the only person in my family with a college degree. i wish more poor kids made something of themselves, i went into debt but i got a decent job and paid it off instead of liberal arts.
>>7880112
corn meal and water
>>7880253
>I shop conservatively and try not to waste a single damn thing.
i'm the same way, i don't buy snacks/sweet drinks/instant foods/etc.
and i always use leftovers for breakfast, i can pretty much mix anything together and enjoy it as long as the food is good. i hate seeing good food being thrown away.
>used to work at a Badcock furniture store right down the street from a Kmart for a little while
>slowest, quietest job I've ever worked; some days we'd see a max of two customers in a six-hour span
>for some time, every afternoon around 2:15 "Year of the Cat" by Al Stewart would come on the store radio
>I only found this out because the Kmart closed down about 3 months into my time at Badcock; that was during my lunch break and I'd usually be at the Kmart or some other place getting food
>like the week they closed down we bought a shitload of food from the little sit-down cafe our Kmart had and put it in the break room freezer
>all I can think of when I hear "Year of the Cat" now is heating up a Kmart hot dog at my shitty furniture store job
The saddest part is I was the only one who committed to eating all that shit past the first day or two. We had enough for over a week.
>>7880324
that was one of the first songs i ever remember hearing
>>7880112
Brown rice on its own
I was poor
>>7880112
99% of time at work I never ate lunch
I-I don't have a job any more.
>>7880334
Get one. Stop being a lazy asshole.
When I dropped my spaghetti onto the floor while pulling it out of the microwave and it went everywhere.
>>7880335
>I have to suffer therefore everyone should.
>>7880351
Work is suffering?
>>7880353
For useless cunts like him it probably is. Worst lunch I had was either not having one or a slim Jim. Which fucking blows during a 12-16 hour shift.in a factory.
I had twiglet sandwiches once. dry bread. and a pint of milk that I stole off a doorstep on the way to work.
>>7880112
Is this lunch supposed to be sad? Looks pretty standard to me for a packed lunch; It even has meat.
>>7880112
>Work at fast food so get bunch of free shitty fatty food for lunch
It's not that bad.
>>7880418
>factory working dropout retard replaceable by machines who can only afford 1 dollar processed meat trying to judge literally anyone
o i am l a f f i n
most depressing work lunch for me would have to be when I was at my first job. usually on break I'd swing over to a nearby mom and pop deli and pick up whatever they were doing for their daily specials. one day they were closed and I had to go to the gas station next door and get a breakfast sandwich (this was all they had premade at fucking 1 pm and I was running late)
round, microwaved bacon
folded bullshit egg like mcdonalds
soggy untoasted roll
could almost taste the cough of the miserable clerk who had to make it at 5 in the morning
ended up getting sick from it
never again
Technically not "lunch" as it was around 23:30, but probably the saddest vending machine cheese & pickle sandwich ever. It's either that or the Weetabix (vending machine again; even included the polystyrene bowl & plastic spoon)
I once saw a coworker eat buffalo wing "broth" as she called it.
>>7880112
Raman with old hotdogs off the roller grill
>>7880266
Plenty of poor kids make something of themselves.
Mcdonald's cheeseburger with no burger patty, just cheese and ketchup. Washed it down with lukewarm black coffee from the cafeteria freeze-dried coffee machine.
peanut dust from an empty bottle in my locker
Buddig chicken lunch meat no bread, and a can f cold ravioli. Was to shy to eat poverty food with women so I ate in my crappy car.
>worked at an office
>didn't feel comfortable sitting in the staff room at lunch because i didn't really talk to any of the other employees
>lunch was either some sandwiches from a local store or noodles from the chinese across the road from the office
>ate every lunch alone on a park bench no matter the weather
every lunch was a sad lunch
>>7882258
I am sorry you went through that amigo.
>>7882258
Just put on headphones. They're the universal sign for "I don't want to talk".
A turkey and stuffing lean cuisine that I tried cooking in a commercial kitchen microwave. It came out 70% burnt with cracked and missing plastic from the tray. At a 4am "lunch break"
>>7882258
this is why I'd never want to work in an office environment, I just know I won't make friends with anyone else there
>>7880214
that shit is $1 each at my store, fucking great snack for a dollar each
>>7882557
Maybe the smaller snack sized ones, not the full size meal ones like that.
When I was in second or third grade, my mom would have me bring a check to the office to pay for a month's worth of lunches.
One day I forgot the check and realized I wouldn't be able to get lunch.
So I was in the prison line going up one at a time and when I got to the lunch lady who takes the money, I had my head down and said I forgot to bring the check
She said, That it was ok and to get a tray of food
It made me feel special
>>7880123
>Anon, that's clearly in your home.
What, are you saying you don't use a mini Persian rug for a mouse pad at work?
>>7880112
tastes alright
>work with a bunch of Vietnamese fobs
>I'm Vietnamese myself but I bring in non-Vietnamese food
>they bring in cooked fish
>they fucking microwave it
Kill me.
I used to work at McDonald's.
We finished a customer's order, and the power went out, but he left assuming that we couldn't cook it. It sat there throughout the whole power outage.
I took it and ate it during my break, as I forgot my wallet. Lukewarm old McDonalds value burger. With a lukewarm coffee whitened with milk, as the cream and sugar dispensers were electric.
I started bringing Soylent or ordering salads and water on break, the entire experience of eating mcDonalds burgers every day is the saddest lunch I've ever had as a whole
>>7882258
I did the exact same thing. Even when it was cold and rainy.
>>7882461
bro, you didn't seriously not make lifelong friends while you were in school.......right? no one meets friends/girls once they start working
>Work at a nice bar and grill
>get free meals all the time
>had Korean Prime rib tacos and Beer bacon and cheddar soup for lunch
>MFW
this fat flyover girl from ohio that I used to work with brought a tub of country crock mashed potatoes and mountain dew for lunch. I was pretty sad for her.
>>7880112
When I was helping my gf get through college a few years ago I had to dig in my car for enough change in my car to buy some ramen for lunch at work more than once. Now I'm NEET and eat whatever I want because she makes 180K a year.
Was working in a pharmacy. Too busy to go buy lunch and forgot to bring one with me. Was so hungry that I though fuck it, il try those meal replacement milkshakes that dying people get, ensure and all that. Can't say I'd recommend them really, I honestly don't know how someone can choke back 8 of those things a day
>>7882590
What a nice lady :3
>>7880947
I'm not a dropout you entitled welfare queen.
Just because someone works in a factory doesn't mean they don't know.anything/ don't have higher education.
And I had a slim Jim because I straight up forgot my lunch at home.
>>7882258
Sterile Processing here.. I just started and the only 3 workers are 30 years older and unrelatable. Very close minded.. This has been my lunch situation
crusty 7-11 sandwich with plastic chicken
never again
>>7882806
>School friends
>Lifelong
get ready for a shock when you graduate
>>7880112
>>7882590
You were adorable anon
>>7880112
dry oatmeal into mug container, cold choco soymilk, some pb, when I ate it, it was beginning to turn sour due to the tropical summer heat ;_;
I ate half.
>>7880152
same here but no spork ... eaten with the can cover...
>>7880214
this is equivalent to ~3.50 USD in my supermarket... I always turn away when I see it.
