[Ammi]

Originally Posted by BBXX

I once had a colleague whose wife would come into the office with his children on his lunch, and they'd run around the office playing while others were trying to work while him and his wife saw at his desk eating. I was flabbergasted... it's a special kind of entitlement to think the rules don't apply.

As someone who doesn't want children, ever, I do find it the case that there is a small percentage on parents who think the rules don't apply to them because they have kids, and it's extremely frustrating.

…yeah, that’s understandable also because people do need that calm/chill time to regenerate and can have often had stressful working mornings so lunch breaks are important for many reasons ….the children wouldn’t really bother me but then, my whole working life has been children …my big lunchtime nightmare is colleagues who cook sardines and the like for lunch that make the whole staffroom have to suffer their lunch also…:fistshakingsmilie:/down with that sort of thing…