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[pegkerr]

One of the features of our new workspace is a nice kitchen, really a sort of a cafe. The kitchen in our old building was bleak gray, with no windows and not enough seating. This new one has plenty of windows, table and chairs, and amazingly, a fireplace with several extremely cozy armchairs, each with a swing out mini table attached. I've fallen in love with it, and have really enjoyed reading a book there on my breaks.

But today the firm added another amenity which has ruined the lunch room for me entirely.

A wide screen TV.

I am absolutely disgusted. Now every lunch will be accompanied by the blaring of soap operas, no doubt.

My lunches will now be taken in one of the empty offices.

Comments

[rvrjoe775.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be nice if they sprung for a few more chairs and moved the TV into an empty office?

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to know I'm not the only person who resents the intrusion of TV into places where I'd rather have some quiet and my book.

Can there be a negotiated agreement between the book readers and the soap opera fans? Maybe staggered lunch hours, with one hour for TV and one hour TV-free?

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

That's a really good idea.

K.

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

Argh. They put a tv in the break room at my former place of employment, and it was always on the Learning Channel. A Dating Story. A Wedding Story. A Baby Story. And then the Lifetime movies! Or it was all CNN all the time. Gah.

Go for the empty office. It's nicer.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I like the suggestion of seperate lunch times. If that doesn't go over, before you forsake it for an office you could try a) headphones and a CD player, or b) eat your lunch quickly (like in 15 minutes, or at your desk), and take a break at some point during the day when there isn't anyone in the lunch room watching TV to sit and read then.

[bohemianspirit.livejournal.com]

Gack. As a card carrying supporter of the Kill Your Television movement, I offer you my heartfelt sympathies. Why does the freakin TV have to follow us wherever we go? And if it's not TV, it's cell phones. Let me tell you, working retail has given me an aversion to people who wander everywhere with their phones glued to their ears, especially the ones who won't put the phone down long enough to talk to the cashier who is so very kindly processing their purchases. Ahem. ;-)

You might want to file a comment with the appropriate department at your company, and see if they'll reconsider the TV, or at least put it in a separate room.