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Lunch in Less than 20 Person-Hours
Okay, I’ve officially had it with lunch at work! Every time we get more than two people together to get lunch, it turns into a fiasco. This is about how it goes:
Well-Meaning Hungry Person: “Hey Ted, I’m going to run to some restaurant, are you in?”
Ted: “You bet, I want …”
Now, it could end here and avoid fiasco status, but it doesn’t. The person who starts the lunch order thinks, “Gee, it would be polite if I asked others in the office too.” Here is where the whole thing starts to go wrong.