{"id":9690,"date":"2026-02-04T01:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/?p=9690"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:16:04","slug":"my-15-minute-extra-lunch-was-a-crime-to-her-but-her-90-minute-lunch-was-standard-the-math-isnt-mathing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/?p=9690","title":{"rendered":"My 15-minute &#8220;extra&#8221; lunch was a crime to her, but her 90-minute lunch was &#8220;standard.&#8221; The math isn&#8217;t mathing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">I\u2019m Natalie, and I\u2019ve always tried to be a fair coworker. But I work with someone who seems to think the office rules are just suggestions. She takes 90-minute lunches and disappears for 20-minute \u201cbathroom breaks\u201d multiple times a day. I\u2019m not exaggerating\u2014her breaks are legendary for how long they are.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Last week, I was feeling a bit burnt out, so I took an extra 15 minutes for lunch just to clear my head. I wasn&#8217;t late for any meetings, and I was getting my work done. But apparently, that was 15 minutes too many for my coworker. She ran straight to our boss to report me for \u201cconstant break time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">I stayed calm. I didn&#8217;t scream or get defensive. I just kept doing my job.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">What she didn&#8217;t know was that I had started documenting our break times a month ago because her absences were making my workload heavier. When our boss called her into the office a few days later, she went pale. I had three weeks of timestamps showing the reality: she was averaging 2.5 hours of breaks per day, while I averaged 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">She tried to throw me under the bus to distract from her own slacking, but all she did was drive the bus right over herself. I felt a little guilty for logging everything at first, but honestly? She brought this on herself. I\u2019m not the &#8220;office villain&#8221;\u2014I\u2019m just the one who kept the receipts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Natalie, and I\u2019ve always tried to be a fair coworker. But I work with someone who seems to think the office rules are just suggestions. She takes 90-minute lunches &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-co-worker","category-inspiration","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9695,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9690\/revisions\/9695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}