Lunch Meetings

Food is one of the basic needs for survival and an animal instinct is to hunt for it. Mankind is no different. We easily get attracted to food and anything that entices you towards it.

My company is pretty proficient at work-life balance. People enjoy their work (or so they portray) but are very possessive about their lunch time. That is the hour of the day when my colleagues want to relax, forget about work and have a good time. Most people don’t want to sit in their cubes and stare at their computer during this time. Meanwhile, someone somewhere in the company is conspiring to steal that hour of personal time from his fellow workers. He wants to set up a meeting during the lunch time.

A response for such meetings is pretty lame unless the meeting provides free lunch. I have seen it work almost every time. Meetings with lunch provided are far more effective than brown bag lunch meetings. It’s a recipe that will never go wrong and get the right audience to attend the meeting. People WILL flock in for your meetings. They will be fine huddling into a small room and working the way the organizer wants them to. People get hypnotized and drop their weapons.

The organizer knows the skill to capture the attention of his request. He reads, understands, analyze his audience to understand their likes and dislikes. The meeting organizers have gone that extra mile to catch the pulse or stomach need of the attendees. They will provide the best food from the most popular restaurants. This ensures that conflicts do not reduce the attendance. By any means, he wants the invitees to get attracted towards his meeting. People will enter the dungeon (small meeting room) and ignore the warning signal in their head that is crying loudly “A FREE LUNCH IS ONLY FOUND IN MOUSETRAPS.” Alas, they will enter and they will find themselves caught while nibbling through the fresh sandwich or delicious pizza.

But what can you say? It is mans’ nature to follow his instincts and I am no different. I sign off as I see a tail wagging from my rear and my teeth protruding. Its time I turn into a mouse as I go for my lunch meeting.

So long!!