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Re:Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft by zihotki on Sunday March 22, 2026 @04:35PM (#47481856)
That implies that you have a fixed time for lunch and also chat during lunch. I may be the minority but I prefer to eat when I'm hungry and focus on the food instead of chatting. And there is also allergies, as a celiac, I have big troubles eating together with others - they may accidently contaminate my food
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Re:Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft by tanjtanjtanj on Sunday March 22, 2026 @07:28PM (#47483466)
I’m actually curious here, not trying to question your experience but does other people’s food regularly contaminate your food when you eat at the same table as them?

I’ve lived with a celiac sufferer before and I’ve never heard of something that extreme, but everyone’s different.

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Re:Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft by fc417fc802 on Monday March 23, 2026 @09:50AM (#47489533)
The degree of sensitivity of allergies varies widely. For example there are people who only have a problem after consuming a large scoop of peanut butter but there are also those who will end up in the hospital from trace amounts that you'd have difficulty spotting with the naked eye.
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Re:Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft by FuriouslyAdrift on Monday March 23, 2026 @11:24AM (#47490793)
I dated a woman with celiac sprue (which I guess was extreme.. her mother had to have a bowel resection due to celiac related issues) and she had sudden anaphylaxis at a restaurant that required the use of an epi-pen and an ambulance.

The reaction was caused by the micro-brewery that had opened next door and all the wheat dust in the ventilation system.

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Re:Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft by tayo42 on Sunday March 22, 2026 @07:51PM (#47483637)
When I've seen this done, yeah you block a fixed time for a "meeting", durring lunch time.
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Re:Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft by titanomachy on Monday March 23, 2026 @04:35AM (#47486751)
It sounds like you could get very high ROI from chilling out a little bit. If one social lunch per month is an unfathomable hardship then you're probably leaving a lot of other opportunities on the table. Do you have OCD or social anxiety or something?
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Re:Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft by obezyian on Monday March 23, 2026 @05:56AM (#47487297)
Apparently, people with celiac disease do have "anxiety or something":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease#Dietary_challe...

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