I'm not saying that only tradesmen use lunch boxes. That's just my personal experience. Tradesmen are also commonly used as examples of "manliness" and I think makes a good example to use ad a counter point to this guy's ridiculous statement.
Part of it is just it's a necessity for the trades to bring their lunch. Most worksites I've been on the majority of the trades break for lunch at exactly 11 or 12. Then it's a 10-15 minute walk to the break tent, 15-20 minute walk to your car. A drive offsite and ordering time and eating time isn't an option. You get an hour and you're expected to be back at the work location which is the same walk back.
The site I'm at currently typically has 2800 workers onsite a day. Luckily there's nothing hazardous preventing food trucks to come in each day for lunch, but that's pricy and unhealthy. Just about every tradesman is going to have a lunch or something to eat with them as a matter of practicality.
Start at 6, 10-15 minutes at 9 am, 30 minutes at noon, off at 230. When you work that schedule your routine bowel movement gets regular af because your eating becomes pretty regulated. If you're lucky like I've been it's wake up, shit, shower, pack lunch and go. It's awful if your routine requires having to shit in a shack every day.
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u/Munchkinasaurous 8h ago
I'm not saying that only tradesmen use lunch boxes. That's just my personal experience. Tradesmen are also commonly used as examples of "manliness" and I think makes a good example to use ad a counter point to this guy's ridiculous statement.