In August of 2012, Kira Fisher started Sad Desk Lunch, a Tumblr photo collection of her noonday meal. The site caught on, and people soon began to submit their own sad desk lunches. She got up to 20 submissions a day. The site is a hilarious collection of mealtime sorrow: a pickle and coffee, Fritos,a pile of pasta, a candy bar and energy drink, and many, many more.
Kira has been bringing her lunch from home for years. But she couldn't escape an office full of sad desk lunches. Her co-workers had to be "lured out" to eat lunch away from their desks. She instituted "no laptop lunches" when she worked at Tumblr.
Kira believes that offices have a herd mentality, and no one wants to be an outlier. If most people eat lunch at their desks, there's a good chance you will too.
And don't worry about Kira. She's doing just fine, lunch-wise.
