A critique of
The Swedish lunchroom.
There once was a lunchroom in an office in a small northern town. Between eleven and one o’clock, the employees go to the lunchroom to heat their lunch boxes in one of the microwave ovens. If someone forgets their lunch box, then the others do not share. If the blue-collar and the white-collar workers eat lunch at the same time, then they do not talk to each other. If you are not Swedish, then you do not get any lunch comrades. On one of the walls in the lunchroom, there is a sign that presents the value system of the office: friendliness, communication, and the equal value of everyone.
