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Mind-blowing | Is this the WEIRDEST lunch break ever?

Is this the WEIRDEST lunch break ever?

For most employees, a work lunch break will consist of catching up with friends over a coffee, completing a hard-core gym session or tackling the mundane but extremely inescapable life admin tasks.

However, the lunchtime antics of one worker at a firm in China has taken many people by surprise. An employee working at a mountainous beauty spot in southwest China completes a 300-metre bungee jump each lunch time to deliver hot meals to her colleagues.

Due to the geography of Dream Ordovician Park where Wan Tiandi works, it would take half an hour to drive down the mountain to deliver lunches (that were often served cold due to the length of the drive) to the employee’s workstation which was their previous system of doing things.

The Beijing News reported that Tiandi is tasked with delivering hot lunches to over 200 employees who aren’t able to leave their post over their lunch break.

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