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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I worked at a firm in Silicon Valley that decided to stop buying milk for the kitchens. This caused near-revolt among the associates.
Take away our bonuses, our step increases, our extravagant retreats to Monterey and Napa, but don't fuck with our liquid dairy supply!
The firm relented. Order was restored.
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Why do firms try to pull this nickle & dime bullshit? It just pisses people off way out of proportion to the costs involved. Particularly with coffee, the lifeblood of the billable hour, it just clearly can't work. In fact, at my firm they recently upgraded the coffee service (dunno if it was more expensive, but it was definitely better), and the associates were so happy that the firm got away with kinda crappy bonuses, simply because most associates deemed that they had gotten a significant raise because they no longer needed to blow $5/day on Starbucks.
Another gripe - my firm has lousy cheap toilet paper. I fucking hate cheap toilet paper. They should take better care of my ass, particularly since they seem to think they own it.
On to the poll question: I assume by "kitchen" we mean "self-serve coffee/break room" not "cafeteria kitchen staffed by supposed professionals" where you can buy subsidized sandwiches so you don't need to stop billing long enough to scavange food. So, our coffee rooms have coffee (about 6 kinds), tea, sugar, sweet & Low, whole milk, skim milk and half and half. There is a little faucet that dispenses filtered cold water and an icemaker. There are also candy-bar & soda vending machines, but the selection is unsatisfactory.
