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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
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.
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Do most firms actually provide milk?
Different varieties of milk? Christ, my firm is cheap. They even cheaped out on the cup lids -- they used be the Starbucks-type lid with the little cut-out for drinking and now they are the fold-back-a-tab type that always results in sharp plastic corners jabbing at my mouth. Fucking cheapskates.
