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Taking away snacks might cause grumbling... Take away coffee and you might as well put the company up for sale.
by blt 11y ago
Taking away snacks might cause grumbling... Take away coffee and you might as well put the company up for sale.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoMy theory is that the person most responsible for the company's success is whoever makes the coffee, because without the coffee, everything stops.
- spinlock 11y agono coffee no workee
- Avernar 11y ago"A programmer is an organism that converts caffeine into code."
- PhantomGremlin 11y agoAs Dave Barry would say: "I am not making this up!". I once visited this company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLSI_Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLSI_Technology and they had a room with vending machines where you had to buy your own coffee. Not somewhere I'd ever consider working.
- kawera 11y agoYes! I did some work for then in the 80s and remember having to pay for really very bad coffee!
- vonmoltke 11y ago> As Dave Barry would say: "I am not making this up!". I have only had personal contact with one company outside of SV that offered free coffee (my current company doesn't count, because the machine is provided by the management company we rent our offices from). To me, free coffee is the exception, not the rule.