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They probably used to. Then the accountants got involved and removed that expense. Along with everything else they could think of too. Free coffee for employ
by justinclift 3y ago
They probably used to. Then the accountants got involved and removed that expense.
Along with everything else they could think of too.
Free coffee for employees? Not from about 2 decades ago... ;)
- dna_polymerase 3y ago> Free coffee for employees? Not from about 2 decades ago... ;) Is this a joke that went over my head, or are they seriously making their employees pay for coffee?
- alwayseasy 3y agoIt's the case in most companies unfortunately.
- justinclift 3y agoAt least here in Australia, (about 2 decades ago) they seriously stopped having free coffee - or any other drink except tap water - for their employees. Yep, it's as brain damaged an idea as it seems, and yep it's also an accurate depiction of how little they think of their employee productivity.
- jonfw 3y agoMy office in US has free sodas, snacks, and coffee. As well as free lunch weekly. Not as bad as some people’s experiences here I guess
- tanjtanjtanj 3y agoI worked at a US IBM site for a couple weeks a few years back and they had an engineer assigned to my group who would walk with us to the kitchenette and pay for our coffee from the machine each time. I hope he was reimbursed!
- thedougd 3y agoYes, most of IBM charged you for coffee. And this is when they were still doing okay. The real gem was around 2010 when my location stopped picking up trash from offices and cubes. You had to dump your bin into the big one at the end of the building.
- sofixa 3y agoPerfect example of missing the forest for the trees business practices based on seeing only numbers and missing any sort of coherent picture. The money wasted on the employees dumping their own bins probably offsets the money saved on cleaning staff directly by an order of magnitude, not to mention the indirect losses of people being annoyed/pissed and leaving.
- kitd 3y agoFor a few years, at my office in the UK, they charged 8p for the hot water to put your tea bag in.
- stuff4ben 3y agoI'm currently enjoying free coffee here at the IBM RTP, NC office. We have free soda machines, free snacks, and free Taco Tuesdays (today, yay!). Pre-pandemic we had more free snacks including fresh fruit, but for some reason they got rid of the fruit. It's not that bad honestly. Not a big fan of the RBA though :(
- justinclift 3y agoWhat is "RTP"?
- stuff4ben 3y agoResearch Triangle Park in North Carolina (USA). It sits between 3 cities, Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill which each contain very well known universities, NC State, Duke, and UNC Chapel Hill. Lot of tech, bio/ag, and research hubs here.
- pennotepad 3y agoMid 2010s I worked in the UK office and we had to bring our own tea/coffee/milk. I don't think we had any 'benefits' that you'd associate with modern tech companies. The team I was in had no money to expense so for the first few months I worked using just the company provided laptop with no peripherals, and had to wait for someone leaving to be able to grab their external monitor and a laptop stand. Team/Company morale was very low in my time there.
- epc 3y agoThe free coffee and discounted cafeteria food stopped in 1992, at least at Myers Corners Lab near Poughkeepsie.
- flamedoge 3y agopretty sure ibm canada still has free coffee
- tempest_ 3y agoAbout 5 years ago the lab in Toronto had free coffee but the other offices did not.
- Pet_Ant 3y agoCompany I worked for had a bucket of quarters at the receptionists desk so if you had representatives/clients from other companies come over you could get some so that they could get themselves a coffee. They finally made coffee free when the sales guys said it was too embarassing.
- stuff4ben 3y agoEnjoying my Starbucks-brewed, free coffee here in IBM RTP :)