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In my experience, people drink coffee daily in order to function normally vs being sleepy. OTOH, they go for Red Bull and other energy drinks exceptionally, if/
by Jare 14y ago
In my experience, people drink coffee daily in order to function normally vs being sleepy. OTOH, they go for Red Bull and other energy drinks exceptionally, if/when they need an extra push.
If a large enough group of people regularly desire such drinks at work, it might just be an statistically odd group, but by default I conclude that they often need that extra boost. In my mind it suggests frequent crunch. Whether it's imposed by the company, the context, or the people - I'm not judging, especially not a startup.
YMMV, I'm certainly biased since a) I only drink water and milk, and b) I have personally seen even worse than energy drinks being offered to help people work longer and harder.
- rdl 14y agoI wonder when the first adderall, ritalin, or desoxyn will get stocked in a company kitchen.
- epochwolf 14y agoWhen they no longer require prescriptions to obtain and use legally.
- eshvk 14y agoTo offer a counter perspective: I hate the taste of coffee but it is all I drank back when I was in grad school for my caffeine fix (because I was poor and red bull was $$). Once I got to work, I wanted to quit coffee but wanted to still get caffeine, the easiest way of doing that was through sugar free red bull. This was completely uncorrelated with whether I was on crunch time or not. I rarely if ever do that now that I am over my caffeine addiction but I get why it is stocked.