Is this too much to ask?
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Kirk 10389821 wrote:
Cost of POT of coffee = 1 snickers bar.
Not quite, it appears.[^] But I won't eat 5 snickers a day.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Okay, I buy BAGS of ground coffee. 2 scoops makes a pot. Bag = $8.00 Pot = $1.00 or less!
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Okay, I buy BAGS of ground coffee. 2 scoops makes a pot. Bag = $8.00 Pot = $1.00 or less!
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Kirk 10389821 wrote:
I buy BAGS of ground coffee.
Cheapskate. ;P ;)
Kirk 10389821 wrote:
Pot = $1.00 or less!
And a snickers can be half that. ;)
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
One snickers. Vs. 5-10 cups of coffee (a cup is no longer 6oz in the USA). Most of us drink via mugs. And hardly anyone drinks a whole pot every day. We used to do 3-5 pots with 8-10 people in the office. Don't get me started on the $250 coffee machine :-) Well worth it in the end. But once we start supplying snickers, we will get the coffee drinkers wanting TamTam or KitKat bars. People complaining of Nut allergies. Some wanting cookies, etc. To which I say. Bring what you would like to have or to share. I will bring the coffee, the creamer, the hot water, and the sweetener. Heck we even provide the mugs :-)
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One snickers. Vs. 5-10 cups of coffee (a cup is no longer 6oz in the USA). Most of us drink via mugs. And hardly anyone drinks a whole pot every day. We used to do 3-5 pots with 8-10 people in the office. Don't get me started on the $250 coffee machine :-) Well worth it in the end. But once we start supplying snickers, we will get the coffee drinkers wanting TamTam or KitKat bars. People complaining of Nut allergies. Some wanting cookies, etc. To which I say. Bring what you would like to have or to share. I will bring the coffee, the creamer, the hot water, and the sweetener. Heck we even provide the mugs :-)
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It is pretty common for companies, at least in America, to provide free coffee to their employees via a coffee machine. I don't drink coffee so each job I have worked at I ask for free Snickers candy bars. No one has come through yet. Is it too much to ask that the minority (non-coffee drinkers) be treated fairly and equally? :(
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Well, given that coffee is typically self-serve, and kept at a distance in the brew machine, while we can buy snacks ready-to-eat and store them in our office - well, I think that the cost analysis leads to something much better than Snickers. Maybe a twenty minute nap in the afternoon? Then again, maybe all that wasted time is part of the process - getting us geeks out of our offices to engage in tribal bonding. You know - bowing to the magic filter, apportioning out the bleeding grounds, etc., etc.
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Well, given that coffee is typically self-serve, and kept at a distance in the brew machine, while we can buy snacks ready-to-eat and store them in our office - well, I think that the cost analysis leads to something much better than Snickers. Maybe a twenty minute nap in the afternoon? Then again, maybe all that wasted time is part of the process - getting us geeks out of our offices to engage in tribal bonding. You know - bowing to the magic filter, apportioning out the bleeding grounds, etc., etc.
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It is pretty common for companies, at least in America, to provide free coffee to their employees via a coffee machine. I don't drink coffee so each job I have worked at I ask for free Snickers candy bars. No one has come through yet. Is it too much to ask that the minority (non-coffee drinkers) be treated fairly and equally? :(
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Very simply, it's a matter of cost to the company. The 'free' coffee costs about 13 cents per cup, your Snickers bar would cost minimally about 52 cents. That being said, the majority of NZ companies offer a selection of sweet biscuits (what Americans call cookies) alongside tea and coffee. Since the majority of Kiwis drink tea, the cost for the feebie is approximately 25 cents per serving.
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