Coffee is free cause it keeps you awake! [ e ]

What better way to keep employees awake than to give them coffee!  Some would be too lazy to go and buy their own too.  Also, think of the caffine rush some get when they drink it.  Heh, caffine rush means work faster!

Yeah, the last company I worked at supplied free drinks.  It was a small company so everyone was pretty cool about it.  True, it always takes that one asshole to screw it up for everyone else!

posted by anon_anonMay 10, 2002 at 10:19

drinkies [ e ]

Most progressive companies do supply free drinks (juices, sodas, bottled water). The cost of those drinks versus the productivity and happiness gained from employees who don't have to leave the office and spend their own money (wasting work time!) out weighs the cost of the drinks themselves. In fact, a couple companies I've worked at had free beer on pizza Fridays too (every Friday).

posted by anonemouseOctober 7, 2003 at 1:08

Most avid supporter of free coffee in the U.S.! (Possibly the entire world?) [ e ]

     You can see by my title Greggman, that I am pro free coffee , anywhere. Well with the posssible exception of it being spilled in my lap. I don't know why it's free but i've got a strong suspiscion that that may be unique to America . In France they (from what I've heard) the Wine is free. If your in line at a bank they'll ask you if you'd like a nice Merlot with your Franc(or Euro now) I suppose. Interesting that many people pay for water. Evian spelled backwards is...Exactly! Interesting observation Greggman. By the way , decaf?...USELESS BROWN WATER>! Damn $#$%ing spilled it in my lap!

posted by StananonamousDecember 8, 2003 at 11:49

Coffee and free stuff [ e ]

Ive seen this to, though i havent worked much but for example volvo, the swedish car company, atleast what is left of it, if im not wrong the employes get free lunch there, they have a big resturant and the employes get cupons to pay for there food, i forgot to mention that there are 4 different kinds of food you can pick from, italian, Asian, hamburger and usual food like swedish meetballs etc... :)

But it squite common that a company has a coffe machine but its not always free, for example i worked at an eldercare home last summer. *lukylie only a summer job*The employes could make an arragement with the supervisor so money would be withdrawn from the salary for coffee and bisquits etc.. But i think its only Goverment controlled places that do like that.

//Kristofer/Sweden

posted by ZehgernanDecember 8, 2003 at 17:14

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I can't resist posting to this ancient blog in order to give my experience in working for a tightwad company Wells Fargo.

Coffee free. You paid for everything else, including parking, which was ridiculous when the Vikings played in town. When we had free meals, I was left out. I, being allergic to meat and chicken, had to beg for a cheese pizza instead of the pepperoni and sausage. They then decided to switch from the better pizza place to the extremely greasy dulano's pizza. You could squeeze more oil out of that pizza then you ever could a school's pizza. I quit eating anything they brought me, no matter how free it was. The other departments got much better food. However, the worst of it was not that I had to pay for my pop, or that I never could get a free meal I could keep down,  the worst was when we lost our Head manager. He had gone around all of our desks and rearranged them to look exactly like all the others - right down to the pencils being in the exact same spot. Literally. I thought that it was he who was behind the silly laws of the Proof department. I found out after he quit, that it was the CEO of Wells Fargo, Kavosovitch (sp?) that was behind it. Mr. Kavosovitch wanted everyone to have restroom breaks at exactly the same time. He was also solely behind my income never keeping up with inflation.  That head manager was a very good man. I don't blame him for quitting. He left to go back to school to become a teacher.

posted by kyterooMay 1, 2008 at 17:39

Coffee in the Army [ e ]

When I was in the Army, (I worked in an office setting), we would sometime have a coffee pot in a central location.  Soldiers were supposed to be part of the coffee fund, or pay for a cup of coffee.  For the most part, everyone did what they were supposed to d, but we also had a few bad apples that eventually made it impossible to keep the coffee fund going.  Most of the free-loaders either did not pay their part, or they would not make a fresh pot of coffee when they got the last (full) cup of coffee.  I finally gave up on the idea of a coffee fund, so I would no longer let others get coffee from my coffee pot.  That might have been selfish, but I got tired of cleaning up after the others, and not having coffee when I wanted it.  I am now retired from the Army, so that is no longer a problem.

posted by retiredarmyguyAugust 31, 2008 at 5:46

Caffeine Makes The World Go 'Round [ e ]

Free coffee = more alert and assertive employees.
Problem = coffee breath
Solution = Free mints

posted by Murb1970April 21, 2009 at 15:51