Company opens coffee shop inside of office, gets rid of all the free coffee machines: 'We were promised a free cup of coffee if we published an impactful research article'

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
May 30, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

One of the best parts of going into the office is free food and drinks. I'm not saying that sitting next to your colleagues and doing work simultaneously is totally worthless, but you could work next to other people at any public library during working hours. Sure, you can go into a meeting room to pick your coworker's brains, but that's a rare, thrilling moment. It's much more exciting to get a free lunch or unlimited cans of Diet Coke for your pleasure. You're probably not getting paid enough anyway, so you might as well utilize the resources your office has to offer, paltry though they may be!

What happens when the paltry free offerings go away? That's what happened to one office when their boss got rid of the free coffee machines in exchange for an in-house coffee shop. Who gets rid of a coffee machine? An absolute villain.

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  • 01
    my employer took away all the coffee machines after a cafe opened up in our building. CEO in on it?
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    Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to share that Good Earth Coffeehouse is opening at 2 p.m. today at 686 Bay St. in the PGCRL! Good Earth is a network of coffeehouses with 60 locations throughout Canada and a variety of freshly brewed coffee, tea and snacks. This new location will be followed by an additional location to open in the Patient Support Centre (PSC) later this year. As a result of this opening, we will be discontinuing the coffee pod program and the brewers will be removed at the end of
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    this was back in February this year. our company had around -15 office floors with coffee machines. when the cafe opened up, all the machines were removed. to add insult to injury, we were promised a free cup of coffee if we published an impactful research article. for reference, it takes in the order of hundreds of hours (per person) to publish a paper. what the fuck. /end rant.
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    AnamCeili 1 day ago Your employer is getting a cut of the profits, in my opinion. You should all start bringing coffee from home, or buying it from a different place. And/or, you could all get together and, as a group, inform your employer that you are disappointed that they would remove the coffee machines and expect you to start buying your coffee just because a cafe happened to open up in the building.
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  • 05
    I would also consider going directly to the management of the cafe and asking if your company is getting a kickback (though doing so does incur some risk on your part, if it gets back to your boss).
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    SwiftWithIt 1 day ago Ill call and ask lol
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  • 07
    hockey1949 OP - 1 day ago do we work at the same place 00?
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    limellama1 1 day ago . edited 23 hr. ago Get together with coworkers and PURCHASE a Bunn Coffee CWT-3. Commercial pour in 3 burner full stainless coffee maker.
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  • 09
    I worked for Bunn as a travel service tech for 3 yrs. The CWT line is the most popular. Parts are widely available in North America and all services work on the machine can be done with the absolute minimum of tools. The vast majority hardware will typically last 3- 5 years without any major service needed as long as it is periodically descaled with white vinegar. Only major part that can fail and render
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  • 10
    it useless is the heating coil, which takes 15 min, 4 bolts & 2 retainer nuts and a gasket to replace. The heater is like $US 30 ON Amazon They run about $US650 and are carried by Office Depot or similar.
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    C64128 1 day ago Your boss is getting something out of this, otherwise why would he abrubtly stop with the coffee? People need to confront him and demand to get their old cofee back. If he won't do that, have everybody bring their personal coffee machiines in, see how he likes the clutter.
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    Moontoya 1 day ago theyre getting not having to supply coffee/sugar / creamer / cups / coffee maker etc That looks good on the profit/loss sheets. When they start taking away perks and benefits, the company is in the shit, when the coffee is taken away, the company is about to get flushed down the can
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  • 13
    TLDR - boss is offloading more of their operating costs onto staff to bump up their profits/bonus.
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    Kasym-Khan 22 hr. ago If I were OP I'd start telling everyone around literally this. No perks, then no coffee -> the company is going down. See how the management likes these rumors. Either it works and the coffee is back on the menu or you do reputational damage which is good enough in my books.
    via u/Kasym-Khan
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    thenewspoonybard - 21 hr. ago Boss here. You give people free coffee. For two specific reasons. 1. You don't want them to murder you. 2. People work better with coffee in them. If they stop giving you coffee just go ahead and start looking for a new place to work.
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    Meanderer_Me · 23 hr. ago Write a paper regarding how taking away your coffee is negatively impacting the quality of your findings and likelyhood of journal acceptance. Get your peers to review it. If it doesn't get accepted to a journal, then this is proof that taking away your coffee really does impact the quality of your findings, the paper is self demonstrating. If it does get accepted to a journal, then you have scientific backing agreed on by other scientists
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  • 17
    that no machine coffee and forcing you to go to the company coffee shop makes you worse at your jobs. Either way, it will be a valid complaint!
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    adviceFive Cents . 20 hr. ago Free coffee for publishing a paper is an offensively tiny incentive/congratulations.
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