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Missing option (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Missing option (Score:3, Insightful)
I can't see that assumption. The assumption is just that where you work, there are employees who snack. The assumption is not that you are among them.
Re:Missing option (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, perhaps you work from home and snacks are on the house? Better get a ladder.
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
I work from home, you insensitive clod!
Re:Missing option (Score:3)
I prefer to graze where there's grass.
Re:Missing option (Score:5, Funny)
I prefer to graze after grass.
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
I freelance, you insensitive clod (Score:2)
Re:I freelance, you insensitive clod (Score:2)
Re:I freelance, you insensitive clod (Score:1)
Make me a sandwich [www.sudo.ws]
Re:I freelance, you insensitive clod (Score:3)
Cool...so then you can write them off!!
(Assuming you've done the smart thing and are incorporated).
Re:I freelance, you insensitive clod (Score:3)
Re:I freelance, you insensitive clod (Score:2)
Generally food and shelter if provided to the employee would be considered as taxable income on the part of the employee, and there are a number of IRS rules that limit the "extensibility" of thinks like meals and entertainment, even if provided as part of a sales meeting or conference. I am pretty sure that the same rules apply even when the employer is the same person as the employee.
Re:I freelance, you insensitive clod (Score:2)
Re:I freelance, you insensitive clod (Score:2)
"expensibility" rather than "extensibility"
I labor under new management (Score:1)
... to paraphrase a "Pluggers" cartoon from a few years ago: I'm retired.
That is, when I finish mowing the lawn, I need to clean out the garage, fix the side fence,
and wash off the outdoor furniture. Then, after lunch, I'm sure she'll come up with more
chores for me to do...
So, yeah, I provide my own snacks!
(And, yes, I'm posting as an AC for a good reason !!)
CowboyNeal Brings My Snacks (Score:2)
Keep it classy Dice.
Re:CowboyNeal Brings My Snacks (Score:2)
No kidding... Could they make it a bit more blunt?
So far this year, we have:
At my current place of employ, snacks are
For personal printing, not work, I usually use
How Many Text Messages Do You Send a Day? on January 29th, 2013
How Do You Backup Your Data? on January 28th, 2013
My cumulative GPA, thus far: on January 24th, 2013
When Was the Last Time You Used a Landline Phone? on January 21st, 2013
I sit in front of a screen for ___ of my waking time. on January 12th, 2013
I half expect one of the next few polls to ask something "cleverly" disguised about how much below my industry-normal salary I would accept in the current crappy economy.
Re:CowboyNeal Brings My Snacks (Score:2)
That'll teach me for reading these polls in the morning before I'm awake. I wonder when (if they haven't already) they'll bring in the data miners, remove the "disable ads" feature, and start pushing B.S. in my face.
BTW: any happen to know why I supposedly need a portable oxygen concentrator? It's been chasing me all over the web lately.
Re:CowboyNeal Brings My Snacks (Score:2)
In order to keep doing this shitty job in this shitty economy, I...
- Demand an immediate pay rise!
- Think I'm worth what I currently get.
- Would accept a pay cut to keep my job.
- Would accept anything, just please don't fire me I have kids oh god why am I reading this and not working...
- Already work for Dice Holdings you insensitive clod.
- Hey, I would suck your hairy balls if it would get me my job back.
[Hey, a CowboyNeal option.]
Yes, at my job (Score:5, Funny)
We do snack on the employees. Mwahahaha
Re:Yes, at my job (Score:2)
Are you a zombie? A cannibalist? What?
Free snacks are bad. BAD BAD bad. (Score:5, Insightful)
Bad snacks. Bad, bad snacks.
Re:Free snacks are bad. BAD BAD bad. (Score:1)
You ate us right out of business and I lost my job. Good job, fatty.
Re:Free snacks are bad. BAD BAD bad. (Score:2)
Re:Free snacks are bad. BAD BAD bad. (Score:2)
Why do they have to be unhealthy snacks as you imply? An employer need not simply provide cookies and other junk food. There are plenty of healthy options available. Our workplace has a complete fitness room downstairs, as well.
Cookies and junk food is nearly an order of magnitude cheaper than real food, plus have quite an impressive shelf life. I don't work for a grocer so I wouldn't expect them to carry the expense of maintaining a harvest cornucopia, but it's kind of annoying when sticky buns, donuts, cookies pop up.
I guess if they have the body type and spare time to spend the energy to enjoy them, cheers.
Re:Free snacks are bad. BAD BAD bad. (Score:5, Informative)
I'm sitting here looking at unlimited mini-chocolates, dunkin' sticks, trailmix, beef sticks, bags of chips, coffee cakes, etc. Three feet beyond that location I know that in the fridge we have hummus, carrots, Bell Peppers and other generally good stuff I like.
Do you think I ever make it to the fridge? Not really. Well, except to get to the icecream in the freezer.
Re:Free snacks are bad. BAD BAD bad. (Score:2)
So...you actually hang around work outside the normal 8 hours spent working...to work out there?
I know it is nice to work out and the 'free' part helps, but man...once my days hours are up, that door is hitting me on the ass as I bee line my way outta there, to freedom.
I prefer my gym to be off site....any time they're not paying me, my ass is NOT on the work site.
Re:Free snacks are bad. BAD BAD bad. (Score:2)
once my days hours are up, that door is hitting me on the ass as I bee line my way outta there, to freedom.
Is the company you work for really that bad? I don't mean your job, what the company pays you for. But like... once I've worked my hours for the day, I can pull out my 3DS and play some Mario if I want before stepping out that door, and no one bats an eye. Does your employer frown on such non-work related activities done on non-work time, but on work property?
Re:Free snacks are bad. BAD BAD bad. (Score:2)
Re:Free snacks are bad. BAD BAD bad. (Score:2)
No, you have to eat all those unhealthy snacks and the go downstairs and force all those fats out of your system, rinse and repeat. Sin, repent, you know how it goes.
Re:Free snacks are bad. BAD BAD bad. (Score:5, Informative)
There is no food that has negative calories. You can get fat from everything if you eat it in excess. Thus substituting food where the amount needed to cause someone to be obese is higher is just raising the bar, but not solving the problem.
The problem is moderation and getting people to realize overweight is wholly caused by a lack of it, even in those who may have a disease that presupposes them to it (in that case, of course, the amount of moderation required may simply be out of reach). The continued perverse idea that moderation isn't important as long as you eat "healthy" drives those who don't practice good moderation to eat dozens of broccoli crowns drizzled in melted cheese.
The fact is that, gram for gram, junk food is higher in calories and lower in nutrition than healthy food. Hence the term "junk" food.
One 180g apple is about 100 kcal, while 180g of donuts (3.5 Krispy Kremes) is seven times as much at about 700 kcal. One has fiber to moderate its gylcemic index, the other represents a sugar spike + crash and burn. Both can taste pretty good, but physiologically one will keep you satisfied for a big while the other one will have you reaching for more food in no time. Our natural food response cycle, the one that's so it's hard to fight against, wants to eat until we're full. If you chose to eat your fill of apples you'll be doing much better than your fill of donuts.
An objective standard of health? (Score:2)
This clashes with my beliefs. I believe it is an equal decision to eat the donuts, to eating the apples. If I want it to be good, it's just as good.
There is no objective standard of "health." Now, I'm going to have this cigarette and eat this whole pack of pork rinds, and then we can talk about other subjective choices that are equal or should be to their "healthier" equivalents.
Re:Free snacks are bad. BAD BAD bad. (Score:2)
Re:Free snacks are bad. BAD BAD bad. (Score:2)
Re:Free snacks are bad. BAD BAD bad. (Score:2)
I've never worked anywhere with free snacks, but I did have a previous employer with free pop. I abused it for the first couple weeks, as did everybody else. But very quickly I was back down to the same amount I drank when I had to provide it myself, only without having to buy it.
And this was when I was a 20 year old with no self control (ok, 22). I'm not sure that on average it's a huge problem.
Re:Free snacks are bad. BAD BAD bad. (Score:2)
Re:Free snacks are bad. BAD BAD bad. (Score:5, Funny)
character name is "Comic Book Guy"
His name is Jeff Albertson, you insensitive AC!
ON the employees? (Score:1)
I supply them (Score:5, Insightful)
For years, there has been someone in our building who just leaves tubs of candy at the entrance to his cubicle, and invites all to partake. Recently, I found the broken cookie store. They get all of the factory seconds from the local Dare (cookie) factory, and put them into 13lb boxes, which they sell for $15.
I buy the boxes two at a time, and leave them open and inviting on the desk next to mine, which is currently unoccupied. Two boxes tends to last about three weeks. So, for ten bucks a week, I have made myself indispensible in this office. I even have the executive vice president stopping in every now and again for a free cookie.
Re:I supply them (Score:1)
Ghirardelli upgraded their equipment sometime in the past 2 years. Suddenly the supply of factory seconds (and this was good chocolate, merely broken squares) is a much more limited resource.
Re:I supply them (Score:2)
Depends on what you mean by snacks.. (Score:2)
Coffee is certainly on the department, as is fruit, and the weekly department "fika" (coffee with some type of cookie, bread, etc) is on an employee on a rotating basis. But snacks as in cookies, candy? I eat enough of that crap when I get home, I certainly don't need it on a daily basis at work as well.
Poll titles do not conform to slashdot standards (Score:2)
Why do you assume I'm employed?
Should be:
I'm unemployed, you insensitive clod!
Re:Poll titles do not conform to slashdot standard (Score:2)
.
And Cowboy Neil is still missing! What's a poll without the Cowboy Neil option?
;>)
Cowboy Neil ate my snacks, you insensitive clod!
My Desk is my cupboard (Score:2)
In one drawer we have cans of beans, romulan noodles, micro popcorn, ketchup, wasabi amonds, sesame sticks, apricots, two baking potatoes, tea and bubble gum.
In another drawer we have pistachio nuts, two flavors (plain and chili lemon), spicy seaweed, lifesavers, candied ginger, vegie chips and lifesavers candys.
I don't snack often, but am well prepared for the repocalypse.
Re:My Desk is my cupboard (Score:2)
Romulan noodles? Nah, you should try Klingon noodles...
Re:My Desk is my cupboard (Score:5, Funny)
Romulan noodles? Nah, you should try Klingon noodles...
I tried to get some Klingon noodles but when I removed them from the container they bit me.
Re:My Desk is my cupboard (Score:2)
I found that the Klingon noodles made me constipated, while the romulan noodles, spicier than some other closely related varieties, we difficult to keep track of if not cloaked right.
must sleep.... that was so much funnier in my head...
Re:My Desk is my cupboard (Score:2)
my desk has work in it
go figure
Gone (Score:2)
In our old building we use to have a quite robust snack locker system with some of the bigger ones probably doing 100 dollars of business a day and well stocked with every imaginable sugary treat.
But when we moved to our new site the bosses signed a ‘non-compete clause’ with the cafeteria in the building.. I’ve seen less complaining about people being forced to do yearlong deployments to Afghanistan then I did the day our snacks died.
R.I.P.
Not snacks but plenty of coffee (Score:4, Interesting)
At my work there are no snacks unless someone brings something or a customer sends a thank you package and leaves it in the break room. Every day a 10am we get a 10 minute break and a roach coach stops by so there are snacks. But Fridays are called "bagel day" as we get free bagels along with butter, plain and vegetable cream cheese. Recently they started "doughnut day". Every first Friday of the month we get doughnuts instead of bagels. I hear that the owners father who started the company used to treat all the workers to the roach coach on Fridays. Anything you wanted off the truck was on the house.
We have a coffee machine so there is plenty of regular and decaf along with french vanilla or hazelnut creamer, non dairy creamer, milk, half and half, sugar and artificial sweetener. We also have tea. So at least there is a generous selection for coffee. We also tell customers and even delivery men to help themselves to the coffee, bagels and doughnuts.
I always say that the coffee machine is the most important machine in the building.
Re:Not snacks but plenty of coffee (Score:5, Informative)
I always say that the coffee machine is the most important machine in the building.
Yes it is. Some years back I was working at a fairly big company, they had these huge vending machines per floor which apparently made very good coffee so most people would have their first cup at work. But for a few days there was an issue with the water supply, people were recommended to boil the water and the coffee machines couldn't do that so they were all switched off one morning with no warning and nobody in the direct vicinity sold coffee either. That first day, I could swear there was a zombie invasion going on. Some of them probably went into negative productivity by making bad work and decisions. The second day there were thermoses everywhere.
Re:Not snacks but plenty of coffee (Score:2)
with your level of specificity of the mundane... (Score:2)
I can't tell if you're being serious or if you're engaging in some "Office Space" speak for satirical effect...
Re:Not snacks but plenty of coffee (Score:2)
Another Missing Option (Score:1)
"Generally the other employees." The Soylent Corporation is our town's biggest employer.
what makes you think snacking is a profit center? (Score:1)
preponderance of AC posts (Score:2)
Missing option: Subsidized (Score:2)
Broken (Score:2)
Re: Broken (Score:2)
I've noticed that when I load the poll on the mobile site (chrome on galaxy s3) it doesn't show any options, but if I click to view results then hit the back button they'll appear.
No idea why..this entire mobile site seems to be very oddly coded and extremely fragile....
They track our snacks (Score:1)
Re:They track our snacks (Score:2)
I think they just put that stuff there to get people to snack less. Bet the barcode readers and thumbprint logins don't even work. ;P
Re:They track our snacks (Score:2)
A year ago my employer went from ubiquitous, anonymous vending machines to a slick, new vending system with user accounts, barcode readers and - no kidding - thumbprint logins.
Given the lengths that went at dispensing stage, a question just po(p/o)ped into my mind: how far they track the snacks along the digestion course?
Nothing but healthy stuff... and beer (Score:1)
Snacks include: Fresh fruit brought in weekly, pretzels and other low-fat chip-like things, trail mix. Fruit gummies sometimes. All the good stuff is usually gone 3 or 4 days after it's stocked
Bevarages include: A vast library of different teas, An awesome coffee machine that makes espresso, "basic" creamer, sugar, other sweetners(I usually buy my own French Vanilla creamer cause I like my coffee to taste awesome)
And special events include "pizza for lunch, beer for dinner" every Friday. It is what it's called. Everyone gets pizza for lunch and we all eat together. After 5 everyone is welcome to company paid for beer. Also, every 3 weeks(sprint planning) we get many different types of bagels and plain or hazelnut cream cheese
Overall, I think the "perk" situation here is pretty great
bad snacks and vending machine (Score:2)
My current employer supplies unshelled peanuts, green bananas, and non-quite-ripe apples. The fruit, lame as it is, disappears around Wednesday of the each week, long before it actually become edible.
There is also a vending machine which sells generally toxic vending machine food. At least I can get Coke from the machine to ward off the afternoon snooze.
At a previous short term employer, the only viable caffeine source was chocolate. So not a good thing, especially since I was somewhat immobilized due to an injury during that period.
In a way, I think the bad snack approach may be the best. If it isn't palatable, I don't eat more than I really need.
A new diet? (Score:2)
Lose Weight Through the Magic of Unpalatable Food, by erice. I'll look for it in bookstores.
Beverages but no snacks (Score:2)
Please end the pseudo-perks. (Score:5, Insightful)
When I was 21, free snacks and sodas really made a big difference.
Now, I'd rather they put the effort into 401(k), flexible schedule, good benefits, and not wasting our time with too many meetings.
Seriously, if there's nothing we have left to do, go home. Don't have a meeting about it.
Re:Please end the pseudo-perks. (Score:2)
what about a flexible snacking schedule?
Snacks are $.25 (Score:2)
It's closer to zero than full price, so I voted "On the house"
They are on the "house"... My house.. (Score:2)
Missing Option (Score:2)
self employed (Score:5, Funny)
I am my own boss and buy myself snacks. It improves my morale toward myself, and that way I don't have to worry that I'll steal office equipment from myself.
Re:self employed (Score:3)
I think I may have stole some office equipment from myself a few days back, I'm not sure if it was mine before I acquired it, but it sure as hell is mine now!
Re:self employed (Score:2)
This guy goes to a shrink.
Psychiatrist: What seems to be the problem?
Patient: Doc, I don't know what to do; one day I feel like a teepee, the next day I feel like a yurt.
Psychiatrist: You're too tense...
Nando's (Score:1)
Generally... (Score:2)
Snacks are generally all over my keyboard.
Missing Option (Score:2)
Who has time to eat between meals while working?!?!
Wait, I do know the answer to that one; the lazy! Seriously, I can barely pull away for lunch, and that's only because I made it a stipulation of my employment, i.e., I get a lunch break or I will pass out from lack of food and be useless the rest of the day, or get run down and sick and miss work.
Valve (Score:2)
Drinks are provided, mostly no food (Score:2)
Each floor in the building has an area with coffee (regular and decaf), a soda fountain with Coke products, a hot water dispenser, tea bags, sweeteners, cream, refrigerator and microwave.
No charge for drinks. Food is sometimes provided for meetings but aside from that typically not.
Many employees have candy jars or other snacks out for sharing.
It is always acceptable to be eating, though. At your desk, in a meeting, whatever. Bring your food if you need to eat.
All food is provided (Score:1)
No snacks, but full meals (Score:1)
I work at a university, and we don't get snacks, but do get a full cooked lunch for free from the dining hall. I find this incredibly generous, yet many staff do not take advantage of it, and others also complain that you cannot instead get a free sandwich from the coffee shop to take back to the office! Amazing.
Oblig (Score:1)
Boss buys (sometimes) (Score:2)
Stacks at your desk are on you. But if I'm running a meeting that runs around lunchtime, I buy (from my own pocket) a collection of trail mix, dried cranberries, nuts, etc.
At our little service company (Score:2)
Does booze count as a snack? (Score:2)
Does booze count as a snack? Our company fridge is currently stocked with beer and the cabinets with wine. We're low on liquor. Not due to supply, but demand. Everything is employee provided and pooled. For good reason. Grey Goose is good, but you don't want to drink the whole bottle by yourself at lunch. Much more fun to share.
Not much work gets done on those afternoons while we sober up before going home. We're engineers, we plan this stuff out.
Vending Machines (Score:1)
We are people of the desk. The corporate culture here puts a strong emphasis on showing your work ethic by spending as much of your work day as possible chained to your desk; it's part of the Calvinist-style work ethic going on here. People rarely go out for lunch and only occasionally head down to the cafeteria to eat lunch. Mostly it's working through lunch at one's desk, eating while typing away or on the phone. There are two break rooms on each floor in the building, and they each have two vending machines: one for soda, bottled water, and other drinks and the other for candy, chips, and a few healthier options like granola bars. A candy bar like a Snickers or Twix goes for 85 while a bottle of Pepsi goes for $1.25. There are also coffee makers that brew regular and decaf, and that's free (although I do not drink coffee myself).
Sometimes people bring in leftovers they're trying to get rid of, or one of the hunters will bring in their homemade deer jerky and leave it in the break room. Occasionally, someone leaves leftover bagels they brought for an early-morning meeting.
While remaining chained to one's desk even through lunch is best practice at my normal work site, apparently the other campus had a rodent infestation awhile back, so eating at one's desk became frowned upon there. I did not realize this until I was moteling there one day and brought a couple of granola bars to munch on for breakfast; needless to say, I got a couple of dirty looks, including from a manager of another team whose office was nearby, and later someone mentioned the mouse infestation that was cleared out only a few weeks before. Still, even though people are more encouraged to go down to the cafeteria there, I still don't think there's much of a culture of going out for lunch or lingering more than 15-20 minutes for lunch. The whole Puritanical culture really ramped up higher after the recession hit a few years ago and has not receded since.
On us, and horribly. (Score:2)
However, all of them are horribly priced, and you can get a better deal just about anywhere else.
Can of soda? $1. Bottle of soda? $2. Small bag of chips? $1.50.
So apparently underpaying and overworking us isn't enough, they have to try to overcharge us too.
Espresso free but baked goods donated (Score:1)
There is a free high end espresso machine, for which I provide coffee syrups so people can make lattes (since some use soy or milk or almond etc).
But there are no free snacks. However, most scientists around here bake when they get stressed, so there is usually some chocolate or cookies or some form of baked good every day or so.
s/nacks/ex/g (Score:2)
Re:Damn wellness program! (Score:2)
Re:Damn wellness program! (Score:4, Informative)
Where I work, sugar laden and fattening snacks are on the house, if not very regularly. Anything that might have glanced at a vitamin is on the employees.
Re:Damn wellness program! (Score:2)
I see that we obviously work together.... It's so sad, that this is true. I'd love a few healthy snacks among the chips and soda and cookies and crap...
Re:Damn wellness program! (Score:2)
We used to have free fruit on the 1st Monday of the month. Acres of it, too. UK office of an American company.
Re:Heh (Score:1)
Hey Slashdot
Replace "snacks" with "blowjobs" and you will have a much more exciting discussion.
I really do not want to hear about employees pooling their blowjob resources.
Re:I hate red states (Score:2)