Wait! It just moved, didn't it?

Yeah, how did you know? Someone opened the front door and away it went. Now I don't know where it is anymore.

::looks around warily::

Why do companies comp sodas for people making $100K a year when they can afford to buy their own damned sodas?

This company doesn't, at least anymore. World HQ in MI has soda machines on every floor and coffee works on the honour system--25 cents a cup. Here, we used to get free soda but with the recent troubles in the industry, the VP felt it was bad form to continue. Coffee, though, is still free in the DC office.

Do you want to know what perq causes people to act like their families are being slaughtered? Company cars and fuel cards. I have never seen such vitriol in my life. I, for one, am everlastingly grateful that I have a mode of transportation that costs me much, much less than if it was actually mine.

There aren't really any perqs here, but when I worked at United Way, the president had his own suite with his several assistants, with a whole stocked kitchen. The rest of us got diddlysquat.

Hee. Damn air molecule. You can never tell when that sucker's coming back, either.

nevermas, n. A time or date which never comes.

this word made me all melancholic.

We have subsidized snacking here. 25 cent sodas, which I don't drink at all anymore. I cared more about the snacks when we had Tastykakes in the machine (those were 35 cents).

Perqs here are that the admin staff is allowed to forage through the leavings in the conference rooms after meetings if someone has miscalculated the food/doctor ratio in favor of the food.

We also have...wait for it...a water cooler in the department main office that does both cold and hot water!!!!!!

::sits back smugly, waits for tidal waves of envy from all the other Buffistas::

Hee. Damn air molecule. You can never tell when that sucker's coming back, either.

Yeah, I think I just breathed it. It might have participated in a chemical reaction with a hydrocarbon by now....

What kind of air molecule was it?

You know how there was a series of articles on the crazy catering that's done in the med/pharma industry? My brother could avoid buying any food, ever, and not starve. Quite the opposite, in fact. Hell, he brings the leftovers home and the whole family eats it. (And it's good food! Not crappy generic catering stuff, high-class restaurant stuff.)

Of course, right now he's having to forgo it as he's in a study where they provide all the food for something ridiculous like 3 months and pay him $450. My brother, the guinea pig. Tthat isn't a weird diet or anything, at least. But he still grabs catered stuff for wife and kid.

At my old work, we had various snacky foods, soda, juice, tea, coffee available.

Here, we have the Coffee Saint and the Diet Coke Fairy. Occasionally, we have the Snack Gypsy. But he doesn't come around all that often.