Do you mean “funding” like they pay for the transit pass or funding like they pay taxes?

This happens in Australia with the mandatory pension contributions.

"Our amazing competitive salary package will meet mandatory minimum requirements"

They aren't going to use a current picture. Getting close enough would expose them to the smells.

I don't understand why you would have a water cooler in the first place.

just put a fountain in?

edit: my regionality is showing. I assumed it wasn't plumbed in.

I used to work as a contractor at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. One day my boss (at my contracting company) came by and said we were going to a meeting with Time Warner Cable execs. I reached for my coat but he stopped me; we rode the elevator up to the 16th floor where Time Warner Cable had a suite of offices ... in the Comcast Center. A year or two later they announced plans for a merger of the two companies, which was somehow and mystifyingly stopped by the FCC. Like, they'd already merged essentially.

You missed the opportunity to answer "strippers and steak".

As Kirstie Allsopp says, 'A well-fed dog is a slow dog.'

~ Alan Partridge

And it’s a five minute walk to get there, but you have to clock in and out at your desk.

We have 3 Keurigs in the breakroom, but you can only run one at a time because they'll blow the breaker...

And there is a note on it telling you what you aren't allowed to microwave and its basically everything with flavor

And only 1 table and 4 chairs so everyone shares elbow space while everyone else has to go outside

We're currently suffering through only having three microwaves for 10 people in the office.

That's why I really hate the "competitive" buzzword. It's like, alright... let's say it's a competition. Are you winning it? Because I can certainly compete against Michael Phelps at swimming, but that doesn't mean I'm any good.

You mean the full of nuts coffee? Disgusting

Your places of work are providing a coffee machine? And they're stocking it? Someone was nice enough to buy one for the break room, and everyone who partakes in the break room coffee rotates who buys the next can/bag of it.

We also previously had this microwave with 0-9 buttons that set it for a totally arbitrary amount of time. You didn't enter a number of minutes and seconds and press Start. If you pressed 2, you got 30 seconds. 3 gave you a minute. 4 gave you 3 minutes. None of it made sense. We got a new one a couple years ago with a dial on it that sets it for incrementally more time as you turn it. So much easier to understand without a player's guide.

I’m lucky in that my corpo superauto coffee machine is stocked with a local midsize specialty roaster’s espresso blend. It would be decent if the machine was (and was cleaned), but I still end up drinking about 10 espressos (mostly decaf). Come to think of it, that’s another good reason not to buy an espresso machine for at home.

Funny story, our company made a lot of money off of covid and they decided it was a great idea to purchase a floor at another building across the street just for VPs and execs. Cool. Once they left our bathrooms had the worst 1 ply toilet paper imaginable. Like you had to grab it gently and slowly pull otherwise it just ripped. Even doing this was still 50/50. Well bad decisions led to that floor being shutdown after only 2 years and they had to move back in with us. Immediately the toilet paper went back to the good stuff again. The fact that they treated TP as a luxery item and can't seem to afford the nicer stuff for everyone always made me wanna flick them off so bad. Jokes on all of us though since that fuckup was so bad we just found out the entire company was purchased and almost without a doubt we will all lose our jobs next year once finalized. Thanks a lot execs, you did an amazing job like usual.

A hard hitter is, ribs or wings or brisket. Really tramples moral. I had a solid lockable lunch box when I worked in retail after someone broke my jar(soup or rice mixes) in the soft one lol

But if you really want to get payback, microwave lentils. Smells like baby shit.

My current job (school bus driver) has a pension, which is the first of any job I've ever had in my life (and I'm almost 60). It's another 5 years before I'm vested and get the pension, and I'm not sure I would bet on the job not having been replaced by AI before then. Hopefully not, since the pension would allow me to afford the brand-name dog food.

Same in flat listings. Why they list shower and toilet but never running water?

Woah woah woah, there's still plenty of meat on that bone.

No - they compete with all the others to see who can get away with paying the least.

Thank you so much for reminding me that this existed, as a reward I found the video for you. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x440810

Air (for earners)

And all the other get what smokers exhale in the room?
Oh right, that's the definition of "Air" now.