The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret

Re:The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret by blululu on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:15PM (#23106218)

Interestingly enough I used to work at a company where the one any only benefit was occasional doughnuts on Friday (we did not get health insurance/dental/vision/retirement). And honestly we would all be pissed on the days when Doughnut Friday was cancelled.

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Re:The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret by conradfr on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:54PM (#23108180)

Reminds me of this story I read a long time ago on HN and which is on topic for this thread.

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...

edit: I see it has already been posted.

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Re:The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret by catlas3r on Thursday May 07, 2020 @07:11PM (#23109465)

Ask any tech worker in an office about the free snack selection. My coworkers get genuinely outraged when we trade out one brand of prepackaged nuts for another, or when their preferred soda goes out of rotation. Never mind they all make six figures and could easily purchase whatever snacks they wanted. The cost of the employee time spent complaining every time something changes here easily outweighs the cost of the entire snack program.

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Re:The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret by Forge36 on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:16PM (#23107028)

My company did this once a month on new hire day. It was cancelled and people were very angry. This was a few years before i started. 10 years later people are still angry, and some never had that benefit!

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Re:The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret by WrtCdEvrydy on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:04PM (#23107585)

It's like the monkey banana thing.

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Re:The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret by dependsontheq on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:35PM (#23106465)

The US is such a weird place.

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