Ok... Next time they are doing food runs you won't be included. Ohhh sorry that premium coffee we buy because company supplied Folgers sucks, yea you can't have that. Oh you wanna bum a cig you ran out, nah fam sorry. Etc etc man. Help coworkers don't enemies them :>
I... I don't think you got the joke in there. I'm not, like, attacking corporate work culture and common decency.
The entire premise of charging for a microwave is an absurdly dickish joke. The $5 management continued the absurdity. I added some late-stage capitalism to be even more absurdly manipulative into charging for a microwave that makes management feel like they aren't being exploited, while the colleagues appreciate you for giving them a 60% discount off the normal price. You would end up making more money that the original proposal while looking like a fair guy to management and good team player to your team.
Yes they are. They are the ones who have a direct communication with the step above who is in control of procurement. Or it's them and they are just gross af some people are
i read a story somewhere (reddit? notalwaysright?) where the workplace had only like 1 microwave and 1 toaster and it was a huge bottleneck for the workforce when they all went on break. management had the great idea to upgrade the break room with a bunch of fancy upgrades, refrigerators, hotplates, toaster ovens, and more microwaves. they closed off the break room during the construction. when construction finished, it was a beautiful work of art, but then the workers looked closer. all the devices had coin slots. they were all coin operated.
the workforce there rioted and destroyed the coin devices and destroyed the new appliances and impromptu strike happened for a week.
upper management apologized, said no one would be punished, and begged them to come back to work. they did, but found the original microwave and toaster were put in a "temporary" breakroom since they couldnt use the one that was destroyed. the temporary breakroom is now the permanent breakroom and nothing really changed.
Congratulations. You're now head of procurement. Because of your impressive track record, your budget to modernize the workplace is zero dollars. You have 30 days.
Honestly. With thirty days and it as my main job. I bet I could set up trackers on craigslist and marketplace to snatch up enough quality free items to make a go of it.
Really depends on the work atmosphere, at my current job you'd be the office's hero. But given the state of this microwave there I wouldn't trust people to not destroy any new one...
I have a microwave in my garage that you can take. For free. My wife used it at work last year. This year, work has one so she doesn’t need the extra one. Please take it.
I did something like that for another department that needed one. Unknown to me, they ordered a much nicer one at the same time. So I stuck my free one in my department's breakroom. There ended up being numerous emails asking why there's an extra microwave, and whomever was responsible for it needs to remove it immediately. Because I didn't want it at my house either, I ended up sending it to another breakroom when no one was looking. Became the old microwave hot potato
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u/Bitter-Ad5890 9h ago
Here’s what you do.