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60 cents for a pop? One more reason working stinks

Posted by Dan

April 21, 2009 |

One of the perks at the publishing company where I work is the pop machine on the first floor that sells Diet Coke for 40 cents. I drink a lot of pop, and that machine might be the best soda value in the city.

Rather, it used to be.

Yes, the terrible happened earlier this month. My employer boosted the pop price from 40 cents a can to 60 cents. I know that’s still a reasonable price in the days when vending machines will charge $1 for a single can. But still, I’ll miss that extra 20 cents jingling around in my pocket.

Am I complaining about something that really doesn’t matter? You bet. But these are the kind of things that annoy workers. It’s like when companies discontinue offering free coffee to their workers. It makes everyone a bit gloomy.

These are tough times for workers. We never know when we’re going to get fired. We don’t even expect pay raises these days. For some of us, that 40-cent can of pop was one of the last perks we had left.


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