I really don't think I ask for too much from my job. I ask for enough electricity to power my computer and any ancillary equipment (phone, calculator, lights, et cetera), a workspace that is cool enough in the summer and warm enough in the winter that I don't have to think about the conditions (i.e. I don't sweat through my clothes or shiver so much that I can't type), access to any information that I need (referring to past work, finding information either on the phone or online)...nothing out of the ordinary.
Well, it seems another request of mine is now falling on deaf ears, and that is the request for artificial sweetener for my coffee be provided.
I have worked in offices where no coffee was provided, so I know it is not an OSHA requirement to provide liquid wakey juice as a condition of employment. But with that being said, if you ARE going to provide coffee, something as simple as Sweet n'Low should be made available for those employees for whom using sugar is not the brightest lifestyle choice. You are providing the coffee, the water, sugar, and "cream" (powdered non-dairy, but still...). If you want to stop ordering Splenda because it is too damn expensive, I understand. I don't need any high falutin' non nutrive calorie free sweetener. The crap that gives lab rats cancer is fine for me (I'm not a rat)
what a rat may look like...
After speaking to Ed "I don't need a nickname, dammit" the supervisor, we agreed that he would attempt to order something of the value menu of little packets of flavor maybe next month, once the Brothers Chinn have calmed down over this tempest in a not Southern Style teacup.
As I think of this, all I can think of is...
"Let the fools have their Tar-Tar Sauce!"
Also, Lisa needs braces...
"Every time I thought I'd got it made
ReplyDeleteIt seemed the taste was not so sweet"
time to ch-ch-ch-change to sweet and low...