Re: cheaper business choices We're working on reducing our budgets. The company has long provided Starbucks coffee in the break rooms. Early this year they emailed us with an email that amounted to "Good news! We're replacing the premium coffee with the store brand of our vendor! It gets better; for those of you who want other choices, we're putting in Keurig machines! And we're so green we're going to collect the cups for recycling. Yay environment!" Like, wow. Not much is more environmental than a small bag that makes a huge pot of coffee. The k-cups are an environmental disaster even if you recycle them. Just say it like it is: we can save $40,000 a year with the generic coffee. We aren't stupid. That's forty grand of raises or benefits or something that won't get cut. Just be straightforward. I actually don't mind the store brand coffee.
Lol raises what is this 1970? CEO bonuses additional management and shareholder value is where it’s all going. Coffee going away is a really bad sign because the perceived benefit value is much higher than the cost. I bet you won’t le have to pay employees a couple more thousand a year to have comparable value to the employee. Something about being fucked over on coffee every morning has always made me a bit annoyed with my employer.
My business has raises as part of the standard yearly review package. If you don’t get a raise you ranked as not meeting standards. So ymmv. My company is lorg. Cutting to Gmail may have saved $100k/year or more. For appropriate context, my company is significantly lorger than at least 90% if the companies google lists as adopters of gsuite when you go to research on its website. And no, it’s not a listed company.
We actually have raises! If I remember my starting salary correctly, my pay has exceeded inflation, though my skill and value to the company have increased in that time. I'm not bothered by the fact if changing the coffee. The reason behind the budget squeeze isn't hidden and seems reasonable to me. What bothered me was the tone. They tried to spin it like a benefit. I think it was just one over stimulated person in the facilities group and not a trend, but we'll see.