Does Your Employer Provide Coffee and Other Beverages for Staff?

[LukenDC]

Last night, my partner and I were talking about employer provided amenities for staff. I mentioned that my employer provides (i.e. pays for) coffee, tea, and hot chocolate for staff consumption. He thought that was very generous and I was surprised by his reaction. My partner is a federal employee and it does not surprise me that government employees do not get those amenities. I do, however, consider at least coffee to be standard in the private sector workplace.

What beverage amenities does your employer provide?

 

[spacemountainmom]

I work in a public school and we have a hot and cold water dispenser and that's it.

We do have coffee, but you pay by the cup or join the coffee club. It is not free.

 

[Christine]

I work for the federal government and do not get anything like that.

However, when I was in the private sector we got free coffee, tea, and hot chocolate. Of course, it somehow gets hidden in the bill back to the government.

 

[NMAmy]

Nothing. It's fine with me, though, because I don't drink coffee or tea and provide my own beverages anyway. We have a kitchen area and those that use it are responsible for bringing in coffee, cups, etc.

Heck, they don't even provide Kleenex.

 

[MichelleinMaine]

I work for a church. We don't have anything specific "for employees", but there's always coffee/tea/cocoa for fellowship hour and various meetings throughout the week. It's fair game for employees, too, though only 2 out of the 4 of us even drink coffee.

 

[babyrich]

Last night, my partner and I were talking about employer provided amenities for staff. I mentioned that my employer provides (i.e. pays for) coffee, tea, and hot chocolate for staff consumption. He thought that was very generous and I was surprised by his reaction. My partner is a federal employee and it does not surprise me that government employees do not get those amenities. I do, however, consider at least coffee to be standard in the private sector workplace.

What beverage amenities does your employer provide?

My office supplies coffee, tea, and hot chocolate.... and the fixins that go with it. We also get bagels the first friday of every month.

I have also seen my coworkers walk off with these things and take them home.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

We have coffee, various teas and hot chocolate milk mix. I only drink the tea. The coffee is nasty, I'd rather buy my own.

 

[SaraJayne]

DH's employer provides coffee. But according to DH, it tastes worse than swill, so he has his own brewer and Dunkin Donuts coffee in his office.

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

Coffee and water are standard across our offices, with some offices providing other things based on how those offices are performing.

 

[LukenDC]

How do I edit the poll? I forgot to click the box to allow for multiple responses.

 

[okeydokey]

I work for state government, so no, nothing is provided. We have a keurig donated by the boss, and we all take turns buying supplies.

The public would have a fit if they thought their tax dollars were paying for coffee for state employees.

 

[LukenDC]

My employer provides lunch for the staff at least once a month. A consulting firm that I worked for years ago had a fully catered afternoon high tea every day. My partner knows someone whose law firm has an afternoon martini cart that makes the rounds. I sometimes have meetings at an office where the employer has provided large bins of snacks for the employees.

 

[It'sWDW4me]

While my current employer doesn't provide anything but water (boiling or chilled from dispensers), we do have an on-site cafeteria that is ..... sponsored?..... paid?..... can't think of the word but my employer pays the company running the cafeteria so much per year to keep their prices down.

I've worked at a place where it was a struggle to get the company to provide bottled water (the tap water was truly nasty tasting) and then I've worked at a place where they not only provided coffee/tea/hot chocolate but they also had a pantry stocked with soup (Campbell's/Progresso), crackers, and other snack-type things. I miss that place!

 

[Jeafl]

I teach and our school provides regular and decaf coffee, a large selection of tea bags and sometimes hot chocolate packets.

I am not sure whether the district pays for it, or if the principal pays out of her own pocket. I've never thought to ask

 

[MrsDuck]

I'm currently in school but DFi's workplace (financial corporation) provides no beverages except a water cooler.

 

[lucas]

State of Florida provides no food or drinks to employees.

 

[FireDancer]

We get pretty bad coffee, decent tea, and decent hot chocolate. There are four of us that drink a lot of coffee and we take turns bringing in something a little better.

 

[jenjifer]

I'm self-employed and work from home, so yes, my employer (me) provides all of my snacks.

 

[Princess Vespa]

We get coffee-different kinds, tea, hot chocolate, water
. We also get fresh fruit every other Tuesday and a Pizza lunch every other month
I would hate to think if they took away my coffee how much it would cost me to buy it!!!!

 

[BriarfoxinWA]

The bank I work for provides coffee for customers but the staff drinks it too. We also have a watercooler in the lobby for customers & staff.