PrintPizza Greases the Wheels of Labor
The Onion nails it this week with its story "Potential Employee Uprising Quelled by Free Pizza."
"Everyone's been fed up and ready to explode at management for weeks," production designer Carolyn Wurster said. "But then all those pizzas showed up, and it just didn't seem like the right time to start demanding a legitimate healthcare plan or salary raises that reflect the amount of work we do." Added Wurster, "They ordered like 10 huge pies."
Heh. This is so dead on.
I've worked at a few places where pizzas were ordered in on the company dime either to entice workers to stay at their desk over lunch or to soothe tensions over last-minute workload adjustments—probably the few times I've actually not been into free pizza.
Thankfully, the only time free pizza arrives here at the Slice–Serious Eats office is when SE overlord Ed Levine truly wants to try a pizza and not because he's trying to chain us to the desks here. (At least I think ...)
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4 Comments:
It's a long tradition in high tech office in Silicon Valley to provide free food & drinks to employee. Hell, some company claim the free food is a great benefit (yes I am talking about those Google recruiters).
Ahh those naive fresh grads who join the company, fresh out of school (with big student loans), it all sounds fantastic. Oooh what a great company to work for they would say.
Silly kids, that they are just feeding you to keep you in the office to work more (most people are on salary, no overtime). You will cease to have a life outside the office, eat too much free food, don't get excerise, become caffeine addicts and become light sensitive.
After a few years (and many projects later), you know better, become very bitter and it's all "Show me the MONEY!" (Yes, ignore the stock options and bonuses too..those are subject to change). Yes you will still jump on the free food (damn it, they don't pay me enough), but it will not distract you.
gnomatic at 2:10PM on 05/06/08
When the powers that be want extra hours out of me, my rule is "feed me or pay me." It doesn't matter which one.
Kerosena at 2:23PM on 05/06/08
@gnomatic: Happy Tuesday to you too!
Prairie at 3:17PM on 05/06/08
I work at home.
My attitude would be greatly improved and my productivity would increase if someone would send me a pizza.
Please.
janedoh at 11:54AM on 05/09/08