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The real question is should the company be paying 7erps to be in the lunch room concocting sandwiches for an hour every day

Not paying for the refrigeration of lunch meat, as if the refrigerator somehow knows what's inside it and what specific space needs to be cooled, is one of the more ridiculous things I've read on this board.

There are surely many examples of legit fraud/abuse by employees of corporations, but I really can't imagine that refrigerator energy is terribly high on the list. The guy who bumps the thermostat down one degree in the summer is surely a much bigger problem. You should just keep the thermostat locked at 82 degrees to discourage wasting firm resources.

Yeah that is out of control. I haven't figured out the fridge policy in my new office, but at my old one there was a sign that said "anything in the fridge after 5 pm every Friday will be thrown out, no exceptions." I never tested it because I was too busy getting sandwiches delievered, but I think they lived up to their word every week.

Ours gets entirely cleaned out every other Friday. Salad dressings are not tossed--basically anything on the door can stay. This works well as nothing gets too bad in 2 weeks.

I suspect that some of the employees where I work would hog tie g$ and run him through the slicer just to watch him get thrown at the end of the day.

Hahah....I got caught by the worst offender actually. All I could muster as an excuse was "This is for research..." I panicked and couldn't come up with anything clever. I felt like Neal in an elevator with a hot girl.

That fridge was cleaned out on Friday btw.

Thank you, Dr. Lecter.

1) amount of food in a regrigerator definitely affects how much it has to work to maintain the desired coldness level.

2) we have a subzero (1% FTW) and carry/stock about 4 shelves worth of cold drinks -- various kinds of soda, juices, water, etc. These are used for internal and external purposes.

We have about 2-3 shelves that are available for use. And no I don't want the fridge smelling like salami.

I've decided to appease my overlord goterps I will have the second sandwich Neal orders everyday*

*no white condiments obvi

I see it all the time at clients.......what brands you guys going with? Answer this, can I get a peligrino while talking money G$?

Once food gets to the temperature of the refrigerator, it requires less power to maintain its temperature than if it were empty.

Imagine you have an empty refrigerator. Open the door for a minute or two, and almost all of that air escapes, leaving the refrigerator to cool off a new batch of warm air. But pack the refrigerator with food, water, etc., and very little of that "coldness" escapes.

DAMN YOU BE!

Eh, it all evens out if you have a well balanced "total rewards" program. The costs of buying, maintaining, cleaning, and running these amenities for 30+ large floors is astronomical. The savings can be passed down to the employees. It can be offset with subsidized cafeterias, higher wages, more vacation days, etc... People who want to bring their lunch buy nicer bags that keep their food cold throughout the day. I can get any food I want within a 2 minute walk, or I can go to my cafeteria, which has pretty much anything I would want. It is a massive company(one of the largest in the world), not some struggling small business cutting costs at the employee's expense.

Keeping the coffee makers(traditional, keurig, flavia, espresso, capuccino) and microwave clean seems to be an impossible task. I'd probably want nothing to do with that fridge with 200 people sharing it.

I get 20+ vacation days, 8 hour days(including 30-60 minute lunches), and above market wages. I wouldn't trade any of that for a dirty fridge.