When you are a twenty something woman, working full time, living the city life and, well, not making a ton of money, there is nothing better than free food at the office.
Why? First, it saves on you having to eat a full dinner because you’re already full by late afternoon! Second, saves the environment and one less plastic bag is being used to bring groceries home. I know, reaching on that one, but work with me.
In my office, I’m fortunate that sometimes, food just magically appears in alcoves so that we can take it as we wish. Past food treasures include: Garrett’s popcorn (the holy grail), muffins, danishes and candy. You do have to be careful though if that stuff is out for birthday parties though and you grab it before the e-mail has gone out announcing it’s free reign. People really don’t like that.
But the real treat is the twice-weekly snack cart, which visits all of our company floors between 2-4 p.m. with a mid-afternoon treat of fruit, cookies, candy or rice krispie treats.
People are known to get crabby when the snack cart hasn’t made the trip around the office around 3:30 p.m., often IM’ing staff members on other floors to see if it’s been by them yet. Hey, when you get hungry, you get impatient.
And when it does come and I hear the bell that it’s close, people around me grab their money, rush to the main walkway and wait. Yes, wait for it to appear, sometimes grumbling if it’s picked over. We’re a tough group. I’ve even had to run after the cart a few times, shouting “wait!” so I can get my apple (or M&Ms, let’s be honest).
Unfortunately, today when the snack cart went by today, I was on the phone and couldn’t mime my order in exchange for an IOU. I’ve even put calls (non-important ones) on hold when the snack cart comes by, some even stop meetings to go grab a treat. We’re hard core.
Let’s not talk about what this is doing to my waistline. To be fair, 90 percent of the time, I am taking the fruit. That is the truth :)
Do you have any kind of “snack cart-like” treat at work? Or what would your afternoon treat of choice be (can be sweet or healthy). I’m always in the mood for fresh fruit or a rice krispie treat to mix it up. Only on the really bad days do I go for candy. Have to control myself :)
Note: Thank you everyone for the really sweet comments on Tuesday’s make up post. You guys are so sweet with the compliments.
