The silent Diet Pepsi war with my co-workers that is about to become verbal
I work for a small civil engineering firm. Small referring to the number of employees, 10, not the amount of work we do. We don’t have vending machines. My boss is nice enough to stock the break room with drinks and snacks to keep us energized and ‘producing’. Most days in the refrigerator there are: Pepsi, Diet 7-Up, Diet Root Beer, Snapple and Diet Snapple, Water and Diet Pepsi.
A couple years ago Diet Pepsi was the only diet item in the refrigerator and then we decided we were all getting too fat and went on diets. Diet Pepsi is now the drink that everyone drinks the most. Because Diet Pepsi is the drink of choice in the office we buy larger quantities of Diet Pepsi, usually cases, instead of the fridge-mate 12-packs that we buy the other drinks in. The problem with this is: the fridge-mate 12-packs fit in the fridge and requires no maintenance; the cases of Diet Pepsi have to be individually placed in the refrigerator and constantly restocked.
An easy task you would think, but no! I am constantly restocking the Diet Pepsi. There never seems to be a Diet Pepsi in the fridge when I want one. I wrote this email to a friend the other morning…
“There was no diet Pepsi in the fridge when I got to work. The morning has now been destroyed! Why am I the only one in this office that can refill the fridge when I take the last soda out? Ugh! I hate that!”
“Cause you are sorta responsible.” He responded.
Sorta responsible! Well if I’m sorta responsible my co-workers must not be responsible at all. Who does this for them at home I wonder? I mean its just common courtesy to restock the Diet Pepsi when you take the last one.
This evening when I left work there was only one Diet Pepsi left in the fridge. I predict that tomorrow morning when I go into work there won’t be any Diet Pepsi in the fridge because whoever takes that last Diet Pepsi won’t restock the fridge. I don’t think I can take much more of this inconsiderate behavior. How hard is it to put a few Diet Pepsi in the fridge when you take the last one? Do they think there is a Diet Pepsi fairy that restocks the fridge with a never-ending supply of Diet Pepsi for them? I have news for them… there’s no Diet Pepsi fairy, there’s just me! And I’m not their mom or their wives so they better learn how to restock the fridge!
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At least they provide the Diet Pepsi for you. We just had an increase in the pop machines to $0.75. Time to start bringing it from home...
we pay $1.25 every time we want any kind of pepsi product out of the vending machine. i say start a secret stash at your desk (even if you take it from the office) and just take ice from the fridge when you need it!
Pepsi sucks anyway.
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Perhaps you could get one of those cute mini-fridges (with a lock) and just keep your own stock under your desk. One of the department stores at the mall had really cute, retro mini-fridges, although, I can't recall which one. ;o)
I'm just sayin'...
BTW, Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper is my soda of choice and it totally rocks...
Amy, you're scaring me.
I have come to the conclusion that if it is not going to kill me or cause me any great inconvenience I will go ahead and just do it without complaint. I used to be a 'well I'm complaining on principle' type before I realized that true principles are things like telling the truth, never turning down those in need, etc.
We're in America. This is the land of the trivial where we complain about inconveniences and principles of the matter. We all do it. As long as there is no 9-11 raging, we as a society must focus on even the teeniest issues for the sake of fun and silliness and cwazy blogs. Watch, I'll do it right now: Matildakay, you should stock your fridge with Coke anyways, cause Pepsi sucks! Don't you have any true soda principles??? God!
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