Bad day in the office? Could be worse, you could work here

Poke Staff. Updated April 5th, 2022

Latest in an occasional series, workplace of the week goes to wherever the hell this is, a photo taken of an office water cooler shared by RemyBrady over on Reddit who said: ‘At work – where water isn’t free yo.’

And it prompted no end of comment (and stories of something similar happening to other people). Here are our favourites.

‘So at the school I used to work at we had a water club because the tap water sucked. We get a new superintendent who decides (in what was basically the one and only cool thing he did as superintendent) that he would just cover the cost of water.

‘This led to the discovery that the school secretary had been lying about how much water cost, overcharging everyone, and pocketing the difference.

‘THAT led to the discovery that she had been skimming money from about a dozen other sources around the school too – all to feed her massive gambling addiction!’
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‘I worked for a major university that wouldn’t provide water to their employees. This university might have been eliminated in the final four. They are a very wealthy university.

‘The manager over me said that the employees had a water fountain to drink from. The same fountain that was disconnected due to being unsafe for consumption over 5 years ago. I ended up buying two water dispensers and the same manager said he would not provide them with water. The funny thing is the office he was in had a nice water dispenser.’
Bluefalcon1735

‘If that’s the only place to get water it’s illegal to charge per OSHA

‘If there’s a sink or water fountain also then it’s legal and these people need to learn to drink tap water instead of paying Nestle/BlueTriton to ruin the world

‘Citation: 29 CFR 1910.141 (b).’
bigdummy2023

‘It’s probably not the company changing, I’m thinking it’s the employees got together and purchased the water because the tap water is gross.’
saltcrown

‘Yep. Reminds me of a laboratory I worked at. Some people would use the only drinking fountain in the building as a drain for their lab samples. Hardly anybody wanted to use it.’
zerostar83

‘Only 1 of 2 take aways from this.

‘#1) Michelle and Sandra are being very generous to provide drinking water because the company is not or their water is of bad quality. They are just asking for fellow employees to help out with the cost.

‘#2) Michelle and Sandra are scamming fellow employees on one of the basic necessities to live, water. In either of these scenarios the company is still at fault.’
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Source Reddit u/RemyBrady