I run the snack bar, it's fun. What kind of snacks do you guys like? Sometimes when I'm feeling down about 2P051 I just pop an ol' snackaroo in the mouth and I feel fine. Caffine keeps me sharp and alert to avoid fatal shocks from dangerous TMDE. Moral has soared since I aquired the postion of snack bar moniter. All in all the snackbar has generated several thousand dollars of revenue for our PMEL club, funded several Ace award luncheons, and kept the troops on their toes and happy. SNACKBAR 4 LYFE!!
here here to the jolly snack bar monitor. You know I have been in PMEL a long time and this position has always been overlooked. There's no feeling in the world like taking a break from a long hard calibration to sit back and and enjoy a tasty snack. Twinkies, chips, candy bars you name it. I personally can't resist anything with "Little Debbie" on the label.
MMMMMMMMMMMMM.........I love it when our snackbar monitor pops an ol' snackaroo in my mouth. It really "raises" my morale. Along with that I like to wash it down the gullett with a tasty ice cold beverage of my choice. Theres nothing more suicidaly depressing in PMEL than to go on break and find out that the fridge has been cleaned out and all thats left are a few luke warm Shastas. Our snackbar monitor fills it up every week and even turns the cold cans a full 1/4 turn to preserve its freshness. Three cheers for the often overlooked and yet ever so important snack bar...it's the spinal cord and partial nerve stem of any hardcore PMEL'er.
Right on! I think Wood deserves a BTZ.
long as he's not buying the 8 for 1 ramen
Our snack bar is half way decent, more often than not it's barren though. I'm calorie obsessed so I don't eat out of it anyways, but the people who do seem happy.
We used to have a snack bar nazi at one of my previous labs. The guy would get upset if people misaligned the ramen cups. Guess what people would do everyday like clockwork? :-D
The problem I've seen at all previous labs, is that the snack bar seems to lose money. Ultimately the monitor gets blamed... :?
We had one guy who decided to use the snack bar as his personal bank. One day he withdrew a loan of about 80 dollars and responsibly wrote the proper amount next to his name on the IOU sheet. :roll:
Suffice to say, the snack bar monitors didn't have the money to fully replenish the snack bar that weekend. They also instituted a IOU limit of 10 dollars (you think they would have had one from the start!). :mrgreen:
We don't even have a snack bar at my current workplace. It's a drink bar. Non-alcoholic that is. :-D
Well, we had a snack bar but it's slowly going the way of the dodo. Some idiot keeps swiping money from the change bin, leaving the rest of us to suffer. A lot of it keeps happening when the snack bar monitor is gone on leave or something like that. Some people's kids...
Quote from: cobychuck on 02-09-2006 -- 09:24:35
Well, we had a snack bar but it's slowly going the way of the dodo. Some idiot keeps swiping money from the change bin, leaving the rest of us to suffer. A lot of it keeps happening when the snack bar monitor is gone on leave or something like that. Some people's kids...
It never ceases to amaze me that people with paychecks would do that.
Other people's kids!
Get the biggest guy there to shake people out or give em swirlies.
Yeah, we'll lend them InLikeFlynn. He fits the bill. :-D
there is nothing better than a motivated geedunk Pvt. . . . shop moral goes through the roof and productivity is directly proprtional to the amount of Mt Maze(or any other mt dew generic substitute) consumed by techs.
Quote from: jimmyc on 06-06-2007 -- 08:12:19
there is nothing better than a motivated geedunk Pvt. . . . shop moral goes through the roof and productivity is directly proprtional to the amount of Mt Maze(or any other mt dew generic substitute) consumed by techs.
There is no substitute for Mt Dew. I've tried them, they all suck. No matter how many people tell me it tastes the same, they never do.
In the Navy lab I worked in in the early 80's (at Pearl Harbor), I was the snack person. We handled things pretty carefully and always made a profit. We had to go "underground" though when the Navy Exchange got wind of it and said we were competing with them (which we weren't supposed to do).
I particularly loved the cans of coffee thing. We were at a stopoff point for a lot of ships headed West or East to or from the West Coast and West Pac cruise. If they didn't have time to do their paperwork, they would always bring in a couple of cans of coffee. We would never even hint that we wouldn't do the work for them without the coffee. We were happy to do our part. But they loved bringing in the coffee, so we happily accepted it.
Good times.
Little Debbie is the queen of snackland
TRUE STORY.... Not all that interesting, but it's late in the afternoon....
I remember a vendor rep years ago telling me about a sales call he did at a Little Debbie factory (no recollection about any other details).
He said the security getting into and out of that place was one of the tightest he's ever seen. Strange, odd little pieces of trivia that we retain, isn't it? I'm guessing because of how widespread their products are, there is big danger of sabotage, etc.
Told you it wasn't very interesting.
Little Debbie (McKee Foods Corporation) used to boast they were #1 in tonnage of the snack food people. It is a cutthroat business, I grew up in the town famous for Kelloggs cereal and when I was a kid plant tours were a big draw, at the end they'd offer you ice cream with Fruit Loops (I always to them to hold the Loops). Anyway back in the 80s they stopped it, excuse was industrial espionage.
same reason willy wonka stop letting people into his plant...dang slugworth
We actually had to resort to locking up our snack bar. Now that no one is stealing products or cash, it's doing pretty good for itself.