Revenge On A Five Dollar Budget
Language: en
My job was office provisioning, specifically the daily afternoon pick-me-up. The budget? Five dollars per person. To maintain the company’s image of sophistication and generosity, I hunted down coupons, negotiated bulk discounts, and leveraged every deal I could find, somehow making that five dollars feel like fifty. Then, the bomb dropped. Veronica Jensen, the Director of Operations, sent a message to the company’s five-hundred-person Slack channel, tearing into the artisanal boba tea I’d purchased. She called it “unhealthy,” an “unauthorized, no-name brand,” and—the thinly veiled…