“Due to budget issues,” writes our submitter from Nashville, “coffee in our office is now funded through donations by those who drink it.” (Cost: 50 cents per cup, on the honor system.)
While some office workers no doubt continue to fill their cups without paying, the passive-aggressives in this office found their own way to convey their distaste for the new policy.
related: Paying through the spout
extra credit: Phasing out pennies in a bid for change [NPR.org]
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#1
Ethnic Avenue
It’s still better than taking money, which is what I do in these situations.
(Incidentally, 50 cents is expensive for office-ass coffee.)
Feb 23, 2010 at 6:14 pm rating: 40
#2
The Great Joe Bivins
Someone should jam coupons in there.
Feb 23, 2010 at 6:19 pm rating: 20
#3
CanCan
Yeah, 50 cents? Sheesh! Do they use K-cups or something?
10 cents sounds more believable.
Feb 23, 2010 at 6:23 pm rating: 1
#4
zenvelo
well, I guess if you’re funding it by drinking it, they want you to pee in the cup…would that be hostile?
Feb 23, 2010 at 6:25 pm rating: 2
#5
Heather
This has to be one of my favorites PAN yet. Because I would be the person putting the 50 pennies in to show my dislike of the new system. Seeing that note? Would just make me want to buy coffee for all my co-workers and pay for 20 cups a day- all in pennies.
Feb 23, 2010 at 6:46 pm rating: 28
#6
Susan
Then take your lazy self on over to Starbucks and pay WAY MORE than the 50 cents. Somebody bought the cofffee and the cups and filters then made the coffee then cleaned up the mess. I’ll bet it wasn’t you. But maybe your mom works there. Don’t be cheap and don’t be lazy.
Feb 23, 2010 at 6:49 pm rating: 14
#7
Fridge Pirate
The coffee was fucking delicious.
Feb 23, 2010 at 6:53 pm rating: 5
#8
Canthz_B
Putting in fifty pennies wasn’t the hostile act. That was the fact that there were only forty-nine, two of them from Canada and one from Trinidad.
Feb 23, 2010 at 6:58 pm rating: 36
#9
matt
office instant coffee tastes sh*t no matter how much you pay for it. At my office, they saved up for their own espresso machine and we pay $1 for proper coffee.
By the way – someone really should teach starbucks how to make descent tasting coffee, its really not that hard
Feb 23, 2010 at 7:05 pm rating: 4
#10
Kat
I certainly wouldn’t leave work, go to the bank machine and then find a store to get change in acceptable denominations for “PL”.
If I was going to go to all that trouble, I would just buy a coffee somewhere else. Enjoy your pennies, note writer.
Feb 23, 2010 at 7:08 pm rating: 1
#11
Rebekah
“A hostile act”, brilliant! I think this is my new favourite PAN.
Feb 23, 2010 at 7:16 pm rating: 1
#12
Beth
Someone ought to use this note as toilet paper and put it back when they’re done. Ass coffee is what they’ll be drinking boyo!
Feb 23, 2010 at 7:23 pm rating: 1
#13
no one fucking cares
cofffeee makes me shiiiiit like a mad man
Feb 23, 2010 at 7:37 pm rating: 0
#14
Vikki
You know what would be awesome? If it were 49 pennies, not 50.
Feb 23, 2010 at 7:46 pm rating: 4
#15
ClearlyDemented
PL normally has no regard for the folks waiting behind her while she counts out the change to pay for her office’s canister of Chock full ‘o Nuts, smugly thinking how her ungrateful coworkers don’t appreciate her self-sacrificing nature. But last week was different.
After a full two minutes of presenting nickels and dimes to the cashier one at a time, a large man, seeing she was just getting to the pennies, dropped down two shiny quarters with a smile. She was so rattled when everyone else in line immediately started clapping, high-fiving and hugging each other that she grabbed her bag and left the forgotten pennies on the counter. As she raced to her car, fighting her tears of dismay and embarrassment, she realized this was not her fault at all, but the penny-giver’s. Before she even had time to ponder how to word her mostly-passive-but-somewhat-aggressive note, a small mob of customers came out and ‘pennied’ her.
Truly, a hostile act.
Feb 23, 2010 at 7:46 pm rating: 16
#16
infant tyrone
Just before unloading both barrels full of Ollinger’s own silver dimes at him, Billy the Kid asks him, “How’s Jesus look to you now, Bob?”.
That was a hostile act back when dimes were still worth something.
Check it at 2:00 in the clip below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsSBQFHh3o8
50 pennies ? Pffft…
Feb 23, 2010 at 8:07 pm rating: 0
#17
justin
our office does the same thing, only coffee is 25 cents. someone put a chuck-e-cheese coin in the folgers container (makeshift money jar) and the entire floor got an All Staff e-mail from the head supervisor preaching on how it was “unethical” … the random giggles coming from various cubicles upon getting the email was pretty amusing
Feb 23, 2010 at 8:13 pm rating: 21
#18
justin
unfortunately, there is no thumbs down button
Feb 23, 2010 at 8:24 pm rating: 31
#19
oi
@18
Hi ISUCK. This name does not suit you.
Feb 23, 2010 at 8:43 pm rating: 8
#20
Sarah TX
Team Pennies. If I want a cup of coffee, and all I have is 50 pennies, they’re gonna get 50 pennies or their gonna get nothing. This note clearly indicates that they prefer nothing.
Feb 23, 2010 at 9:03 pm rating: 14
#21
Critical Grass
Dear office manager,
Stop serving coffee and you’ll see what a real “hostile act” is.
Feb 23, 2010 at 9:04 pm rating: 13
#22
Deb
I wonder if the penny putter posted the note, just in case anyone would misconstrue his intent.
Feb 23, 2010 at 9:06 pm rating: 12
#23
Canthz_B
Nickel.
Feb 23, 2010 at 9:40 pm rating: 7
#24
ISpy
After over a year of freeloading coffee-drinking teachers and other school employees, (including district bus drivers who would come in and fill up their thermoses), we went to K-cups. The ultimate in PA coffee experiences.
Feb 23, 2010 at 9:43 pm rating: 1
#25
aaa
The 50 pennies are the distraction. The hostile act is sitting steaming in your desk drawer.
Feb 23, 2010 at 9:46 pm rating: 12
#26
Penny
if you put 50 pennies in do the terrorists win?
Feb 23, 2010 at 10:04 pm rating: 8
#27
Seanette
Two questions from someone who takes her caffeine carbonated:
What’s a K-cup?
Would it be a major breach of etiquette in an office with a system like the one described to make change from the container the money is put in?
Feb 23, 2010 at 10:40 pm rating: 0
#28
Lucy
If companies were smart, they would arrange to bring in a large cup of coffee from the best coffee shop in town for each employee.
No employee would ever be late. They would be wired to work. Small cost, high payoff in productivity.
Feb 23, 2010 at 11:49 pm rating: 3
#29
i wish
LOL at least they arent taking the 50 pennies in there.
Feb 24, 2010 at 12:02 am rating: 0
#30
Canthz_B
Jesus stopping by for a cup-a-joe and leaving pennies from heaven can hardly be considered an act of hostility.
They should feel blessed.
Feb 24, 2010 at 12:28 am rating: 1
#31
foo
Why drink coffee in the first place? It’s a harmful and addictive drug!
Feb 24, 2010 at 4:14 am rating: 0
#32
adam
Don’t get me started on coffee.
Feb 24, 2010 at 8:24 am rating: 2
#33
Max Time
the reason putting pennies in that jar is a hostile act is cause its not the funds for spending on beer.
Feb 24, 2010 at 8:44 am rating: 1
#34
Mo®
-Penny for your thoughts!
-fuck you man, this hostility will not stand man!
Feb 24, 2010 at 12:36 pm rating: 2
#35
Snitchster
Just spent the past 15 hours lurking the community…this might become a problem
Feb 24, 2010 at 1:15 pm rating: 0
#36
park rose
wassup PANggalos and PANgalettes? chillin here in ma dark latrine listnin (someone forgot to change the light bulb… wassup wit that? must write note) to some fluid hokus pokus shit. Yo remember what CB say in the thread in Shoes or not to Shoes, some PANgalos jus PANgalos when it’s convenient to write at work, and they might not even have socks on! remember be down wit da PAN 4 real, not jus when you’re barefoot or have fifty company pennies to spend. jus a reminder from a PANgalette to all the PANistas out there, look in urself and make sure you remembered to hook up ur bra and put clean underwear on. maks sure ur faith in the written word to do more harm than good is bumpin like clowns driving dodgem cars at carnival, an that the right hand of tha man don’t know what the left hand of the worker is doin, special when that left hand belong to long time absent PANgalo, Claw71. miss you brother. long live dedication to masturbation ! yo! yo! yo!
Feb 24, 2010 at 6:50 pm rating: 0
#37
snatchbeast
The llama in me would actively seek out pennies solely to pay for coffee. Money is money, arsehole. Deal with the “hostile act”
Feb 24, 2010 at 9:38 pm rating: 0
#38
willie g
You just got chichistered!
Feb 25, 2010 at 10:52 am rating: 0
#39
Vintage_K
50 pennies for your thoughts!
*sorry, I got nothing*
Feb 25, 2010 at 1:33 pm rating: 0
#40
CoolSprings
A hostile act? I would put fifty pennies in every day just for fun!
Feb 25, 2010 at 2:26 pm rating: 0
#41
T.U.M.
Hell, maybe fifty pennies was all somebody happened to have on hand. If it’s 3:15 and I need a shitty cup of Joe to make it through to 5, and I don’t happen to have two shiny new quarters (newsflash: people don’t carry as much cash as they used to), but I can scrape up a handful of small change from the bottom of my purse, damn right I’m going to put 50 pennies in the kitty. Am going to, and have done.
Feb 26, 2010 at 11:05 am rating: 0
#42
Slvrchelsea
I think I’ll use you guys just to up my vocab… this is great! lol I feel like I’m learning a foreign language… I’ve taken the classes, now it’s time to mingle with the natives! ::sigh::
Feb 28, 2010 at 11:56 pm rating: 0
#43
Bethany
We’ve had people come in wanting to pay their $10 citations in pennies. They do it because … Well, there’s a personal-responsibility issue on the campus where I work and people tend to do PA BS when they earn themselves a parking ticket.
We make them sit in the conference room and count them out into ten-cent stacks on a sheet of paper with $10-worth of ten-cent-stack circles. We’ve learned our PA BS lessons well.
Mar 3, 2010 at 4:22 pm rating: 0
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