{"id":124,"date":"2008-01-25T14:28:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T19:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/2008\/01\/25\/beverage-discrimination\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:58:28","slug":"beverage-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/25\/beverage-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Beverage Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"MountainI don’t drink coffee. Never have. However, I do love and need caffeine–in large and frequent doses, but carbonated and refrigerated (refrigeration optional when desperate). That’s why I’m always a tiny bit upset when I arrive at a new customer site and as part of the usual tour I find office supplies, bathrooms, printer, and all the free coffee you can drink. Some of them have a water cooler too (which I try to substitute…my physician tells me this is better than my caffeine addiction).<\/p>\n

Why doesn’t Equal Opportunity<\/a> apply? I’m discriminated against because of my beverage choice. Shouldn’t I expect equal access to all the things I need in order to perform my job? I submit that if others I work with need coffee to perform their daily tasks (I presume that’s why it’s part of everyone’s salary\/benefits package–including mine), I should be afforded the same. I shouldn’t have to pay part of the coffee tax if I don’t take part in consuming the coffee.<\/p>\n

In the interest of full disclosure, I do have to say that my current employer<\/a> provides a magically perpetually stocked fridge of carbonated delights that I frequent when I’m in the office (they also provide bottomless pots of coffee). Unfortunately, I haven’t been in the office for a month, so that doesn’t help me right now!<\/p>\n

Gotta go get something caffeinated to drink before I fall asleep…\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t drink coffee. Never have. However, I do love and need caffeine–in large and frequent doses, but carbonated and refrigerated (refrigeration optional when desperate). That’s why I’m always a tiny bit upset when I arrive at a new customer site and as part of the usual tour I find office supplies, bathrooms, printer, and … Continue reading “Beverage Discrimination”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[55,76,167,206],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-rants","tag-caffeine","tag-discrimination","tag-pop","tag-soda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}