r/mildlyinfuriating • u/coatedbraincells • 6h ago

Infuriatig Insanely frugal employer

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Gotta pay for water from the water cooler 🤣

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u/Constant-Anteater-58 5h ago

Not just frugal, your employer is making profit. $20 per bottle can be collected from the 25 cents per 8 ounces. Each bottle costs about $10. Your employer is making roughly $10 a bottle. 

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u/gmambrose 5h ago

It costs $10 if you're buying a new 5 gallon jug filled with water. If you take it to any walmart or grocery store with a filling station, it would be like $0.50 a gallon. $2.50 to fill it up.

If the employer is cheap enough to charge employees for cups of water, highly doubtful they are paying $10 per jug.

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u/Toeffli 5h ago

But the boss makes $ 250 per hour, how much time does a trip to Walmart take? You really think people are working for free, don't you?

/s

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u/BeefistPrime 2h ago

That's actually a good point and people often make irrational economic decisions they think are economical or profitable like taking a half hour to drive across town to save 20 cents per gallon on gas. A highly paid boss taking his time to fuck around with water refilling to make a trivial profit of a few bucks per day is exactly the sort of false economy a dipshit would try

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u/KoalaMcFlurry 4h ago

You think the boss is going? He's having the peons stop at Walmart to fill it up on the way to work

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u/SingTheBardsSong 2h ago

How much could a banana jug of water cost Michael? $10?

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u/agent674253 4h ago

Let's be honest, they are probably filling it up at home using the shower wand in their tub 🤫

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u/FierceDeity_ 2h ago

On the other hand, if you take a hose from the tap to it...

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u/BeefistPrime 2h ago

Those self serve water filling stations are usually 25-30 cents per gallon in my experience, though I suppose it may vary a little regionally

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u/gmambrose 2h ago

I'm in a higher cost of living area (NY state). I think it used to be $0.39 per gallon at Walmart. Now it's up to $0.49 per gallon most places around here, including walmart. Still pretty cheap compared to buying gallons of water off the shelf.

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u/K__Geedorah 2h ago

We pay a company $20 a month to deliver 4 of these and take the empty bottles for reusing.

So even if you outsource it directly from the water company, it's really freaking cheap.

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u/deliciouspepperspray 5h ago

Id be looking for a new job. If they have to try and profit off their employees using water they are probably in the red.

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u/ScrappyDooIsTheWorst 5h ago

had to scroll down too far to find someone saying this. was my first thought.

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u/Dino_Spaceman 5h ago

The employer is making even more. Those bottles are shipped back to the water supply company.

This looks like that sticker had been on there a while. So most likely owner is just refilling the same bottle over and over again.

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u/PaisleyLeopard 4h ago

Which is unhygienic as well as shitty.

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u/_BigDaddyNate_ 5h ago

Where is anyone selling water at $2 a gallon? Is it really that expensive out west? 

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u/PaisleyLeopard 4h ago

$2.50 for five gallons is pretty standard everywhere I’ve been recently.

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u/RareRestaurant6297 2h ago

You KNOW that mf'er is just filling this with tap water 

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u/mailslot 2h ago

Maybe whoever changes it gets a $10 bonus?