>> My understanding of the tea trolley is that somethings just are worth doing, full stop, <<
Agreed! It's a very practical service. I can imagine Pepper thinking, "Let's not have engineers fainting at their desks."
>> and rather than say 'you can't have this' it was 'let's be sensible and have one person do the fiddling and everyone else will stay on task until they have their cuppa and nibbles.' It was Modern! Efficient! Hygenic! (sorry, I think some ad copy escaped.) And the re-fuelled could get back on task and not be grumbling about no tea for them. <<
Exactly. Some places take coffee breaks or lunches in staggered shifts for that reason. Works fine with a breakroom or tea trolley.
The Stark Enterprises snack service just lets people estimate when they usually get hungry and delivers on that schedule. *chuckle* Or JARVIS sends things out if he thinks it's necessary. I doubt that Phil is the first time that's happened; with a food service in the building, it's easy to explain away.
>> Of course part of the reasoning for the free food at certain types of employers is they have their campus off in nowhere so there isn't somewhere to run out to. <<
That's true too. Tony just doesn't want his people to waste time running all over the city for stuff they could have delivered. That's rich-people thinking in a way, but it's considerate too.
The fact that the SI snack service offers fruit, nuts, granola and other healthy nibblements is doubtless due to somebody else looking up what kind of snacks would promote healthy, productive employees. Tony likes junk food. Heh, but we can say that packet of blueberries in the movie was probably part of a snackbox that Tony pocketed without half thinking of it.
>> You wouldn't want to see the code that would happen after two days of not going home and left to their own devices. Bagels mold without refrigeration pretty quick. <<
Yeah, that would suck. Well fed, properly hydrated, fully slept employees make fewer mistakes and better products.
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Agreed! It's a very practical service. I can imagine Pepper thinking, "Let's not have engineers fainting at their desks."
>> and rather than say 'you can't have this' it was 'let's be sensible and have one person do the fiddling and everyone else will stay on task until they have their cuppa and nibbles.' It was Modern! Efficient! Hygenic! (sorry, I think some ad copy escaped.) And the re-fuelled could get back on task and not be grumbling about no tea for them. <<
Exactly. Some places take coffee breaks or lunches in staggered shifts for that reason. Works fine with a breakroom or tea trolley.
The Stark Enterprises snack service just lets people estimate when they usually get hungry and delivers on that schedule. *chuckle* Or JARVIS sends things out if he thinks it's necessary. I doubt that Phil is the first time that's happened; with a food service in the building, it's easy to explain away.
>> Of course part of the reasoning for the free food at certain types of employers is they have their campus off in nowhere so there isn't somewhere to run out to. <<
That's true too. Tony just doesn't want his people to waste time running all over the city for stuff they could have delivered. That's rich-people thinking in a way, but it's considerate too.
The fact that the SI snack service offers fruit, nuts, granola and other healthy nibblements is doubtless due to somebody else looking up what kind of snacks would promote healthy, productive employees. Tony likes junk food. Heh, but we can say that packet of blueberries in the movie was probably part of a snackbox that Tony pocketed without half thinking of it.
>> You wouldn't want to see the code that would happen after two days of not going home and left to their own devices. Bagels mold without refrigeration pretty quick. <<
Yeah, that would suck. Well fed, properly hydrated, fully slept employees make fewer mistakes and better products.