Accountants depend on coffee so much that it might be necessary to list Coffee and Caffeine separately. While I’m sure you and I enjoy coffee, do you value coffee enough to spend almost $10 a day at Starbucks? Accountants do during busy season.
The standard ritual is to arrive in the morning and get coffee while your laptop takes 1/2 hour to start up. After returning from lunch and catching up on e-mails, it’s time once again to go get another cup. In fact, anytime an accountant starts feeling less than 100%, coffee is the way to go.
Coffee comes in many forms. Accountants can get coffee at Starbucks, local shops, office kitchens, instant espresso machines, and have been known to settle on tea in desperate times. Coffee is often accompanied by cookies, scones, danishes, or other snacks. It’s not always enough for an accountant to order a skinny latte, accountants sometimes have to get almond toffee cookies as well.
If you took away coffee from accountants, you could pretty much short the market as companies would all be delinquent in their required filings. Coffee really is the solution to everything, and as such, accountants can never have too much coffee.
Don’t underestimate black delicious tea! I subsist on 20 cups of black tea a day and two giant cups of coffee. Though I would chew on espresso beans all day if given the chance.
wow…i finally feel understood…
I agree with Gwen…there are other sources of caffeine. Tea is one, espresso beans, energy drinks, caffeinated gum. I’ve even bought some caffeinated breath-refreshing spray in prep of the oncoming train…i mean busy season.
Personally I go with chocolate-covered espresso beans. They provide both food in the form of chocolate and plenty of caffeine. Tough to go wrong there. Of course, the extra 5 pounds at the end of busy season generates a problem of its own….
I didn’t start drinking coffee until I started working in public accounting, now not only do I need that first cup or two (or 5) in the morning but my staff know the standing 3:00pm coffee appointment while in the field 🙂
It’s like… I’m not alone anymore….
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PwC has taken away most of the minor food and beverage benefits they provided their employees in the break room: coffee, tea, cup of noodles, napkins, plastic forks and spoons. They said the cuts were necessary to cut costs and help perserve peeps jobs. Yet they went ahead and fired a bunch of employees anyway.
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excuse me, I have to go get some coffee….
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