But they didn’t have a melon party.
UN → Japan why?
Alfredo’s pizza cafe or pizza by Alfredo?
Ours had a beer and wine party.
Mine got our whole department of 9 people lunch once every 2 months from a local pizza place for maybe $100 each time. My bosses, bosses, boss apparently complained of how much was being spent on lunches.
To put that to a scale, I ordered between $10k-$20k in supplies each week. I cleaned out my area one day and threw $20k of unboxed equipment in the trash without any need to check with anyone. Corporate netted $70M a year off our small operation. That profit was, to them, a drop in the bucket.
Those lunches must have looked really bad on paper.
Not union related but just an apropos … Our company had a whiteboard where people could write things to improve the workplace. Some people said more compliments! but eventually serious stuff like a decent health plan and pay raises got on there.
Management saw this and held a meeting where they hired this guy that climbed Mount Everest to motivate us and eventually told us to look inward when there’s problems. I was like, wtf is this shit? But it did work on a few people. They were all, “yeah, I should think about what I could do …”
Immediately started applying for jobs after that shit.