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Reminds me of this story I read a long time ago on HN and which is on topic for this thread.

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...

edit: I see it has already been posted.

Ask any tech worker in an office about the free snack selection. My coworkers get genuinely outraged when we trade out one brand of prepackaged nuts for another, or when their preferred soda goes out of rotation. Never mind they all make six figures and could easily purchase whatever snacks they wanted. The cost of the employee time spent complaining every time something changes here easily outweighs the cost of the entire snack program.

My company did this once a month on new hire day. It was cancelled and people were very angry. This was a few years before i started. 10 years later people are still angry, and some never had that benefit!

It's like the monkey banana thing.

The US is such a weird place.