Revenge On A Five Dollar Budget

Summary

My job was office provisioning, specifically the daily afternoon pick-me-up. The budget? Five dollars per person.

To maintain the company’s image of sophistication and generosity, I hunted down coupons, negotiated bulk discounts, and leveraged every deal I could find, somehow making that five dollars feel like fifty.

Then, the bomb dropped.

Veronica Jensen, the Director of Operations, sent a message to the company’s five-hundred-person Slack channel, tearing into the artisanal boba tea I’d purchased.