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Originally Posted by garysanfran
How many businesses offer their employees a kitchen?
Maybe Taylor's Family Restaurant would still be around if the Meredith DPW employees supported local eateries.
Silicon Valley has started outlawing employers from giving employees free gourmet lunches with the intent of supporting the local economy.
I don't think it's the Govt.'s responsibility to set eating requirements for employers/employees one-way-or-the-other.
However...Does this not escalate their "high" utility bill further at my expense? I pay my high taxes which I now know includes the cost of the DPW cooking lunch. I pay for my own utilities when I cook my meals.
I know, it doesn't amount to much, but a lot of "not amounting to much" amounts to a lot!
How many times has Meredith used that new expensive fire engine capable of reaching the top stories of high-rise buildings?
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I don't even know where to begin here. Almost all workplaces have a small kitchen area (fridge for storing lunches, microwave for heating food, sink for rinsing dishes). It would be entirely reasonable for the Meredith DPW to have the same, especially considering they work long shifts during snowstorms plowing our town roads.
You insinuate that Taylor's Family Restaurant would still be open if the Meredith DPW crews purchased their lunch instead of bringing it in a paper bag. First off, it's not the DPW crew's responsibility to keep a business afloat and secondly, they aren't compensated well enough to spend $10/day on lunch when they can brown bag it for $10/week.
The Meredith DPW is a hard-working, underappreciated crew who deserves to be supported by the town and its residents, not bashed on an online forum for (gasp) requesting an actual building with an actual office and an actual kitchen to prepare lunch in. Heaven forbid your taxes go up $0.01/year so that the guy who plows your road at 3am can heat up his Hot Pocket using a microwave that is supplied by town power.