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spoilerkelly The return of Intel's Coffee Lake.

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 59 points 1 week ago

I'm sorry what?!

The idea of an office without free coffee is incomprehensible to me. I had never, ever contemplated that such a thing did or could exist. How could an office function without coffee?

[-] Lerios@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago

seconded. my job is utter bullshit but we've always had free coffee and cookies. people are literally getting laid off rn but the coffee yet flows

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

Especially Intel?? Like the cost of that is a 1/10 of a rounding error for them lol

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 20 points 1 week ago

Lmao, right? I just recently started working in a new company and in the new employees met up there was a couple of guys whose this was their first job and I was explaining to them how the coffee machine worked because I saw them flabbergasted on where to pay for the coffee. They were like this company is great, I can't believe it! Like, of your company didn't even give you coffee run away because that company sucks.

[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

We have free coffee but the shitty French kind from a machine, still better than nothing though I guess

[-] TransComrade69@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

However, the complimentary fruits that employees had grown used to will not be restocked.

bruh I just can't imagine looking at the business continuity plans and risk assessments that are released with yearly financial statements and thinking "the coffee and tea have to go". ☠️

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[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

coffee has to cost next to nothing for them. Insulting.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

A cup of coffee with high quakity beans is around 30 cents per cup in materials in the US. If emplotees average 2 cups per day for an 8 hour workday it amounts to around an 8 cents per hour raise.

Of course, companies also believe that coffee improves productivity, so it us usually factored in as a cost-saving measure by the nerds controlling production. It's only one you get yo self-defeating bourgeois dictator levels of petty that anyone starts to even care about somehow cutting coffee costs.

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

I had one employer try to switch the office coffee to a cheaper brand once, the change lasted for a day.

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

meanwhile, also intel

e: i should have been a bit more explicit here. the massive, relatively new intel fabrication plant shown here is located ~10 miles as the crow flies from the northwest corner of Gaza

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

Must be a bit spooked after how poorly their very recently launched chipsets are doing, especially since AMD's brand new stuff absolutely smokes them

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

So is Intel fucked or something? I heard like the majority of their newer desktop CPUs were found to be defective until the current gen, and now I'm hearing their new gen where they ditched their i3/i5/i7 branding is also getting trounced at all price points by AMD.

[-] somename@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, they did a bit of tactical fraud to boost their benchmark numbers, by both overclocking them by default without telling anyone, and like, potentially sketchy manufacturing. They then of course lied and delayed addressing it as long as possible. I had to downgrade my CPU from 14th to 12th gen, because my CPU got fried and started failing.

And it's hard to say if this 'new' generation is actually fixed and stable without waiting, without seeing if mysterious failures start happening in the next year or two, so I'm not surprised sales are shit. The last two generations, 13th and 14th, both suffered from this. Who wants to buy a potentially defective chip?

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Their new generation in some cases gets trounced by their previous defective generation. It doesn't even have multithreading anymore.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Intel has gone full bean counter mode, they are financialized around the world and back again trying to coast on legacy systems and monopoly power. They pocketed the CHIPS Act cash, mostly turning it into financial shenanigans rather than productive capacity.

In theory they could turn it around but it's difficult to know how precarious their operation is, it jist has all the warning signs that it could be taken out by vultures.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

I feel like they might get bailed out again >.>

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago
[-] piccolo@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Intel laid off 1 out of every 5 people in the division I worked for about 8 months ago, myself included. I'm sure this will fix the morale problem they have!

spoilerYeah I know I shouldn't have been working there, but it was my first job out of school and they laid me off pretty soon after I realized how evil they were. At least I got some severance so they effectively paid me to quit, which I wanted to do anyways at the time

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

I don't even drink coffee, but I have never once worked for an office employer that didn't provide it freely. maybe there's some discussion about the baseline quality of the free stuff and some reserves shit for the fancies. so many office places provide nearly unlimited access to stimulants and sugar, for the most obvious reason on the planet.

what a bunch of jamokes.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

smdh where us the biweekly pizza party?

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Never have I ever worked somewhere that charged employees for coffee. Even the shitty "learn not to be lazy" workfare bullshit I was once sent to by the job centre had free coffee as its only redeeming feature.

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