Posted on 09/09/2024 10:09:43 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
"Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary isn't known to mince words, and his take on workers splurging on their daily cups of coffee and work lunches was no exception.
"Stop buying coffee for $5.50. You got to work and spend $15 on a sandwich – what are you, an idiot?" O'Leary, also known as Mr. Wonderful, said in a financial advice clip shared on Instagram last week.
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Went to a recruiting event for a TLA very low-level job
The hotel had great Irish coffee creamer - loved it - most coffee I ever drank in my life
Dang .... I can learn to like coffee more ......
I might even ... actually ... work! ...
Employ me. I will spend an hour of your time making a pot of coffee and cleaning up to save myself 6$.: Thanks for the financial advice. Idiot. Or maybe your employees should go without coffee. Funny how a lot of top creative companies provide free food and coffee to their employees- their time and work product is worth far more than the cost of catering.
My late wife used to own a Dunkin Donuts. The coffee was great when I didn’t have to pay for it. Now it’s Nescafe all the way!
I have heard of adding salt but didn’t know why. I guess it reduces the bitterness. I’ll have to try it. It seems the guy below adds more than a couple of pinches:
“In 2009, food science expert Alton Brown suggested adding salt to coffee in an episode of his cooking show Good Eats. He said that for every cup of water and two teaspoons of ground coffee, you should add half a teaspoon of salt to neutralise the bitterness of the coffee.
“Not only does salt cut the bitterness, it also smooths out the ‘stale’ taste of tank-stored water. Research has proven that salt is actually better at neutralizing bitterness than sugar,” he said.
Although Brown wasn’t the first to put salt in coffee, he drew widespread attention to the technique. Today, even in 2024, some even coffee drinkers know it as “the Alton Brown Trick”.”
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I have also heard of people adding eggshells to the coffee grounds before brewing. I just looked that up - same reason, to reduce bitterness. Eggshells are mostly Calcium Carbonate I guess.
$5.50 for a cup of coffee is plain out stupid. Kevin is right. This little stuff adds up....and it’s totally unnecessary.
Well, he didn't.
And THAT'S how the little, old SOB got to be a millionaire...never did anything for anybody else.
Watching that makes you want to PUKE!! But the “Seinfeld” music is pretty funny. It puts a whole new perspective on this freak.
“It used to be that employers feed coffee to employees for free. Why? Productivity.”
When I worked for a pharma company in CA, every facility break room had free Seattle’s Best coffee for employees. And pastries. The main building had an amazing food court, with different stations for different kinds of foods. Food there wasn’t free, but very deeply discounted.
Productivity was excellent and so was morale. A very nice place to work.
Even with our prior marriages draining us financially, forcing us to start over, we’ve put kids through vocational training/college (as long as they career planned first), we now have a net worth of a million, my wife retired in her mid 50s and takes care of our parents, and I’ll retire when we’ll be multi millionaires, hopefully in my late 50’s.
And we take on hobbies designed to reduce expenses. My wife does gardening with some help from me. We’ve reached the point where it saves us more money than it costs us. We plan to expand it when I retire. I do the number crunching and we now have solar combined with doing most of our driving in the EV. The low monthly power bill plus loan payment I took out to install solar and make other energy improvements to the house, is less than what I’d still be paying in power plus natural gas plus gasoline.
I encourage everyone to honor what you posted (investing in 401k, I say do it IRA too), and what the article says about rarely eating out. Combine that with FReeper distrust of government to be more self reliant on things we all need but the Dims over regulate like energy and food.
Our car pool in CA stopped at a Starbucks a couple times a week on our way in to work. I couldn’t believe how much it cost, but sometimes I’d get a “small black whatever is strongest”. Most times, I’d get nothing. I’m pretty thrifty (except when it comes to quilting fabric). My Keurig pods that cost about 30-50 cents are fine for me
Well, ding dong, that’s what happens when people are forced to return to the office. Otherwise, they’d be drinking their own coffee at home while not having to drive into work on those parking lots known as “freeways.”
(Not you, RomanSoldier19)
I’d take the free coffee any day. On my floor at headquarters in Maryland — I’m mostly remote in Florida — there was a good Keurig machine that somebody who recently retired was letting people use. I brought my own pods into the office and used it. As far as I know, the machine is still there, but it was failing the last time I was up there. Free coffee!
Look at those prices, I remember “The $1.19 Steakhouse” restaurant, that was its name.
I’m coming over to try this, but I may need to bring a little raw cream and natural sugar in case. I haven’t adopted to the black coffee yet.
I went to Starbucks once. I stared at the menu and finally asked the guy for a good cup of coffee. He asked me, “What do you mean?”
I ended up at oth something acceptable, but way overpriced.
I make better coffee at home.
On your to do list add getting a wheat grinder and wheat berries for bread and bread varieties.
Grinding wheat flour for that days bread and your just picked garden produce is a real delight that helps bring it all together, you can taste the nutrition in that bread, and it impresses people.
“Black, straight up with no flavor disguisers.”
Yes. My boss used to treat” us with flavored coffee. The bagel shops in the area would sell it to groups in a box. The smell made me gag — had to leave the room. Hazelnut was the worst.
I almost never wash my coffee cup. Just a strong swish of the hottest tap water.
How many employees do his businesses have living below the poverty line? Maybe he shouldn’t buy a new yacht and pay his employees.
Just what the Shark Tank staff would be eager to do. You don’t need a percolator, either. Just use Turkish coffee and throw some hot water over it in the cup, stir, and wait for the sediment to settle. But the question is, what should the Shark Tank employees be doing for coffee instead of spending $5.50 a cup. For them, a coffee maker with filters would work and be much cheaper, and probably better.
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