I attend graduate school. It is a high stress environment. Very, very high stress. Now, there are a few exceptions to this general rule, but, by and large, students have little positive to say about the food services at their schools. Fair enough. Ours is decent. Not terrible, not amazing, but passable. However, there is one thing in particular which is simply unacceptable:
About once a week, the vending machines and cafeteria, from the bottom to the top floor of the building, run out of Diet Coke.
This alone is a sign of gross incompetence. If they run out on Wednesday, and don't get any more till next week, well, you do the math. Oh, and, people are in the library all day during the weekend too.
However, what is truly maddening is the presence of unimaginable amounts of Caffeine Free Diet Coke in the vending machines. Yes. Entire cases of the stuff.
The number one drink of students at this school, and all like it, is Coffee*. Number two is Diet Coke.
*Non-alcoholic drink.
Diet Caffeine Free Coke falls somewhere between Diet Shasta Orange and Irn Bru in the list of popularity.
The real nail in the coffin, however, the final straw, is that while rooting around in a back hallway on the mezzanine level of the cafeteria, I discovered a dozen palettes of Diet Coke, both bottles and cans. Are you freaking kidding me? What the hell is going on here? Can no one move these forty feet to the vending refrigerators one floor downstairs and pour out that caffeine free crap once and for all?
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