Yes, mine does. Most of the companies I’ve worked for didn’t, except one other where I was the office manager & in charge of buying office supplies, and I bought them - I was allowed to use my own discretion with purchasing, and I didn’t feel it was unreasonable. Also, given the size of that company (and that most of the staff worked out in the field), it was a minor expense.
It’s been my experience that the companies that have provided tissues, coffee, etc., have also had better benefits in general; the ones that were cheap about the little things were cheap about everything.
This is just my humble opinion, but I believe that the more that employers treat employees as if they owe them nothing but a paycheck, the more workers in general will end up becoming a burden on the state, one way or the other.
For a kid like me, the fact that I was doing it would be less important than the credit! I liked to please my teachers and was always teacher’s pet. That sounds really dirty but I don’t mean it that way.
My office provides tissues; or rather, I use petty cash to go out and buy them. There’s only a handful of us, and I’m the one who has allergies, so of course I’m buying them!
“One large box of tissues” has always been on the supply list my kids get each year for elementary school, right there with the pencils, glue sticks and marble composition books. See if you can try that.
I teach preschool, and tissues are supplied, as well as anti-bacterial hand gel, baby wipes and rubber gloves. Necessary when dealing with potty accidents. :eek:
We do. My secretary doesn’t like me to, she makes a nasty face when I say she needs to order them with the paper products.
But when they come in, she’s got a box on her desk so she’s not feeling too bad about it. There’s better ways to save a dollar when you can do something that simple to make the people that work for you a little more comfortable while they’re here.
Periodically, for no good reason, I’ll program the coffee vending machine to thr “free” setting for a day.
We are provided with coffee, tea, cocoa powder for hot chocolate, paper towels, paper plates, plastic silverware, aspirin, salt, pepper, dish soap, dish sponges, coffee stirrers, sugar, non-dairy creamer, and office supplies.
But not tissues.
The building has TP in the bathrooms. But it’s $.25 per square so I don’t use it.
I work for the government. If Uncle Sam gave out tissues, we’d probably hear no end of grief about the “fleecing of America” and how us fatcat Federal employees get all these perks and special treatment that hard-workin’ Americans don’t get. Same goes for Cokes, Cup o’ Soups, plastic cutlery, and all that.
Thank God for the Gucci Gulch lobbyists who drop off huge amounts of unmarked, nonsequential hundred dollar bills in thick envelopes, otherwise this job would be downright uncivilized.
Wow. I had no idea that there were places that didn’t provide tissues! I’m only on my third office job, though. The first two supplied tissues. I guess I was just lucky enough to inherit this box from the last person to use this desk!
I order the office supplies for my sub-division of my department, and I order tissue. Then again, we get patients who might need them sometimes as well, so it’s not just for our own personal use. I’ll buy a box on my own if I have a horrible cold and run through one quickly, though.
The last 2 offices I worked in stocked boxes of tissue in with the office supplies. But it was really cheap stuff that really tore up your nose to use. I ended up bringing my own and hiding it because other people were always using it up.
The barn where I work now (working with horses) stocks really nice Kleenex brand tissue. But there are a lot fewer of us.
Nope, no tissues supplied here. It never even occurred to me that some companies might until I read this thread. Then again, our company provides free coffee, but not free soda – much to the annoyance of one of my non-coffee-drinking comrades.
Our office provides it, so we’re never without a box nearby. Also, it’s pretty standard practice in Japan for companies to advertise by printing their information on little packets of tissue and handing them out on the street, so everybody has an emergency cache of those in their desks as well.
