At my current place of employ, snacks are ...

... to paraphrase a "Pluggers" cartoon from a few years ago: I'm retired.

That is, when I finish mowing the lawn, I need to clean out the garage, fix the side fence,
and wash off the outdoor furniture. Then, after lunch, I'm sure she'll come up with more
chores for me to do...

So, yeah, I provide my own snacks!

(And, yes, I'm posting as an AC for a good reason !!)

Keep it classy Dice.

We do snack on the employees. Mwahahaha

For years, there has been someone in our building who just leaves tubs of candy at the entrance to his cubicle, and invites all to partake. Recently, I found the broken cookie store. They get all of the factory seconds from the local Dare (cookie) factory, and put them into 13lb boxes, which they sell for $15.

I buy the boxes two at a time, and leave them open and inviting on the desk next to mine, which is currently unoccupied. Two boxes tends to last about three weeks. So, for ten bucks a week, I have made myself indispensible in this office. I even have the executive vice president stopping in every now and again for a free cookie.

Coffee is certainly on the department, as is fruit, and the weekly department "fika" (coffee with some type of cookie, bread, etc) is on an employee on a rotating basis. But snacks as in cookies, candy? I eat enough of that crap when I get home, I certainly don't need it on a daily basis at work as well.

Should be:

I'm unemployed, you insensitive clod!

In one drawer we have cans of beans, romulan noodles, micro popcorn, ketchup, wasabi amonds, sesame sticks, apricots, two baking potatoes, tea and bubble gum.

In another drawer we have pistachio nuts, two flavors (plain and chili lemon), spicy seaweed, lifesavers, candied ginger, vegie chips and lifesavers candys.

I don't snack often, but am well prepared for the repocalypse.

In our old building we use to have a quite robust snack locker system with some of the bigger ones probably doing 100 dollars of business a day and well stocked with every imaginable sugary treat.
But when we moved to our new site the bosses signed a ‘non-compete clause’ with the cafeteria in the building.. I’ve seen less complaining about people being forced to do yearlong deployments to Afghanistan then I did the day our snacks died.
R.I.P.

At my work there are no snacks unless someone brings something or a customer sends a thank you package and leaves it in the break room. Every day a 10am we get a 10 minute break and a roach coach stops by so there are snacks. But Fridays are called "bagel day" as we get free bagels along with butter, plain and vegetable cream cheese. Recently they started "doughnut day". Every first Friday of the month we get doughnuts instead of bagels. I hear that the owners father who started the company used to treat all the workers to the roach coach on Fridays. Anything you wanted off the truck was on the house.

We have a coffee machine so there is plenty of regular and decaf along with french vanilla or hazelnut creamer, non dairy creamer, milk, half and half, sugar and artificial sweetener. We also have tea. So at least there is a generous selection for coffee. We also tell customers and even delivery men to help themselves to the coffee, bagels and doughnuts.

I always say that the coffee machine is the most important machine in the building.

"Generally the other employees." The Soylent Corporation is our town's biggest employer.

My current employer supplies unshelled peanuts, green bananas, and non-quite-ripe apples. The fruit, lame as it is, disappears around Wednesday of the each week, long before it actually become edible.

There is also a vending machine which sells generally toxic vending machine food. At least I can get Coke from the machine to ward off the afternoon snooze.

At a previous short term employer, the only viable caffeine source was chocolate. So not a good thing, especially since I was somewhat immobilized due to an injury during that period.

In a way, I think the bad snack approach may be the best. If it isn't palatable, I don't eat more than I really need.

When I was 21, free snacks and sodas really made a big difference.

Now, I'd rather they put the effort into 401(k), flexible schedule, good benefits, and not wasting our time with too many meetings.

Seriously, if there's nothing we have left to do, go home. Don't have a meeting about it.

It's closer to zero than full price, so I voted "On the house"

I am my own boss and buy myself snacks. It improves my morale toward myself, and that way I don't have to worry that I'll steal office equipment from myself.

Snacks are generally all over my keyboard.

Who has time to eat between meals while working?!?!

Wait, I do know the answer to that one; the lazy! Seriously, I can barely pull away for lunch, and that's only because I made it a stipulation of my employment, i.e., I get a lunch break or I will pass out from lack of food and be useless the rest of the day, or get run down and sick and miss work.

Each floor in the building has an area with coffee (regular and decaf), a soda fountain with Coke products, a hot water dispenser, tea bags, sweeteners, cream, refrigerator and microwave.

No charge for drinks. Food is sometimes provided for meetings but aside from that typically not.

Many employees have candy jars or other snacks out for sharing.

It is always acceptable to be eating, though. At your desk, in a meeting, whatever. Bring your food if you need to eat.

I work at a university, and we don't get snacks, but do get a full cooked lunch for free from the dining hall. I find this incredibly generous, yet many staff do not take advantage of it, and others also complain that you cannot instead get a free sandwich from the coffee shop to take back to the office! Amazing.

Stacks at your desk are on you. But if I'm running a meeting that runs around lunchtime, I buy (from my own pocket) a collection of trail mix, dried cranberries, nuts, etc.

Does booze count as a snack? Our company fridge is currently stocked with beer and the cabinets with wine. We're low on liquor. Not due to supply, but demand. Everything is employee provided and pooled. For good reason. Grey Goose is good, but you don't want to drink the whole bottle by yourself at lunch. Much more fun to share.

Not much work gets done on those afternoons while we sober up before going home. We're engineers, we plan this stuff out.

We are people of the desk. The corporate culture here puts a strong emphasis on showing your work ethic by spending as much of your work day as possible chained to your desk; it's part of the Calvinist-style work ethic going on here. People rarely go out for lunch and only occasionally head down to the cafeteria to eat lunch. Mostly it's working through lunch at one's desk, eating while typing away or on the phone. There are two break rooms on each floor in the building, and they each have two vending machines: one for soda, bottled water, and other drinks and the other for candy, chips, and a few healthier options like granola bars. A candy bar like a Snickers or Twix goes for 85 while a bottle of Pepsi goes for $1.25. There are also coffee makers that brew regular and decaf, and that's free (although I do not drink coffee myself).

Sometimes people bring in leftovers they're trying to get rid of, or one of the hunters will bring in their homemade deer jerky and leave it in the break room. Occasionally, someone leaves leftover bagels they brought for an early-morning meeting.

While remaining chained to one's desk even through lunch is best practice at my normal work site, apparently the other campus had a rodent infestation awhile back, so eating at one's desk became frowned upon there. I did not realize this until I was moteling there one day and brought a couple of granola bars to munch on for breakfast; needless to say, I got a couple of dirty looks, including from a manager of another team whose office was nearby, and later someone mentioned the mouse infestation that was cleared out only a few weeks before. Still, even though people are more encouraged to go down to the cafeteria there, I still don't think there's much of a culture of going out for lunch or lingering more than 15-20 minutes for lunch. The whole Puritanical culture really ramped up higher after the recession hit a few years ago and has not receded since.

There is a free high end espresso machine, for which I provide coffee syrups so people can make lattes (since some use soy or milk or almond etc).

But there are no free snacks. However, most scientists around here bake when they get stressed, so there is usually some chocolate or cookies or some form of baked good every day or so.