Coca Cola Deliveries on Strike
I hate unions. Don't get me wrong, I perfectly understand their genesis - the need for unions as a counterweight to a capitalist competitive imperative that faced no resistance when choosing to cut costs in worker compensation and benefits, but their modern incarnation; well, that just gets me feeling righteously capitalist all over again.
Why the rant? Well Coca Cola's delivery lorries went on strike yesterday. This means that every Coca Cola dispenser in the school is standing empty. You'd think a company that had the strategic knowhow to get this far might actually have a contingency plan for this particular set of circumstances, but they seem to have deliberately left themselves vulnerable to exactly this action.
So why does this affect me so much? Well it's not just me. It's the whole damned school! What do you think happens when you deprive 1600 students of one of the three vectors they use for their daily caffeine intake? It's a catastrophe, exam grades will fluctuate, parties will be poorly attended, homeworks will not be handed in due to the lack of compensating caffeinated substances after the party the previous evening. That, coupled with the sunshine and the temptation to just sit out on Koo Plaza and sleep on the grass will result in a general disintegration of the status quo!
Well, almost.
The nightmare scenario was averted thanks to the flexibility and ingenuity of the Wharton student population. Not to be outdone by a union of truck drivers, the student populace gritted their teeth, prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice, took a deep collective breath..... and switched to Pepsi.
Disaster averted, taste buds sacrificed (except for those poor misguided and genetically challenged individuals who prefered Pepsi in the first place), and the school triumphant again.
What are you looking at? Since we soon will no longer have the rankings to brag about, we take our kudos where we can find them.
Posted by nlvp at April 20, 2004 10:06 PM