- I think people are ashamed to take candy from the dish at the reception desk when I'm sitting there because whenever I come back from my break, it's significantly less full.
- In the candy dish we keep wintergreen Life Savers mints, mini chocolate bars, and assorted hard candies (including those ones that look like strawberries and have some sort of weird goo in the middle). I'm starting to memorize which staff members like which candies, as well as which ones will dump out the entire bowl/bag-under-the-desk to find the ones they like.
- We currently have Mars chocolates in the candy dish (Snickers, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers, Twix), but the new bag of chocolates are from Nestle (Crunch, Baby Ruth, Butterfinger). I'm afraid people are going to freak out when there's suddenly a whole new brand of chocolate, so I'm mixing the new stuff in gradually, kind of the way you do when you're switching dog foods.
I kind of like that a significant amount of time at my job is spent managing a dish full of candy.
At my office this summer the most valued candy in the dishes were Swedish fish...that is, unless a random Twix showed up. Then, all bets were off. But if you couldn't get a Swedish Fish, then it was Sour Patch kids. And if those were all gone...well, you just waited until someone filled up the candy dishes at night, or you visited another conference room.
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