So many nasty bits to this story. Even if someone was taking a bunch of extra chips, why should he care? He can have his own private reserve of chips in his office if that's the problem.

The whole story reads fake to me but even in the imagination of this borderline sociopath, he's trying to say that communal goods can't work because of the workers taking too much. All he ends up proving is that communal goods can't be relied on when they're in the hands of the capital owners.

The most telling part of it is how he presents it. He accuses and says someone is lying to him. The real response would be to say something like "Hey maybe someone is taking too many chips, does that bother any of you?" My guess would be no because chips are shit food anyways, but if it did the workers would figure it out amongst themselves.

At my last work we had a Keurig and coffee pods, and people started hoarding pods at their desk because there was never enough. The hoarding was a symptom. Rather than address the underlying issue they stopped providing them all together and sent out a tone deaf email about how it was our fellow workers faults abusing the great company's magnanimous generosity.

The end of that story - that he'd lug in MASSIVE vending machines and go through the pain of stocking them (it takes like a half hour) for pocket change returns squeezed out of the paychecks he gives to his own employees is just 🦹