Meet the new snack machine, same as the old snack machine

We have a new snack machine at work. as well as a new snack vendor.

The old vendor used a machine that you had to put quarters in and turn a dial to use. As you rotated the dial the item you wanted moved to the left and fell down to the access door.

The old vendor complained that the employees weren't buying very much out of his machine.

There was a good reason for that.

You know how stuff has that "Best if used by" date stamped on it?

Mr. Vendor not only used old machines, he use old food. I mean REALLY OLD FOOD. We started betting on whether the over/under on the "best if used by" date was within the last year. One guy kept buying and eating the sticky buns out of it in December despite their use by date being last June.

If you bought a bag of peanut M & M's, when you opened it you found something that resembled multicolored gravel. One guy said it looked like the colored sand in his fish tank.

Another issue with the old machine was the bags of chips would not fall down. At one point four different bags were jammed up in the drop area, and we had to wait a week for the guy to come in and clear it.

Yet he always bitched he wasn't making all that much money, while I had to listen to everyone bitch about there being nothing decent in it, etc, etc.

So finally the powers that be heard us and changed vendors. Hallelujah! The new vendor even gave us a survey to fill out asking us what we wanted in it, and then put that stuff in our machine!

You might think our prayers were answered. Then someone made that very first purchase, and I took a picture of it. Yep, your eyes don't deceive you, he wanted Nacho chips, and they got stuck. What makes it worse is they bolted the machine to the floor, so you can't even shake it.

The good news is I took this picture, emailed it to the vendor's phone, and he fixed the problem pronto.

It just goes to show that no matter how much different you think things are going to be, you still can get the same result.