it is time for another coffee achievers like myself may be surprised to learn that instant coffee is not only the most popular, but the fastest growing form of coffee in the world. according to a new story in the washington post, instant coffee, powdered coffee that dissolves in hot water, is bigger than ever. in australia and new zealand it accounts for 75% of retail coffee consumed. in eastern europe it is over 50%. and it is over 60% in asia pacific, the largest instant coffee consuming region in the world. in north america, 2.7%. why aren t we the ones who want everything fast? america? no, apparently not. coffee is a $30 billion industry in the u.s. and almost all of it is brewed. don t be a total coffee snob. there is room for instant coffee in the diverse life of a coffee drinkers.
you encourage them to binge drink. i i don t like to say encourage. i don t be rate them. you say it helps losen them up. if they think it is, it does. that s how it works. there are a couple of things here. students who are considered more socially powerful drink more. binge drinking is associated with high status and students on campus. well, maybe they keep saying college students who binge drink were happier than their counterparts because it is cool. i think maybe they were happier because they were drunk more often. maybe they are lie together researchers. maybe they are like, yeah, i m happy, but they are not happy. this is a study of young adults. i would like to see a study with people in the 40s. by then the people who drink more and binge drink are considered kind of sad. joanne, this story seems taylor made to have a snarky question of you overdrinking. but i am not going to do it.
andy, have you ever heard of an employee screwing off in the bathroom for seven hours a day? is this ceo crazy? screwing off? no. isfirst of all the company did not install cameras in the bathroom. it was part of our joke. and those animals, those were not union animals. look, this company a couple things. this company does not have paid sick days. guess what that means. that means people could be coming to wok with the flu or stomach virus and you need a bathroom more than six minutes a day. it is like the zero tolerance policies where you make pop tarts look like guns. if you have an employee spending too much time in the bathroom deal with that. don t do this glain cet across across the board thing. and this company makes facets. it needs people in the bathroom a lot. how do you not realize that?
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