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Should I be happy or should I be sad? "The practice of serving Starbucks coffee... ...will be discontinued. Facility Services will be coordinating the replacement of Starbucks coffee with a less expensive flavorful blend." In an effort to cut back some expenses, as explained in the email I just received from one of the senior vice presidents here, the coffee beans will be from a mystery vendor. This makes me happy and sad at the same time. Yay for the little man... I just hope the person doing the ordering loves coffee. The list of cost saving changes was long, but the only other significant bullet was the corporate fitness center will discontinue it's laundry service. That completely sucks. I can walk to any one of a dozen decent coffee shops in less than 5 minutes from my office if I don't feel like the free joe that may or may not be as good as the free SB that we enjoy now, but bringing in and carting out my own gym clothes... not that's an inconvenience. LOL. I'm kidding... I'm just glad it wasn't worse. That club is the best fitness facility I've seen as far as amenities go and cutting a few niceties here and there isn't going to hurt it's status much.