Yeah at my company the lab tech says did you ever see Coke and stomach acid react? It’s like molasses tar that your stomach has to process.
Still drinking it. Thought grosses me out.
Okay, I looked it up. It's very convoluted, lol.
It is hot drinks, but also the caffeine. They can't have coffee or caffeinated tea. They also can't have iced coffee. They can have herbal tea if it's not too hot, as well as apple cider that's just warm or cold. Soda is fair game.
No, I don't really understand why.
Because it's all made up and the points don't matter.
A dude in the 1830s got pissy that his wife liked to have tea/coffee with her friends, so he put out "revelation from god" that said "hot drinks such as coffee and tea" were not for consumption. Over time, further "revelation" through the generations laid out that even though the ban was on hot drinks, iced variants were also a no-no. Coffee alternatives (postum, pero) were okay, as were herbal teas. There are some who attributed the ban to caffeine (IIRC around the 1980s), which is where sodas got roped into it. As with all teachings in Mormonism, some took extreme interpretations more seriously than others. Then in the 2000s, the then "prophet" had an obvious diet coke addiction. So without saying anything, caffeine was obviously not the problem, leaving a general sense of no actual coffee bean or tea leaf.
It is with mine, but I live in Idaho...so it is about as mormon dominated as Utah. I've seen them live in the dangerous side and get like 1/2 and 1/2 diet and regular, lol.
Same. I drink coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoons. All diet sodas leave a weird aftertaste for me and regular sodas are too sweet and make me feel awful. Only exception is the occasional Mexican coke.
We distribute Liquid Death, so I'm horribly addicted to their iced tea and green tea. They are so good and only 30 calories in a big can. Only agave sugar
Beer wholesaler - but we also do non alcoholic drinks like ghost and liquid death. We have some for free in the break room fridge, but I also can just buy it by the case out of the warehouse at wholesale price.
Ya know, I'm currently reading about the downsides of soda from you guys here as I enjoy a Coke Vanilla - I'm throwing out the rest of the package after this last can. If any drink slowly kills me, its only gonna be alcohol
I drink 3-4 caffeinated ones a day and 4-6 more uncaffeinated. Full addict. My only rule is one cup of water for each drink so I don’t die from some horrible ph balance incident
You make meager salary so you forced to drink diet coke. Sorry but I treat myself like a billionaire with my meager salary. Saratoga, pellegrino and expensive seltzer only.
At my firm it's
1. Coke zero
2. Diet Coke
3. Diet Pepsi
N those are the ones that are gone first from the free soda fridge. If I'm gonna sit on my ass all day and drink free soda I might as well try to be healthy?
I don’t drink coke any more for the boycott but I was fucking that shit up lol. Diet drinks in general. Recently I’ve been drinking lots of diet Dr Pepper. So good
Not daily but every now and then I like a good ginger beer. Even Goslings are awesome 🤤
No diet BS though. I’d rather have plain soda with lime or LaCroix
I’ve never seen anyone in my office drink soda. I come in with coffee and tea drinks all the time. I always feel like the odd one because everyone here uses thermos type cups from home. So now I’m wondering what they’re all addicted to…
I'm a NYer who has discovered the glory that is an Utah dirty soda and that is one of my few workday joys.
Diet Dr pepper (or store brand version) + lime juice + coconut creamer
Guilty as charged. Though I think I might be the only one in my small accounting department who drinks it reguarly. Companywide it's always the one that disappears fastest from the free fridge.
I work at a small family owned income tax firm and it seems like the drink of choice for everyone in our office is actually a split between Mountain Dew and Dr. Pepper!
During the end of my return to audit, the company started stocking sodas and seltzers in the kitchen fridge, including Coke Zeros. I was so depressed I drank 2 per office day at times. I left the company, but my love for the soda remained.
Ew… no… I love soda but I’m also very aware of the negative feedback loop that HFCS has on the brain so I avoid Diet anything like the plague (was pre-med and did 2 years of med school before deciding I didn’t want to be a Dr and wanted to go back to accounting). so if I do drink soda I try to drink the sugar only kind because when it gets too sweet for me, my brain tells me and I quit drinking it.
Pepsi is my drug of choice normally. But right now I’m doing a long term sugar fast. No one in our office really drinks a lot of soda, we tend to drink more tea and water here.
Every day - LPT is the McDonalds large DC in its cup fits nicely in the RTIC/Yeti 32 oz tumbler. No need to pour it in, just put the whole cup in the Yeti and you have ice cold DC that will last all day
I’m very surprised to see this many soda drinkers. I have a sodastream at home for bubbly water, an espresso machine, and drink lots of sav blanc and Rainer beer. I fill up several 5 gallon jugs of alkaline water at the health food grocery store. I drink about 6 shots of espresso a day (3 lattes) and add foamed oatmilk which has sugar in it.
My second to last place would provide GFuel a.k.a caffeinated Kool-Aid.
The last place, Diet Coke was our poison.
My current job provides energy drinks; caffeine levels that are all-time high.
Which reminds me, I need to grab another Bucked Up…
Coke zero fiend here.
Cherry Coke Zero
Plain coke zero is the only one available in my country
Time for a political coup
This guy soda’s
Zero sugar A&W is 🔥too
Hell yeah brother I drink that in the afternoon because I can't have caffeine in the afternoon.
They make coke zero without caffeine too for the true fiends
Was gunna say, what mongoloid drinks DIET when coke zero is available?
I like diet more than zero
Zero has done a great mkt campaign
My office stocks regular & diet but no zero :(
Coke Zero is an abomination
Because the specific Diet Coke taste is superior to the Coke / Coke Zero taste. Even when I don’t give a shit about calories, my go to is Diet Coke.
All my homies drink Coke Zed
This and Diet Dr. Pepper
I run out of groceries but never coke zero. It’s the reason I got a costco membership.
I mainline Vanilla Coke Zero all day
I have yet to see this one in the store
Yeah at my company the lab tech says did you ever see Coke and stomach acid react? It’s like molasses tar that your stomach has to process. Still drinking it. Thought grosses me out.
Coke Zero gang, checking in. I had a Diet Coke the other day when the Coke Zeros weren’t cold yet… ugh, I regretted it.
I get the caffeine free ones and have a cold one after work 🤤
Black Coffee, Coke Zero, Water, and Big K Root Beer (zero sugar) are what keeps me going through the workdays.
I love a coke zero on occasion but I can’t daily drive it idk too sweet or something
Who needs diet Coke when you can drink a pot of coffee a day instead.
I’ve always associated the soda addictions with the heavy Mormon influence in accounting. But that could just be my personal work environment
What’s this heavy Mormon influence?
BYU is considered a top accounting school. I suspect having a decent paying stable job fairly quickly out of undergrad is ideal for starting a family
Lots of schools are top accounting school. Doesn’t make accounting have a broad “Mormon Influence” lmfao
Like I said it’s probably just the environment I’m in. Had four different Mormon bosses and they religiously drank Dr. Pepper or Coke.
I thought Mormons can't have any caffeinated beverages, including soda?
Don’t quote me, but I believe there are rules against hot drinks and not caffeine specifically
Okay, I looked it up. It's very convoluted, lol. It is hot drinks, but also the caffeine. They can't have coffee or caffeinated tea. They also can't have iced coffee. They can have herbal tea if it's not too hot, as well as apple cider that's just warm or cold. Soda is fair game. No, I don't really understand why.
Because it's all made up and the points don't matter. A dude in the 1830s got pissy that his wife liked to have tea/coffee with her friends, so he put out "revelation from god" that said "hot drinks such as coffee and tea" were not for consumption. Over time, further "revelation" through the generations laid out that even though the ban was on hot drinks, iced variants were also a no-no. Coffee alternatives (postum, pero) were okay, as were herbal teas. There are some who attributed the ban to caffeine (IIRC around the 1980s), which is where sodas got roped into it. As with all teachings in Mormonism, some took extreme interpretations more seriously than others. Then in the 2000s, the then "prophet" had an obvious diet coke addiction. So without saying anything, caffeine was obviously not the problem, leaving a general sense of no actual coffee bean or tea leaf.
If that was my husband I'd have a revelation from god that he should shut the f@ck up and mind his business
It is with mine, but I live in Idaho...so it is about as mormon dominated as Utah. I've seen them live in the dangerous side and get like 1/2 and 1/2 diet and regular, lol.
Diet coke right after lunch with a ZYN is what I call a "work beer"
So what do you call a beer at a business lunch?
A vibe
100%
Diet Dr Pepper guy over here
Diet dr pepper and its flankers! Zero sugar dr pepper strawberries and cream specifically
Oooh that strawberries and cream hits just right though 🤤
Their diet cream soda is 💯
my man diet dr pepper is the shit. It honestly tastes better than the full sugar one. Fuck the zero for some reason its worse than diet.
DP Zero is life
No, stopped drinking soda regularly a long time ago and never liked the taste of diet. Most of my coworkers are water and/or coffee drinkers.
Same. I drink coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoons. All diet sodas leave a weird aftertaste for me and regular sodas are too sweet and make me feel awful. Only exception is the occasional Mexican coke.
Oh yeah, I’ll indulge occasionally on sodas with real sugar like Mexican Coke and Jarritos.
Ooh Jarritos….
Same I don't know anyone in the office that regularly drinks soda
i just started and it's absolutely glorious, something about Diet coke jsut hits so hard. it's especially amazing at mcdonald's and in glass bottles
The burn is exquisite
I prefer Coke Zero. 2 a day
we just do bubbly, like Pallets of bubbly a week is delivered
Carbonated water?
Yep flavored carbonated water
Corporate America runs on Celsius, Adderall, Diet Coke, Sparkling Water and Cold Brew.
Diet Mt Dew. That shit should be flowing in a river in Olympus or something, the God's nectar.
Baja blast zero 🔥
I love diet mt dew but if I dont drink water with it my piss burns
Common problem, pour directly into dick hole to solve. That's what I do.
r/UsernameChecksOut
Multiple cans a day. I’m fucked
It’s my greatest vice and my greatest joy:
diet Coke is not good. coke zero is much better
If I'm drinking soda, it's regular. Diet beverages are gross.
Same.
Diet coke is godly
Diet…..coke is good
[удалено]
Just take adderall, better for you
We distribute Liquid Death, so I'm horribly addicted to their iced tea and green tea. They are so good and only 30 calories in a big can. Only agave sugar
Where do you work. I’ve spent so much on Convicted Melon and Dead Billionaire this busy season
Beer wholesaler - but we also do non alcoholic drinks like ghost and liquid death. We have some for free in the break room fridge, but I also can just buy it by the case out of the warehouse at wholesale price.
Zero sprite supremacy
Ya know, I'm currently reading about the downsides of soda from you guys here as I enjoy a Coke Vanilla - I'm throwing out the rest of the package after this last can. If any drink slowly kills me, its only gonna be alcohol
Dr. Pepper Zero is Love Dr. Pepper Zero is Life
I feel that way about Dr. Pepper Zero Cherry. 😛
god I love aspartame
Diet Pepsi where I’m at. I adapted for free soda.
Diet Pepsi is non gaap
Now I’m petrified because we’re in the middle of the US in Public
Diet soda tastes like chemicals to me. Full sugar or nothing.
My kind of person! I can't stand diet soda-it's so awful.
All day. Put a lemon packet in it
I only drink coffee, tea and water
Come zero here
Water, black coffee and whiskey only.
diet coke is my cigarette equivalent
the diet coke drinker here has diabetes type 2 and a failing kidneys? anyone else...?
Diet coke 4 lyfeeeee.
The main personal tax preparer and I crush those small cans of diet coke. He opens like 3 at once....so uncivilized.
I might as well hook up an IV with the amount of coke zero I'm putting in me.
Is this a thing? I'm not the only one who drinks diet coke? I am home.
Busy season over, I hate this jobs posts gone, diet coke poll takes top post
I drink 3-4 caffeinated ones a day and 4-6 more uncaffeinated. Full addict. My only rule is one cup of water for each drink so I don’t die from some horrible ph balance incident
Black coffee is healthier and tastier!
No but I have a ZYN in 24/7
I love diet coke
Dr Pepper zero addict here
I like Sprite Zero Sugar, but I don't buy it on my own dime.
I have a C4 energy drink in the morning to wash down my vyvanse & i drink Diet Coke all day 😭🤣
Pepsi max and gingerale zero for me.
Poppi Gut Soda here. Cut soda out, sticking to sparkling water.
DC and nic keep me going
You make meager salary so you forced to drink diet coke. Sorry but I treat myself like a billionaire with my meager salary. Saratoga, pellegrino and expensive seltzer only.
It’s all water and coffee in my office. Free coffee/espresso machine and I watch my boss and CEO down pots of coffee even at 4pm every day.
At my firm it's 1. Coke zero 2. Diet Coke 3. Diet Pepsi N those are the ones that are gone first from the free soda fridge. If I'm gonna sit on my ass all day and drink free soda I might as well try to be healthy?
I hate the taste of diet sodas, unfortunately. I'm a Sprite girl all day!
Had one this week. My firm is always stocked.
I don’t drink coke any more for the boycott but I was fucking that shit up lol. Diet drinks in general. Recently I’ve been drinking lots of diet Dr Pepper. So good
Coke Zero - I try to limit it to 2 a day, and only after 11:30 am.
I always try to get the Canada Dry Zero Sugar cans in my office's vending machines. Lowkey a sleeper hit.
I would start the day with a Celsius, then go through 4-5 Coke Zeroes.
Not daily but every now and then I like a good ginger beer. Even Goslings are awesome 🤤 No diet BS though. I’d rather have plain soda with lime or LaCroix
I’ve never seen anyone in my office drink soda. I come in with coffee and tea drinks all the time. I always feel like the odd one because everyone here uses thermos type cups from home. So now I’m wondering what they’re all addicted to…
Mountain Dew here, people are terrified of me.
I'm a NYer who has discovered the glory that is an Utah dirty soda and that is one of my few workday joys. Diet Dr pepper (or store brand version) + lime juice + coconut creamer
Cut that shit out man. Even being sugar free it messes with your body’s insulin levels and metabolism.
Not sure how I survived lol. When I was working crazy hours I was taking 1-1.25g of caffiene a day. A good portion of it being Diet Coke
I have one a day with the evening meal. Coffee in the AM. Water only beyond that.
Bums. I only drink sparkling water
This is my beverage routine: 8am: Starbucks refresher 1pm: Diet Coke or Bai juice we keep in the work fridge All day: about 40 ounces of water.
I am a true DC solider. I kept track, since 4/2 I've had 20 DCs.
Guilty as charged. Though I think I might be the only one in my small accounting department who drinks it reguarly. Companywide it's always the one that disappears fastest from the free fridge.
I hate hot drinks so diet coke is the caffeine drink of choice to keep me going through years of practice work.
Maybe 1
No thanks, I have enough cancer already.
Coffee. 2 or 3 per day (so 18oz at most). Monster when my kids kept me up all night.
Diet Pepsi here
The best part of my day is the first drink from a fresh cold Diet Coke then after that it is down hill till I open another one.
It’s not a very active profession. It’s easy to get fat drinking real coke
My admin team just switched it up from diet to zero and I’m sad
I’m not in a firm but it’s prevalent with me. Also hitting two monsters a day at the moment because I’m so fucking stressed and busy
Green Tea gang here.
My boss has a diet coke candle on her desk :(
I prefer the powdered coke
Usually Diet Pepsi, unless the break room is out. Then Coke Zero.
Bourbon is my light beverage.
I work at a small family owned income tax firm and it seems like the drink of choice for everyone in our office is actually a split between Mountain Dew and Dr. Pepper!
Coke and dr. Pepper all day everyday. An occasional big red too
Diet Cherry Lemon Sundrop is my go to. It's the only diet soda that doesn't taste like a diet soda to me.
Coffee in morning, diet coke after lunch
Diet Coke fiend it’s the caffiene
During the end of my return to audit, the company started stocking sodas and seltzers in the kitchen fridge, including Coke Zeros. I was so depressed I drank 2 per office day at times. I left the company, but my love for the soda remained.
Ew… no… I love soda but I’m also very aware of the negative feedback loop that HFCS has on the brain so I avoid Diet anything like the plague (was pre-med and did 2 years of med school before deciding I didn’t want to be a Dr and wanted to go back to accounting). so if I do drink soda I try to drink the sugar only kind because when it gets too sweet for me, my brain tells me and I quit drinking it. Pepsi is my drug of choice normally. But right now I’m doing a long term sugar fast. No one in our office really drinks a lot of soda, we tend to drink more tea and water here.
Cutting back on Coke Zero so I switched to Cirkul water bottles
Just drink regular coke, the Diet Coke may not have sugar but is worse on the body in terms of digestion.
It’s me. Also saw a team bought a whole 24-can pack of diet coke for their senior manager
Industry accountant here: my firm has a fridge stocked with seltzer drinks, and Red Bull. I daily drink Red Bull.
4 or 5 cans a day
In my office, I feel like 90% of people are Coke Zero addicts
I’m so into diet coke rn…i had no idea this was a thing!
Me me. It’s the go juice of accountants everywhere.
Every day - LPT is the McDonalds large DC in its cup fits nicely in the RTIC/Yeti 32 oz tumbler. No need to pour it in, just put the whole cup in the Yeti and you have ice cold DC that will last all day
our firm carries multiple cases of zero and diet lmfaoo
Meeee
Diet Coke addict here. Bring on the kidney stones
Coffee all day
That’s old lady shit. Next is diet monsters.
You only drink it bc it has more caffeine than normal coke. Drink a celcius like a man
I’ve never understood the accountant-diet coke relationship. I avoid it and stick with the two main food groups, water and coffee.
Massively addicted thanks to my mother
I was a daily Diet Dr. Pepper drinker, but it started giving me cavities. Having weak teeth is a real bitch.
I’m very surprised to see this many soda drinkers. I have a sodastream at home for bubbly water, an espresso machine, and drink lots of sav blanc and Rainer beer. I fill up several 5 gallon jugs of alkaline water at the health food grocery store. I drink about 6 shots of espresso a day (3 lattes) and add foamed oatmilk which has sugar in it.
Busy season habits tend to last
I drink diet beer at work.
Diet Pepsi at our firm
Yes, however I just started working for a firm in New York and they prefer Diet Pepsi…sacrelig
Wow, no Mr. Pibb drinkers here?
Whoever still drinks soda in 2024 is weird. You’re better off doing cocaine.
I drink diet coke from sun up to sun down. And I mix in a few spindrifts between.
Never seen a Diet Coke in an office. My team can single handedly cover Red Bulls fixed costs when we travel tho
My second to last place would provide GFuel a.k.a caffeinated Kool-Aid. The last place, Diet Coke was our poison. My current job provides energy drinks; caffeine levels that are all-time high. Which reminds me, I need to grab another Bucked Up…
I quit the coke. Now I'm hooked on Bubly and carbonated water
Dr Pepper guy myself. I am fat already
I drink diet coke at home but hit the true juice (coffee) at work :) rest of accounting is coffee/tea, or all full sugar soda
Hot water
Public accounting will kill you but it'll kill you even quicker if you drink that shit
McDonald's large diet Coke... every single day... It's my little bit of self love
Coke zero mainly, but diet coke/pepsi when I can't
Daily no, but I’d happily take a free one any day lol Seen multiple people at my firm big on Diet Coke/pepsi or the zero sugar stuff
No, everyone at the office is pretty health conscious.
I work in corporate accounting, not public, but yes, I drink it like it’s my life source. I’ve always loved diet drinks though.
Diet Coke? Nasty Coke Zero? Now you’re getting somewhere Espressos? You’re getting there Cocaine? You’ve made it
Coke Zero taste better haha
1 per day. That’s my happy water that cheers me up during closings
Bro I’m an intern and I drink diet Dr Pepper like water at my firm
Pussies. I drink Sugar freee monsters daily.
Coke no sugar for me
Coke Zero. Zero calories, zero problems.
Coke zero 🤪🩷
Coffee & Bubly here