Stress reduction?

In the break room at work, we have a small refrigerator, the coffee maker, two ice machines, a soda vending machine and a candy vending machine. We used to have a small basketball backdrop. I didn’t take a picture of it before they hauled it out of here. It had three small balls, which had lost most of their air, but still could be tossed through the hoop. There were two sides to it, so the balls mostly stayed in the game. People would toss some balls while they made coffee, hung out, talked. It was good for some stress relief or a change of pace from writing code. They hauled it out of here and replaced it with a blood pressure checking machine!



Those things stress me out! Only thin worse is when the vampire nurse goes at me with a blood drawing needle!

I’m wondering if they are not going to hook it up to some corporate health care database, and then use that to cut off the employee benefits when their blood pressure goes up due to stress, salted snacks, sugar water drinks. I’d be tempted to get all jazzed up on the coffee and then check the old heart rate!!!