Free beer for employees coming to an end at Anheuser-Busch?
I had a friend who interviewed for an IT job at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis several years ago. “I didn’t take it, because the pay was below average,” he said. “But the perks were excellent. Every employee gets two cases of beer a month.” I’ve never one to get all excited about a job because it offers “excellent benefits,” but I must admit, free beer is an excellent benefit indeed.
However, with the InBev takeover of the brewery, there’s speculation that the free-beer perk for employees will come to an end, according to this ComputerWorld article. (I never thought I’d see the day when I’d be citing a geek magazine in a blog about booze.) It’s one of many cost-cutting measures InBev is expected to make to streamline operations. Furthermore, some of Anheuser’s IT employees may lose not only their beer but their jobs, as InBev outsources operations to further control costs.
Sounds like St. Louis will be a little less of a party town without all that free beer floating around… of course, they can always buy some of Mid-South Alcoholic Supply’s products with their unemployment checks to liven things back up.
August 8th, 2008 at 7:48 am
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