&gt; eating that embarrassing, soggy PB&amp;J ... can be very demotivating.<p>I don&#x27;t follow the American labour market so office wages are a bit outside what I want to look up. However...<p>Using the average weekly wage for men &gt;25 years old [1] I get an annual salary of ~50k. $3.3k is ~7% of that, or half an hour each 8hr working day.<p>Eating a soggy sandwich is not so terrible that it is worth staying at work for another half hour each day. Figuring out some method of socialising without that 15 dollars (which isn&#x27;t that hard, talk is proverbially cheap) would be well worth it.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;cps&#x2F;cpsaat37.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;cps&#x2F;cpsaat37.htm</a> the average weekly wage