well yeah. who has quarters?
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
1. warm seltzer is gross2. a duffel of soda cans is heavy3. time spent waiting for your chip card to clear = more than a quarter
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
Though I dunno about anyone expecting anything else to happen with the catering trays at the end of the day. I’d be rolling up with fresh ziplocs in my bag every day just to mooch off that produce
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
My office has a lot of free snacks and I have definitely done the snacks-for-lunch thing numerous times, more because I don't feel like leaving the office for one of the mediocre options around here than to save money. The extra productivity they get on account of me staying at my desk me may even pay for the snacks.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
No, they were taking all the fruit before lunch so no one else was able to have fruit. I got daily updates about this. Also ice machine.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
it was happening very recently at a private equity firm owned by someone who also owns a sports team that rhymes with Retroit Winstons.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
Yerac, why do you always end up working at places that seem vaguely Coen Bros / Mike Judge
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
It's because I am very bored and observant and live for this shit.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
Fruit platter is such a weird thing to steal -- they go bad really fast and it's more fruit than a small family can eat in a day.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
Freeze that shit for smoothies.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
I have a former coworker who could definitely house an entire fruit platter during a meeting
― mh, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
I guess I should specify too that I probably used catered lunches wrong because the place has a kitchen staff that makes the lunch choices every day. And it was people in one particular department doing this.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
cut fruit that's been sitting out for a while is a little bit gross to me also
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
If soylent wasn’t an option then you weren’t part of the topic of this thread btw
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
I have a tech coworker who appears to be drinking something called "huel" for lunch daily.
― mh, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fw6xoeVp8Wcw%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
There's free sushi in the lobby today.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 1 October 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
huel is one letter away from hurl
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
fond remembrances of a fave character and the idea of vomit have both crossed my mind when seeing the logo
― mh, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
Huel = human fuel. Same idea as Soylent.
(Autocorrect suggested 'heil' and 'shouldn't' in place of the two brand names there...)
I find it an interesting idea but have never tried it.
― koogs, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:12 (four years ago) link
irl lol
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link
did anyone not get that it was meant to be “human fuel”, really?
it’s obvious what they intended but all of the associations and close homophones make it a godawful name
like why not call it pood for people food
― mh, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:35 (four years ago) link
can't believe you're giving that startup idea away for free
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:53 (four years ago) link
I was thinking Huel was like Nahuel (the half vampire/half human from Twilight).
― Yerac, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 12:33 (four years ago) link
huel howser
― Non stop chantar (crüt), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
huel in the pool
― mh, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
Same idea as Soylent.
Soylent = Soy (i.e. you are a soy boy) + Lent (i.e. you are giving up tasty food)
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
i got banned from huel's facebook page after one of their ads popped up on my timeline and i kept commenting to ask whether their stupid fucking product contained also dangerous levels of cadmium and lead just like soylent
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
should have asked if it contains essential trace nutrients lead and cadmium
― mh, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
lol I have a weird compulsion to heckle facebook ads and huel was definitely one of my main targets
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
silicon valley's efforts to turn eating disorders into products is disgusting tbh
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
glad to hear there are still people engaging with #brands
― mh, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/marketing-expert-scott-galloway-on-wework-and-adam-neumann.html
― mh, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
we've seen that link twice in the Shitbin thread already
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
whoop
― mh, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
Sure, same naming scheme as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufu
― mick signals, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, October 2, 2019 9:38 AM (nine minutes ago)
I haven't seen it before, so thanks!
― sarahell, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
Galloway to WeWork: Dude, you have no IPO.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
dude, where's my underwriter
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
intensified public offense
― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
i'm reading super pumped. it's good so far! anyone else?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
sounds like a good audiobook-from-library choice…but either there's no audiobook yet or SPL doesn't have it yet…darn.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
I got it from LAPL but it looks like a brand new copy
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
In 2015, Neumann chastised a group of employees for not Googling a job applicant after finding out that WeWork had hired the Hipster Grifter, a Brooklynite who had become briefly famous several years earlier for scamming her way into jobs and cheating people out of money.
― sarahell, Saturday, 5 October 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
eh, it’s a little on the nose... oh wait this is nonfiction?
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 October 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
the first time I ever heard about throwing hot dogs down a hallway was the hipster grifter.
― Yerac, Saturday, 5 October 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
Hot dogs thrown down the narrow hallways of WeWork buildings
― sarahell, Saturday, 5 October 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
When hallways are tight, it might be gross
― sarahell, Saturday, 5 October 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
imo wework could have learned a lot from small-time grifting. The long-time grift of being a tech company posing as a real estate company (or vice versatile) could use that personal touch
― mh, Saturday, 5 October 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
lol I meant vice verse, but am pondering the autocorrect neologism
― mh, Saturday, 5 October 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link