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If you want to compare Bay Area hedonisms, Google rented out the entire Santa Cruz boardwalk today and shuttled employees there for a day on the beach, with free arcade games and food and stuff.
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GrandpaPants posted:Who orders sushi with bourgie white people food?
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therobit posted:Once upon a time, before my office was taken away from my department and given to a different department, they catered lunch for us. Panda Express cooks its food in the authentic Californian tradition.
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We recently had a team lunch as a morale builder, but we had to cook the food ourselves! It was an in house cooking class we signed up for, everything was delicious.
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I hope I can be at a position in my life where I"m a complete snob about the food my employer occasionally provides for employee appreciation. Until then, I'll just deal with people that can't understand things like: "If you mess up on your W-4 or I-9 when you fill it out, you need to do a new one. if you make any errors on your W-4 or I-9, don't scratch it off and write something next to it. Please tell me and I will provide you with a new sheet."
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Volmarias posted:We recently had a team lunch as a morale builder, but we had to cook the food ourselves! I'm okay with an office pot luck from time to time. We've had 4 so far just this year though, everyone's sick of them and puts no effort in anymore. Corporate cutting our fun money budget to $0 is starting to show it's effects. The first two pot lucks were awesome at least
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I don't know any deets about our upcoming picnic yet It's not for like 6 weeks
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Star Man posted:I hope I can be at a position in my life where I"m a complete snob about the food my employer occasionally provides for employee appreciation. My work only provides Boneshaker in bottles not on tap. It's a loving disgrace.
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I'd drive across the Atlantic if work paid for it. It would be a nice break from the monotony.
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Jun 15, 2017 16:53
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The Sean posted:We have a summer event coming up that will be held at a state park where swimming is the focus. The email warned that the entrance closes if the park reaches capacity, so if you get blocked from entering you have to drive an hour back to the office and work the rest of the day. Fairly reasonable in a way but really dumb. No, that doesn't make any goddamn sense. Why don't they rent a picnic are you can actually be guaranteed access to?
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The Sean posted:I dont know it's just the weird way they do things around here. Also, it's looked down upon if you don't want to go, even though not being able to go is a possibility. Well in your case the boss just wants to get you into a speedo I imagine.
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The Sean posted:I dont know it's just the weird way they do things around here. Also, it's looked down upon if you don't want to go, even though not being able to go is a possibility. Please wear a diving suit. A psuedo-mandatory swimming work event is the dumbest poo poo.
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The only corporate retreat I went on that I really enjoyed was the one where we went to Vail and stayed at a swank rear end hotel and basically did no work aside from chatting a bit about possible projects while riding the ski lifts. That's really the only way to do it, gently caress all work.
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Working for an alcohol company, at work events it's kind of accepted that people will get poo poo faced. Last big group meeting was held in Austin, free beer during lunch and wine tasting during the conference, and then we had company sponsored nightly bar crawls that culminated in insanely drunk karaoke. I'm still not really comfortable doing that kind of thing with coworkers, just feels weird to me.
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At least you won't have any problems entertaining Japanese clients/vendors.
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Speaking of Japanese companies, my company is former zaibatsu and we have a long history with Asahi Beer, including saving their rear end after WW2. Every year we have a joint party to celebrate the relationship, everyone from each company is invited. Fun fact: in 2012 Brown-Forman dropped their contract with Suntory at the end of 2012. So besides ridiculous quantities of beer there's a Jack Daniels booth at the event every year too. Last year someone had to pull me off the curb to prevent me getting hit by a car. Yet somehow woke up with two cases of beer in my fridge.
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The blackout where you somehow wake up with a net positive on booze is one of the best case scenario blackout
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zmcnulty posted:Speaking of Japanese companies, my company is former zaibatsu and we have a long history with Asahi Beer, including saving their rear end after WW2. Every year we have a joint party to celebrate the relationship, everyone from each company is invited. Fun fact: in 2012 Brown-Forman dropped their contract with Suntory at the end of 2012. So besides ridiculous quantities of beer there's a Jack Daniels booth at the event every year too. Last year someone had to pull me off the curb to prevent me getting hit by a car. Yet somehow woke up with two cases of beer in my fridge. Asahi was the only beer my coworkers wanted to drink when I lived in Japan. That's good stuff and I always have good memories on the rare occasion I grab some at the grocery store.
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I work at a mushroom farm where the people that run it are not only racists, but can't even spell the names of their own products or equipment correctly. I wish I was dead.
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Zero Gravitas posted:Marketing.txt Yeah, use Domestos, that stuff gets rid of everything!
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...so i I've getting my teeth cleaned, its all the coffee I drink that discolours them ive even started brushing my teeth with activated charcoal
maybe you should try brushing your teeth with meths that's a great cleaner
no don't actually do that Jesus wept
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You know what's a great time to dick around making changes to something that we're on deadline for today and which should have been final like a week ago? Oh, those waves of pure anathametic hate that I'm sending through the computer at our remote sales rep? That's just a coincidence, I'm sure.
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Jesus christ. I would love to get through one pay day where this farm doesn't turn into a loving circus. Just once. I just want to drive over to Colorado and beat the ever living poo poo out of the owner to convince him that we need direct deposit going.
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Star Man posted:Jesus christ. I would love to get through one pay day where this farm doesn't turn into a loving circus. Just once. ... okay you win
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I see our owner(s) and CEO daily but any of the three could easily take me in a fight. I mostly like this company though, I have my minor annoyances but the CEO is moving the company in the general direction of "things actually work the way we want them to" sooo poo poo could be a lot worse.
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Star Man posted:Jesus christ. I would love to get through one pay day where this farm doesn't turn into a loving circus. Just once. Yeah, your mushroom farm stories seriously creep me out.  Tell us more of them!
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Sundae posted:Yeah, your mushroom farm stories seriously creep me out. Seconding this. Has anyone gotten infected by the spores and turned into a zombie?
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We went axe throwing tonight and it loving owned. That poo poo is super fun. Especially with an open bar.
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Jordan7hm posted:We went axe throwing tonight and it loving owned. That poo poo is super fun. Especially with an open bar. What could possibly go wrong? How do I sign up for this poo poo? (I'm serious, that owns)
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Shugojin posted:I see our owner(s) and CEO daily but any of the three could easily take me in a fight.  fair fights are for fairy tales and video games(Don't actually do this)
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Make sure to jump them while they are on a conference call. No one will know who's getting assaulted and there will be madness while someone adds 911 to the call.
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Motronic posted:What could possibly go wrong? It's a thing in Toronto and Ottawa. Not sure where else. Throwing axes at targets while drinking is unsurprisingly super fun.
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SpartanIV posted:Make sure to jump them while they are on a conference call. No one will know who's getting assaulted and there will be madness while someone adds 911 to the call. Unfortunately if they use Webex they can see who is talking. Of course, if everyone erupts talking about it then it will cover you for a bit. Best bet is to drop a printer on thier head to knock them out and then stab them to death with the scissors. No, I do not think about how to kill members of the executive leadership for 50% of my working hours. I'm not a psycho. therobit fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Jun 17, 2017 |
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GrandpaPants posted:So are you going to the concert this Saturday with 3-4 Top 40 artists? Concert Trip Report: The company booked out SF Giants baseball stadium for the company, complete with all the ballpark food vendors. Two alcohol tickets per adult (aka 4 if you brought your spouse), but unlimited food, soda and water. I spent a lot of time wandering from stall to stall trying all the things the park offered. The best is still the good old fashioned ballpark hot dog, honestly. Badge of Shame goes to either the chinese food stand's orange chicken or the pizza. They were both abysmal. I sat in the nosebleeds for the nice breeze and shade, but I also wandered around the indoor luxury box area just so I could say I did. Glad I didn't stay there, honestly, because the screaming children were a bit much in that area. (Plus, the weather was gorgeous.) Nosebleed concourse area was set up with dozens of bouncy castles for children, face painting, carnival games, etc. Pretty cool idea for people with families. I'd guess there were 15,000 people or so there when I left. No idea how many were there for the main act since I left after the first two. Next year, I'll probably come later in the afternoon instead of being there when it opens. Musical Selection:  The opening act was the best of the day, I think, and I'm not even a fan. Aloe Blacc opened the concert and put on a pretty good performance. Good vocals, sound carried well in the stadium, and it was just nice. Second act was -- hold onto your hats because apparently we've entered a tear in the space-time continuum -- Weezer. I hated them when they were younger, and I still hate them now that they're in their late 40s. By this time, my wife and I decided to head home and beat the rush, so we missed the grand finale by the main act, Kelly Clarkson. My co-workers texted me and said I missed absolutely nothing. Sounds about right. Still, super cool that the company even did this. Coming from a company where a Christmas celebration at Olive Garden was considered a big treat, I still loved it. It was great for people-watching and I can never resist hot dogs. quote:Previous talk about alcohol at company events There were some serious fuckheads getting drunk by about 2PM, including a guy vomiting over the railing (wtf) and a group of what I'll assume were marketing bros standing in the middle of the crowd of people and trying to swing their beers around in their arms so that the angular momentum kept the beer in their cup and didn't spill it. They failed miserably every time, but other people telling them to stop splashing everyone was no deterrent. I didn't hang around to see if they got thrown out, because I saw a brisket and mac & cheese stand and followed my nose instead. So yeah, judging by how people treated alcohol with a two-drink limit before cash, I'm not surprised that the company stopped doing the unlimited booze thing. Dumbasses are why we can't have nice things.
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Last night I dreamed I was retired, living in a farmhouse with a small apple orchard. Happy Monday, everyone.
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Trabant posted:Last night I dreamed I was retired, living in a farmhouse with a small apple orchard. If I had a window in my basement, open floor plan office, I would sigh and look out of it wistfully Renegret fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Jun 19, 2017 |
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Sundae posted:Weezer. What the hell
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