Yeah, I woulda just said, "huh."
Oh, and did I mention that the banana bread I didn't give up for Lent was homemade with the last of my parents' bananas and their macadamia nuts? Because it was the best banana bread ever and it rocks and there will never be any more.
Furthermore, I appear to be giving up commas for Lent. There must be dog hair or something stuck under it because it periodically just doesn't work, which for a touch typist is v. v. annoying. Either that or my new laptop, in addition to its other wonderful features, is rebelling against my extreme comma abuse and is now rationing my commas. See above, re: AI.
Things that are Just Wrong: when your underpants are giving you a muffin top under your tights. Dang overactive elastic!
When you say things like this I'm obliged to imagine your belly.
I think I'm going to be mildly adventurous and order something new off the menu. Mm, Thai.
an excellent way to get free soda
My sister's company provides a stocked refrigerator for their executives and she has access to this perk. But she never uses in unless it's a Diet Coke emergency. She says she feels awful about making so much money and taking free soda when the company doesn't provide free sodas for their factory workers.
Why do companies comp sodas for people making $100K a year when they can afford to buy their own damned sodas?
I get the free soda, I should ask for a raise.
Why do companies comp sodas for people making $100K a year when they can afford to buy their own damned sodas?
From what I hear, one of the perks of being rich is getting lots of free stuff.
They do have free Cokes (and Diet Cokes) in this office, as well as the free fruit.
Speaking of the laptop, I've been working from various places now that I've got it, the bedroom watching tv (except this week when the SO's been sick), the living room on the couch. But the Biscuit has gotten used to me working in the office and spending the day in there with me. So he's taken to sitting in there looking out the door at me, as if to say, get to work you slacker! I can't really explain to him that I am working, it's just that I can do it in my pajamas lying on the couch. Although I'd probably get more done sitting at the desk. And I have my kicking new speakers in there. Okay, dog, you're right. I'm coming in.
Why do companies comp sodas for people making $100K a year when they can afford to buy their own damned sodas?
It's a perq. And perqs are more aimed at people making much money rather than less.
Now QI tells me that the idea of the electronic tracking bracelets used on prisoners was invented by a judge who got the idea from a Spiderman comic. Awesome. (Also that Kingpin was originally a Spiderman villain who moved over to Daredevil. I did not know this, though Jonathan Ross did.)
And the creator of Wonder Woman lived in a polygamous relationship.
And that a guy who went undercover in the KKK got the producers of the Superman radio show to write an episode where Superman fights the KKK, and that it completely slammed the recruiting numbers of the KKK.
And that Wonder Woman's truth lasso inspired the lie detector, though I'm not sure I believe that one.
From what I hear, one of the perks of being rich is getting lots of free stuff.
Yeah, that whole concept sort of rubs me raw.
