There aren't really any perqs here, but when I worked at United Way, the president had his own suite with his several assistants, with a whole stocked kitchen. The rest of us got diddlysquat.
Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.
Xander ,'Lessons'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Feb 21, 2007 9:45:23 am PST #2559 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Liese S. - Feb 21, 2007 9:47:27 am PST #2560 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hee. Damn air molecule. You can never tell when that sucker's coming back, either.
lisah - Feb 21, 2007 9:48:13 am PST #2561 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
nevermas, n. A time or date which never comes.
this word made me all melancholic.
We have subsidized snacking here. 25 cent sodas, which I don't drink at all anymore. I cared more about the snacks when we had Tastykakes in the machine (those were 35 cents).
JZ - Feb 21, 2007 9:49:22 am PST #2562 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Perqs here are that the admin staff is allowed to forage through the leavings in the conference rooms after meetings if someone has miscalculated the food/doctor ratio in favor of the food.
We also have...wait for it...a water cooler in the department main office that does both cold and hot water!!!!!!
::sits back smugly, waits for tidal waves of envy from all the other Buffistas::
tommyrot - Feb 21, 2007 9:52:23 am PST #2563 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hee. Damn air molecule. You can never tell when that sucker's coming back, either.
Yeah, I think I just breathed it. It might have participated in a chemical reaction with a hydrocarbon by now....
§ ita § - Feb 21, 2007 9:54:29 am PST #2564 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What kind of air molecule was it?
sarameg - Feb 21, 2007 9:56:27 am PST #2565 of 10001
You know how there was a series of articles on the crazy catering that's done in the med/pharma industry? My brother could avoid buying any food, ever, and not starve. Quite the opposite, in fact. Hell, he brings the leftovers home and the whole family eats it. (And it's good food! Not crappy generic catering stuff, high-class restaurant stuff.)
Of course, right now he's having to forgo it as he's in a study where they provide all the food for something ridiculous like 3 months and pay him $450. My brother, the guinea pig. Tthat isn't a weird diet or anything, at least. But he still grabs catered stuff for wife and kid.
Aims - Feb 21, 2007 9:58:15 am PST #2566 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
At my old work, we had various snacky foods, soda, juice, tea, coffee available.
Here, we have the Coffee Saint and the Diet Coke Fairy. Occasionally, we have the Snack Gypsy. But he doesn't come around all that often.
Sue - Feb 21, 2007 9:59:02 am PST #2567 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Crap! My brain fog has caused me to bite down on my temporary filling and break it! I don't want to go to the dentist again!
Dana - Feb 21, 2007 9:59:28 am PST #2568 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
The phrase "e pluribus unum" originally comes from a recipe for salad dressing.