Abusing freebiesA friend of mine recently attended a 'Champaign Lunch', where he was compelled drink as much fizzy stuff as he could between the first and last courses. In an ideal world we'd ask restaurant staff to tell us stories about fatties stuffing themselves at All You Can Eat places, but we recognise that our members don't all work in the catering trade, so for the rest of you - tell us something about abusing freebies. BTW: Bee puns = you fail.
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lizard, Thu 8 Nov 2007, 14:16)
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The same flatmate againIn his next job, with a bleeding edge multimedia company.
They had a staff area which had several fridges stocked with cans of lemonade and bars of chocolate where you could help yourself. In fact, everyone did, all the time. They also had free cakes and sandwiches delivered every day whether anyone wanted them or not.
A year or so later and money was tight so they did an audit to see what could be cut from the budget.
Apparently, stocking the staff room was costing them 120K (Sterling) per year. It seems people were emptying the contents of the fridges into holdalls and taking them home.
My flatmate's job was in the burner room where he filled out order forms for blank CD & DVDs and then, err, well authorised the order form himself no questions asked.* He was also running a couple of warez servers without anybody knowing as it was his job to maintain the servers in the first place.
* I worked for a huge company at the time which, despite its umpteen million turnover, only let you order blanks a few dozen at a time as the cost varied so wildly. My flatmate had no such price concerns.
(, Thu 8 Nov 2007, 15:39, Reply)
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