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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I've alluded to this before...but in the computer games industry at least, freebies are (or at least, when I was still a part of it) a useful source of extra income. Review material (mostly hardware rather than the games themselves, since you'd rarely get a boxed copy) would be tested, photographed and then either traded with other reviewers for whatever kit your own PC lacked, or flogged at the local flea market (or more recently, on eBay). I still miss the way, when some component on my PC failed or became outdated, I could just ring up some friendly PR and ask them to courier over whatever was their latest piece of kit.
Beyond that, PR reps exist purely as devices to carry around a corporate credit card and make it available whenever there is food and/or alcohol to be purchased. Their presence under any other circumstances is simply an irritant.
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reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Thu 8 Nov 2007, 17:28,
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