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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Shit! How could I forget Microsoft events...I went to TechED once in Amsterdam, it was the first time I had been abroad, let alone to a "technical" event. We were showing off our latest product and I wasn't quite sure what to expect... the sort of thing I had in mind...
Talking to hundreds of random people about our product and repeating the same shit over and over again.
Sound about right? No fucking way, the event costs somewhere in the region of £1000 per person, and all the fuckers do is walk around to anywhere that you can get something for free and stuff it into their Microsoft branded ruck sack. They do this for like 3 days, and when they aren't in the event scabbing free stuff they are stuffing their faces in the free canteen or walking around the city with "mug me, I'm a really stupid tourist" written all over their Microsoft branded tshirts.
One company even started giving iPods away! Fucking iPods! Do you think I got close enough to get one? No chance, I would have been crushed to death in the attempt.
Needless to say I hardly talked to a soul as we weren't giving away anything for free, noone gave 2 shits, let alone a minute of their time. The only people that did venture over were geeky nerds that were trying to hit on the stunning show girl that I was sitting talking to about drugs the entire time!
If your company want to send you on one of these shows, take a massive ruck sack with you because you will need it!
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Fri 9 Nov 2007, 9:26,
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