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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Managers - don't delegate stationery purchases...or if you must, ffs check what is being ordered.
Because if you don't, twunts like me will set up dozens of company accounts and purchase from whatever company is giving away freebies that month. So far I've had an mp3 player, a usb thumb drive, an alarm clock radio, a dvd player, one of them usb "virtual photo frame" dookickies, 300 business cards with my details (which tbh I very rarely hand out but make IDEAL roach).
I've had free batteries, cinema tickets, hot chocolate, haribo, mini cheddars, maltesers and minstrels. Turns out the remote control in our boardroom's tv EATS through batteries at the same rate as my mp3 player, so i need to order quite a few of them, too.
And to the question 'why do you keep buying different brands of x?' comes my honest reply "because they were on special offer", which *sounds* like it contains the phrase "and it saved the company some money" without actually doing so.
Also - when I was 12 i nicked about 40 (free) wooden chip forks from the local chippy. Score!
(, Sat 10 Nov 2007, 13:38, Reply)
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