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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Law FairI'm in my second year of studying Law at University. I've just come back from our Law Fair, wherein big corporate law firms try and entice you to consider them by offering you various freebies.
So while I type this I'm sipping tea from one of my four free mugs, ignoring of course the two free thermal mugs I get, while not bothering to solve my free Rubix cube, checking the time on my free clock, saving stuff onto my free USB stick, writing with my 30 free pens, most of which are stuffed into my free pencil case, throwing around my free baseball against my free leatherbound file, playing with one of my three free decks of cards, and sheltering under my free umbrella.
I did feel guilty about getting all this stuff, so I did humour them by staying and listening to them whore out their company. However, I want to have a competition next year as to who can get the most free stuff, although I'm unsure as to whether to judge it on a points system (1 point for a normal pen, 5 for a mug etc) or a weight based system.
Scuse me, I'm off to eat my free chocolates.
(, Sat 10 Nov 2007, 18:05, 3 replies)
hmmmmyeah but the laugh is on you when you take a position with them.
as a corporate trainee in the city, i worked:
on average 7am - 3am
22 weekends out of 24
lost far too much weight from stress and running around
missed 5 birthday parties
cancelled about 12 dates
postponed 2 holidays
gave up on a social life in the end until i moved into property...
and then they wondered why i turned down a job on that team on qualification!
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rachelswipe with a fork, Sat 10 Nov 2007, 18:16,
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I've always gone by valueJust see what it would cost to get something roughly equivalent. It's not an exact science but despite your mug weighing considerably more than the USB stick, the mug would be far cheaper. I actually think my answer would lose to yours as well. I guess IT just isn't valued enough to dish out umbrellas :-(
(, Sun 11 Nov 2007, 1:27, closed)
rswipeIf I had job conditions that stinky, I would tell them to suck my cock.
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idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Mon 12 Nov 2007, 1:47,
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