I live on a boat at work. I walked into the bathroom just now and met this. Any reason I shouldn't walk outside, get some gas, and burn this shit down?
My company gave us iPads to use for work matters. They had 3 separate LTE plans on them with unlimited data. Shit lasted 2 months because apparently a coworker took his home and ran his entire home network off of the iPad via hotspot. I heard he ran up 5TBs of data in a month on it. Now we have 1 plan and a 5GB/mo limit.
Coworker is still an idiot for doing that, but it's bullshit that companies are allowed to advertise internet plans as "unlimited" when they are clearly not unlimited
I’ve had a coworker use his work phone hotspot as his home internet. He was a bit of a hick so I doubt he was running up too much data.
Several years ago the CFO at our company switched all the phones to Verizon saving a bunch of money or something Well, problem was the old plan was true unlimited. Many of us were running our field laptops, etc exclusively off the phone hotshots. It was funny when the CFO went to calling individuals who were the highest data users each month (i was one that got calls), and the COO had basically already told me to not worry about it. It was his decision to make the change, he's gotta figure out how to work it out
After my company got purchased by a fortune 100 company they took away our hotspots and changed our phone plans. It was unlimited data unless you needed hot spot capabilities then you only got 2 GB per month. It caused a pretty big uproar because everyone knew how dumb of an idea it was. After IT spent the next few months harassing everyone for going over the limit the hotspots quietly came back. I could write a novel about dumb management decisions like that made working there post acquisition. Nobody would read it because who cares, but it’s funny watching my old company completely tailspin thanks to a bunch of MBAs who thought they knew everything
When the startup I worked for got acquired they left everyone alone for a year then came in and imposed their management hierarchy, primarily making presidents (who were almost all technical people) low level managers and cutting their pay. Then all those people left and they couldn't figure out how to turn the company profitable without them so they sold it off at a loss. Total MBA brain- We have the product now and we know better, so we can lose all the people who ran this company successfully.
Maybe this is my calling. Collect a series of short stories about failed business acquisitions and the hilarity that ensued.
I know a guy who built his local MEP firm from basically scratch, sold it to a national group, sat on the sideline watching them fail then bought his own company back from them at like 50% of what they paid him about 5 years later
The guys that started the company I mentioned below owned a company in the 90s/00s and sold it to a British conglomerate for around $400m. They got fired from the conglomerate and then started their own thing. Built the new company up and basically ran the old one out of business and bought it back for $80m. Ended up selling it to the Fortune 100 company for $1.5b less than 10 years after buying it back. I now work for a new company that’s backed by the same guys.
Venture Capital is going to end up being the death of us all. The only move is "cut staff, streamline, reduce cost, increase profit" which lead to extremely profitable businesses until literally anything goes wrong and then the whole thing falls apart.
Week 2 back in the office full time. I’m amazed at how many of these young Gen Z dudes don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom. Nothing worse than standing at the urinal and hearing a stall door open, no water running and then the bathroom door opening and closing.
This is the way…when home. But at work, you gotta at least make a half-hearted attempt for the sake of appearances, if nothing else.
I also get a paper towel to open the bathroom door if I can't do it with my foot because of people shitting and not washing their hands and then touching the door.
Big fan of the foot thing to open the door. I hate the huge handle where you’re supposed to wrap your arm around it to open the door. It’s awkward.
That’s quite the stance. I’m touching the toilet seat to lift it up and put it back down. It’s cleaned regularly but that’s still nasty to not wash your hands if you’re doing the same
Seems like it wouldn’t come up very often If I’m at home, I’m touching the toilet seat If I’m elsewhere, I’m likely touching a door/door handle at some point
I pick the toilet seat up with my foot usually if it's down. A number of bathrooms you just walk in or I can grab a paper towel to pull the door open
This is gross. Also, thanks for the dirt/grime on the toilet seat and piss all over the place Mr. “I didn’t touch anything”.
Unless your dick is out all the time and completely dry, it being in a warm environment in your underpants means it'll eventually get oil and sweat buildup throughout the day which is gross.
In a bathroom where people are touching all the same stuff like handles for the door, faucet, and toilet absolutely yes. What are we even doing here?