Cheap motherfuckers

[quesarah]

One of the tiny perks of working at this behemoth used to be monthly team lunches. We'd all go out, have a nice lunch on the company and get a chance to relax and be social. We didn't have to go to a really nice place, though sometimes we did. It was the act of going to a meal with the whole team that was what I looked forward to.

No more. Now our team gets pizza for lunch on the last Friday of the month. Cheap bastards.

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Can I kill the cheap bastards for you please?

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Ach, since I know you're sincere in your wish to cause massive destruction, I suppose I can share the violence. Step on up.

:)

[spacey-lee.livejournal.com]

We no longer get lunches paid for by the company even though their revenue was over 1.9 billion dollars. Now that is cheap. *sigh* We never go out as a team anyway. We've got cliques (depending on language or what project you're working on) and I'm not in any of them. I hang out with various people but I spend my lunches alone with a good book. Beat that!

[king-ghidorah.livejournal.com]

Back at UC Santa Cruz, our annual perk was a big picnic where they gave us hot dogs, popcorn and punch plus up to 2 hours of release time. Usually there was a lame speech, too, that usually amounted to "quit yer gripin', cuz yer lucky ya have jobs. You are all expendable. Enjoy the freakin' picnic." The administration never understood why attendance was so poor. So relatively speaking, the free pizza sounds pretty good.

But the loss of a nice time to meet with your whole team really does do a lot to dampen that sense of connection. Corporate culture sucks.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Yep, it does. They're trying to disguise its lameness by calling it "happy hour" but it's being held from 12-1 in a conference room.

It's Free Pizza Friday.