Corporate Whore

I'm a ruin...

There was one time when I wore a very low backed slinky dress to a friend's party and she pointed out the danger of VPL in said dress. So I removed the offending item (not in front of everyone, mind). And having drunk quite a lot of vodka I informed everyone at the party. They have clearly gone and blabbed to someone who has told Nick.

Madchen - tell them your story about the people in your company who pay good money for baseball jackets with the company logo on.

I once attended a xmas party that was put on mainly for the schmoozing of clients. A has-been MOR rock star played and there were a lot of "media" people who had nothing to do with the company. Then an account director went home and had sex with two air stewardesses. Who also happened to be clients.

The company paid for my taxi home. it cost over 50 pounds.

So I am still temping atm and am at the most corporate place I've ever set foot in. Seriously this place is insane. Everyone is all fancy and serious and I have to act PROFESSIONAL. Also, it is insanely ridiculously hooked up. Every floor has a food bar that is stocked three times a day with FREE SNACKS. There is a flavored coffee machine and an espresso machine as well as about 15 types of Tazo tea. In case none of those do it for you there is a caraffe of D Donuts coffee, one of decaf and one of Starbucks. There are two fridges one of which is stocked with plain water, slezer, coke, sprite zero, fresca and diet coke. IT IS NUTS. Would be pretty awesome if I didn't feel really out of place.

there's a thread for braggin already, btw. we only got a kettle last week, and buy our own teabags.

Darragh - I'm only here for one week and before now have always worked for non-profits and also had to buy my own coffee/tea etc. I'm taking advantage while I can. I brought an extra bag today and keep grabbing sodas on my way to the bathroom.

when i used to work at a 'cool' ad firm (of sorts) we got free starbucks and had a foosball table and iMacs and jeans were TOTALLY allowed

There is NOTHING cool about this place except for the kitchen tbh. The girls are all wearing like twinsets and pearls and the dudes are head to toe Brooks Brothers. GAH! They do something with money. I'm just here for the free stuff.

in that case, carry on.

Seriously it's so weird. I feel like I've stepped into another universe which I guess I have in some ways. There is also a dining room and a free gym. !!! I don't even think these ppl realize how hooked up they are.

i would clean these suckers out

Yes, steal as much as you possibly can. You must become "that girl with the goddamned huge purse" for a few days first, though.

"that girl with the goddamned huge purse"

On this already tbh. I brought three bags with me today. O_O

The time is right. Play this right, "That Girl with the Goddamned Huge Purse" could be the name of your insanely successful concession stand that mysteriously has very little overhead.

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LOOOOOOOL at concession stand and ^^^.

BTW - I don't feel bad about this one bit after looking it up just now and working out that said firm's founder is evil Republican politician and former state official.

my law firm job had single serving coffee/tea makers and fridges stocked with 10 kinds of soda and bottled water on every floor, but no dining room or free gym. i figured they had to keep their people happy if they were going to demand 80-hour work weeks from the associates or paralegals stuck in litigation work rooms all day (luck me, i stayed in my office all the time and just enjoyed the perks while i worked a 35-hour week in comfort).

Yeah - I feel like these ppl work ridiculous hours. I think I would actually go crazy if I were here longer than a week tbh but for now I think I'm gonna go take a stroll and grab a latte.

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haha should have known

Oh god the guys call each other "chief".

Sad Men

hahaha

One of the greatest guys I ever worked with called everyone "chief", "pal", "dude" and "buddy", often in rapid succession (as in "Hey chief! What's up, buddy?"). He was a sensitive former college linebacker/boxer.

There's a Seth Rogen role in there somewhere.

x-post - Yeah, it could potentially be awesome but not in the way that I just heard it used.

OK as much as I was ragging on this place the other day (and it still sucks don't get me wrong) I really really like the main guy I've been working for. He's so nice and he sends funny youtubes and pictures and would actually not mind working for someone like him FT if I were ever to have an admin position as a FT job again. I'm gonna miss him!

I worked at an ad agency that had a coffee bar + served booze during friday happy hour. We once got a nasty email from HR because people raided the treats in a conference room before a meeting (like we all assumed the meeting had already gotten out but it hadn't even started lol).

lol - No booze here but was still pretty great.

So long cool boss guy. U are very nice.

Oh, boy. I have been a corporate whore in the past. Its NOT all its cracked up to be.

1) You get fat. They feed and booze you, and give you every single creature comfort so you don't feel the need to leave the hive.
2) You get overentitled. Free shit for a while makes you used to free shit, and makes you indignant when you don't get free shit.
3) You work more. If you're on salary, past a certain point, your work hours have diminishing returns for the quality of your life. If you don't get out of the office to eat/workout/hang out, and instead just stay and enjoy the free/reduced shit they provide, your life is lessening in value.

Listen, its great, and for a broke-ass early 20s, it was a cheap way to be fed and boozed. I also met my wife at that job.

But I would NEVER trade the small business world for an entree back into big law. No fucking way.

This The girls are all wearing like twinsets and pearls and the dudes are head to toe Brooks Brothers being the main reason. I got my shell toes and jeans on today.

Welcome my son. Welcome to the machine

This is totally the opposite compared to where I work. We only got air conditioning last month.