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Gear Grinding 6: I'm So Over This.

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RaceBoarder said:
I've had good experiences with Coke Freestyle machines at AMC Theatres, Wendy's, and Six Flags theme parks... I wondered about this when they first popped up, but have yet to get a drink that wasn't what I expected... Used them more than enough to get a solid base of data...
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Along the lines of this topic, does anyone else drink RC? My friends claim I am the only person in the world who drinks it. Now, that is definitely not correct, as my dad also drinks it, and I know one other person who drinks Diet Rite. Surely the three of us aren't propping up an entire brand of the Dr Pepper/Snapple Group, or are we?
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Along the lines of this topic, does anyone else drink RC? My friends claim I am the only person in the world who drinks it. Now, that is definitely not correct, as my dad also drinks it, and I know one other person who drinks Diet Rite. Surely the three of us aren't propping up an entire brand of the Dr Pepper/Snapple Group, or are we?
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I'm more of a 7up/Dr. Pepper person.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
Along the lines of this topic, does anyone else drink RC? My friends claim I am the only person in the world who drinks it. Now, that is definitely not correct, as my dad also drinks it, and I know one other person who drinks Diet Rite. Surely the three of us aren't propping up an entire brand of the Dr Pepper/Snapple Group, or are we?
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I used to drink RC, but then OD'd on it back in high school, so I wouldn't touch it after that weekend. Now I don't drink sugared soda pop, and I don't know if Diet Rite is even in this market these days. 7Up, Dr. Pepper and various other Schweppe's products are, but I can't recall the last time I saw a Diet Rite container on a shelf.
 
Philanthropy for the sake of marketing/PR. Especially when it's outright described in advance as "the future of marketing." Get bent.
 
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Stopped at Panera Bread before work to get lunch for work tonight. At 5 PM, I went to eat my salad... only to discover they forgot to give me salad dressing. What am I supposed to do, eat salad naked?
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
Stopped at Panera Bread before work to get lunch for work tonight. At 5 PM, I went to eat my salad... only to discover they forgot to give me salad dressing. What am I supposed to do, eat salad naked?
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Sucks, but you should start checking your bag before you walk out. I picked up a "free" cookie from Panera for catching an error (free because they can afford an occasional giveaway with their prices ;)).
 
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In about two hours I have to take a tour of my company's local history museum. :rolleyes:

No, I don't care when guy X made this change that moved us into the financial industry instead of the blah, blah, blah industry. And no, it's not relevant to me the date we started using a counting machine to know how much currency we had on hand in the vault, or the date that spittoons were no longer placed in our lobbies. It's all so very irrelevant to absolutely everything we do as a company today.

And this whole museum tour came about because of some lousy hipster that joined my department last fall. If I'd have been paying attention to my calendar, I'd have scheduled PTO for today.
 
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St. Clown said:
In about two hours I have to take a tour of my company's local history museum. :rolleyes:

No, I don't care when guy X made this change that moved us into the financial industry instead of the blah, blah, blah industry. And no, it's not relevant to me the date we started using a counting machine to know how much currency we had on hand in the vault, or the date that spittoons were no longer placed in our lobbies. It's all so very irrelevant to absolutely everything we do as a company today.

And this whole museum tour came about because of some lousy hipster that joined my department last fall. If I'd have been paying attention to my calendar, I'd have scheduled PTO for today.
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See, I would LOVE to take a tour of my company's museum. I don't think there is one, but it would be amazing to see. We do have a pretty cool building called the Innovation Center, which is pretty cool, or so I've been told. Every time I've had a chance to tour it, the tour has been cancelled or something major comes up and I have to back out. It's sort of our version of a museum of today and tomorrow.
 
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We don't have a museum, but in all honesty it would be pretty cool, I mean as long as nothing blew up.
 
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Our museum would have to include our past as the consulting wing of Arthur Andersen. Probably would be best if we just let that go.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
See, I would LOVE to take a tour of my company's museum. I don't think there is one, but it would be amazing to see. We do have a pretty cool building called the Innovation Center, which is pretty cool, or so I've been told. Every time I've had a chance to tour it, the tour has been cancelled or something major comes up and I have to back out. It's sort of our version of a museum of today and tomorrow.
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The woman giving the tour actually did a really good job with the whole thing. We went over some of the noted pieces that had more to do with America as a developing nation in the 19th century and how we helped that process. The story of Black Bart took up a good chunk of time, too, and how, as the bank's main investigation agents, the man searching for Black Bart invented mug shots.
 
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BofA

Among the other indignities, they now say if I transfer between my savings and checking too often they'll convert my savings to a checking account.

Oh, banksters. Vengeance is going to be slow, painful, and televised.

In honor of Black Bart, below:

I've labored long and hard for bread,
For honor, and for riches,
But on my corns too long you've tread,
You fine-haired sons of b-tches.
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dxmnkd316 said:
See, I would LOVE to take a tour of my company's museum. I don't think there is one, but it would be amazing to see. We do have a pretty cool building called the Innovation Center, which is pretty cool, or so I've been told. Every time I've had a chance to tour it, the tour has been cancelled or something major comes up and I have to back out. It's sort of our version of a museum of today and tomorrow.
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Our company museum was pretty interesting too. Old Indy 500 cars, relics from races across the country in the 30's and other interesting memorabilia.
 
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Kepler said:
Among the other indignities, they now say if I transfer between my savings and checking too often they'll convert my savings to a checking account.
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You can transfer into the savings as much as you want. You just can't transfer out of savings more than, I think, 6 times a month. That's based on a federal regulation.

And now you're grinding my gears for making me defend BofA, who can otherwise go DIAF for all I care.
 
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When I was still working for UPS the 100 year anniversary tour they ran was outstanding. Our entire center was outfitted between sorts to be in essence a live museum - albeit toward nothing historical but rather the modern - but they did set up several tents outside the plant to cover the actual history. I had been employed already for 5 years at the time and learned quite a bit I didn't already know. One thing UPS did extremely well was in driving pride and I didn't find it heavy handed.
 
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Our company museum is awesome. It's not the Air & Space museum or anything - just 1/3 of it. :)
 
Slap Shot said:
When I was still working for UPS the 100 year anniversary tour they ran was outstanding. Our entire center was outfitted between sorts to be in essence a live museum - albeit toward nothing historical but rather the modern - but they did set up several tents outside the plant to cover the actual history. I had been employed already for 5 years at the time and learned quite a bit I didn't already know. One thing UPS did extremely well was in driving pride and I didn't find it heavy handed.
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We had that as well, though kind of an abbreviated version. Was kinda cool.
 
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Kepler said:
BofA

Among the other indignities, they now say if I transfer between my savings and checking too often they'll convert my savings to a checking account.

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How much difference would it make if you could make all the transfers that you wanted? There are months that my savings account yields zero interest because it doesn't even round to one cent, and my money market account yields less than a cup of coffee.
 
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As an anti-gear grinder, I really want to say how much I appreciate Twitch Boy replying to the clickbait articles on Facebook with "John Cena *trumpets emoji*" memes. It makes those Godforsaken things bearable to scroll past.
 
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