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[–] [email protected] 211 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's excellent satire

“I love posting satirical stories to LinkedIn (almost as a hobby now) because no one expects jokes on a ‘professional’ social network,” he said.

Today.com - Man posts about cooking chicken in a hotel’s coffee pot — and the internet exploded

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Now I'm curious. Would this actually work? Just how hot does that heating plate get?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, you can cook a chicken by slapping it.....

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It reminded me of this vid my buddy posted in discord the other day. 🤢

https://twitter.com/betcheswildin/status/1711055716054683931?s=46

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If charging dinner to the company is going to tank your P&L, you've got much bigger things to worry about. And no, they ain't going to promote you because you saved them $30.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They're not going to promote you specifically because you thought cooking chicken in a coffee maker was a good idea.

Although, I guess you could kinda sorta do sous vide in one of you had the chicken in a sealed bag.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Generally I find the people who go all out (not overboard) on expenses get promoted before people who don’t. Shows a level of confidence that most management likes.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Another thing to consider: Are the ones that you’ve noticed get promoted tend to LOVE to say “yes” to management?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I read this in the voice of Dennis Reynolds.

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 year ago

Guys, this is satire. And old, the guy posted it for comedy some time ago. Not seeing anyone calling this out, so just FYI. No need to get angry over this.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago

When the grind makes you risk food poisoning...

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

Pretty obvious this was satire.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fuck this noise. I will use whatever I’m allowed to my advantage. Work trips are like mini vacations I don’t have to pay for.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I got a $45 food stipend for lunch once. My lunch cost $30 (it was lunch AND dinner) and then tipped the restaurant $15.

I'm using 100% of it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I expense my cocaine and hookers.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Do we really have to make a new label because of him?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Meanwhile I eat $30 meals when I'm traveling for work.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I don’t get to travel for work but schedule my biweekly telehealth therapy appointments for midday.

Boss makes a dollar; I make a dime. I talk to my shrink on company time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where do you find $30 meals? Mine are all $60+

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's chicken, not salmon.

/s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The chicken of the river, and sea

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I saw a YouTube video of a guy cooking a steak by wrapping it in aluminum foil and putting the hotel iron on top. But an iron gets a lot hotter than that warming plate, plus beef is less bad to eat undercooked.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This would probably work fine, it might be a bit slow, but a coffee pot gets plenty hot to cook chicken. My main concern would be the lack of fluid increases the chances that pot breaks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The hot plate 100% has a safety switch that turns it off at a couple degrees above boiling. So it won't break but it also won't sufficiently cook the chicken with pieces this large...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That’s what freaked me out the most - how thick the cut is.

This isn’t beef. You can’t cook chicken medium rare and expect things to be okay.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

In my experience, in the white collar world, corporates really don't think twice about paying for this stuff.* In fact, they'd really prefer that you just use the company card instead of blasting stupid bullshit like this on social or making yourself sick. This person's boss probably thinks they're fucking insane.

*If you're blue collar, you can usually get fucked. If they do much as buy you a Costco hotdog and soda, they're going to complain and hold it over your head. Little Caeser's hot-n-ready pizza is the definition of spoiling your workforce in that world.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When the company gets billed for replacing the coffee maker every time you stay at a hotel they will do something other than promote.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How to say you have crippling social anxiety without saying you have crippling social anxiety

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Then they should order delivery or something. Food poisoning is not the answer.

Yeah, dealing with the delivery guy might be unpleasant, but paramedics and the hospital staff will be MUCH worse.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

A friend who is an airline pilot once told me one of the stewardesses made hamburgers on the hotel room iron, to safe money. They actually get an allowance to eat at the location, still she did that. So stingy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then I wonder why the hotel room iron is all kinds of fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hamberder gunk

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Steamed Hams.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They get paid a set amount every day for food, regardless of what they get. If you are getting a flat rate $50 per diem for food, it makes financial sense to eat cheap and pocket thr difference.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s eating cheap and then there’s making hamburgers using an iron in a hotel room cheap

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

An allowance sounds more like something added to their paycheck, rather than something they expensed. If that was the case, and they got to take home the allowance... well, heck. Ten bucks is ten bucks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'd fire him for being mentally unbalanced, with this post as my hard proof.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Dude, your company does not care in you in the slightest. ALWAYS take corporations and the government for every cent you can legally claw out of them. Because they will screw you over as hard as they can the second they feel like they can make more money and get away with it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This guy is management material. Which is to say, he is a dipshit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I never ate as much sushi as I did while travelling. Expenses are there so you can focus on doing the work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nobody will remember them saving a few bucks. What they will remember are the sick days when this moron isn’t in the office.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What a psychopath.

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