• @ooterness
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    801 year ago

    Is this one banana per employee? Or one banana and they have to fight over it?

  • ForbiddenRoot
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    571 year ago

    This is especially funny for me because here, in India, “getting a banana” means you got nothing / got fscked over :)

  • @[email protected]
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    501 year ago

    Relevant story time:

    One time, as a warehouse manager, I wanted to get the overnight shift some fruit to snack on during the shift. We had like 100 people there. So I drove to a grocery store at like 11PM and bought pretty much all of their fruit. The cashier was extremely confused. Also, I drove a mini Cooper so it was absolutely packed floor to ceiling with apples, oranges, bananas, and some other stuff.

    I didn’t want to carry it all in so I drove my car into the building at the start of the shift.

    So my hundred or so employees show up to work then see me rolling into the building with a mini Cooper just bursting at the seams with fruit. It was a fun way to start the night for everyone.

  • rynzcycle
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    351 year ago

    My last job had a “wonky” fruit subscription for us to grab. Took home a whole pineapple once.

    They also treated us like people and paid a living wage… But PINEAPPLE!!

    • @Gabu
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      131 year ago

      How does that even happen? Did the pineapples go on discount that week and Dave from accounting thought “why not”?

      • troybot [he/him]
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        121 year ago

        Sometimes they put them on sale for $1 and then I find myself with a whole pineapple sitting around in my kitchen so yeah I think you’re spot on with that theory

      • rynzcycle
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        It was a subscription from a company we already bought from, they sold fruits and veg that weren’t pretty enough for supermarkets, but were great for cooking, baking, and in our case, brewing. Most of the times it’d be apples and citrus, but one box had a whole pineapple. I was the last one out that day and no one had taken it… So PINEAPPLE!

    • @AngryCommieKender
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      1 year ago

      Now the real question is did you eat it, or do the “Renaissance/Victorian Era” European thing?

      • @Krelefante
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        11 year ago

        What’s the thing? Did they wear it as a hat to show how rich they were, being able to afford a pineapple?

        • @AngryCommieKender
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          11 year ago

          Kinda. They held pineapple parties and used them as the centerpieces. I don’t think they ate them, but maybe they did.

    • themeatbridge
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      61 year ago

      Someone’s too good for a free banana…

  • @Toneswirly
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    261 year ago

    Thank you for making the company thousands of dollars today. Here is 11 cents

  • @[email protected]
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    241 year ago

    Next Snack: Peanuts (2)

    Upcoming Snack: Crumbs… (mystery)

    Thanks for your contributions! -HR

    • themeatbridge
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      221 year ago

      Should be

      “Crumbs (assorted)”

  • @IzzyScissor
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    191 year ago

    The Amazon campus has free banana vendors that anyone can just walk up and take a banana, even if you don’t work there. They almost always had extras.

    I used to walk past one on my way home and would snag one if there were any left for the day.

    This “perk” is something Amazon literally threw away every day.

  • Ænima
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    181 year ago

    “Banana for scale” takes on a whole new meaning here.

  • @Starkstruck
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    141 year ago

    Literally treating their workers like trained monkeys