My company signed up for a $1000/year subscription-based water cooler
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Re: My company signed up for a $1000/year subscription-based water cooler
#2As I get older, I really wonder why people do this to other people. In this case, I'm talking about the manufacturer of this product. They know other human beings are going to spend a lot of money to use their products? It's important to make money, but at what consequence?
Re: My company signed up for a $1000/year subscription-based water cooler
#3As I get older, I really wonder why people do this to other people. In this case, I'm talking about the manufacturer of this product. They know other human beings are going to spend a lot of money to use their products? It's important to make money, but at what consequence?
Blame is shared: ask whoever signed the contract why. In this case, I'd find more blame in whoever willingly accepts this nonsense, rather than the one trying to sell it.
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#4As I get older, I really wonder why people do this to other people. In this case, I'm talking about the manufacturer of this product. They know other human beings are going to spend a lot of money to use their products? It's important to make money, but at what consequence?
It's like evolution. Why does some weird, seemingly useless creature exist? Because it fills some crack in the ecological economy. Someone was willing to buy this piece of shit and that is explanation enough for its existence.
Re: My company signed up for a $1000/year subscription-based water cooler
#5As I get older, I really wonder why people do this to other people. In this case, I'm talking about the manufacturer of this product. They know other human beings are going to spend a lot of money to use their products? It's important to make money, but at what consequence?
It's like evolution. Why does some weird, seemingly useless creature exist? Because it fills some crack in the ecological economy. Someone was willing to buy this piece of shit and that is explanation enough for its existence.
Don't you think it's more like some sort of genetic mutation that's just benign enough that it does not kill the organism immediately? (Lord help us if this one breeds.)
Re: My company signed up for a $1000/year subscription-based water cooler
#6Not everything in the world is a problem needing a better solution.
Re: My company signed up for a $1000/year subscription-based water cooler
#7Remember stuff like this when you decide to build something yourself instead of subscribing to a SaaS which does the same thing better.
Re: My company signed up for a $1000/year subscription-based water cooler
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's like evolution. Why does some weird, seemingly useless creature exist? Because it fills some crack in the ecological economy. Someone was willing to buy this piece of shit and that is explanation enough for its existence.
Don't you think it's more like some sort of genetic mutation that's just benign enough that it does not kill the organism immediately? (Lord help us if this one breeds.)
Is that not the basis for all evolution?
Re: My company signed up for a $1000/year subscription-based water cooler
#9Remember stuff like this when you decide to build something yourself instead of subscribing to a SaaS which does the same thing better.
Yes, in terms of sanitation like 2500 years ago with that SaaS company called "the Roman Empire."
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#10Everyone likes to blame loose VC money for silly stuff like this, but I have a slightly more nuanced theory about ridiculous office perks:
Office managers/office teams have very few concrete metrics. Beyond a binary "is the office functional" (e.g. are there enough desks, does the electricity work) there is pretty much no way to measure job performance. That's not to say their work doesn't have any impact. Anyone who has worked in a poorly laid out office has dealt with the corresponding productivity drain. However, it's really hard to measure that boost/loss and nearly impossible to accurately attribute it.
The solution is for office managers to do ridiculous but easily quantifiable things like spend money on subscription water coolers, an on-demand smoothie blending machine [0], potted plants that cost $800 [1].
If you are an office worker frustrated by this trend, you should invent some performance metric for office managers and then sell something that improves it. You'll instantly suck up all the VC money going to these other startups.
[0]http://getreplenish.com/#1 [1] https://www.leonandgeorge.com/plants/large-desert-cactus/