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Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by gaius »

StavrosK wrote: post #92
binarymax wrote: post #82

Crashed countless high profile parties. An example: when I was living in Bangkok, after a Fado opera I walked right into the royal after party. Spent some time chatting with a princess and the queen. Treat the velvet rope as a suggestion. Walk on in casually and confidently as though you have 100% right to be there, half the time nobody will stop you...especially if you are dressed properly.

Everything is a suggestion. As long as you look like you belong, nobody will stop you 95% of the time.

Best clothing for this is not a tux, it's a yellow workman's jacket.

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by maxklein »

OoTheNigerian wrote: post #100
maxklein wrote: post #4

On my recent trip to Africa, I avoided giving bribes at 3 different spots in the airport by doing the following: When they asked me for "something to have lunch with", I'd lower my voice and say "it's not possible now" then quickly glance at the person behind me. Neither I nor them had to pay anything.

What country in Africa? There are 54 of them.

Your country.

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by StavrosK »

gaius wrote: post #101
StavrosK wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything is a suggestion. As long as you look like you belong, nobody will stop you 95% of the time.

Best clothing for this is not a tux, it's a yellow workman's jacket.

It depends on the occasion, but yes, bonus if you appear to work there.

My favorite place to go is the women's bathroom. They always have soap, paper towels and usually something like hair gel or other amenities. Men's bathrooms have nothing, plus women are cool about it.

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by metamemetics »

When Microsoft launched Live search (pre-bing) they needed someway to inflate their search usage to tell advertisers people actually use the site. So they launch Club Live, which has a series of word games offering points and prizes for winning. Every time one types a word in a word game, it automatically searches for the word in a search frame next to the game.

So naturally I wrote a program that scripted mouse/keyboard movements with searching and changing in-memory variables used by Flash. It solved games 20-30 times faster than I could, without me even being at the computer (I ran it 24/7 on an old desktop).

Eventually other people started doing this too and the hole was plugged. But I received quite a few free copies of Vista Ultimate and Xbox360 controllers that found their way on ebay.

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by jasonkester »

tome wrote: post #88
jasonkester wrote: post #42

I used to work as a salaried employee for a consulting firm. I'd record my hours on a timesheet so that they could bill the right clients, but anything over 40 hours a week was ignored on my paycheck. The understanding was that if ever your hours dropped below 40, you could bill an overhead number to make up for the difference, thus the fairness of not getting paid for overtime. So a year in, I only managed to find 3…

Wasn't it obvious to them before the meeting why you hadn't filled it in?

They wouldn't be looking at it from that angle.

Probationary statuses are generally considered a bad thing in big companies, and are often used as a first step in building a case for termination. As a cog who's hoping to make a career in one of those big companies, you're expected to want to get off that bad status and back into "good worker" mode as quickly as possible. It had never occurred to anybody that they might have an employee who didn't care about internal promotion or their "career" at the company.

So no, the only reason they pushed it was that it was looking bad for them to have employees on the "underperforming" list. The fact that the penalty for underperformance was essentially a raise was something they had never even considered.

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by nollidge »

dageroth wrote: post #16

I bootstrapped my first startup by playing roulette in a casino every night. A Cinema close by was giving out 10 Euro coupons for the casino to play with, so we went first to the cinema every night, asked the people coming out for their tickets and then hit the casino to play with the 10 Euros. Each of us were netting about 400 Euros per month, which was enough to cover the ramen ;-) And that for a nice refreshing ha…

Isn't roulette a losing game? Or did you have some optimal betting strategy?

Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by jrockway »

jonhendry wrote: post #44
moonpolysoft wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Egads man. Keep it safe for work.

I like to live on the edge, what can I say. Another time I started looking through a cardboard box that had been sitting outside my cube for months. It had office supplies and things in it. I started eyeing items like a stapler. The guy in the next cube pops out and says "those are her personal effects!". Apparently the older woman in the opposite cube (I never met her) popped her clogs at some point, and this was he…

What is it about personal effects and banks. I took over someone's desk when I started my current job. She left all her worldly possessions (and then some) in the desk. Wanting to have storage, I asked if I could throw all that crap away. "No, she still works here."

I trashed it all anyway.

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