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Re: Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'

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Post by gerdesj »

mattl wrote: post #20
AndrewDucker wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Co-op is a UK supermarket chain and the brand used for the food retail business of The Co-operative Group, one of the world's largest consumer co-operatives. This is the Exeter branch.

There’s multiple different businesses doing business as “the co-op” in the UK IIRC, somewhat based on geography but with different branding too.

There are these ones in the UK these days:

https://www.co-operative.coop/about-us/history https://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/about-us/

When a Brit talks about "The Co-op", they (we) mean the stores. The bank always has bank appended to its name.

Re: Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'

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Post by beacon294 »

bongodongobob wrote: post #30
anticorporate wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked at a food co-op for the first three years of my career. After spending the next dozen or so years in tech, I'm now reapplying to co-op grocery jobs. Money isn't everything.

Yeah money isn't everything after you made a bunch. What.

Well, our society defaults many people to serving money so having escaped the immediate serfdom of debt and even short term cashflow, people can make more balanced choices.

Re: Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'

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Post by anticorporate »

beacon294 wrote: post #32
bongodongobob wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah money isn't everything after you made a bunch. What.

Well, our society defaults many people to serving money so having escaped the immediate serfdom of debt and even short term cashflow, people can make more balanced choices.

This was me. I loved my co-op job, but I had no family money and no prospect of ever being able to buy a home on that income.

I worked in tech long enough to pay off debts, put a down payment on a house, and no longer have to live in fear of a minor crisis bankrupting me. I didn't got rich, I stayed long enough that after leaving tech I could continue to work a normal job until normal retirement age - the thing that used to be in reach for the working class, but no longer is. The continue pursuit of money beyond a basic safety net wasn't worth the harm.

I still love technology. I have no love for the tech industry.

Re: Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'

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Post by dotBen »

mattl wrote: post #18
columb wrote: post #10

My time to shine! I used to work with Krzysiu (Krzysztof). He used to have MySpace popular page and he was designing logos for heavy-metal bands - sometimes (if not always) for free. Really nice guy. Oh, and Exeter got to the front page... Cześć Krzysiu! Pozdrawiam (We used to work at COOP HB)

Wasn’t expecting to see Exeter on the homepage for sure.

Is there a tech scene in Exeter? I have long lived in San Francisco having moved from UK in 2006 but I spent a lot of time down in Devon where my parents now live.

Re: Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'

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Post by mkl »

Liquix wrote: post #25
wffurr wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah this seems like a fun article but it's buried under way too much adtech crud, and Chrome Android has no "reader view" I can find. Maybe I need a better user agent that actually respects the user.

Iceraven is an unofficial fork of Firefox for Android maintained by Mozilla, allows installation of desktop extensions (full uBlock origin): https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

Firefox Android supports uBlock Origin just fine (I didn't see a single ad or modal in this article). There is no need for obscure forks, and Iceraven is "Definitely not brought to you by Mozilla!", as the first sentence on the page says.

Re: Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'

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Post by xanderlewis »

mattl wrote: post #18
columb wrote: post #10

My time to shine! I used to work with Krzysiu (Krzysztof). He used to have MySpace popular page and he was designing logos for heavy-metal bands - sometimes (if not always) for free. Really nice guy. Oh, and Exeter got to the front page... Cześć Krzysiu! Pozdrawiam (We used to work at COOP HB)

Wasn’t expecting to see Exeter on the homepage for sure.

Wasn't expecting to see the Co-op.

Re: Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'

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Post by rad_gruchalski »

gerdesj wrote: post #31
mattl wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s multiple different businesses doing business as “the co-op” in the UK IIRC, somewhat based on geography but with different branding too.

There are these ones in the UK these days: https://www.co-operative.coop/about-us/history https://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/about-us/ When a Brit talks about "The Co-op", they (we) mean the stores. The bank always has bank appended to its name.

There's also the funeral care: https://www.coop.co.uk/funeralcare.

Re: Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'

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Post by gerdesj »

rad_gruchalski wrote: post #37
gerdesj wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are these ones in the UK these days: https://www.co-operative.coop/about-us/history https://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/about-us/ When a Brit talks about "The Co-op", they (we) mean the stores. The bank always has bank appended to its name.

There's also the funeral care: https://www.coop.co.uk/funeralcare .

Good catch.

My New Year's promise this year was to be more demonstrably accurate than last year and I seem to have screwed it up already.

Bugger.

Re: Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'

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Post by mattl »

dotBen wrote: post #34
mattl wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wasn’t expecting to see Exeter on the homepage for sure.

Is there a tech scene in Exeter? I have long lived in San Francisco having moved from UK in 2006 but I spent a lot of time down in Devon where my parents now live.

Heh, not sure. I moved to the US in 2008. I think you and I talked about this when you were at WordCamp Boston when you were doing stuff with WPEngine.

I think at least one of the W3C staff is in Devon.

Re: Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'

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Post by mattl »

gerdesj wrote: post #38
rad_gruchalski wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also the funeral care: https://www.coop.co.uk/funeralcare .

Good catch. My New Year's promise this year was to be more demonstrably accurate than last year and I seem to have screwed it up already. Bugger.

You can see here what I'm talking about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-op_Food

Different groups of co-operatives sharing "The Co-Op" brand with different but similar branding.

Co-op Food in Devon vs other parts of the UK will be run by a different group.

I went down a Wikipedia hole on this the other day.

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