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This could have been a follow-up to "The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1322240/
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Yes, exactly. Presumably they still do, but we no longer care.
I know this is beside the point, but did you try asking them to stop doing that?
In a zero-sum game, it must be all against all. But sometimes it takes only one player to change the nature of the game. And sometimes driving that change is less effort than fighting under the old rules.
My partner and I donated cutlery to our Apt complex multipurpose media room. It's where people who live there can watch movies on a projector or have meetings or birthdays. We bought over 50 teaspoons. I think we're down to 5. We got 10-15 each of knives forks and spoons and they were predated, but not as much. The body corporate tut-tutted and said they wouldn't do it, I think it's ok to accept some people just wind…
Is there a chance these are being accidentally thrown away, rather than stolen? I'm sure I've thrown a non-reusable utensil in the garbage more than once in my life by accident. While I of course would feel bad, I'm also not going to dig it out of a 50gal trash can in nice clothes. Surely that happens many times over 5 years when you have dozens or hundreds of employees.
My partner and I somehow ran out of butter knives in our first apartment in under a year. We discovered that we'd leave a knife in a desert tin in the fridge (to cut a slice) but then someone would inevitably throw out the whole tin and the knife with it.
I'm doing the opposite. I've been amassing small disposable plastic spoons when I order food for my supplements from various establishments for my supplements, looking for ideal sizes. I like to use the one from coffee shops, the best ones were from the airport. Disposable wood chopsticks can be surprisingly durable as well as long as it's not basilica wood. What counts as an ideal size/shape/material for your cutler…
Balsa* wood!
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I hate how "fake-seeking" is the new form of doing something for attention, like publicizing someone's supposed fabrications in the comments with 0 evidence that anything was manufactured in the first place just so you could feel the reward of delivering truth or something
I don't think fake-seeking is a real thing, it's just that there are still people dumb enough to believe the ever increasing amount of fake things that exist at once. And those that don't seem to.
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Yeah I understand the usage of the saying but not sure why someone would say that here. I wasn't being unnecessarily negative. Their comment is unnecessarily negative.
> This would be totally irrelevant if it weren't for social media status seeking. isn't being unnecessarily negative to you? It's a cute little story about dining hall forks, not a hot girl who just happens to be in a bikini shilling a business course or some crap on instagram for followers. It's on their personal blog, that I (unfortunately) will likely never read again, so the amount of "clout" they're receiving fr…
>Your comments starts off accusing them of faking the cute little story.
No it didn't. I am saying that it reads like they might have thought up the idea as something to blog about before they executed the idea. For the sole purpose of appearing more interesting.
Irrelevant here means just uninteresting enough that it wouldn't be brought up in conversation when people describe their life.
>The fact that your comment's been downvoted says I'm not the only one that thinks that.
Downvotes have no reflection on the content of my comment. Just the response to it. It sounds like you spend too long on Reddit.
Huh? What comment of yours am I attacking? Are you logged into the wrong account?
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Yeah I understand the usage of the saying but not sure why someone would say that here. I wasn't being unnecessarily negative. Their comment is unnecessarily negative.
> I wasn't being unnecessarily negative. And yet you ended up writing one of the most unnecessarily negative things I've read on here in a long time.
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The cafeteria manager likely had no idea they were running out of forks. A simple email or phone call to the cafeteria department would have probably solved the problem, since managers are likely looking for ideas of things to buy, especially if they've been recommended by customers (students).
I disagree. I assume the manager was quite aware, but whenever he had previously asked for resources from his own boss before, they refused and implied that he needed to try to use even fewer resources. After your manager makes it clear multiple times that they do not want to spend any money, even on things that are important, many sane people will stop caring. He may have told the boss multiple times that they were…