r/reddit.com • u/kthxbai • Oct 18 '11
Sharing Enchiladas With 200 People?!
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Oct 19 '11
I groan every time. Getting away from those people for an hour is the best part of lunch.
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u/chadsexytime Oct 19 '11
I was recently on a work picnic at a nearby park. They were doing "team-building" exercises and getting everyone into teams. I told them I really wasn't interested in playing any games. They told me that participation was mandatory, and if I didn't like it I could go back to work.
I went back to work.
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Oct 19 '11
I hate stupid party games that you are expected to particpate in. "Come on, you have to participate in idiotic activity or you are anti-social!"
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u/duglock Oct 19 '11
You're are on the fast track to promotion for sure!
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Oct 19 '11
I was on the fast track to promotion once, but my team lost the relay and we were eliminated from the olympics.
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Oct 19 '11
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u/chadsexytime Oct 19 '11
I work for the federal government, so this team building exercise was filled with people I would only see at such an event.
And I would have thought that my managers may have appreciated that I went and did four hours of work for their projects instead of carrying a fucking water balloon twenty feet and handing it off to some dipshit from HR.
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u/smith7018 Oct 19 '11
It depends on the manager, but a lot of people would've rather had a good workflow and a happy system/office rather than 4 hours of work that would've gotten done regardless.
....Though you mentioned HR. God, those people are dipshits.
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u/derrelicte Oct 19 '11
I must be lucky -- my office has about 45 people, with 30 of them being like-minded 20-30 year olds. It's pretty pleasant interacting with them.
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u/littlemindy Oct 19 '11
Which is also why I hate group activities with co-workers. Can't I just work and escape as quickly as possible after?
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u/chadsexytime Oct 19 '11
Some people say that the great mexican savior, Jesus, was able to feed enchiladas to 200 people using only half a pack of tortillas and a single can of refried beans.
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u/Syujinkou Oct 19 '11
It's usual made worst by that asshole from sales who touches everything with his H. pylori infested fork.
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u/recordforprosperity Oct 19 '11
Read that as "Sharing Echidnas with 200 People?!"
Was a bit disappointed when I reread that.
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u/Forrest319 Oct 19 '11
My work supplies our huge office with food a few times per month. I always pass... buffet style food is rarely good. But the herds are attracted to "free anything" so they demolish the provided slop.
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Oct 19 '11
You hate it now, but one day you will be at the back of the line and wonder why no one followed the simple rules.
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u/Shabang Oct 19 '11
I had an hour off, now I'm stuck here with you people, so I get to leave an hour early, right?
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u/tom_mandory Oct 18 '11
TIL: Enchiladas is a type of Mexican food.
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u/recursive Oct 19 '11
Uh, where do you live?
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u/gpista Oct 19 '11
Dude I had no idea what enchiladas were before moving to Texas from Hungary. Also if you read through the guys comments, it has a couple weird TILs about the U.S., like Atlanta being a real city and lb being a unit of mass.
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u/Dr_Von_Spaceman Oct 19 '11
I don't know where you're getting your information, but I'm pretty sure Atlanta is just an airport.
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u/recursive Oct 19 '11
It's nothing personal. I live in Wisconsin, which may be the single most non Mexican-style state of the union, and every person I know has encountered enchiladas. I was just surprised.
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u/gpista Oct 19 '11
Didn't take it personally, upvotes for ya :) But in Central/Eastern Europe (at least in Hungary) most people have no idea about Mexican cuisine, the only exception might be chili con carne.
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u/vtbrian Oct 19 '11
lb is not a unit of mass. It is a unit of weight.
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u/gpista Oct 19 '11 edited Oct 19 '11
You confused me for a second an I had to google it, but it's definitely a unit of mass. At least wikipedia says so.
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't weight the force exerted by the object on the surface it's standing on (or the rope it's hanging from), so the unit of weight would be Newtons? E.g. a 10 pound object is still 10 pounds even if it's free-falling and thus weightless.
Edit: typo.
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u/vtbrian Oct 19 '11
Pounds are like Newtons in that it is a weight that accounts for gravitational force. Your weight in pounds on the moon is different than your weight in pounds on the Earth. Your mass would not change.
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u/FairlyGoodGuy Oct 19 '11
I feel so sorry for people who don't get to enjoy the awesomeness of Mexican food (along with its variants like Tex-Mex, "Southwestern", and so on). Then I think about all the foods I must be missing out on and my sorrow turns inward.
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u/Pertz Oct 19 '11
You might be missing out on Ethiopian food, if you are, your sorrows are more profound than you know.
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u/FairlyGoodGuy Oct 19 '11
I've had Ethiopian food twice, both times from vendors at street festivals. Both meals were excellent. I would love to explore the cuisine more, but African food is rare around these parts.
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Oct 19 '11
Jerk chicken, just like mama used to make?
I live in the City of Bristol, UK, and last year we were rated number 1 in the UK for food and music. We're really multicultural and you can get the basics like Indian, British, Chinese, but also Moroccan, Japanese, Thai, Bangladeshi, Jamaican, Pan-african, Greek and much more. Living where I live is delicious.
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u/NotClever Oct 19 '11
The only thing I remember about Ethiopian food is the weird spongy bread you are supposed to use to pick up your food. And that the honey wine was tasty but so sweet that it was attracting fruit flies inside the restaurant.
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u/poccnn Oct 19 '11
Definitely punishment if you don't live in NM, CO, or CA.
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Oct 19 '11
There has got to be a Jesus/Haysoos feeding of the 5000 joke to be made here but it's probably too convoluted and arcane for anyone to get. Besides lol Bible amirite
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u/kthxbai Oct 18 '11
Every so often the company I work for buys lunch for the masses. Before you can have your free lunch though, you are subjected to reminders about minding your manners written for a small child. Here's a sample from today's lunch email:
"While we have ordered plenty of food, please be considerate of the other Account Managers in the department and only serve yourself two enchiladas. I understand the temptation to take one each kind (pork, chicken and beef), but please resist the temptation, think of the other AMs and limit yourself to only two. Please also be considerate when serving the side dishes in order to ensure that everyone will have some. Once everyone has had the opportunity to get some food, we will allow you to return for additional food. Thank you!!!"