Jan 10, 2007

What's So Wrong With Peace, Love, Understanding & Bagels?

What's So Wrong With Peace, Love, Understanding & Bagels? ePrize never was one of those "bubble companies" like those we used to laugh and dream about being at when reading FuckedCompany.com. There were no on-site masseuses, champaign wishes, or cavier dreams. The biggest perks we got were some snacks and five-cent soda. When things got tight when Rare-Medium pulled out funding the snacks went away but we always kept the cheap soda. The one thing we didn't have was bagels.

One of the project managers was determined that giving employees bagels on a regular basis would be a tremendous morale booster -- not that he ever brought (m)any in on his own. My boss scoffed, if not openly mocked, this notion. Even years after this PM departed you could still hear my boss chuckling to himself, "Bagels... Ha... what a crazy idea... Nice..."

The funny thing is, I was talking to a former coworker of mine who has come to work for a company that does a regular weekly bagel day. Without prompting he waxed romantically about those perk those little, round, dense, chewy, doughy rings of goodness. I guess sometimes those little things do matter. Food for thought.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi back, jackass. Is my writing really that muddled that you think I said a PM was going to bring in bagels? No, that's not the case. Just saying that bagels are nice. Not that I need to eat any since you've determined that I'm overweight somehow.

Glad you had a fun time at the rollout. I wouldn't know what happened at Organic yesterday but can ask around if you're really curious. Are you thinking of moving over there?

techprof said...

Is Eprizer another neppit who Hero Worships their beloved leader. Obviously they are very touchy whenever authority or the company is questioned. It must be a ongoing menstral problem,or maybe the leader itself masquerading anonymously (cringing at every comment they cannot control)

Anonymous said...

Geez, I'm not sure I even like Bagels anymore. Unless they have scallion cream cheese....thats my favorite.

Dean Ditto

Anonymous said...

Actually I take that back, I love bagels. In regards to the posts, I think ePrizer needs to take a deep breath. Let's summarize the posts;

NOLIMITS: I like Bagels, some folks think they serve to increase morale.

EPRIZER: Hey jackass. We do have bagels often.

Although ePrizers post may have held merit in discrediting NoLimits bagel story by showing how much chow they get pumped down their throats on a regular basis, starting a paragraph "Hey jackass" risks losing the audience. By the way, I think in this regards Jackass should have been capitalized as you’ve taken to using it as a formal name.

Unknown said...

Didn't expect that bagels would spark such a flurry of responses.

I'm glad to hear that the birthday cake tradition has started back up. That was one thing that went away for a while that was definitely missed.

@YOTC -- I've heard about that speech. It's definitely infamous. Sounds like a real morale booster.