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Comment by weikju

4 days ago

No, the boss is asking for more salt. Employees are then replacing sugar with salt and getting bonuses, no matter what the customer reactions are.

And then word gets around that you put salt in coffee instead of sugar, and people stop going to you. Unless you’re the only deli in town.

  • But all the other delis are doing it as well. So is your supermarket. So is your farmer (somehow they figured out how to add salt to the veggies they sell at the farmer's market!)... Whaddya gonna do? Grow your own? THE SEEDS SHALL HAVE SALT TOO, has been decreed...

  • “We’d like to introduce you to Copilot Enterprise”…

    Yes, the only deli in town. Office, Server, Desktop, now your TV, pretty soon your car.

  • > And then word gets around that you put salt in coffee instead of sugar, and people stop going to you.

    Right, but that's somebody elses problem a few quarters from now.

    • I got my promo for increasing salt adoption, what do I care? I'm jumping ship next week

  • Then your social media & newsfeeds are buzzing about salted coffee, and your work has mandated salt in the coffee, insisting that it increases productivity, and if you’re not partaking you might fail your next performance review.

  • > Unless you’re the only deli in town.

    pretty much.

    back in the before times, we broke up AT&T, but we don't do that anymore.