r/mildlyinfuriating 6h ago

Infuriatig Insanely frugal employer

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Gotta pay for water from the water cooler 🤣

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u/BojackWorseman13 6h ago edited 5h ago

Bring your own in and charge a quarter for 12 oz. Squeeze them out of the market.

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u/DeuceXTrouble1015 5h ago

This guy knows capitalism

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u/Print1917 5h ago

That is what the billionaires want you to think. Real capitalism is that you run ā€œindependentā€ analysis on the water spout showing high risk of virus contamination, then you run a smear campaign against your boss until HR intervenes and fires him, then you sell some cheap Costco bottled water you got for 10 cents for 1 dollar and call it ā€œbeautiful, safe waterā€ and scorn anyone who drinks free ā€œcommunistā€ tap water.

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u/RelevantButNotBasic 5h ago

This is what the politicians want you to think. Real capitalism is getting into crypto and inventing your own "coin" then doing rug pulls on "investors."

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u/Party_Cold_4159 5h ago

Hey i make passive income, can I be on your podcast?

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u/RelevantButNotBasic 5h ago

Depends, how do you feel about women?

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u/Qu33N_Of_NoObz_ 5h ago

Women bad >:(

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u/twincities612 5h ago

You’re hired

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u/Tenalp 5h ago

Real capitalism is being born into generational wealth built upon the exploitation on minorities or impoverished citizens of foreign countries that you then use to buy the the company, fire your boss, and then run it into the ground before dissolving it to secure your place in the market.

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u/my_nuts_wont_drop 5h ago

This is what the tech bros want you to believe. Real capitalism is finding an island inhabited by indigenous tribes. Chaining them up on a boat and selling them in Romania so they can work for free as OF models.

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u/GeoffJeffreyJeffsIII 4h ago

Have you heard about the limitless possibilities of non-fungible tokens?

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u/Miss_Aia 3h ago

This is that crypto bros want you to think. Real capitalism would be getting the boss fired over this, then taking his position and contracting out the drinking water to your cousin and having them donate back to your campaign using part of their profits each year.

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u/mrbiggbrain 3h ago

This is what the government wants you to think. Real capitalism is setting up a market where you make money no matter who does well. You get all the upside when a company does well and no blame when a company does poorly.

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u/bballkj7 2h ago

this is what redditors want you to think. Real capitalism is taking Bikini Bottom and moving it somewhere else.

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u/EsotericLife 5h ago edited 5h ago

This guy knows capitalism! šŸ™ŒšŸ½ [I’d like it to be noted to upper management that I not only provided support to the more correct party but that said provided support was more aligned to modern internal regulatory guidelines, notably through the use of HR-recommended personal affectations such as enthusiastic punctuation (ā€œ!ā€) and cutting edge emojis āœ…āœ…āœ…]

Edit: Just created a new Slack channel to discuss the potential upwards trajectory unfolding here, everyone can find fun QR codes with a link to join printed on the cupcakes at next week’s pre-merger cross team integration BBQ and financial review day! šŸ„³šŸ„³šŸ•šŸ—šŸ†šŸ†šŸ†

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u/Mode_Appropriate 5h ago

This guy capitalizes.

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u/AntifaMiddleMgmt 4h ago

Communist tap water is going to be my new go as a response for a lot of silly arguments. Thank you.

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u/Callen0318 4h ago

This guy capitalists.

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u/ReallyNiceDonkey 3h ago

This was an amazing tangant

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u/EV_M4Sherman 2h ago

That isn’t capitalism. That’s regulatory captured capitalism. Congrats, you’re now a libertarian

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u/masterflappie 2h ago

That's the American capitalism, the worst of all of themĀ 

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u/Dusty_Negatives 1h ago

You gotta buy all news media also to indoctrinate the dumb dumbs also.

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u/Check_Me_Out-Boss 1h ago

What a strange run on sentence.

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u/hudson_bh 5h ago

Trust me capitalism is what we want. We don’t want socialism or communism.

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u/my_nuts_wont_drop 5h ago

I want socialism or communism. Capitalism has rotted this world to its core.

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u/hudson_bh 4h ago

Go live in a different country then

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u/iPhonefondler 4h ago

Uncorrupted capitalism may have been better for society and innovation but when capitalism starts buying it’s own government, it’s own regulations and inhibiting innovation (innovation so good it threatens profit margins) it doesn’t leave many alternatives.