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One of the best pieces of lore at my employer came courtesy of our "free food" slack channel. It was customary, after catered meetings, to post the ___location of any leftovers so the vultures could come by and enjoy a free second lunch.

Until.

Until the "cool intern" noticed food outside a conference room shortly after noon and posted it on the free food channel. Hordes of people came by to avail themselves of the food, leaving a horrified meeting organizer to fight them off while trying to post a rebuttal on slack saying that the food was NOT, in fact, available for the taking, the attendees hadn't had a lunch break yet, pleading with people to stop taking their food, etc.




>leaving a horrified meeting organizer to fight them off while trying to post a rebuttal on slack

Perhaps they should have used Discord instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRs0OqV4uSc




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