Working at Six Apart
We interrupt our regular broadcast of Vox-related news and tips to bring you something random that will (maybe) make you laugh.
Working here at Six Apart - home of Vox, TypePad, LiveJournal and Movable Type - is a lot of hard work but also a lot of fun. It's wonderful to work with fiercely intelligent and creative people who also have a sense of humor.
Each of us may work on different products or in different parts of the office, but we're all working on blogging and communication tools, and we all end up in the kitchen (where the free snacks are) sooner or later. Here's something that happened in the company kitchen over the course of last week.
A box of Reese's peanut butter cups appeared, and someone noticed the price on the box, 10 cents each.
Then someone else organized a resale by removing the branding and pricing them at a discount, for only 5 cents.
Soon, there was a Limited Edition offering, for 25 cents.
Or, you could enjoy ad-supported candy for free.
The final offering was open source - free, but you have to make it yourself. A list of ingredients was provided.
In the end, there was something for everyone.
Comments
The open source part is pretty nice. Now I just wonder about imports.We don't have them in France...any solution there ?
Be careful that Reese® doesn't come after you for hacking the ingredients and making it available :-D Remeber CSS and the MPAA!!! LOL!
Well anyways, I'll be watching for you on sourceforge... um... maybe someone would like to take the lead and start building a Joomla/mambo com_chocolate or mod_peanut_butter (Note: not to be installed if you have allergies).
Har har har...
You guys are adorable & this was really funny. Thanks! :) (Also, thanks for the ability to add a few links... even if I wish it could be a few more, every little bit helps, and I know I asked for it multiple times under my two journals' names. So thanks SO MUCH for eventually working something out!)
When I worked at a secondhand bookstore, a coworker and I found an old, random magazine poster of Prince & The Revolution (circa 1985 or so) in the books that came in. Since we couldn't sell it, we hung it up in the staff room and started writing jokes on it, which quickly got out of hand. Prince was labelled "The Man", then the guy on his right was labelled "The Right Hand Man of the Man," then one or the other had their right hands colored red by someone and labelled "The Red Right Hand of the Right Hand Man of The Man," and so on. That's what this reminds me of. (And I think these things are best if the changes are made on the sly....) Although our Prince poster may be a "you had to be there" sort of thing, those of us who were writing on it were really bummed when a manager tore it down.
I have lots of candy!
thanks Krissy and Stacey, laughter is not the best thing, it's the only thing...
my religion, Free Thought, no not the atheist one, the 'i don't believe in ANYTHING' one, requires me to boycott the news, well not entertainiment news, just big and scary news, ok maybe the Baldwin Basinger thingy is pretty scary, so i will boycott that too, just don't tell those ladies on the bus, that i am boycotting the scary news, they will hit me with their Stephen King paperback novels when they leave the bus :)
By the way, can I make a request? I'd like a "this is good" also in Hebrew - we even have Arabic, so where's Hebrew? :) How about "זה טוב!" or "זה מצויין"?
I think I could not live without a sense of humor and people around me who also can laugh. So your office sounds like a fun place! Very clever transitions on the candy....
I second the idea of having a Hebrew 'this is good'.
i can't get reese's peanut butter cups in malaysia :( :( :( such sadness!
love it.
=D
I'm literally smiling right now. What a great (and fun) place to work...
Good laughs! You guys rock.
VOX ROX.!!!!!!!!