Eh. it’s start up culture. They give the C suite 50 million dollars and want 100 million dollars in 10 years and they aren’t shy about going full Gordon Ramsay on anyone not 100% dedicated to that, even if you just get paid hourly to manage social media

venture capital. a group of investors with money who will put that money into promising companies so when it’s successful you make more money back.

I’m on board with rules if it involves live animals tbh

I had a car, license plate CME1234 (fake numbers) so I called it “The Comemobile”

little did I know that Neighborhood Tires could also see the name I gave it on the portal.

OutsideXbox - funny, lighthearted British video games commentary

Every word has stress. You probably mean the first phoneme is stressed. And the “rum” sound you’re looking for is called the “schwa”

I also use this for pills.

Just for pills.

The pills.

Yes.

in the uk old timers would order “whiskey and threat” - like just threaten it with water

generally people in the creative industries are nicer and drama free, but when they melt down they really melt down. I’ve worked on a few big movies, famous artist music videos - they’ve all been lovely. Worked for a small scale entertainment company, was a complete nightmare.

in the corpo world I have found very few people that are just chill, but I work with a lot of startups with VC funding - so likely a lot of pressure and billionaire bootlickers. Worked for a large TV shopping channel, old money, it was like a competition to see who could be the most bigoted; worked for a newly minted $50MM startup, everyone trying their hardest to be a cool rude dude who could out-cuss Gordon Ramsay.

I remain incredibly nice, thoughtful, understanding, professional, my LinkedIn is filled with positive recommendations.

I am commenting this from a terrible strip club with friends who dragged me here. I wish I was in your position.

I mean it’s true here.

it’s more interesting to me you think Britney Spears wasn’t marketed towards men.

honestly, I preferred reddit. But I’m here out of principle.

our work uses macs but also Kandji for software management, which also locks you into restarts during business hours 😎

Agree to disagree - to me the Uk office was a Gervais vehicle with the Tim/Dawn romance Christmas special episode as a nice bonus and Gareth as an occasional funny victim of his own hubris. Keith and Finchy having a couple of good scenes. Neil, Donna, Rachel, Jennifer, Jamie, Ralph… all very forgettable.

In the US office, as mentioned, I think its a well rounded ensemble comedy where you can feel it’s a collab of a writers room and a complicit cast. Everyone has their favorite moments from pretty much any character…

In the early 2000s I probably would’ve liked the UK office more because I was an edgy teen. 25 years later and after an 8 year run, 200 episodes vs 14 - I feel like I’d much rather turn on the US one if I wanted a laugh.

heres a controversial opinion: The American Office vs the UK Office.

While I respect the original, Gervais’ external antics and the much meaner, darker humor just don’t create as good a comedy vehicle that enables the viewer to laugh and have fun and enjoy themselves watching the show

I’m curious about comparing this to say - the white phosphorus scene in Spec Ops: The Line, or the airport scene (“no Russian”) in COD, rescuing Ellie instead of giving humanity the cure in The Last of Us…

All things that are arguably a lot worse than pulling a leg off a stuffed Elephant and all require on-rails player action in a game.

To take the devils advocate position: is conflict not necessary for drama, and effective conflict is one that affects its audience?

the former is known as “audience left/right”

but allow me to use a more dated theatrical terminology:

prompt side and bastard prompt.

and before that, get the drive name from the “black kid”.