The Water Cooler

5:55 AM

Morning working people

Good Morning TWP!!

@SouravGhosh morning you

@avazula Helloc!! How are you doing?

@SouravGhosh I'm great, thanks! You?

@avazula Been busy, but can't complain. :)

6:05 AM

@SouravGhosh well it's all that matters :)

Just posted a motivational answer, hope it helps. :)

Heck, I myself am in need of some motivation. :)

6:22 AM

@SouravGhosh You're doing great: You got this!

@avazula Cheers!! :)

:)

6:50 AM

MOooooooooorning

leaves

RETURNNNNN SMART ONE!

nah

I'm a smart one

?

haha

6:58 AM

Continues to pretend he didn't edit it

still knows what to believe

Believes Ava is believing wrong

7:51 AM

We can go on so far with this

Magisch

morning

8:12 AM

@Twyxz you rang?

Nah I booked online but I guess yeh :p

Or did you mean

Smart one

I'm a bit lost

Lilienthal

9:26 AM

@Tina_Sea Assuming you are referring to the unfortunate way the discussion yesterday was handled, that was what I trust will remain an isolated incident with the chat moderation team. IIRC your message asked "why are people so rude?", which is rather broader and predates that affair.

So if you have other instances in mind of people behaving rudely, whether here or on the main site, I hope that you would flag those for our attention. Or expand on what you were referring to when you said that.

mornin

11:08 AM

Question : If you guys had £57 billion how on earth would you spend it?

@Twyxz few million on myself (cars, houses, experiences) and friends, as for the rest I'd probably look to join up with the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation and see it do some good

@Twyxz I think anyone having that sort of money will be looking to invest them, not spend them - in a broader sense.

@SouravGhosh Well you couldn't spend it all, unless you're crazy and buy all businesses I don't think it's possible to spend that much money. By the time you pass away it'll probably go to family or to waste. The only way you can ensure it doesn't devalue is probably investing in real estate and land

@motosubatsu Yeah there's no way you'd ever need that much money

11:24 AM

or you could buy just under 7% of Apple I suppose

correction.. you said £57 billion not $ so that would be ~ 8.5% of Apple

That's just stupid

But their annual profit is something around 100 billion right

so I'd be living the life of half a year at apple :P

always diversify your investments folks

11:40 AM

I'd be a fish in high stakes poker, where I'd spend most of my days since I'd no longer work.

with 57 millions, no need to have risky investments

spend 7 million to buy your dream house, car, whatever

its 57 billion

just screw investing

oh

burn the cash

build a house with money

11:45 AM

You would die burning the cash

the amount of fumes and time it would take to do

You would probably destroy earth before you destroyed the money

well i do plan to loose around 10 millions a year playing poker

10 to 100 mllions, more like

its also about how expensive are the hookers. Im surprised i have to mention that

and that nobody did before me

Hookers? You could buy models, 90% of people/gold diggers have a price

100 million a year to lose 57 billion you'd have to play for 570 years

I think you need a more expensive hobby

maybe some trips to space here and there

to break the monotony of earth

I think I'd get sick of travelling

i would also have 24/7 personal assistants that i can call to make me a sandwitch at 2AM. I like slaves

11:59 AM

You know I got to 24/7 personal assistants and I was like you might as well then I read the rest of your message :/

am i too dark or

@ArthurHavlicek well if you pay them they aren't really slaves

it wouldn't be that hard to do - just hire three people on a decent wage for a PA/valet have them work rotating 8hour shifts

yea

that'll give you 24 hour coverage for sandwiches

won't even cost that much

100% sandwich SLA

no but yea i do plan to spend a lot on stuff that seem futile and after a while maybe some of the money would be gone

its just a matter of being creative

12:07 PM

say you hire 4 - so you've got cover for holidays etc

pay them £50k a year for the unsocialable hours and that is "only" 200k a year

I suppose you could take them on holidays for free and most of the time when you don't require help they just enjoy basically

I wouldn't say they'd have to follow me but just be ready to receive a call from me

So they'd be paid more than £50k in reality but they'd be losing out on family time etc

They wouldn't be driving no RS5 in my squad either so I'd probably just hook em up with a supercar after a year yknow :P

Q: How to negotiate in an internship-interview?

12:26 PM

"bumped to the homepage by Community♦ "..what is that?

0

I will soon have an interview about a possible internship. However there are a few things which are sub-optimal: I do not have my exam results yet - if I sign a contract now but have failed in my exams this would be a problem I am not familiar with the technical skills - I need to learn a lot ...

interviewing negotiation time-management

@motosubatsu hey, see, today somehow I got that onebox view for the question link ^^

If it's bumped to the homepage by community it is a question that hasn't had either enough attention or a specific answer

and can be seen as answerable

I think?

@Twyxz Yeah, that's what is the description..only I have never noticed this earlier, so it's a new thing to me.

Ah yeah, it rarely happens here on the workplace cos most questions are dealt with usually

1:39 PM

I hate these guys that steal my answers and say it better than me

@ArthurHavlicek Happens!!

2:18 PM

@motosubatsu Does that to all my answers @ArthurHavlicek :) Thief!

@Twyxz haha.. I knew you were going to say that.

in all honesty it does happen a lot with me - simply because my answers are so tediously verbose that they take me longer to write, and if I don't refresh the page before posting then someone more concise (such as @Twyxz) could easily have posted a similar answer while I was writing mine and I've just not seen it.

What that spiel means, "I'm a fraud, I steal Twyxz's answers"

You're the sole reason I rarely contribute now

@Twyxz i just think you lack commitment Mr 99 days :P

Don't even start this... I swear

Do you even have the badge? @motosubatsu

@Twyxz oh hells yeah

workplace.stackexchange.com/help/badges/55/fanatic?userid=64903

I got that before you even joined noob! :D

2:29 PM

Is there any way I can see how close I got?

Like a record of logged in days

I can use the query editor thing right? @motosubatsu

@Twyxz possibly.. must admit I've never tried

Ahhhh I wanna know

Where's Snow when you need him

what's happened to the man :(

in all seriousness I hope you don't stop contributing - you've provided some pretty kick ass answers in your time

Q: Reopen request - question closed as unclear

I'm too lazy, even changing my profile picture is too high maintenance

Pointy Haired Boss

3:03 PM

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Dismissed on grounds of misconduct, without police involvement This was closed as unclear, which seems to be because the original version of the text was very brief and included an acronym that only has meaning in the UK. It's since been edited and now has a great answer, and it seems perfectly ...

discussion reopen-request

IDrinkandIKnowThings

3:49 PM

Happy Tuesday

4:01 PM

@IDrinkandIKnowThings Happy Tuesday

Monica Cellio

4:31 PM

@Twyxz @motosubatsu uh, this is just harmless banter and you aren't really upset with each other, right?

@MonicaCellio yeah just banter :)

sorry if it was confusing (given yesterday I can see why it might have been)

Monica Cellio

4:52 PM

@motosubatsu thanks for clearing that up. I thought it was just banter, but given context, wanted to make sure.

@MonicaCellio no worries.. never a bad idea to be sure in these sorts of situations

bruglesco

@ArthurHavlicek anytime someone says what I did, only better (which happens more than I like), I view it as an opportunity to improve.

and to plot revenge!! I mean mostly what what @bruglesco said of course...

:D