That feeling when your company has a hiring freeze and is “struggling”, but just stocked the kitchen with a bunch of $5k fridges

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Lol. This thread is not going the way OP had hoped.

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The hiring is frozen not refrigerated.

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That feeling your copywriters think they know how to manage the company because of that barter deal you did six months ago ;)

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Can write those off as "businesses expenses" and people are more expensive than fridges.

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Don’t have to pay those fridges benefits tho

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Can you send one of those functioning fridges our way? One of our fridges has had a missing door handle for 6 months now and the electricity blows in the kitchen if you use the microwave/toaster at the same time.

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Agency owner driving a Beamer. Ad biz ain’t what it used to be...

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And if it's a brand your company works on, they may have been gifted

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Fridges=different budget.

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Was this before or after coming back from Cannes?

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What about that feeling when your biggest client signs on for another 2 year multi-million contract in part due to the success of your work, only to be told that there’s no money for raises right now, but the owner drives to work in a brand new BMW wearing $2,000 shoes.

Or yeah, refrigerators.

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Well...

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Plus they can be depreciated over time

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This thread made my day lol

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What is that feeling? If you’re not getting any help via added employees, maybe a nice vegetable crisper drawer that isn’t soaked in mold will do the trick.

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Struggling to keep that pudding cold!

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Also FYI solid chance the building buys the fridges not the agency

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@director2 IT WAS A FANCY BEEMER hok not some pleeb beem

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This thread is off the rails. 👏👏👏👏👏

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