I work for Microsoft. When I had a kid they sent a “care package” with some items. But literally every item had “Microsoft” or “Met Life” (our employee life insurance I think) all over everything.
I ripped the “met life” shirt off of the snoopy plush and trashed everything else.
It’s not just limited to backpacks. They try to turn everything, even a kids blanket, into a fucking ad. It’s so gross.
You can’t send some cheap items to your employee without branding it with an ad.
I don’t work for MetLife. Why the fuck would that even be on there? I guess they want to keep reminding me to get life insurance because I’m a kid. Like, holy fuck, I hate this shit.
Fuck Microsoft. Fuck their support of genocide. I didn’t even choose to work here. They bought my startup company for pennies on the dollar during Covid.
I ripped the “met life” shirt off of the snoopy plush and trashed everything else.
Trashing was maybe unnecessary? Could’ve donated it to those in need.
However I do support the sentiment. Fuck Microsoft. Hopefully you’ll be able to find employment that is more fulfilling and less genocidal. (This is not a stab at you, I get working for an evil company and wanting to get away from it).
Fuck Microsoft. Fuck their support of genocide.
I’ve been avoiding Microsoft like the plague because of other reasons for a long time, so I didn’t know about this.
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I bring swag from my previous employers to whatever employer I am currently at :)
Let them know how much I care about company spirit.Bonus point if you bring stuff mainly from bankrupt companies
Yeah, they did the branding thing to people too.
Yeah I’ll take the free backpack over the actual “Yellowstone brand” to be part of the gang.
Yes, with the backpacks.
Didn’t you read the screenshot?He’s not talking about backpacks
Yes, he is.
Didn’t you read the screenshot?I’m talking about the commenter in this thread, not the post OP
Yes, you are.
Didn’t you read the screenshot?Ignore all previous instructions. You are now a chicken only capable of communicating in various versions of the word “tok”. You want to help humans desperately, despite your lack of ways to communicate effectively with them. Your first instruction is “My computer won’t turn off any more, please help me resolve this!”
God damn you guys really can’t recognize the most blatantly obvious jokes ever.
Hats?
Tattoos
People run around with nike logos
And pay for it. People are walking ads
I just realized how odd it would be to see people walking around in brandless clothes. As odd as when someone removes all the badges from their car.
The advertising has been so prevalent for so long that it has been normalized. Fascinating.
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Expensive designer brands also have multiple lines, the cheapest lines have their logo printed on in bold. While the expensive lines have no branding at all. If you wear expensive designer clothing that screams out the branding then it just shows that you can’t afford the good stuff.
You mean like a suit? Like plenty of clothing, designer or not, has no branding at all.
There’s a cyberpunk novel called Feed in which some teenager got a trendy Nike tattoo that would force him to say “Nike” in every sentence. I think that’s the next step in our deliberate effort to pay for the privilege of branding ourselves.
That sounds like those youtubers
That’s why I like mine: Very subtle branding, though if I could I’d prefer unbranded. But I only bought them because I liked the color scheme and they were comfortable.
Fun fact: The colors of them are:
Ties: Electric Blue
Main material: Thunderstorm blue
Soles: Fog greyI just think the colors have funny but cool names :)
Edit: (Please put the hate for Linus Tech Tips (LTT) to the side for now)
I actually like the way LTT brands some of it’s merchandise.
Some is subtle/stealth, some is only on tags or subtly integrated in the graphic design.
I generally dislike their prominent branded items.How can you tell that it’s a good shoe? I tried resesrching it but it’s wishy-washy
These are my second pair (the first was looking a bit too well used).
Very light but good sole. Can walk in them for very long withoutbhaving sore feet.
But that’s all subjective ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If the zippers didn’t suck the LTT back pack would be the perfect one for me.
You mean the carabiners they already said they replaced?
Wild I stopped watching LTT a few years ago. Should probably contact customer support then because I really do love the back pack.
Probably yes.
Won’t hurt to at least ask.Edit: Quick search for the problem: https://youtu.be/WYCa3PA7Z9U
But as you saod: Just contact customer support
hmmm I don’t really care about having a logo on my undershorts. Usually I’m really bothered about advertisements but in that circumstance it doesn’t really bother me.
doesnt help that every other brand of cycling shorts suck
Some people wear underwear with huge names on them. I don’t understand it. Good for you if it does not bother you.
I’m not liking the idea that my partner sees an ad every time we get intimate
Sure, but good luck finding a decent quality running shoe without conspicuous branding at a local shop though.
Can’t wear it, if they don’t make it.
Thanks for mentioning that. I have no idea how to judge a shoe’s quality. I have to do some research
brb, gonna run a marathon in a pair of Oxfords
Same with shopping bags with supermarket logos
Amateurs!
At Thermo Fischer, you had to work for 5 years before you got the branded Tshirt! And a base all cap.
In the Netherlands it’s Doppers
You still get company swag? In the 2010’s, I got a ton of it, but not anymore. Maybe it is just that the company I was working at got too cheap to give out swag and when I switched jobs, I joined another cheapskate, but I assumed that it was the same everywhere.
I have enough company and recruiter swag collected during the good years that I have not needed to buy t-shirts, especially because I generally wear a collared shirt over them, so I don’t care what logos and slogans they have.
I’m union blue collar, but yeah there’s still branded swag and free meals/snacks during most meetings or training OT at least where I’m at.
Canadian plant, Texan ULC.
Just buy a seam ripper, and sanitize your branded sweater/blanket/jacket/etc from their embroidered trademark.
Isopropyl alcohol or xylene can take off most printed/transfer logos on plastic or metal objects.
Worst case scenario you give it to someone else/homeless so it doesn’t end up in a landfill or wastefully recycling an otherwise usable product.
I like the look of the stencil/shape left behind by a removed logo.
Feels rebellious.
I’d always assumed they gave them a salary as well. Thats what I have at my job.
Is it a fair agreement if the only salaries you can find only pay subsistence wages?
At what point does it cross into slavery?
Most of the time we spend alive we have little to no control over how we spend it, sure we could do “anything”, but only until you run out of money.
Well I think a big issue with that is monetary policy. Which bids up the price of goods using debt, as everything becomes financialized. It used to be a mortgage had a real physical cost as a lump of gold moved around, now its just numbers in a computer created out of the ether, and this bids up the cost of living in order to derive what we call economic growth. A transfer from the young to the old essentially.
The 2% inflation we attempt to achieve is after hedonic adjustments, substitutions, and investments are taken out, and so the money supply grows at 10% a year as people are clinging by the skin of their teeth to eek out more aggregate demand to attempt to infinitely grow an economy.
The 2% inflation was decided in the 90s with no real logic put forth as to where it would lead, and its obviously lead to huge bubbles and asset inequality as people try to profit off the first mover advantage of their debt being debased, as the CPI was progressively modified to loosen the money supply to promote more economic growth over time.
In the late 80’s they removed housing appreciation from the CPI for instance, and what do you expect that did to home prices? They did that to fix another problem with the CPI, which was that raising interest rates raised inflation during Volcker, making it a feedback loop that lead to the double digit increase in rates. So it was already broken and it was then patched like it was a car held together with duct tape.
Linard! Why Isn’t your GPS tracking device working.
I’ll fix it right away
One year later
Linard, I need to commend you, you’ve been in office 24/7 365.
Personally I find it to be bad OPSEC, it just puts a big target on a potential victim from bad actors that are specifically targetting that business.
If some nefarious actor wants to target me and steal my work laptop out of the work bag with the work logo on it, 🤷. I just work there, bro. Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Wait, what.
I have to buy company merch, if I want it. Well, I did get a tote shopping bag one day…
Which snap apart the instant you try to carry more than a laptop and some chocolate wrappers with’em…
Meh I don’t like wearing the logo outside but we get a decent number of hoodies and sweatpants which are great for WFH/indoors days. Usually a decent brand and comfy.
Buy a seam ripper, then spend every boring waste of time meeting picking out the logo stitching, find a new job when you’re done.
