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Papa Johns is the company that gave Taylor swift several million dollars for the privilege of giving her tens of millions of dollars to buy her CDs upfront and to try to resell them when people bought a pizza. They are godforsakenly stupid.
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savesthedayrocks posted:Counter point- that’s how I was introduced to Tony Hawk on PS1. The demo disc was free with the order of the Pizza, Taylor's album you had to pay full price ontop of the pizza.
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Something not mentioned there that I know because I worked on that failure, they had to pay for the CDs upfront, so TayTay basically sold an extra million copies. Whoever negotiated that deal on behalf of Taylor Swift is a negotiating god
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The story gets better, if you like people who are a nexus of bad decision making. The guy in charge of making that deal from the Papa Johns side decided, hey, Ill jump ship to the ad agency that handles the Papa Johns business. He does this by selling in that Papa loves him thus helping secure the business for the ad agency for years and obviously he is super skilled. This is a lie, as John Schnatter is a paperyskinned punk who tried to get someone fired for bringing pizza from home for lunch at a company he didn't own. What does happen is nearly instantly Papa Johns puts the business in review because he is absolutely livid. It also, in rapid succession, becomes obvious that someone who thinks teen girls in 2010 throw pizza parties with all their girlfriends to listen to new music releases and can't tell that John Schnatter would punch his own mother in the mouth if she laughed at him is in fact really poo poo at his job. Like fired in less than 6 months poo poo at his job. Here comes the best part, our dude here wanted a house when he moved to florida. Does he buy a house? Nope, he buys land on an expensive as hell golf course lot to build his own multimillion dollar project. In an excellent bit of timing he gets fired just after the foundation is laid.
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BonerGhost posted:I need to hear more about this John Schnatter was walking through his ad agencies offices one day and saw a 1st job out of school kid eating pizza he brought from home at his desk. He then proceeded to fixate on it so completely that he delayed the entire purpose of his meeting and threatened to leave, get back on his private plane, and go home unless that kid got fired for brand disloyalty. They managed to talk him down to an in-person reprimand and an official company policy that any non-papa johns pizza at the office would result in a write up moving forward. Said person did not work on his business.
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A dude making six figures in silicon valley who mocked his wife for watching music competition shows did not understand why I laughed in his face when he talked about his sneaker and popsmart figurine portfolio
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Dec 14, 2020 17:20
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Raid Leader in WoW on resume looks a lot less stupid
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smackfu posted:I would think a Nike exec makes really good money? Love to know if the kid was scamming her or if they were colluding. Using her Amex to fund it suggests the latter. VP at Nike in a single market won't be clearing 100k a month, no.
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Sundae posted:Do the starter cards still have utterly obscene interest rates? Mine was a $500 limit from CapitalOne with a 49% APR. You can check my post history because in 2011 I had to give Citibank 200 dollars to get a 200 dollar line of credit credit card. I believe it had 38% APR or something insane. That limit was also a lie; if I ever put more than 150 on the card it would instantly drain from my reserves and lock the account until I hand mailed them a new check to top back up to 200, no online transfers allowed. The first month I had it setup I found out the "automatic pay" didnt work, I had to manually initiate it. By calling them over the phone. For 12 straight months I had to remember to call them to pay them via the setup online payment system because ???? The best is when I closed the account a year later they mailed me a check for 200 dollars then demanded 50 cents from me for closing fees. Well they didn't tell me, I found out about it when I got my credit pulled because I was buying a house. I had to call these fuckers up and fax them a check for 50 cents (check cost me 18 bucks to buy because who the gently caress has checks) to finish this process. Last year Citibank reached out to me to manage my assets and I literally picked up the call expressly to tell the person on the other end of the call to gently caress off forever. Barudak fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Apr 23, 2021 |
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In Japan I got a card to let me ride the railway across all companies. They recently have been pushing people to switch to making it part of your phones contact pay method. I decided, yeah, sure fumbling in my wallet sucks let me do that. 1) It disables the physical card forever 2) It breaks your auto-refill 3) If you manually refill it, you can no longer add coins because on machines that accept this touch system to reload where coins used to go is now the new place you tap your phone Secret Bonus they don't tell you anywhere until after you've set up 4) You can for no discernable reason only refill it with master card credit cards once you move it to your phone. Old bank info? gently caress off! Visa card? Piss up a rope By doing this process I now have to carry more cash than I did before and have no way to get rid of coins. Im legitimately debating getting another physical card.
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Cacafuego posted:
I want a followup with this person real bad
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you have more faith in your fellow Americans than I do:
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Residency Evil posted:You seem to know a lot about this bourgeoise pastime, comrade. Unbefitting of the BWM thread. I know a lot about the sport because my first ever direct report was a woman who was a world championship caliber polo player and whose father was some obscenely high-exec in Fox. She showed up to work in a custom 100k+ BMW where all the badges instead of white and blue where white and pink. She lasted 3 weeks during which time she did nothing but mope about how much this job sucked (hoooboy true) and her polo horses. After that she told us she was leaving as her dad agreed she'd gotten enough experience working and got her a job in New York for low six figures.
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I think it was avengers 4 but one of the big Disney films charged theaters 120% of the ticket gross for the first week. Not that it matters much anymore because vertical integration is legal again awoooooooo
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Griefor posted:Yeah but what if we disrupt farming by skirting all the regulations? Too late, Im flush with VC cash for my new initiative Gathr
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Gucci is selling regular glasses frames... but upside-down for $755. This isn't even close to the most embarassing gucci thing people have paid for in the last 3 years. They have an entire collection intended to look like lovely knock offs of gucci complete with print errors. If your not familiar with Hermes, absolutely look up their business model because they literally operate on negging rich peoples for money.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The poor Social Media Marketing Director for Truly is going to get a stern talking to about his engagement metrics. You assume anyone even checks this
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There is a program called covenanteyes which when you look at porn it emails everyone you know to say you've broken your marriage covenant by looking at porn which I think probably feeds a kink.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Do HOAs exist outside of the US? It seems like an extremely US thing to do. Yes, they exist in China for instance. They just in my experience have way less authority to do stuff or force you to do things with your property but I'm hearing even that is changing.
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I just trained my dog how to use a shotgun to get rid of the birds and it worked a beaut. Problem when I go into the bank, but since Covid not been a big issue.
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If you're gonna get married somewhere do it in China. Absolute best expectations of guest vs dollar cost ratio of anywhere I've ever been. Only downside really is you will absolutely have a minimum guest count of like 250+
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No, let them sink their money into NFTs and Crypto, it makes investing in stocks marginally cheaper.
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Never get married so you can never get divorced <finger taps head meme holding my many, many child support payments>
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Bird in a Blender posted:Having people describe photo developing like it's a lost technology makes me feel really old. I guess some of this stuff wasn't really common knowledge back in the day though. When it was a thing for me it went to a store and they developed it for you, so the only people developing their own were professionals and criminals
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What is that dudes mom even up to jesus christ thats looking your finances dead in the eyes and pulling the trigger
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Bird in a Blender posted:I’d like to say the market for gambling has to be about tapped out, but it keeps growing. Used to be you had to make a special trip to one of the few places that had legal gambling. Now it’s everywhere and yet there still seems to be room to grow. So many people just looking to throw their money away. A decade ago the math I was looking at was "fundamentally, there is a maximum amount of money being spent on gambling, and by creating more localized casino you're just moving the locations where that gambling money is spent" but I didn't work in the industry and that math has not seemingly not been borne out but it also wasn't based on lower stakes one armed bandits in every gas station either.
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Bird in a Blender posted:That really reads like some guy trying to hide money for an impending divorce, but then buying a house is one of the worst things you could do. I think the house is not being bought and the poster is using that to try and figure out how to hide assets in a divorce as hes assuming they're similar processes
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Dr. Eldarion posted:Can't wait for the inevitable BWM reddit post from someone trying to justify buying a $60K Tesla because their cats keep getting stolen. Can't steal a cat that isn't there! Thats just George who is an outlier and should not be counted, as he has a catalytic convertor stolen every day.
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Thats pretty cool if thats what TY did Boomers also tried to get rich hoarding 90s comic books which also went disastrously
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brugroffil posted:Counter point: a handful of trading card games that have survived since the 90's; Lego architect sets. I think that ties into both "its hard to predict what will be valuable" and "it has to have been used by people, they need nostalgia for its use". Armacham posted:Nothing was worse as a kid than getting a "collectors item" as a present because my dumbass parents would never let me take it out of the box and play with it. I had a friend who got gifts from his dad every year of boxed toys he wasn't allowed to play with and around 10 had a meltdown at his birthday party because he didn't want to open the gift from his dad which he knew he wouldn't be allowed to play with.
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Heritage Auctions is a straight up scam outfit desperate to break into the legal scam of the art world.
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Democratic Pirate posted:*Ent lawyers begin advancing on the Isengard courthouse* After short deliberation Judge Theoden has put forward a sentence of death, death, deaaaaath
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I dunno what you're talking about, its very logical that possessing money produces more money because the computers I gave money to digitally smooched each other.
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I assume his credit score is [ERROR]
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Space Kablooey posted:Shoulda have been glue-making. All natural, hand crafted, farm-raised, artisanal gelatin
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FrozenVent posted:Aren’t they having a hard time hiring people because of their reputation too? They offset it (historically) by paying completely out of line for non programmer roles where people are most sensitive to their reputation. Were talking job that pays 150k usd going for 250k and stock in meta.
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Im starting at using the imperial measurement system and then radiating out from there
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Isn't the whole point of a bail bond that you're only liable for 10% or so of the bail instead of the full amount? Like isn't what happened the risk the bail bondsman signed up for? You pay 10% and the bail bond company covers the rest. If you bailee jumps you can expect the bail bond company is gonna want the 90% you owe or the person to show up in court.
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I remember that after having to pay to get a secured credit card because my own bank wouldn't give me a card when I finally got a bank card I had to go in person and yell at them to raise my limit because it was approximately 1/10th my monthly after tax income and I was making federal minimum to be a salaried employee. I'm always astonished that other people seemingly can just get gobs o credit at will instead of having to wring the necks of support staff to even get a basic card and argue that "when I said make a note on my account I am traveling out of the country these days" it did not mean "preemptively cancel all my credit cards the first dat of the trip and mail new ones to my house". My bank in Japan argued I did not qualify for a credit card despite in the very next sentence trying to sell me on their highest tier investor program.
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A friend of mines dad gave him a hundred bucks to invest in penny stocks and one of them, some eastern european TV network, ended up ballooning from like 6 cents a share to 11 dollars a share so my friends sub 10 dollar investment into their company paid for an absolutely sick party
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I wish I could remember the industry term for people maximize exploiting introductory offers and one time card deals because the people at the card company I knew bitched about them constantly. The funniest part is one of those people at said card company was one of those line openers and got yearly plane tickets/hotels/etc for his family of 6 by revolving credit around
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