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0 pointswoodrowbarlow4y ago0 comments

this is reminiscent of a recent post on Raymond Chen's blog.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220426-00/?p=10...

(spoilers:) during a collab between Microsoft and IBM, Microsoft engineers were frustrated with the coffee at IBM's offices. IBM refused to let them set up their own coffee pot, but IBM was not allowed to look at anything marked "confidential". so they put a cardboard box over the coffee pot and wrote "confidential" on the side.

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CoffeeOnWrite4y ago

Heh, we brewed desktop kombucha under a cardboard box at my big tech co. Facilities staff were very kind to us when it exploded during the Covid lockdowns..

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