http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2010/01/resource-hogging/ Email, Delivery, Spam and more Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:06:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2010/01/resource-hogging/comment-page-1/#comment-3663 Huey Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:57:02 +0000 http://blog.wordtothewise.com/?p=1132#comment-3663 I struggle with this. I recently discovered that I enjoy working at the corner bar much more so than my office, but I'm aware that the table I usually sit at is worth, I estimate, around five bucks an hour in tips to the waitress who usually serves it. Now, I have the benefit of dating the manager, and if she's working, the waitress knows that she no longer 'owns' that table (and we generally tip her anyway, just because it seems like the right thing to do) but I'm still aware that this ain't "free office space", it's roughly $5/hr office space, and I'm a douche if I don't actually pay that. But the <i>reason</i> I know this table is worth about $5 an hour is <i>because</i> I'm dating the manager. How am I to know, anywhere else? If the sign says "Free internet to patrons", well, what's 'patrons'? What's fair? I struggle with this. I recently discovered that I enjoy working at the corner bar much more so than my office, but I’m aware that the table I usually sit at is worth, I estimate, around five bucks an hour in tips to the waitress who usually serves it. Now, I have the benefit of dating the manager, and if she’s working, the waitress knows that she no longer ‘owns’ that table (and we generally tip her anyway, just because it seems like the right thing to do) but I’m still aware that this ain’t “free office space”, it’s roughly $5/hr office space, and I’m a douche if I don’t actually pay that. But the reason I know this table is worth about $5 an hour is because I’m dating the manager. How am I to know, anywhere else? If the sign says “Free internet to patrons”, well, what’s ‘patrons’? What’s fair?

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