Fun airport game:
Look at the Starbucks menu and design the most expensive drink possible. My record is something like £20
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Is Starbucks still a thing over there? Rarely see them over here, Costa coffee has taken over.
Chinas now one of the largest markets
Costa tried in China, but not as big as Starbucks
Used to be that way here. When I was in my teens, you couldn’t move for Starbucks opening up. Costa seem to have cornered the market pretty well these days though.
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I’ve had starbuck and costa. At least in China, the Starbucks’ put out a more consistent product. Hints at better employee training. IDK if this holds water elsewhere though
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Supersetting across bench and seated row this morning, I was happy to share the bench with another dude given limited stations.
We can all be friends…
I used to be the planning and operations guy. Everyone on my level hated me during work hours and we sometimes even had prolonged screaming matches, while the guys under me loved me. When I decided to step into just an overall management role because I was getting too burnt out, it’s turned into the opposite excluding the tech guys only I can oversee since I was the only one who was insisting on incorporating more tech a couple of years ago and went and studied basic computer shit. The reason is probably because I need to manage the tech guys like more like snowflakes but that’s the only way I, as in me, as in I’m not fucking Steve Jobs, can get the best work out of them.
EDIT:
Speaking of Jobs, I believe he was mostly a marketing/advertising guy. IME, his methods ARE the way you get the best out of creative people. They seem to work best when you know how to push their pressure points, which is kinda contrary to popular belief. Which is why my guys now hate me lol. I really have no idea how he managed to do the same with his tech guys. Fucker was a genius.
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I saw a Starbucks-like cafe along with an almost exact replica of it’s logo in Nanchang 10 years ago but they also included the traditional Chinese tea stuff along with the elaborate tea set. I don’t know if the franchise took off or not.
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I’m secretary of the econ research club, but I’m starting to regret it a bit.
I feel like the “odd woman out”. I’m not humourous like the old secretary, don’t play video games and I have a feeling that most of the members think I’m an annoying prick.
Being in a leadership position just isn’t my style.
Your guys aren’t receiving a pay check and I’m assuming they aren’t dependant on your evaluations of their performances for anything substantial to do with their future prospects. It’d be different in other cases. Just learn HOW to delegate work and try to find out what really drives different people when actually trying to get them to do work and forget about whether they like you or not. You normally won’t figure some idiots out so don’t bother with them and don’t waste extra time banging your head on the wall trying to “convert” them not matter how much your mind tells you to accept this “challenge”. They’d be sacked eventually if this was real life.
DO NOT do shit like do everything yourself EVEN if you have to meet certain deadlines because lots of fuckers just aren’t doing their part or everyone will pass the buck, along with all the work, to you eventually. That would also defeat the purpose of using this as a personal learning process. Spend your mental energy on figuring out HOW to make them do their parts and take in what works with the majority even if some fuckers don’t respond. It’s just college. In the worst case scenario, pass the unfinished work from these fuckers to others in a diplomatic way and they may even do their part by pressuring them to do their own work. Just manage any conflicts that WILL inevitably occur because of this accordingly to the extent that is reasonably possible.
If you end up not completing a project on schedule because of this, remember this is just college. You’re allowed to, and SUPPOSED to fuck up sometimes. Part of overcoming the fear of failure is failing.
Simply put, do not major in the minors. That’s the antithesis of real leadership.
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It’s a club so no real work or deadlines. I guess it’s more of a feeling of being out of place and not being able to live up to expectations. As irrational as it sounds (this is such a minor thing) , I feel like I won’t be able to live up to my predecessor and attach a probably unwarranted importance to this club (not to self- look for studies on this topic)
I wasn’t voted into the position. I actually lost the election but the president promoted me anyways and the other person let me have the position
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Oh, then all the more reason to take risks when trying to figure out what makes different people tick. What’s the worst you have to lose lol?
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I guess…
FYI, if it were a school project, I wouldn’t care what my teammates thought of me. I’d get the work done and if necessary, use ethically questionable tactics to get them to do their work 
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I think I’ll leave my 4 hotdogs for breakfast confession for another day.
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Well, yeah, I guess then you just need to try to get comfortable in a “higher” leadership role lol. You already know what to do at the “ground level”.
Most of what I do nowadays is tell people to do shit, vet and compile their shit and make them presentable in a way which I can use to communicate with clients and peers. Nothing else.
It’s why I’m bored out of my fucking mind when working from home lol.
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At least he proved he’s not all of those things that people said about him.
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I lost a surprise game of “Not It!” and was appointed secretary or something of my one AA meetings.
The last guy relapsed so I was like “Well fuck it. I know I can do better than that!”.
I was wrong. 
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Guys our age have all either been there or are there… been there is better.
You’ve got the necessary smarts and life experience to make the right changes, so I say go for it.
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Haha yeah, my MO is to get close to at least one member of the leadership and influence the decision-making that way.
It’s so stupid that I care so much about this anyways LOL 
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You’re never allowed to run a country.
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