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Amen brother, I am glad to see great BB minds think alike regardless of the country they reside in. You just have to deal with the stares from the other co-workers every now and again but fuck em, they cant possibly know what it is like having to eat big all the time.

[quote]AgentOrange wrote:
Fuck yeah, I thought I was the only one who would rock out with the leftover catering.

Times are good here in Calgary, with oil and gas prices so high. The company I’m at right now usually does the sandwhich thing, but I used to work for ExxonMobil, and they’d bust out all kinds of things like quesadillas and the such.

You can’t go wrong with free food.[/quote]

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Haha, I believe it. I have been to a few buffet places where the manager got really nervous when he saw me coming with a few of my BB buddies.

We usually hit this one spot right after a show when its time for them to pig out. The manager is cool with us, he has stopped worrying about it and just accept his loss that day.

[quote]TrainerinDC wrote:
I dunno AA. They would probably see us coming and not let us in. Between 3 or 4 of us we would eat the entire spread. Not to mention make too much noise in the gym.

Not that any of those traits are bad things. [/quote]

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[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
Warning: The FA network does not work at academic institutions. The presence of graduate students and starving postdocs swarming like locusts over any and all free food renders all communications between faculty and staff obsolete. We just can’t get there in time.[/quote]

I hear you! As a graduate student (was it yesterday?) I’d always be on the lookout for the “leftover food” e-mails. When I saw one I would get up and run! (Without saying a word.) LOL! Soon, everyone else started doing this too, so on a number of occasions I was walking down the corridor and saw 2-3 of my fellow students running, at which point I would compute the shortest route to the meeting room (where the food always was) and start running myself :smiley: Nobody ever ran for any other reason, not even during a fire alarm!

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I gotta agree with Bullpup. I am in good with the CEO’s assistant and business analyst, and that is a huge perk. Whether it is them ordering extra food for you, and giving it you before the “top brass” are served. Or packaging up any left over, putting a post-it with your name on it, and placing it on your side of the fridge (yes, my food takes up almost a whole side of a full fridge at work).

25

Not cool AA.

Man up and get some integrity.

26

My office has a stocked kitchen.

The quality of food is poor and everyone puts on weight when they first start working here.

I take advantage of the frozen veggies, salad fixings, and endless supply 0.5 liter bottles of Poland Spring water but that is about it. I bring all my own food to the office that I prepare at home because cold cuts suck.

The gal that sets up for clients always tells me when the grilled chicken salad is going to the kitchen.

The stocked kitchen is a wolf in sheeps clothing. I have left the office for food and had a member of our executive committee ask me why I left the office.

You should see the catered spreads at some of the desks on the street.

BOOYAH!

27

Thats what I am talking about Dog, you have established a side in the community fridge, must respect to you my friend. How was this feat accomplished? Mere initimidation?

The problem at my job is that the community fridge is in a common area and people work at night. I would never catch the bastard stealing my chicken so I got my own fridge instead. Plus, think about it, eat about 4-5 meals while at work, thats a lot of walking back and forth from fridge to microwave etc. I need that energy for my work out later that night. I wont even walk a lot on leg day, I simply ride my chair back and forth a bit in the office, haha.

[quote]TDog305 wrote:
and placing it on your side of the fridge (yes, my food takes up almost a whole side of a full fridge at work). [/quote]

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I hear ya brother, but in times of need and bulk, a few extra cold cuts a day may be just what the doc ordered.

[quote]Marmadogg wrote:
My office has a stocked kitchen.

The quality of food is poor and everyone puts on weight when they first start working here.

I take advantage of the frozen veggies, salad fixings, and endless supply 0.5 liter bottles of Poland Spring water but that is about it. I bring all my own food to the office that I prepare at home because cold cuts suck.

The gal that sets up for clients always tells me when the grilled chicken salad is going to the kitchen.

The stocked kitchen is a wolf in sheeps clothing. I have left the office for food and had a member of our executive committee ask me why I left the office.

You should see the catered spreads at some of the desks on the street.

BOOYAH![/quote]

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[quote]Amsterdam Animal wrote:
Thats what I am talking about Dog, you have established a side in the community fridge, must respect to you my friend. How was this feat accomplished? Mere initimidation?

The problem at my job is that the community fridge is in a common area and people work at night. I would never catch the bastard stealing my chicken so I got my own fridge instead. Plus, think about it, eat about 4-5 meals while at work, thats a lot of walking back and forth from fridge to microwave etc. I need that energy for my work out later that night. I wont even walk a lot on leg day, I simply ride my chair back and forth a bit in the office, haha.

TDog305 wrote:
and placing it on your side of the fridge (yes, my food takes up almost a whole side of a full fridge at work).

[/quote]

Dude you don’t have to catch the bastard who eats your shit, trap him. Just figure out what he likes. I used to work a trialer job and kept my food in the fridge there because i eat a frikin ton and just restocked it every day. way better than taking a cooler full of shit to and fro etc.

Anyhow some face fukor was eating my shit. Turns out he really liked my power brownies (hoe can you not? It’s basically choco grow powder and whipping cream.) and ate them all the time. well fuck him. So i decided to make a special batch for my friend. I got some regualr ass cocoa powder and made a feux-bunch of brownies and loaded them with IV perscription laxatives and inserted several small conpressed cayenne powder tablets, very small little bastards. It’s amazing wat you can find at health food stores, apparently people use them for cleansing their colon or something, fuk that. any ways the max limit was one per two days. I put three tabs in each brownie along with the hospital laxatives that they use for cleaning up pill based “suicide attempts” and poison ingestion. It’s good to train with RN’s.

I popped these little gems on top of my regular stash and left work that day. Turns out it was two dudes eating my treats. Both of them didn’t come to work for 3 days. A guy on nights told me that the one guy climbed down the tower he was in in like 309 s flat and spent the nest three work hours in the port o potty where huge fat bastards take medieval shits.

Moral: DO NOT mess with a mans lunch, ever. especially a man without a conscience or good spelling skills.

And then there was the time i was working in a resteraunt and some ass put sushi vinegar in my pre made shake that was in the cooler… It was hard to explain that one to the police.

-chris

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spwaking of restaurants. find someone who works at one to get hooked up with the head chef. The bulk food they orer is so cheap. When i worked there i bought all my foodski from the wholesale food guys. A “lug” (40lbs.) of chicken cost me like $100. wings worked out to be about 5 cents each! wings fukin rock! At one time I was buying fillet mingons for $5 per 8-9 ounce steak! One of my coworkers would just eat ALL of the leftovers that people didn’t want. He was a hugely skinny bastard and one night worked it out that he had consumed 1 WHOLE chocolate death cake in leftovers. It was super-rich and nobody took it home because it would melt.

-chris

31

LMAO, fucking genius my friend.

[quote]realpeanutbutter wrote:
Amsterdam Animal wrote:
Thats what I am talking about Dog, you have established a side in the community fridge, must respect to you my friend. How was this feat accomplished? Mere initimidation?

The problem at my job is that the community fridge is in a common area and people work at night. I would never catch the bastard stealing my chicken so I got my own fridge instead. Plus, think about it, eat about 4-5 meals while at work, thats a lot of walking back and forth from fridge to microwave etc. I need that energy for my work out later that night. I wont even walk a lot on leg day, I simply ride my chair back and forth a bit in the office, haha.

TDog305 wrote:
and placing it on your side of the fridge (yes, my food takes up almost a whole side of a full fridge at work).

Dude you don’t have to catch the bastard who eats your shit, trap him. Just figure out what he likes. I used to work a trialer job and kept my food in the fridge there because i eat a frikin ton and just restocked it every day. way better than taking a cooler full of shit to and fro etc.

Anyhow some face fukor was eating my shit. Turns out he really liked my power brownies (hoe can you not? It’s basically choco grow powder and whipping cream.) and ate them all the time. well fuck him. So i decided to make a special batch for my friend. I got some regualr ass cocoa powder and made a feux-bunch of brownies and loaded them with IV perscription laxatives and inserted several small conpressed cayenne powder tablets, very small little bastards. It’s amazing wat you can find at health food stores, apparently people use them for cleansing their colon or something, fuk that. any ways the max limit was one per two days. I put three tabs in each brownie along with the hospital laxatives that they use for cleaning up pill based “suicide attempts” and poison ingestion. It’s good to train with RN’s.

I popped these little gems on top of my regular stash and left work that day. Turns out it was two dudes eating my treats. Both of them didn’t come to work for 3 days. A guy on nights told me that the one guy climbed down the tower he was in in like 309 s flat and spent the nest three work hours in the port o potty where huge fat bastards take medieval shits.

Moral: DO NOT mess with a mans lunch, ever. especially a man without a conscience or good spelling skills.

And then there was the time i was working in a resteraunt and some ass put sushi vinegar in my pre made shake that was in the cooler… It was hard to explain that one to the police.

-chris
[/quote]

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Thats a very good point. I just met the head chef at PF Changs where I live, at this bar. I took my girl to his restaurant for lunch the other day and he told me any time I want, he will hook me up. Their fucking seabass is awesome. I am going to give it a bit of time and then I will see what he says about me buying from him. Thanks for the info bro.

A

quote]realpeanutbutter wrote:
spwaking of restaurants. find someone who works at one to get hooked up with the head chef. The bulk food they orer is so cheap. When i worked there i bought all my foodski from the wholesale food guys. A “lug” (40lbs.) of chicken cost me like $100. wings worked out to be about 5 cents each! wings fukin rock! At one time I was buying fillet mingons for $5 per 8-9 ounce steak! One of my coworkers would just eat ALL of the leftovers that people didn’t want. He was a hugely skinny bastard and one night worked it out that he had consumed 1 WHOLE chocolate death cake in leftovers. It was super-rich and nobody took it home because it would melt.

-chris[/quote]

33

I must say that this idea has worked out well!

Today free menu:
Meeting 1: Bagels, Muffins, Fruit
Meeting 2: Turkey, Roastbeef, salad

Haha eating well on company time, I love it.

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Why give it time. I’m sure he’s fine with you ordering food from his wholesaler. I don’t see why he wouldn’t be. Just offer something in return like training him or something. make sure you tip good at his joint. I’d order a whole crate of seabass STAT for mad cheap. Get chicken wings too, best low carb power food ever. Makes me feel real cavemanish to eat food off the bone.

Here in Canada I can just go out to a rancher and buy a half a cow for 300 lbs of the leanest ground beef ever or steaks etc. Cows are delish. Buy a big deep freeze and Y2K it up.

-chris

[quote]Amsterdam Animal wrote:
Thats a very good point. I just met the head chef at PF Changs where I live, at this bar. I took my girl to his restaurant for lunch the other day and he told me any time I want, he will hook me up. Their fucking seabass is awesome. I am going to give it a bit of time and then I will see what he says about me buying from him. Thanks for the info bro.

A

[quote]realpeanutbutter wrote:
spwaking of restaurants. find someone who works at one to get hooked up with the head chef. The bulk food they orer is so cheap. When i worked there i bought all my foodski from the wholesale food guys. A “lug” (40lbs.) of chicken cost me like $100. wings worked out to be about 5 cents each! wings fukin rock! At one time I was buying fillet mingons for $5 per 8-9 ounce steak! One of my coworkers would just eat ALL of the leftovers that people didn’t want. He was a hugely skinny bastard and one night worked it out that he had consumed 1 WHOLE chocolate death cake in leftovers. It was super-rich and nobody took it home because it would melt.

-chris

[/quote]

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[quote]Amsterdam Animal wrote:
Thats what I am talking about Dog, you have established a side in the community fridge, must respect to you my friend. How was this feat accomplished? Mere initimidation?

The problem at my job is that the community fridge is in a common area and people work at night. I would never catch the bastard stealing my chicken so I got my own fridge instead. Plus, think about it, eat about 4-5 meals while at work, thats a lot of walking back and forth from fridge to microwave etc. I need that energy for my work out later that night. I wont even walk a lot on leg day, I simply ride my chair back and forth a bit in the office, haha.

TDog305 wrote:
and placing it on your side of the fridge (yes, my food takes up almost a whole side of a full fridge at work).

[/quote]

Ha, good post.

I generally trek into my office from the garage with 4 things in the morning.

1 - Grocery Bag of Food
1 - Grocery Bag of Supplements, Shaker Bottle and Protein Bars
1 - Gallon of Water
And my briefcase

People in the office see me coming from a mile away, besides I’m one of 3 that actually workout on a consistent basis (besides running for fun).

Anyway, one day I got fed up with not having enough room for my stuff, so with a large “sweep” of the arm I pushed everything over to the right side of the refrigerator, and stuck my fish oil, olive oil, flax seeds, protein bars (I like them cold), and tupperware containers in a nice logical fashion on the shelves.

As far, as people eating my food, no one would A) Have the balls or B) Eat 95% of the food I eat.

So all in all its a good system.

(BTW, I have a drawer full of supplements that I don’t need to keep cold, as well as 4 different flavored tubs of metabolic drive)

36

Damn, if only I worked with people who ate more than cake and donots. Guess I’ll just have to stick to party crashing, though both wedding and graduation seasons have come and gone.

Ah, the memories… flexes

Now lets go crash some summa’time block parties! “Sure I live here.”

37

Yeah there is plenty of that crap going around in my office as well. Ocassionally I will indulge but gotta stay away the rest of the time.

[quote]Kailash wrote:
Damn, if only I worked with people who ate more than cake and donots. Guess I’ll just have to stick to party crashing, though both wedding and graduation seasons have come and gone.

Ah, the memories… flexes

Now lets go crash some summa’time block parties! “Sure I live here.”[/quote]

38

I see your point. I dont want to feel presumptious though, but he is good people so yeah I will ask him about it. And fuck, if he does balk, I guess I will use my own advice and use the intimidation factor, can you say Dutch mob, biatches!

Got the deep freezer in my basement, one of the best puchases I ever made. The seabass for sure. Not a big chicken wing eater unless there is blue cheese and hot sauce so no go there. I will take slabs of beef and pounds of boneless chicken breasts instead.

[quote]realpeanutbutter wrote:
Why give it time. I’m sure he’s fine with you ordering food from his wholesaler. I don’t see why he wouldn’t be. Just offer something in return like training him or something. make sure you tip good at his joint. I’d order a whole crate of seabass STAT for mad cheap. Get chicken wings too, best low carb power food ever. Makes me feel real cavemanish to eat food off the bone.

Here in Canada I can just go out to a rancher and buy a half a cow for 300 lbs of the leanest ground beef ever or steaks etc. Cows are delish. Buy a big deep freeze and Y2K it up.

-chris

Amsterdam Animal wrote:
Thats a very good point. I just met the head chef at PF Changs where I live, at this bar. I took my girl to his restaurant for lunch the other day and he told me any time I want, he will hook me up. Their fucking seabass is awesome. I am going to give it a bit of time and then I will see what he says about me buying from him. Thanks for the info bro.

A

realpeanutbutter wrote:
spwaking of restaurants. find someone who works at one to get hooked up with the head chef. The bulk food they orer is so cheap. When i worked there i bought all my foodski from the wholesale food guys. A “lug” (40lbs.) of chicken cost me like $100. wings worked out to be about 5 cents each! wings fukin rock! At one time I was buying fillet mingons for $5 per 8-9 ounce steak! One of my coworkers would just eat ALL of the leftovers that people didn’t want. He was a hugely skinny bastard and one night worked it out that he had consumed 1 WHOLE chocolate death cake in leftovers. It was super-rich and nobody took it home because it would melt.

-chris

[/quote]

39

Glad to hear that bro. That will be 20 bucks to the “turn the Animal into a Freak foundation”

A

[quote]CrewPierce wrote:
I must say that this idea has worked out well!

Today free menu:
Meeting 1: Bagels, Muffins, Fruit
Meeting 2: Turkey, Roastbeef, salad

Haha eating well on company time, I love it.[/quote]

40

You sir are not only a worthy advocate of the FA network and its principles, you are hereby inducted in the AA network as an honorary member.

I am concerned about the statement “besides running for fun”. I was not aware there was such a thing, haha.

[quote]TDog305 wrote:
Amsterdam Animal wrote:
Thats what I am talking about Dog, you have established a side in the community fridge, must respect to you my friend. How was this feat accomplished? Mere initimidation?

The problem at my job is that the community fridge is in a common area and people work at night. I would never catch the bastard stealing my chicken so I got my own fridge instead. Plus, think about it, eat about 4-5 meals while at work, thats a lot of walking back and forth from fridge to microwave etc. I need that energy for my work out later that night. I wont even walk a lot on leg day, I simply ride my chair back and forth a bit in the office, haha.

TDog305 wrote:
and placing it on your side of the fridge (yes, my food takes up almost a whole side of a full fridge at work).

Ha, good post.

I generally trek into my office from the garage with 4 things in the morning.

1 - Grocery Bag of Food
1 - Grocery Bag of Supplements, Shaker Bottle and Protein Bars
1 - Gallon of Water
And my briefcase

People in the office see me coming from a mile away, besides I’m one of 3 that actually workout on a consistent basis (besides running for fun).

Anyway, one day I got fed up with not having enough room for my stuff, so with a large “sweep” of the arm I pushed everything over to the right side of the refrigerator, and stuck my fish oil, olive oil, flax seeds, protein bars (I like them cold), and tupperware containers in a nice logical fashion on the shelves.

As far, as people eating my food, no one would A) Have the balls or B) Eat 95% of the food I eat.

So all in all its a good system.

(BTW, I have a drawer full of supplements that I don’t need to keep cold, as well as 4 different flavored tubs of metabolic drive)[/quote]