![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
More trinkets!
Oct. 17th, 2002 04:37 amI've decided to buy a DVD player. I have no clue whether I really want the f*cking thing anymore. I've been shopping around. Maggie wants one. I can afford one. Part of me wants one and part of me just wants the excuse to walk into an audiophile store again.
My employer has this habit of handing me large hunks of cash-like objects and prizes. I have a set of Sopranos glass mugs, playing cards, a weird FM radio that won't tell you what station you've tuned into but makes surfing for music more interesting, a frisbee, hats, a spring-collapsable beach blanket, an LED necklace, pens, a self-supporting roach clip (err, paper holder), and a stress ball that looks like a TV set. I also received some travelers' checks, which cannot be deposited and thus will go toward the cost of the DVD player.
I've had other employers that pulled the pseudocash scheisse, but they usually reamed me. A local weekly that once employed me (let's call it 'Birdy') would hand out 'scrip' in lieu of stable pay. Scrip was an IOU of an amount. You went to a certain office at certain times of the week and traded your IOU for time-stamped coupons at a specific place. Most of the places were restaurants. I didn't have a date back then, so I think I still have coupons for a Vietnamese restaurant because I didn't want to eat alone. I wound up quitting that job because the bank with my car loan wouldn't take scrip. ( Take all your troubles; put them in a common file. )
My employer has this habit of handing me large hunks of cash-like objects and prizes. I have a set of Sopranos glass mugs, playing cards, a weird FM radio that won't tell you what station you've tuned into but makes surfing for music more interesting, a frisbee, hats, a spring-collapsable beach blanket, an LED necklace, pens, a self-supporting roach clip (err, paper holder), and a stress ball that looks like a TV set. I also received some travelers' checks, which cannot be deposited and thus will go toward the cost of the DVD player.
I've had other employers that pulled the pseudocash scheisse, but they usually reamed me. A local weekly that once employed me (let's call it 'Birdy') would hand out 'scrip' in lieu of stable pay. Scrip was an IOU of an amount. You went to a certain office at certain times of the week and traded your IOU for time-stamped coupons at a specific place. Most of the places were restaurants. I didn't have a date back then, so I think I still have coupons for a Vietnamese restaurant because I didn't want to eat alone. I wound up quitting that job because the bank with my car loan wouldn't take scrip. ( Take all your troubles; put them in a common file. )
