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[–] 77 points 4 months ago (13 children)

Wait, what? Unless that's an allegory for AI or something, that actually sounds pretty nice.

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  • [–] 67 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    It's the forced small talk that the OP has an issue with, not the actual view.

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  • [–] 36 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    Maybe I'm too deliberately obtuse, but I would make so much fun out of this, taking it as an opportunity to research useless river facts. Like "did you know this river starts at X/was named after Y?", specific facts about its wildlife, etc. Just pretend I'm intensely interested in the river beyond its utility for small talk until it goes from something everyone is sick of into a running gag (that everyone is slightly less sick of).

    Which I guess ironically feeds into what the boss wants, but at least it's not painful.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    Ok, now do that at least twice a week forever.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    You only need to research 104 facts, then boilerplate the intro and closing and copy/paste for the messages, then you setup a scheduled task to send 2 messages - Monday and Thursday - in order (not random, since you don't want to send the same thing twice or too close). In an office of 50 people there's no way they'll remember the 4 facts that you sent last year at the last week of April. But here's the fun part, if they keep it up for a year+, you start seeing return on your investment. If not, you don't change the scheduled task, and they slowly go mad with river facts until they leave the company and/or die. Either way, you win.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    I'm way overthinking this. To me, it sounds like someone proposed to move to a cheaper location. Some other manager asked for this to "prove" this improves morale and the river view office should be kept Who knows

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