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    Image of HeyThatsMyBike HeyThatsMyBike
    01/28/09

    In reply to Business Cards Are a Personal Expense
    My (former) company is still in hilarious denial. They claimed they were cutting the water bottle order in half in order to "go green," and eliminated the small basket of snacks that used to be available for the whole office so that - and I quote - "the treats do not tempt those participating in the office 'Biggest Loser' competition." These both conveniently coincided with a 20% layoff.

    In related news, Lindsay Lohan was never on coke, she just got 'exhausted' a lot due to her asthma and work schedule, Brad and Ange didn't sleep together til he and Jen divorced, and John Fitzgerald Page isn't a ridiculous douchebag, he's merely misunderstood.
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    Image of KatsMeow KatsMeow
    01/28/09

    In reply to Business Cards Are a Personal Expense
    they took the soda machine away from us today. We can't figure out why since the employees paid for the soda out of our own pockets.


    Apparently renting the machine was too much money.

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    Image of Mediokra Mediokra
    01/28/09

    @KatsMeow: I work at a relatively small office and they just took away our soda machine and our coffee machine. One of my co-workers brought in her battered old four-cup Mr. Coffee to replace it. We do still have a water cooler, but they haven't replaced the Dixie cups in the little dispenser for about two months.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    01/28/09

    In reply to Business Cards Are a Personal Expense
    They turned off half the lightbulbs in all the hallways here at my job. What else ... oh, the little pantry used to have big (note: by big I mean "normal") paper cups and mini paper cups, and they took the big ones away. So now if you want a standard cup of coffee you basically have to pour yourself two of them. Yay for wasting paper!
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    Image of marcydarcy marcydarcy
    01/28/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: Have you ever considered a mug?
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    01/28/09

    @marcydarcy: There's a travel mug on my desk that I brought in once in a fit of resourcefulness. I never washed it out and now I'm afraid to go near it. Does that count as consideration?
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    Image of sakade sakade
    01/28/09

    In reply to Business Cards Are a Personal Expense
    In the name of cost-cutting, my company occasionally just doesn't pay me. I also have a space heater instead of, you know, actual heat.
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    Image of jofletcher jofletcher
    01/28/09

    In reply to Business Cards Are a Personal Expense
    Well business cards can be very expensive if you're going to go Patrick Bateman style.
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    Image of cupcakes cupcakes
    01/28/09

    @jofletcher: Bone.
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    01/28/09

    In reply to Business Cards Are a Personal Expense
    I hear one media gossip site got so poor that they tried eliminating commas as a cost cutting measure.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    01/28/09

    @saythatscool: They also eliminated female writers. Maybe that was an effort to get rid of periods.

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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    01/28/09

    @Kid Twist: Brutal!
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    01/28/09

    @Kid Twist: You're going to have to leave too. No more paper clips. If you need to stick two pieces of paper together then go see Pareene. He'll hock up a mean loogie that will weld together almost any materials. (He's a smoker.)
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    01/28/09

    @Kid Twist: You probably won't win a commie for that, but you should.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    01/28/09

    @Kid Twist: ha!

    Perez Hilton had to replace his white spooge pen with an economical Martha Stewart red marker. Now everyone looks like vampires instead of mos and hos.
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    01/28/09

    @Kid Twist: But there's still plenty of enlarged colons.
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    Image of valet_of_the_dolls valet_of_the_dolls
    01/28/09

    @Astigmatism: He should win the Nobel Prize for Feminism. (Also possibly for literature.)
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    10/30/08

    In reply to Men's Vogue And Portfolio Are First Conde Nast Victims
    First they came for the print media, and we laughed. Then they came for the e-media . . ..
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    Image of GuyBitchy GuyBitchy
    10/30/08

    @bytememehard: Nice.
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    Image of overunderover overunderover
    10/30/08

    In reply to Men's Vogue And Portfolio Are First Conde Nast Victims
    Cat Fancy. What is going on with cat fancy?



    I muse know those steps to a thinner mew!
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    Image of overunderover overunderover
    10/30/08

    In reply to Men's Vogue And Portfolio Are First Conde Nast Victims
    No one reads in April and September anyway.
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    Image of ClearAirTurbulence ClearAirTurbulence
    10/30/08

    In reply to Men's Vogue And Portfolio Are First Conde Nast Victims
    Denton's plan:


    Gawker merges with Deadspin to become Deader

    Jezebel merges with Fleshbot to become Jezebot

    Gizmodo merges with The Consumerist to become Gizumerist

    Valleywag and Lifehacker become Lifewag and Valleyhacker

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    Image of Nick Denton Nick Denton
    10/30/08

    @ClearAirTurbulence: And you think you're joking.
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    Image of krismry krismry
    10/30/08

    @Nick Denton: Rumor alert.
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    Image of narnio narnio
    10/30/08

    @Nick Denton: you're selling most of the same inventory across all these sites, so why not consolidate?
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    Image of hortense hortense
    10/30/08

    In reply to Men's Vogue And Portfolio Are First Conde Nast Victims
    From All Things D:


    UPDATE: I'm told that Portfolio staff has just been told the magazine will now be published 10 times a year, down from 12, and will cut 5% from its edit budget. The December and January issues will be combined, as will the June and July issues.


    UPDATE: One officially announced cut: Men's Vogue will be shrunk down to a twice-yearly schedule. The one-paragraph release:


    Men's Vogue will be absorbed into Vogue and published in the spring and fall, it was announced today by Charles H. Townsend, President and C.E.O of Condé Nast Publications. It will continue to be edited by Jay Fielden.

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    Image of narnio narnio
    10/30/08

    @hortense: it's an insert!
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    10/30/08

    In reply to Men's Vogue And Portfolio Are First Conde Nast Victims
    Much as I'd like to, I cannot celebrate at the failure of Men's Vogue.


    I am saving that glee for Vogue.

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    Image of ineffable.me ineffable.me
    10/30/08

    @BookishLookish: never gonna happen!
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    10/30/08

    @ineffable.me: A girl can dream, can't she?
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    Image of ineffable.me ineffable.me
    10/30/08

    @BookishLookish: sure thing jelly bean!

    i was just saying in case you wanted glee now.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    10/30/08

    In reply to Men's Vogue And Portfolio Are First Conde Nast Victims
    Please, Meriless Wotan, spare Guns 'n' Throw Pillows.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    10/30/08

    In reply to Men's Vogue And Portfolio Are First Conde Nast Victims
    Having been through it at Cargo, I will hazard a guess that Portfolio is having the plug pulled. Condolences.
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    Image of American Dreamer American Dreamer
    10/30/08

    In reply to Men's Vogue And Portfolio Are First Conde Nast Victims
    Damn! I hope they don't close Spanish Teen Vogue that was my favorite.
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    Image of NotAndersonCooper NotAndersonCooper
    10/30/08

    @Master_of_Ceremonies:

    I prefer Ladies Rogue.
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