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I sat behind a department head of theirs on a plane once. He was ranting to the flight attendant about how inefficient their baggage storage solution was becaus
by Nathanael_M 3y ago
I sat behind a department head of theirs on a plane once. He was ranting to the flight attendant about how inefficient their baggage storage solution was because of how he had to check his carry-on. The flight attendant very calmly said "That's an interesting idea, sir." as he was mid diatribe about the lack of integrated sensor technology in overhead bins. He ended with a "I'm going to Tweet about this, this is totally ----ing unacceptable." A few minutes later he stood up to take pictures of the overhead bins and the flight attendant made sure he had a good clear view. "Let me help you, gotta get a good pic for the gram". Mr. Humane, with all the indignant condescension he could muster, said "Uh, it's for Twitter, not Instagram." Flight attendant responded "Ooh, Twitter, my apologies." I found the tweet while waiting for take off. I wonder if he ever got around to disrupting the space.
This is what I get for connecting in San Francisco. The flight attendant did give me a dozen packs of those little ginger-snap cookies, though, so I may be biased.
- devindotcom 3y agoBiscoff, I hope? Love those.
- Nathanael_M 3y agoWoah, I never thought about the brand. Can I just buy these things? Will eating them on the ground ruin the magic?
- giantrobot 3y agoYou can buy them in stores. Be warned though that eating them too often can ruin them. They're an awesome random treat but a little much when you have a whole package of them. Learn from my mistakes.
- BonoboIO 3y agoI thought buying 1kg would be a good choice. After 100g I was like, now I don’t want to eat them for a long time :D
- csallen 3y agoYou can also buy Biscoff cookie butter. Which is absurdly delicious if you like the cookies.
- SllX 3y agoWhen you’re in SF, you can go to the Pier and there’s a little coffee shop near the entrance near the aquarium-Biscoff Coffee Corner—where they will serve you one with every coffee drink you buy, unprompted. In truth the coffee there ain’t great, and the prep is a bit hit or miss, but the folks behind the counter are nice, and you can buy all of the cookies and cookie butter you could want; but it’s probably best not to overdo it. I think they even have a cookie butter latte but never tried it since that sounds too sweet.
- iraldir 3y agoIt's actually a specialty from belgium / north of France called speculoos, biscoff being just a brand of that type of biscuits that managed to export them worldwide. In the north of France where I lived for a while, it's an absolute staple akin to what peanut butter is to an american maybe or Matcha to a Japanese. Speculoos butter is spread on bread, lots of pastries are speculoos flavoured etc.
- deskamess 3y agoThey have been serving those on airlines for a while now. A solid choice. Hopefully a 'BuyItForLife' kind of choice for the airlines. Wonderful on planes and wonderful at home. Also great when dunked in milk. Make sure you let a small bit (or one whole) 'accidentally' fall off into the milk and rescue it later. Hmmm....
- projektfu 3y agoSounds like an Atlanta-based flight crew. Weaponized niceness.
- __loam 3y agoBless his heart
- hbn 3y agoWould that be this guy? I was laughing at his tweet yesterday where he asserts that all the negativity around their bad product is our lack of "optimism" https://twitter.com/samsheffer/status/1779854070372561184 https://twitter.com/samsheffer/status/1779854070372561184 edit: not sure if the previous comment was edited or I imagined it said it was their marketing guy before, but I'm editing his name out of the comment to not potentially tarnish his search engine results
- Nathanael_M 3y agoHe seems like a guy super invested in changing our trajectory from techno-dystopia to techno-utopia. I really respect that shining optimism, but it may have gotten in his eyes a bit with Humane.
- slg 3y agoCharging customers full price, including a monthly subscription, for a product that he admits is "not where it needs to be — full stop" seems more techno-dystopian than techno-utopian to me.
- laborcontract 3y agoShould a marketing person be “full stop”-ing the criticism of the product? Yes, I get it’s an affinity exercise, but one I don’t think marketing should be doing unless there’s something tragically wrong about it. If I was working on the product, I’d probably feel okay full stopping. If I saw the person representing us full stopping Id probably think something like hey, nobody died here. And also I feel like a full stop is reserved for maybe one or two people at a company.
- pxoe 3y agoadd to that, making an obviously inferior first gen product, so that they could sell you a "new and improved" second gen and get you on an upgrade cycle for this completely extraneous thing that costs as much as a phone (that it will never, ever get rid of)
- random3 3y agoHahaha - priceless! It must be interesting to work with him.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoThose cookies are the sole remaining good thing about flying.
- magarnicle 3y agoWhat about the flying part of flying?
- ninkendo 3y agoRight? You're hurdling through the sky at 600mph in a vehicle which is safer than driving a car, at a cost less than a half-week's pay for the median income in the US. This is still utterly magical, even if we don't seem to care any more. I remember the first few times I flew a plane, I simply stared in awe out the window for the entire flight. I remember telling myself "No matter how many more times I fly, I must never forget how amazing this feels", and I like to think that I've kept that amazement alive even though I've probably flown over a hundred times now.
- forgetfreeman 3y agoJesus Christ, you mean to tell me assholes like that aren't just a trope on Silicon Valley? And people invest money with these clowns? Unreal.
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