Corporates - the MSG generation

One more offsite to go to today. Gawd. Duuno what real strategy emerges form offsites. Its good to meet all the guys from all the branches and figure out what happening and what we as marketing can do next. Its ok, not bad but its definitely not a vacation that my wife believes it to be. Surely not. I rather be cuddles up in my bed drinking coffee. Which comes to the next point. Why can’t I have an expresso machine at home? The big bloody industrial one. That should be cool for making some lovely coffee. Hmmmm. Nice thoughts to have early morning. That is surely making me want to order some really cold coffee. Will have to call barista. Our office has some really really bad coffee. Completely hopeless. The other day at the meet, I was the last one in the conference room and I got the last cup of whatever he was serving. One sip of the god dam thing and I had no clue what I was drinking. I was not sure of that was tea or coffee. These are all form the automatic vending machine, so they no aroma, no taste. I can’t believe why companies cant invest in decent coffee machines. How much difference to the bottom line will it make. I don’t think the employees will mind too much even paying a bit for it. anything is better than vending machine coffee / tea. In fact the machine also serves ugly tomato soup. That also will fail blind taste tests on what the ingredients will be. UUUGGHHHH. The only thing I remember being ok was the Horlicks machine at Star. That’s still somewhere near ok. But I guess in corporates, you just go with the flow. Do anything not to make the life more complicated than what it already is or isn’t. Bad coffee, bad food, bad habits bad everything. This is the MSG generation. Just add MSG to whatever you are cooking and all it does is tickles the tastebud so you feel what you are eating is tasty. Forget the fact that it will give you nightmares at night. This is the MSG generation. Eat now, use bad shit to make it just taste good for the moment, get a nightmare later, but sleep right through it. That’s exactly what a corporate life is about.