You Could Win $100 (450 hits)
Category: Business & FinancialRating: -0.62 on 32 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Mediocre Fiction (View user info) at 2009-08-17 21:57:14 EDT
Want to make a quick $100?
The Associate Development Program participants will be holding a contest to determine a motto to place on our XXXXX T-shirts to wear the day of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.
All entries are due by 5:00 PM on August 21, 2009.
The winner will receive $100!
Please e-mail me your motto in order to qualify.
GOOD LUCK!
Thank You
Jeremy XXXXX
This is an email I received today. If you have any ideas post them in your comment. I'm gonna submit all of them (reasonable ones) and if someone wins I will paypal you the 100$. The X's are people's names and the name of the company I work for, which are obviously removed.
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Submitted by PlatinumScarecrow (user info) at 2009-08-19 21:39:31 EDT (#)
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As Phallic mentioned, you have provided no context for the company you work for so coming up with a relevant motto would be close to impossible.
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A reasonable argument. ADP is a program at the (insurance) company that I work for where brown-nosers that have been at the company for far too long go for a chance at moving up the totem pole so to speak. Most of these people have been at the bottom for 5+ years and have no degrees and could probably not get a decent job elsewhere. I guess what ADP is "supposed" to be for is to teach leadership skills to people that are good at their current job (or kiss alot of ass). This program is mainly for people in entry-level positions. The only reason I posted this is because it would probably piss off everyone in the program if I won because I was hired off the street making $80k+ per year.
And to answer your second little quip. Trying to convince a bunch of strangers in an online forum that I "would" give them the money is clearly as much of a far-shot as said strangers believing that I would. Which is evidenced in the amount off bullshit messages that were posted on here rather than people actually attempting to participate.
I'm not naive. This is Uber. I expected VERY few people, if that, to actually post any ideas. I'm just amused at all of the people that flame posts for no reason. If you have nothing to contribute to someone's post leave your -2 and fuck off.
yeah right.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2009-08-19 16:24:55 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2009-08-19 15:48:25 EDT (#)
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i'll give you a 100$ if you tell Jeremy to go fuck himself
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That made me laugh right out loud.
...now I feel tainted.
As Phallic mentioned, you have provided no context for the company you work for so coming up with a relevant motto would be close to impossible.
The larger issue is that it seems to me the chances of you actually sending a hundred bucks to some anonymous nerd for coming up with a 'tag line' is sitting comfortably in the pocket of not too fucking likely.
However, if you actually followed through with your absurd claim of payment - it would be on the person who received the money to donate it to the charity. I mean, someone is obviously offering up the money for people's creativity and there is nothing wrong with you acting as the conduit.
I can appreciate the notion that the latent creative talent wasting time on this website would be able to come up with a fantastic motto - this kind of post from a random dweeb like you has very little chance of motivating them to do so.
Good luck, though.
Submitted by PlatinumScarecrow (user info) at 2009-08-19 16:04:26 EDT (#)
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Just thought i would put the little nugget below by itself so Sac wouldn't have to read so much.
Submitted by PlatinumScarecrow (user info) at 2009-08-19 16:03:49 EDT (#)
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Contest is to name a motto for ADP.
Submitted by PlatinumScarecrow (user info) at 2009-08-19 16:03:13 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2009-08-19 14:48:25 CDT (#)
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i'll give you a 100$ if you tell Jeremy to go fuck himself
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DONE!
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2009-08-19 15:48:25 EDT (#)
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i'll give you a 100$ if you tell Jeremy to go fuck himself
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2009-08-19 15:34:53 EDT (#)
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+2 the angry comments on this
Submitted by PlatinumScarecrow (user info) at 2009-08-19 15:22:38 EDT (#)
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Contest is to name a motto for ADP. Please, just leave it alone. I would be embarrassed if I were you. All of this is in the post. Lets just be honest. You may not be retarded/illiterate/just plain stupid, but the point is you skimmed the message and then flamed. And then tried to justify your flaming by (making the "flame" different?) And then you flamed about something else. Flame Flame Flame. Arguing about this anymore is kind of a moot point, but the point is you didn't read/understand what the post was asking for.
Submitted by pen_name (user info) at 2009-08-18 23:51:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
lol
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-08-18 21:16:55 EDT (#)
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Look at the big man on the front page! Maybe now you can make some friends by presenting your offer again.
Just to recap- You're asking a website of strangers for ideas in a contest run by your place of employment. If any of these internet strangers offer up the winning idea, you will paypal that internet stranger $100, instead of donating it to the charity the contest is based around.
Got it.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-08-18 21:12:55 EDT (#)
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One more- front page yet? I'm dying to know if I'm actually retarded.
Again- Can anyone read my reviews below and understand my intended message?
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-08-18 21:11:18 EDT (#)
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And another.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-08-18 21:09:50 EDT (#)
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OK, I see that I took for granted you could take a few steps in logic. Bad assumption. Let me explain this as coherently as...
you know what? Nevermind.
Let's take a vote:
Who understood my point below? Whether you agree with it or not is irrelevant. Just want to know who picked up what I was laying down.
Here, I'll even give you a +2 on the off chance that it will put this back on the front page. I'm guessing the rating is so low it still won't, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2009-08-18 19:08:09 EDT (#)
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nurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Submitted by PlatinumScarecrow (user info) at 2009-08-18 14:18:39 EDT (#)
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Smell the pwnage.
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OH! That's how you PWN someone. You type in all capital letters and spew incoherent ideas. Damn, I learned something new today!
Submitted by PlatinumScarecrow (user info) at 2009-08-18 14:16:30 EDT (#)
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Oh and you may wanna get that blood vessel in your head looked at. I heard they can cause problems when they burst.
Submitted by PlatinumScarecrow (user info) at 2009-08-18 14:14:17 EDT (#)
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I CAN READ. LET ME BREAK THIS DOWN FOR YOU SINCE YOU DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND NUANCE. I'LL SAY IT REAL LOUD SO MAYBE YOU'LL INTERPRET IT.
IF YOU WOULD TAKE A $100 IN A CONTEST FROM YOUR COMPANY OR ANYONE ELSE FOR NAMING A TEAM, AND PAYPAL IT TO THE PERSON WHO GAVE YOU THE NAME (AS IF ANYONE HERE BELIEVES YOU WOULD- BECAUSE STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET ARE SO USED TO HAVING OTHER STRANGERS SEND THEM MONEY WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED, NOT LIKE A PERSON RANDOMLY GENEROUS ENOUGH TO DO THAT WOULDN'T FIRST CONSIDER GIVING THE PRIZE BACK TO THE CHARITY, WHICH LEADS ME TO MY POINT THAT YOU'LL SEE OUTSIDE THESE PARENTESES)INSTEAD OF TURNING AROUND AND GIVING IT BACK TO THE CHARITY, THEN FUCK OFF.
CLEAR?
KTHXBYE
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so now that you've been proven an idiot you're reeling? because what you typed above (not said, wasn't aware I could "hear" words better because their capitalized) is not even related to what you typed initially.
Given enough time idiots will make themselves known to the public. They usually type in all caps.
Submitted by JoeyG (user info) at 2009-08-18 05:15:13 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-08-17 21:50:57 CDT (#)
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I CAN READ. LET ME BREAK THIS DOWN FOR YOU SINCE YOU DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND NUANCE. I'LL SAY IT REAL LOUD SO MAYBE YOU'LL INTERPRET IT.
IF YOU WOULD TAKE A $100 IN A CONTEST FROM YOUR COMPANY OR ANYONE ELSE FOR NAMING A TEAM, AND PAYPAL IT TO THE PERSON WHO GAVE YOU THE NAME (AS IF ANYONE HERE BELIEVES YOU WOULD- BECAUSE STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET ARE SO USED TO HAVING OTHER STRANGERS SEND THEM MONEY WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED, NOT LIKE A PERSON RANDOMLY GENEROUS ENOUGH TO DO THAT WOULDN'T FIRST CONSIDER GIVING THE PRIZE BACK TO THE CHARITY, WHICH LEADS ME TO MY POINT THAT YOU'LL SEE OUTSIDE THESE PARENTESES)INSTEAD OF TURNING AROUND AND GIVING IT BACK TO THE CHARITY, THEN FUCK OFF.
CLEAR?
KTHXBYE
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Smell the pwnage.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-08-18 04:48:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by PlatinumScarecrow (user info) at 2009-08-17 23:54:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-08-17 21:50:57 CDT (#)
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So you would take a $100 prize from a charity? I've raised thousands of dollars for it so I feel I've earned the right to tell you to fuck off.
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Since apparently you're fucking retarded (or illiterate) I don't think explaining this to you will even make a difference but perhaps everyone else will see how fucking retarded you are.
The $100 is a prize from the Associate Development Program at the company I work for. To break this down so you can understand it (MY COMPANY IS GIVING THE MONEY AWAY).
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I CAN READ. LET ME BREAK THIS DOWN FOR YOU SINCE YOU DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND NUANCE. I'LL SAY IT REAL LOUD SO MAYBE YOU'LL INTERPRET IT.
IF YOU WOULD TAKE A $100 IN A CONTEST FROM YOUR COMPANY OR ANYONE ELSE FOR NAMING A TEAM, AND PAYPAL IT TO THE PERSON WHO GAVE YOU THE NAME (AS IF ANYONE HERE BELIEVES YOU WOULD- BECAUSE STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET ARE SO USED TO HAVING OTHER STRANGERS SEND THEM MONEY WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED, NOT LIKE A PERSON RANDOMLY GENEROUS ENOUGH TO DO THAT WOULDN'T FIRST CONSIDER GIVING THE PRIZE BACK TO THE CHARITY, WHICH LEADS ME TO MY POINT THAT YOU'LL SEE OUTSIDE THESE PARENTESES)INSTEAD OF TURNING AROUND AND GIVING IT BACK TO THE CHARITY, THEN FUCK OFF.
CLEAR?
KTHXBYE
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-08-18 04:33:39 EDT (#)
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHLONGY
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2009-08-18 04:16:10 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2009-08-18 02:17:00 EDT (#)
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-2DIE?
Coma is fun!
Submitted by YourNameHere (user info) at 2009-08-18 01:59:44 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2009-08-18 00:55:42 EDT (#)
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How can we possibly make a remotely appropriate motto when we don't know the business name or even the nature of the business?
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2009-08-18 00:39:31 EDT (#)
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Fuck off.
Submitted by PlatinumScarecrow (user info) at 2009-08-17 23:54:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-08-17 21:50:57 CDT (#)
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So you would take a $100 prize from a charity? I've raised thousands of dollars for it so I feel I've earned the right to tell you to fuck off.
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Since apparently you're fucking retarded (or illiterate) I don't think explaining this to you will even make a difference but perhaps everyone else will see how fucking retarded you are.
The $100 is a prize from the Associate Development Program at the company I work for. To break this down so you can understand it (MY COMPANY IS GIVING THE MONEY AWAY).
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-08-17 22:50:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
So you would take a $100 prize from a charity? I've raised thousands of dollars for it so I feel I've earned the right to tell you to fuck off.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-08-17 22:48:29 EDT (#)
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Submitted by PlatinumScarecrow (user info) at 2009-08-17 22:01:44 EDT (#)
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a preemptive fuck you too for shlongy
GODDAMMIT...Would you people let me have just a LITTLE FUN???
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2009-08-17 22:34:42 EDT (#)
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Oh!
okay, bubba
Submitted by PlatinumScarecrow (user info) at 2009-08-17 22:29:41 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2009-08-17 21:25:35 CDT (#)
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queer
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This is the place for reviews not requests.
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2009-08-17 22:25:35 EDT (#)
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queer
Submitted by PlatinumScarecrow (user info) at 2009-08-17 22:01:44 EDT (#)
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a preemptive fuck you too for shlongy