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Oh fuck yeah put me in there I know exactly how I could get the pellet. I'd get so many pellets. I just pull the lever it's literally so easy.
If you pull the lever good enough, one day you could become the principal investigator of an animal testing facility (just like your boss)!
if you gave the rat an insultingly small pellet after giving them regular sized pellets would they even bother to eat the small pellet?
My rats will act like they're starving and when I open the cage to give them food pellets they'll just stare at them like "oh nvm we thought you had more yogurt treats, no thanks".
My cat does this but when it's wet food that I've already given to her twice that day.
Lmao I love rats so much. i wish we had a house so I could keep some
My cat does this but when it's wet food that I've already given to her twice that day.
There's a whole lot of behavioral science to this, but you're definitely on to something. There are lots of experiments on what it takes to make a rat regard you with disgust as say "I pushed the lever for fucking this?"
There was an art installation thing where you could earn minimum wage by turning a crank continuously that would drop a penny every 5 seconds ish of being consistently turned
Rat Lever Pushers' Union!
Animals absolutely have a sense of fairness and equity. They also have a 
WTF is this shit response. Fine I'll take it, but I know you're holding out.
Of course not, emotions didn't develop for the first time 100,000 years ago
Some committee somewhere congratulated themselves for this. 
They do this on purpose, right? It's some kind of conditioned obedience through brutality thing?
From what I have gathered about people who make these decisions, they genuinely expect the recipients to be grateful about these.
Buncha fail children who never had a real job get excited by childish rewards and project that onto their serfs.
I worked at a few places that made these "gestures" to the underpaid/overworked suckers.
one of the key features of this kind of thing was to make absolutely certain the distribution process centered the experience of the HR shitheads that dreamed it up and absolutely prevented any organized, anonymous rejection of it.
the last thing any boss wants to see is a shitload of these overflowing a garbage can and no fucking clue who to retaliate against.
one of my earliest shit jobs they were walking around handing out t-shirts while we were all busy on the phones, hating life, and I told my boss I was just going to hold my trash can aloft and tell them to deposit it there. he said a VP was walking around for the smile parade so if I did, they'd put me on an unrecoverable pip and I'd be gone.
honestly, receiving little shit like this at a shit job is cruel. instead of paying a bunch of higher salary people to dream this up and put it together, just give us a bonus you assholes. even if it's just a one off of 10 bucks.
cash is king.
I mean, it's not like your healthcare is tied to your job, or anything, right?
Right?
/s for the smoothies
They usually just give out stickers and the people tasked with handing them out would be like "Are you sure you don't want one?" Yes I'm sure Janet, I'm not 5. Most warehouse employees would be a lot more happy with a bag of aspirin.
there was free painkillers in vending machines when I worked there
Yeah but two aspirin ain't cutting into the pain in my swollen knee.
I tough it was an extasis and some LSD tabs 😔
Yeah, I've received things that are a lot more fun in similar looking bags.
I thought the pixy stick was a preroll tube, at first. 
that bag alone is probably worth more than the stuff inside
Fr though they could spend all this money on some shitty enamel pins or something and people would go nuts for them like those USSR master weed grower pins.
They give out a lot of stupid pins too.
I'm guessing the Starburst and Tootsie roll are behind the label, but it'd be funnier if they were just not in the bag.
Thinly veiled advertising
Whatchamacallit - Thanks for not bringing 
to work!
🪓
If anyone went postal after this, I wouldn't blame them.
and the little mylar bag! don't forget the little mylar bag! gosh, we do so much for you
obviously it's ridiculous and the bag is wasteful
but in terms of the psychology
imagine if they gave you 5 sweets
no bag
they just throw them at you like a neglected dog
Wow, there's like 8 cents of candy in there. Very cool. 
Wholesome chungus wow
I'd rather just get nothing than get this and be expected to be grateful for $0.50 of sugar and a note with italics for emphasis
that's it i'm putting ice in all the deep fryers
Just be a safe distance away!
And they wonder why we're all cynical and hard to get along with.
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