Down and out at Diesel
By adamg on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 6:55am
These days, Marc Levy can afford to buy a sandwich or two at Diesel. But he recalls his unemployment days when he'd spent hours there slowly munching on a bag of its day-old bagels - or furtively consuming the granola he'd stored in his backpack:
Worst of all was that in addition to taking up space and sucking up electricity, I wasn't tipping. Every Thai iced tea was simultaneously delicious and shame inducing; every time I got 10 stamps on my card and a dollar off was a twist of the knife; and reusing a glass and saving another dime was the final insult.
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How is Diesel still in business?
I usually don't bother going into Diesel, because you know that, if you buy something, there probably won't be a place to sit. You just walk around, drink or food in hand, making death glares at all the people camping out all day with their Macs, taking up all the seats.
Is he boasting about being
Is he boasting about being one of the assholes who takes up a table all day so that paying customers can't sit down?
Not only that...
I noticed he never seemed to ask if they were hiring. Get a job, hippie!
Diesel Internet is almost as
Diesel Internet is almost as expensive per month as Verizon Internet at home. And you can split Verizon Internet with your roommates.