Instant Coworker Popularity Method #23

[marcusmarcusrc]

Buy a dozen donuts. Give them away.

Reasons?
"You can't buy just one."
"Like drinking alone, one should never eat donuts alone"
"Got to spread the guilt..."
"I'm indecisive, so I bought my 6 favorite kinds, and when there was one donut left, I'd know which one I wanted."
"I can just barely walk to the dunkin' donuts and back in the time that it takes my model to solve..."

Comments

[arcanology.livejournal.com]

You should eat those before you waste away!

[realsupergirl.livejournal.com]

You could be a drug rep! You've basically mastered their marketing plan...bring the docs muffins and donuts, and they'll hopefully prescribe our drug more...

[marcusmarcusrc.livejournal.com]

In my former life as a biochemist, the Caltech enzyme marketers used to give the grad students ice cream for every enzyme purchase. It was good incentive to buy the enzymes on campus instead of ordering them, even if sometimes it was a little more expensive (ok, usually the instant gratification of being able to do your experiment immediately rather than waiting a couple days was the real reason to buy on campus, but the ice cream didn't hurt...)