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Love this!

especially having worked at MoMA design and spent half my workdays watching people make these very purchases, thinking, "man, it would be so easy to get this look at home for like a tenth of the price."

i halfway think one of my comiserating former coworkers started up this site...

pretty funny!

hysterically funny. this is fantastic. down with overpricing!

This joke is soooooooo old. And btw, DWR is not the sole purveyor of these parodied items.

oppo--
So nice to know the MomaStore employees are secretly ridiculing the public that supports them.

Love It !!

I'm light enough, thanks.
This is just such an over-played, one-note joke that I don't find the humor in it at all, is all.

well that's the nice thing about working in a store that sells high-end items and making $8 an hour, sans benefits.

you get the privelige of mentally ridiculing everyone who shops there and makes 5 times what you make AND never has to worry about what would happen to them if they came down with anything worse than the flu.

and don't worry, it's not just MoMA design. same goes for your barista at Starbucks, the girl who told you how great those jeans look at Atrium, the waitress pouring your $100 bottle of wine in a fancy restaurant, etc. etc.

small comfort, if you ask me.

You make some huge, and hugely incorrect assumptions, about who shops where and who worries about what.

But it is very revealing about how you see the world around you.

Oppo-Not that I know first hand, but the Starbucks website states that employees that who work full time, or generally 20 hours or more per week, may be eligible for the following benefits:

Healthcare Benefits (Medical, Prescription Drugs, Dental and Vision)
Retirement Savings Plan
Stock Options and Discounted Stock Purchase Plan
Income Protection Plan (Life and Disability Coverage)
Management Bonus Plan
Adoption Assistance Plan
Domestic partner benefits
Referral programs and support resources for child and eldercare

When store employees ridicule the customers, I'm more than happy to impress them by ceasing to be a customer... thus reducing the need for their jobs... thus allowing them the freedom to go do something more meaningful with their lives.

It's a win-win, I think.

Don't pick on opoponax.

MoMA is pretty well known to pay unliveably low wages. Some even say so as to only hire people who are otherwise supported - i.e., wealthy people.

Dear me,

I know I have never...never ever made the slighest remark about anyone who may be a customer,client or perhaps posted an interior of their home etc...that could be considered rude...or merely poking fun at them; but then I am perfect, have health insurance and it would never bother me on a daily, monthly or yearly basis seeing someone drop in one hour (even though it is their money and right) what is perhaps another person's monthly or weekly income. Design w/o reach was funny.

The DWR jokes are like beating an old tired horse.

Patrick, what do you think of that new Emeco chair designed by Norman Foster? I think it might be growing on me, but it sure looks pared down. I think I was initially expecting more "chair" to be there. I really respect Norman Foster though, I think his work is utterly brilliant.

Please don't ever think that (some of!) the people in the service industry have anything but utter disgust for (some of!) you. The right to ridicule should be listed as an employee benefit.

I'm not even a service worker and some of ya'll disgust me.

There are also people in the customer service industry who like their jobs and are happy that the stores and restaurants they work for have customers so that they can keep their jobs. (I happen to like working in retail.)

Yes, some customers can be draining, but the same can be said for some service industry workers and people in general. If you are someone who hates working in the service industry, benefits and increased pay aren't going to make you like your job. Some people just aren't cut out for that line of work.

I respectfully disagree, TPM.

The comfort of knowing that I have health care just in case I get sick, fall down the steps or get hit in the head with a hammer, makes everything more tolerable. Making a living wage also makes it a little easier to smile.

Jenny-

I agree, everyone should have access to healthcare and their pay should allow them to buy the neccessities of life. My point is thatthere are a lot of people with obscenely high salaries and fabulous benefits that hate their jobs and who hate their jobs and the customers that make their jobs possible.

Also, if you get hurt on the job, your employer's workers comp policy should cover that.

Excellent point, TMP.

I once asked my mentor if he actually likes our line of work. He responded that he doesn't really enjoy it but loves the life it affords. He went on to say that his personal life is SO satisfying that he doesn't necessarily need a career he loves.

It was an interesting point but not one I embrace.

after experimenting for about 20 minutes with a rubber band and 5-15 chopsticks, i believe they used glue for that vase. it is impossible - the tension of the rubber band has to be strong enough to hold them together, but get it too strong and it snaps them all back into a vertical stance.
sucks. i really hoped to do a nice surprise for my boyfriend!

I have a friend that works for DWR and I can tell you for a fact that if you write or call and complain they will usually refund all your shipping and give you almost anything else you ask for. he talks about refunding people's entire orders just because they complained to some high up guy at the company. He tells me you dont have to even be reasonable or have a legitemate complaint. I gues they are so afrid of losing business that they would rather just give it to you for free. Just a thought if you are thinking about ordering from there and you can't quite afford it.