A man took to social media to share how he cooked chicken using his hotel room’s coffee pot and got slammed on the internet for his efforts.
While LinkedIn is where people go to for job opportunities and professional networking, it’s apparently also a place to show off money-saving hacks during business trips.
Alexander Cohen, a product manager at a large health-care startup in Austin, Texas, shared how he saved his company a little cash by cooking “a cheaper meal in the hotel room” instead of going out to a restaurant, reads the post on LinkedIn, which has received almost 1,400 reactions.
“Even though the hotel room didn’t have a kitchen, I managed to use the coffee machine to cook chicken with butter and garlic.”
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Cohen explained that even though his company allows him to expense dinner while travelling, he wanted to save money because he knows “every dollar counts.”
He added: “It’s the little things that get you promoted.”
Cohen also shared the photo on Twitter, captioning it, “This is my best LinkedIn post to date,” where it has received more than 82,000 likes.
The post also found its way on to Reddit’s LinkedInLunatics subreddit, which Cohen calls “the best thing” he has ever seen.
And because the internet is the internet, people had to respond to his so-called hack.
“I take it they’re not counting the sick time you’ll need for giving yourself salmonella on a business trip?” one person quipped on LinkedIn.
A concerned user on LinkedIn asked, “I am sure you are joking cause otherwise, what about the guests who will use that coffee machine after you? They have to drink a coffee with a chicken flavour. I think you are selfish for doing that, assuming you are saving. Also, not hygienic at all. It damages the hotel’s assets, too.”
Cohen told Today that he wasn’t even at the hotel for business but “at the Austin FC game” which was “delayed because of rain so I figured I’d have some fun.”
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