griftrejection

Are the owners not enforcing time limits or drink minimums?

Have you considered that linguists have studied jargon before? There might even be books about it.

I'm sure they blame it all on remote work, which has nothing at all to do with trying to prop up commercial real estate.

No, I'm sorry, there actually are true believers. I think some people just have trouble countenancing the idea that maybe some of the people we've given all the wealth and power to really are just dolts. This tends to have an unraveling effect on people's personal beliefs.

It's true. Everyone knows you can actually only judge a book by its cover.

What's more shameful is that we've done nothing to make that behavior illegal, at least in the US.