Re:At Amazon, Employees Treat the Bathroom as an Extension o...
by dingaling on Monday August 17, 2015 @12:35PM
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Many years ago when I started in corporate code-dronery I was at our US headquarters for the first time when nature called.
At first I was merely amused at the diminutive vertical dimensions of US toilet-stall doors ( they have a much larger gap at the bottom than Euroloos ).
But then I was stunned to pass one stall where there was a pile of Z-fold green-bar printer paper sitting on the floor, with the occupant slowly raising the pages in sequence and presumably reading the code...
At first I was merely amused at the diminutive vertical dimensions of US toilet-stall doors ( they have a much larger gap at the bottom than Euroloos ).
But then I was stunned to pass one stall where there was a pile of Z-fold green-bar printer paper sitting on the floor, with the occupant slowly raising the pages in sequence and presumably reading the code...
We didn't have many laptops back then :)