Airbnb Employees Speak Out About Bullying and ‘Toxic’ Work Environment

Re:Airbnb Employees Speak Out About Bullying and ‘Toxic’ Wor... by seanmcdirmid on Sunday May 28, 2017 @12:48PM (#14435117)

Work environment toxicity isn't really related to where you live. Many Microsofties commute from Seattle, and they have Connect/Kinect buses to support that (like Googlers who commute in from the city, only that Seattle is much closer to Redmond than SF is to MV).

I mean, if you are going to ding Microsoft for that, you might as well ding Google and Facebook as well. Heck, only Amazon and some smaller companies have true urban campuses.

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Re:Airbnb Employees Speak Out About Bullying and ‘Toxic’ Wor... by MiddleEndian on Sunday May 28, 2017 @01:00PM (#14435182)

I did move to Seattle and the commute was pretty terrible, via driving or the shuttle, sometimes upwards of ninety minutes.

I really like working at a Google satellite office but I would absolutely never work in the Mountain View campus for similar reasons.

I found it easier to get into a Google satellite office while Microsoft wanted me to work on the main campus.

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Re:Airbnb Employees Speak Out About Bullying and ‘Toxic’ Wor... by seanmcdirmid on Sunday May 28, 2017 @01:09PM (#14435212)

Good for you, simplifying your life is useful (I work in LA but live two blocks from my job in Westwood).

It depends on when you want to commute, if you want to fight it out 7-9:30/4:30-6:30 with rush hour traffic, then ya, it might take 90 minutes (wait, no, it would never actually take 90 minutes unless you were commuting from north or south of Seattle....or maybe West Seattle, I guess you are exaggerating a bit here). If you travel off peak, its like 20 minutes between OTC and downtown by bus.

That being said, if I had to choose between a toxic work environment with a great location and a great work environment with a crappy location, I would probably pick the latter for my own sanity (best to have both, though).

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Re:Airbnb Employees Speak Out About Bullying and ‘Toxic’ Wor... by MiddleEndian on Sunday May 28, 2017 @01:49PM (#14435351)

There were a lot of challenges, I had things I wanted to do in the city at particular times and could not get to them. Ended up doing everything at Microsoft, kind of like a continuation of living on campus in college. Not a toxic culture, just not for me.

Regarding the ninety minute commute it was frequently Thursdays to where I lived in Belltown that would consistently be 70-90 minutes. I ended up staying late at work to avoid it, which didn't help my enjoyment much.

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