Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?

Re:Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices? by orange_bear on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:14PM (#14981851)

Thanks for the info! At my last workplace (Apple), the department had brought in a ton of H1B visa workers from body shops and I'm skeptical about if it was legal. They were all crammed elbow-to-elbow in bullpen cubicles. As a contractor at the time, I sat on a bench in the hallway because there were no free bullpen cubes!! The bathroom urinals always had pools of urine beneath them, due (in part) to excessive use. The toilet seats were always urinated on. Oh, good times.

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Re:Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices? by dang on Friday August 11, 2017 @10:43PM (#14996127)

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14980846 and marked it off-topic.

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Re:Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices? by colanderman on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:30PM (#14985670)

> The toilet seats were always urinated on.

I don't get this; this happened at my workplace too, until we installed a coded lock on the restroom (which was otherwise accessible to anyone in the building). What kind of boor has a professional job but can't piss in a foot-diameter hole and is too lazy to clean up when he does so?

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Re:Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices? by orange_bear on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:16PM (#14991344)

Hate to say it, but I caught a guy one day after he completely ruined the toilet seat and it was an Indian H1B contractor. No I didn't go chase him down at that point.

Please don't ban my account, that's true and anecdotal - 75%+ of my coworkers in that department were Indian so maybe it was just the odds.

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Re:Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices? by dang on Friday August 11, 2017 @10:40PM (#14996113)

No, you can't comment like that here, and yes we've banned your account.

No reasonable idea of civility (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) would include "anecdotes" about the grossness of other races' or nations' bathroom habits. I'm flummoxed that this became necessary to state explicitly, but I guess everything happens if you moderate an internet forum long enough.

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Re:Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices? by dang on Friday August 11, 2017 @03:34AM (#14987398)

We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the HN guidelines. If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

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Re:Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices? by orange_bear on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:19PM (#14991375)

The user was correct in my case, stereotype or not.

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