Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company's 2019 Town Hall Meetings

Re:Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company's 2019 To... by ChuckMcM on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:00PM (#19628732)

This makes a lot of sense, the question though is whether or not Sundar can make a policy decision that Larry and Sergey disagree with. (not a business decision, but a policy like "bringing back bottled water" or something like that).

Were I still there, I would be wondering if there would be a quarterly "Alphabet LMT (Last Month, Today)" where people from all the letters could mingle and ask questions of Larry and Sergey.

It would provide both transparency for the conglomeration and a chance for people to compare notes about how things are done in the other business units.

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Re:Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company's 2019 To... by logicx24 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:01PM (#19628745)

Bottled water is back, and has been back for a while :)

That said, I agree. I think a wider town hall on all of Alphabet would be great, and would help employees see how all the pieces fit into a larger strategy.

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Re:Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company's 2019 To... by gketuma on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:17PM (#19628867)

What is bottled water? Are you referring to a project at google or just plain ol drinking water?

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Re:Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company's 2019 To... by dilyevsky on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:21PM (#19630591)

It’s kind of silly but there was a big controversy at google nearly decade ago when facilities stopped stocking bottled water in the fridges. I know... not as bad as “free tibet” cake tho...

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Re:Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company's 2019 To... by manfredo on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:25AM (#19631392)

This must be a "thing" at lots of companies. At mine there was a surprisingly heated thread about getting rid of bottled water, which culminated with the founder and CEO telling everyone to shut up and go back to work (albeit in a more respectful wording, and it had gotten to the point where such action was warranted). The thread essentially became legend.

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Re:Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company's 2019 To... by ChuckMcM on Thursday April 11, 2019 @12:10AM (#19631094)

It's a ex-Google (xoogler) inside joke from a certain period in time (circa 2009). Similarly with the Free Tibet Goji Berry cake.

Basically examples of decisions which the rank and file had a hard time with but were implemented anyway.

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Re:Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company's 2019 To... by icelancer on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:15PM (#19628855)

A real question is: Can Sundar unilaterally choose to withdraw business from China that is contingent on agreeing to things that are violations of human rights?

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