Re:Google Staffers Share Stories of ‘Systemic’ Retaliation
by rossjudson on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:18AM
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Dear cobookman. You are batshit insane. I haven't seen a snack in an MK that I actually wanted to eat in over a year. I am pretty sure many of the same packages have been there for that entire year. I may start marking them with a sharpie to confirm my suspicions.
Re:Google Staffers Share Stories of ‘Systemic’ Retaliation
by cobookman on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @02:17AM
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What office? Main campus in MTV is meh. But SFO / snv / the few smaller offices in redwood City and Palo Alto have some great snacks.
I'd also recommend checking out the playa Vista office in the spruce goose hanger.
Re:Google Staffers Share Stories of ‘Systemic’ Retaliation
by jjeaff on Monday April 29, 2019 @04:56PM
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It will be interesting to see if the recent tax law changes will affect Google perks like the cafeteria. Providing food for employees on-site will no longer be expensable for corporations. So there will be no tax advantage.
MK Snacks are better. Coffee Better.
Its less cost cutting and more about logistics. You can't buy Mom & Pop created chocolate for 60k Bay area employees spread across 100 offices. We'd be consuming > 100% their supply. Most of the changes are around streamlining our logistics in the bay area to single suppliers.
As for w-street's changes, its not all negative. E.g. When I First joined google I heard of a team spending 10mil on an experiment by buying custom hardware to test form factor...the same experiment could have been done with a 1000$ foam/clay/3d printed mockup. People like Ruth have tought many teams in google to be more frugal.