Thursday, October 25, 2007

GoogleSerfs

The way I figure it, the people who work for Google must be quite fat.

Think about it: when you see yet another fawning article about how wonderful it is to work there, they rarely mention anything like excellent work tools, or clearly stated and implemented goals. Occasionally, they do mention audacious plans and overarching ambitions, and that's good. And sometimes they mention on-site cleaners, people to run errands for you, cleaners. All goodness. But what they always mention is: the food. Why, these people get gourmet meals! The drink machines are free, and always stocked! They have people come around with carts of pastries and doughnutsp!

When the employee entrances change from looking like this - [] [] - but instead look like this - O O - then we'll know for sure: it might be, probably is, a challenging and rewarding place to work. But they're not there for that. They're there for the food.

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