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Kinyutaka ,

I owe my soul to the company store…

Gerula ,

Stalag Google! Welcome: “You can check out any time you like, But you can never leave”

neutron , 

<span style="color:#323232;">Welcome to the FAANG-Club: Campus Googleplex.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Such a nerdy place, such a nerdy place...
</span>
AnxiousOtter ,

Reminds me of company towns. We’re definitely regressing.

jeanma ,

I remember my internship at google 10y ago, with all the free perks, service to make you forget about chores, the cool attitude, etc…

Venomnik0 ,

That’s a far cry from now :/

elkazz ,

Are you Vince or Owen?

jeanma ,

it took me 5s but I got it :) I never saw the movie though. However I really those two comedians.

PP_BOY_ ,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

In other news, Google opens the cheapest hotel in California

ErwinLottemann ,

You can check out any time you like but you can never leave.

karet ,

15 million merits, coming soon!

HiddenLayer5 , (edited )

New product: Google Landlord

Also, just based on the fact that they’re a data analytics and AI company, and their public privacy and security track record with their services, I’d genuinely be worried what kind of “guest experience analytics” is going on at that “hotel.” Is there a camera in the shower? You don’t know.

blau ,
@blau@feddit.de avatar

Well how else are you going to monitor “fair use” of the unlimited shower.

FlyingPiisami ,

You get two rooms for the price of one! One for you, and one for the friendly Stasi officer next door.

Hnazant ,

S1ep2 of black mirror?

quazar ,

Saint Peter, don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go

I owe my soul to the company store

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Everyone who pays that is a dumbass. I’d rather sleep in my car or spend that money at a regular hotel not associated with my employer.

NatoBoram ,

Anyone who pays that has fuck-you money, they work at Google.

That said, “transition to the hybrid workplace” is something I wouldn’t do.

ArbitraryValue , (edited )

You’d be paying at least two-and-a-half times as much for a regular hotel around there, and it wouldn’t be a very nice hotel.

Edit: apparently I’m wrong.

squidzorz ,
@squidzorz@lemmy.world avatar

I thought the same, but it looks like there’s actually quite a few nicer options for cheaper

Link to hotels.com search

ArbitraryValue ,

I wonder if hotels have gotten cheaper in the seven years since I’ve had to travel there for business or if somehow I wasn’t finding these.

some_guy ,

and it wouldn’t be a very nice hotel.

I worked at Apple while living 45 miles away about 10y ago. I got into a habit of staying in hotels like the Hilton when I had to pull long hours. The cost was less then than it is now. Even now, a quick search on Google Maps show these hotels to be in the $200 range or less. Probably cheaper on weeknights. It’s not one-for-one analogous to Mountain View, but it’s the same general area.

I’d rather double the cost and have my own space away from my employer if I had to crash nearby because it didn’t make sense to do a long drive. I especially would rather double the cost than give back part of my paycheck to my employer. That’s just insane mechanics, imo.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

I go to Furcon at a hotel near Google’s offices every few years; it’s only like $50 more expensive and isn’t a shit hole.

ArbitraryValue ,

I’m surprised. I used to travel there for work about seven years ago and the cheapest I could get then was about $250 a night. But now that I check, the hotels really are cheaper than they used to be. I wonder if that has to do with covid-related changes to where people work.

callinean ,

Hard to call people qualified to work at Google dumbass.

InternetUser2012 ,

If they pay $99 per night to stay at your place of work, then it’s not hard at all.

CaptainHowdy ,

Gtfo I thought I let my job take advantage of me

yoz , (edited )

Google employees are not brain dead. They made google to what it is today

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Google is pretty brain dead today tho.

HiddenLayer5 , (edited )

I’m sure that pretty much no Google employee is happy with this. But it’s the classic “I don’t want to lose my place near the top of the industry which I’ve spend my entire life getting to, so I can’t criticize my employer or the direction the industry is going in any way.” Self policing and going along with whatever the man decides so you don’t lose your job and means of supporting yourself and your family. Same with a lot of the people working on the Web Integrity thing I imagine.

ArbitraryValue ,

There are a lot of different places in the industry where these Google developers could work. I am employed by a company where developers have flexible schedules, no overtime work (except in unusual circumstances), and three days a week of work-from-home. The catch is that my company pays a lot less than Google does - still enough for an upper-middle-class lifestyle, but less. So our developers tend to be people who have children and want to spend more time with their families, and they’re willing to take a pay cut to do that. For the sort of person who has the option of working at Google, “supporting your family” means working less, not more.

Google’s developers are people who prefer higher pay and/or a more fast-paced environment. They might not like this policy, but they don’t want to leave. They could if they wanted to.

triplenadir ,
@triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml avatar

“what it is today” a tax-evading, weapons-manufacturing, privacy-invading, wannabe monopoly, that’s continually fucking up their core products and radicalizing people into the far right for profit?

ya gotta agree at least significant parts of those workers’ brains are dead

Texas_Hangover ,

$99 a night for company rooms? Around here we can get a shitty room, AND a hooker for that price. Not to mention drugs being readily available in the parking lot.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I’m guessing there’s no shortage of drugs on the Google campus.

CaptainHowdy , (edited )

Not enough drugs in the world could make me interested in that hooker.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

How about an entire bottle of Viagra taken at once?

TechnoBabble ,

I think I’d be more interested in finding a cardiologist at that point.

Ironfist ,

and a dermatologist

pyromaniac_donkey ,

you vill eat ze bugs, own nothing, and live in ze pod too

Like_Pravana ,
@Like_Pravana@lemmy.world avatar

No way. I don’t want my employer to also be my landlord. Nothing good could come of that.

atticus88th ,

Sounds illegal until I realized its tech workers who refuse to unionize and think they are getting paid bank but to live like a virtual slave.

nickwitha_k ,

As one in the industry, it’s incredibly frustrating. Colleagues have been saying “oh, we get all of these perks and get nice salaries, we don’t need a union” while others are bucket-crabbing with “you make big money, why do you need a union?”, both overlooking the immense amounts of unpaid overtime that are endemic. Then, there’s the push for RTO, which does nothing to benefit employees and would be readily prevented by strong unions.

aport ,

think they are getting paid bank

Objectively, they are.

STUPIDVIPGUY ,

it’s very easy to ignore social inequities if you spend all your time working for a shitty company making absolute bank

Oyster_Lust ,
@Oyster_Lust@lemmy.world avatar

Henry Ford did that.

Lev_Astov ,
@Lev_Astov@lemmy.world avatar

A lot of companies used to run company towns. Toyota still does, as far as I know. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a return of that sort of thing with real estate prices getting absurd and companies wanting to drive people back into the office.

ProvableGecko ,

No no you don’t understand. It’s work from home but work IS the home! You see it makes perfect sense.

roboticide ,

Hah, I actually did that when I first started working for a small company.

The co-founder also rented out a house he owned as a duplex.

Actually wasn’t that bad, he charged slightly below market rate, and was pretty attentive. But definitely felt weird and I was happy to move out after a few years. It’s just an unnecessary source of potential drama.

Now my manager lives there, and has for five years.

Noughmad ,

You commit 16 lines, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

St. Peter, don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go

I owe my soul to the company store

absentbird ,
@absentbird@lemm.ee avatar

Some people say a man is made outta blood. A code monkey’s made out of Fritos and crud. Fritos and crud and skin and bone. A back that’s weak and a mind that’s strong…

AnarchistArtificer ,

Nice, I like it. My back feels called out though.

charonn0 ,
@charonn0@startrek.website avatar

What if you got to lord it over the other tenants and didn’t pay rent?

meeeeetch ,

The good that comes from that, from the perspective of the boss-landlord is that if your employee-tenants start getting the idea to strike, you control both their income and their shelter, so they reconsider.

Then you offer on-site housing to your scabs.

NathanielThomas ,

It’s not Google but my partner works for a post secondary institution and they charge her for parking on campus. It’s not much ($10 a month) but over a year that’s $120 per employee which is a clawback on your compensation.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Yep, I worked for a university for a while and I had to pay around $120 a year for parking too. Even better, I got laid off a month after I renewed and was told there were no refunds. Also, it was a 10-minute walk from where I could park to my office unless I wanted to pay even more for a premium spot. Really fun in mid-winter when the temperature was below zero.

zik ,

Providing parking is incredibly expensive. The true cost of providing that much real estate for a car for a year would be in the thousands. Why not charge the true cost of a service?

const_void ,
@const_void@lemmy.world avatar

The true cost is paid by the consumer, why make the employee also pay?

zik ,

To incentivise the use of more efficient modes of transport. When every employee effectively has an expensive parking space made available to them gratis why would they take any other kind of transport?

const_void ,
@const_void@lemmy.world avatar

How about paying the employee for utilizing those other forms of transport, rewarding them for behavior instead of penalizing them?

Also, gotta make sure bosses and leaders are parking far away from the entrance—no more reserved spots!

lazysupper ,

Ride a bike.

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