Only at Google...
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A gray world of dread
What do I have to do to get employed by Google? I wish I had that much time on hand at work. 
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Minneapolis
uB they do things like that together at work instead of being able to go home. 
Yeah, lets play games with my co-workers instead of being at home. They work their coders awfully hard, these sorts of things are supposed to help them be sane again.
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A gray world of dread
Really? I always heard Google was like coder-heaven with lots of idle time. Meh, here I am being naive again.
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Oh god, there is no such thing as coder-heaven, right? It's all a lie
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a friend of mine works for the google Pittsburgh office.
he says parts of it are wonderful, like the free gym,
free jacuzzi/hottube, free massages, but like arfink
said, the never get to go home. my friend has no life,
no girlfriend/wife so it's not so bad. but he says some
of his co-workers hate it. one guy lives 2 blocks away,
and he cant go home for lunch...
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
I hope they just pealed the stickers off the cubes and re-arranged them for the designs.. otherwise they just wasted a lot of money. hahaha
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low-gain wrote:
I hope they just pealed the stickers off the cubes and re-arranged them for the designs.. otherwise they just wasted a lot of money. hahaha
Haha, I didn't even think of that, I just figured they had WAAAAAAY too much time on their hands.
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Westfield, NJ
xero wrote:
a friend of mine works for the google Pittsburgh office.
he says parts of it are wonderful, like the free gym,
free jacuzzi/hottube, free massages, but like arfink
said, the never get to go home. my friend has no life,
no girlfriend/wife so it's not so bad. but he says some
of his co-workers hate it. one guy lives 2 blocks away,
and he cant go home for lunch...
Unfortunately a lot of tech companies are like this now, especially in Silicon Valley. You start early in the morning, like 8 or 9 am, and you are expected to be there until 7pm or later. It's part of the reason I started my own company.
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ha! I just quit a job in japan which was 7 - 11 plus weekends thrown in at random... consider yourself lucky, jacuzzi jerkz!!