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We need unions for many reasons, but an employer offering optional housing onsite really isn’t one of them. It’s not like it’s required to rent from Google to work there.
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Sounds like Google is trying to reinstate company scrip.
You might want to mark that NSFW. Don’t want to be caught reading some discussion with the word union in it.
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What an absolute joke. Just let people work from home, you absolute dinosaurs.
Can we please think of the billionaires? What are they gonna do when their office buildings are empty? They need their property value! /s
They want to force attrition. They over hired and need to reduce headcount but they don’t want the negative press of laying more people off.
Isn’t that the dream for a capitalist! Labor that sleeps at work. Google takes it a step further and asks employees to pay for being able to sleep at work.
They just need to implement a full company score!
Edit: Meant company store, but I’ll leave the original
Then they can start paying in scrip! Just like the robber-barons of old!
Holy hell boss.
I thought you meant something like china’s social credit score.
Get more points, you get a better chair and OLED screen or even a chance at a promotion.
Points go down, you get sent to a shitty cubicle at the far corner of the office. Then a verbal warning, followed by a written warning…
The score is just soulless “lo-fi beats” type of music played all over the grounds to avoid any one person ever having to sit alone with just their thoughts as background noise.
Holy hell boss.
I thought you meant something like china’s social credit score.
Get more points, you get a better chair and OLED screen or even a chance at a promotion.
Points go down, you get sent to a shitty cubicle at the far corner of the office. Then a verbal warning, followed by a written warning…
Labor that PAYS to sleep at work.
Next they will start issueing company scrip, then a company town around the YouTube mines.
Paddy’s dollars.
Sooooooooooome people say man is made out of mud, the poor man’s made out of muscle and blood. Muscle and blood, skin and bone, a mind that’s weak and a back thats strong… You move 16 tons… whadaya get? Another day older and deeper in debt… St. Peter don’tcha call me because I can’t go…
I owe my soul… to the company store…
Obligatory reference to the Joe VS the volcano version of 16 tons
If you see coming better step aside, a lot of men didn’t and a lot of men died. One first of iron and the others steel if the right don’t get you then the left one will…
For the uninitiated: https://youtu.be/74WvUV7H8Nw
That South Park montage was genuine art, I swear.
First thought that went through my mind as well lol
Fucking company town. Google has become a real shit company. Switch your default search to duck duck go or anything else people!
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The advertisement entices workers to make the jump, even for a short while, to its on-campus hotel, saying: “Just imagine no commute to the office in the morning and instead, you could have an extra hour of sleep and less friction,” CNBC reported.
Did these stupid motherfuckers read their own ad??
No commute and extra sleep? That sounds great!
No wonder everyone is trying to WFH - the very same reasons you just listed.
LMFAO the only ones really pushing it are the ones invested in real estate
“If you lived here, you’d be at work by now!”
Never pay your employer to do your job, are we in another great depression?
In other news, Google opens the cheapest hotel in California
Next up will be these tech companies offering company script to buy things at the company store while paying that rent to the company room. You know, to help transition into the new indentured working environment.
♫ You do 16 POSTs, whaddya GET? ♫
♫ Status code 200, pride and accomplishment ♫
Status code 200
Status message: 500 internal server error
You load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
No way. I don’t want my employer to also be my landlord. Nothing good could come of that.
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
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.
it’s very easy to ignore social inequities if you spend all your time working for a shitty company making absolute bank
think they are getting paid bank
Objectively, they are.
Henry Ford did that.
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.
No no you don’t understand. It’s work from home but work IS the home! You see it makes perfect sense.
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.
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.
Wait till they start 3 shift bed rotation like in chinese factories. For the discounted price of 59.99
Ah so the Dakota’s pipeline setup?
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Sillicon Valley reinvents Company Scrip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip#Lumber_company_scrip
Wow, and here I thought deep rock galactic just made up a word
That’s shady af
Didn’t gage company towns making a comeback on my 2023 Bingo card
