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Sounds like Google is trying to reinstate company scrip.
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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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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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99$ a night so maje it a round 100 so only 2200$ a month. thats a steal!
These days, that’s cheaper than a lot of places rent for and you get free maid service. Fucking Google might have accidentally stumbled upon something helpful. And $99 a night is not profitable for the sort of hotel their employees would actually want to stay in, so they still lose!
This is only a temporary promotion. Tge price is not going to stay at $99/night, and it’s not an alternative to rent, but in addition to it. This is not permanent housing, they’re fucking hotel rooms.
I wasn’t being serious.
Hard to tell, honestly. Too many people saying shit like that unironically these days.
Ah the 22 day month.
22 workdays in an average month.
They can just sleep on the streets on weekends.
they hopefully have some home and people to go to.
But they can pay their employer for the rest of those days.
There are some companies that provide this for free.
What an absolute joke. Just let people work from home, you absolute dinosaurs.
But then you can’t siphon off 99$ a night from them!
Come on, everyone! We gotta get those profits up!
It has nothing to do with profits. It’s more profitable to have everyone work from home. Upper managers and executives simply prefer having everyone in the office because they like it. It’s their preference.
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It’s not though. None of this back-to-office stuff is for real estate.
Uhh, yes it is? I mean, if you take a look at how much real estate San Francisco has just in its downtown area that should tell you something.
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.
Whilst it wouldn’t surprise me at all if this was the case, I’ve seen similar things at other companies, it’s a completely brain-dead strategy. The people who leave are the most qualified and capable employees who can easily find a job elsewhere and you’re just left with all the people who the company swept up in the boom period where they were hiring anyone with a pulse.
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
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.
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…
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.
Mexico be like “tenemos siestas…”
Next they will start issueing company scrip, then a company town around the YouTube mines.
Companies will start using crypto as a way to recreate what scrip was back before it was banned. Meta made a play for that a few years back but luckily they failed.
Say what you want about crypto in general, but it’d be an extremely bad choice for company scrip…
Depends on the implementation, you can make contracts do anything, and if the bulk of the currency is premined and in the hands of the corporation, they can manipulate its value freely. Not every cryptocurrency works the way Bitcoin or Etherium work, some are quite centralised (see XRP for example).
Meta could demand that ads on its platform are paid in metabucks, pay employees (partly) in metabucks and manipulate the market by controlling liquidity. Essentially they’d be their own sovereign corporation issuing its own currency.
All true!
You should consider transaction fees though: someone’s gotta pay 'em. “Run their own chain” you might say, but then just use a database. Don’t need crypto-economic security when you’re the issuer and primary retailer.
That leads into having a public ledger. Great for public blockchains, but if you’re issuing company scrip, you probably don’t want outsiders auditing transactions.
Yeah, transaction fees can go to the issuer, so the corporation could double dip.
And as for transactions being publicly available on the ledger, SEC filings are public too, corporations openly bragged about raising prices beyond inflation and making record profits and they still had most of the populace convinced that the cause of inflation was just those darn lazy Millennials that didn’t want to work any more.
In the modern manufacturing consent era, it doesn’t matter that the truth is publicly available as long as you control mainstream media (which a corporation like Meta can easily do, first on their own platform and secondly by buying ads in the right newspapers).
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
Someone beat me to it
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!
searx
As awesome as it is, it’s still a meta search engine so you’d have to remember to exclude Google. Otherwise hosting your own search engine is mega cool!
yeah, using a someone elses public searx (like i do ) just seems unhygienic.
The new Brave search is pretty great.
Google sucks, search with ducks!
So this is absolutely a scummy move by google, no doubt, but google employees are some of the highest paid people in the world at this point. Boycott them if you want, but don’t feel like you have to right this injustice done to their employees, because they’ve still got it really good.
Edit: Just so this doesn’t come across as a crabs in a bucket type scenario, I am in this field and I am fortunate enough to make similar money, not as much, but equivalent in my country’s market. We are not the people that need fighting for, we’re the ones that should be fighting for others to have similar opportunities.
No I just mean the this is yet another item in a LOOOOOOOONG line of things where Google has gone the pure shit route.
In the last couple years, Google serves me more ads as search results than actual relevant results. The enshitification of the internet is real and I finally see it. I’ve have enough. Between Reddit, twitter, Google, SEO, Facebook and friends, Amazon becoming wish.con, etc everything is just going to shit. Maybe it makes me some old boomer dreaming of the glory days, but I’ve had enough. I refuse to be a product and I refuse to put any money towards these shitmaster overlords if there’s any way I can help it.
All fair reasons to use another service if that’s a deal breaker for sure
Thank you for defining the crab bucket mentally for everyone here!
You must have just missed my edit
Your edit doesn’t do it for me. You guys managed to get remote work, and now it’s being taken away. Do you think the pay scale has anything to do with what’s going on here?
Google still has fully remote employees, they’re asking non remote employees back into the office a few days a week. Last I heard you can still apply to transfer to fully remote.
We are not the people that need fighting for
At least not yet. Wait until the capitalists start replacing us with cheaper AI
Lol shiiit stay away from my job ChatGPT!
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!”
It may be cheaper than a hotel or apartment, but why should an employee have to pay to go to work when they could be working remotely?
“Because fuck you, that’s why.”
-Google
At $99/night it’s like renting for $3000/month. Even in silicon valley that’s pricey.
What if I paid to live there, but still worked remotely from my apartment or wherever?
Never pay your employer to do your job, are we in another great depression?
This hotel has been there for a while for visiting employees, paid for by the company. People wanted this option if, for example, you lived in Brazil, wanted to visit the US, but didn’t have any reason to book a business trip because you don’t work with anyone at headquarters. I’m going to guess that most paying guests won’t be reporting for work during their stays, but will be grabbing a solid 3 meals a day, plus snacks.
In other news, Google opens the cheapest hotel in California
You can check out any time you like but you can never leave.
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
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…
Nice, I like it. My back feels called out though.
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.
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.
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.
What if you got to lord it over the other tenants and didn’t pay rent?
isnt this the opposite direction prospective employees would be going? who the hell is looking to live at their job?
This is unfortunately really common in East-Asia. Samsung employees live in Samsung apartments, ride the Samsung metro to work, pay for things with their Samsung wallet, while they listen to Samsung controlled news. Google would love to become the Samsung of the West.
I’m fine with all of that if Samsung is paying.
Where does Samsung’s money come from? Like all corporations it comes from extracting the value of its laborers. If you’re working for Samsung, you are paying for the Samsung services, even if it’s not directly apparent.
I mean if you wanna play it like that, the money all comes from the consumers, so they should be allowed to stay in Samsung’s hotels for free, right?
live to work,
why e/se
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 load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
♫ You do 16 POSTs, whaddya GET? ♫
♫ Status code 200, pride and accomplishment ♫
Status code 200
Status message: 500 internal server error
Reminds me of company towns. We’re definitely regressing.
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.
You get two rooms for the price of one! One for you, and one for the friendly Stasi officer next door.
Well how else are you going to monitor “fair use” of the unlimited shower.
S1ep2 of black mirror?
