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The NDA is inexcusable. The food though...seems like everybody does it.

mc32 10y ago
I don't think any company would ignore pilfering on a large scale (everybody doing it). Now, large companies might have an office or two which deviate from the norm and may tolerate it a bit, but company-wide, I don't think so.
I_HALF_CATS 10y ago
Yeah, personal morals are silly. Throw Snowden down the well.
freditup 10y ago
I've often taken a drink or a snack from the office for later in the evening or the next day. Never considered that this might be frowned upon. On the other hand, taking large quantities of items frequently seems like an abuse of a perk.
- jankassens 10y ago
  That's how I understand it. "fill my bag with juices" is not the same as taking a snack for later.
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- GooglyMoogly 10y ago
  I've heard multiple times that taking food home is "ungoogly". I can't remember exactly where, but I think at least once in one of the many training/ethics videos I had to watch.
  - dekhn 10y ago
    It's OK to take food onto the bus ride home if you're working, or would have missed dinner because of the long ride. Taking large amounts of food to feed multiple family members on a regular basis is not.
- eru 10y ago
  It's well tolerated within bounds. Regularly feeding your roommates seems well outside those bounds.
- asuffield 10y ago
  I would agree with you here, and I think most googlers would too. We trust people to make sensible choices about this, and tend to be quite angry with blatant abuse, because it's abusing the trust as well as the perk.
asuffield 10y ago
> The food though...seems like everybody does it. The people who work here are the sort of people who don't, and that's intentional. Enjoy the things that are provided, but understand the context and intent behind them and don't abuse them. We get to have these things because we collectively take responsibility for not abusing them. That's how you avoid the tragedy of the commons - if everybody abused them then we'd have to stop having them so freely available.
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ryanobjc 10y ago
I don't. My coworkers don't. I rarely see people in my building doing that. That's the problem with universal quantifiers, they are so easily disproven.

mc32 10y ago

I don't think any company would ignore pilfering on a large scale (everybody doing it). Now, large companies might have an office or two which deviate from the norm and may tolerate it a bit, but company-wide, I don't think so.

I_HALF_CATS 10y ago

Yeah, personal morals are silly. Throw Snowden down the well.

freditup 10y ago

I've often taken a drink or a snack from the office for later in the evening or the next day. Never considered that this might be frowned upon. On the other hand, taking large quantities of items frequently seems like an abuse of a perk.

jankassens 10y ago
That's how I understand it. "fill my bag with juices" is not the same as taking a snack for later.
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GooglyMoogly 10y ago
I've heard multiple times that taking food home is "ungoogly". I can't remember exactly where, but I think at least once in one of the many training/ethics videos I had to watch.
- dekhn 10y ago
  It's OK to take food onto the bus ride home if you're working, or would have missed dinner because of the long ride. Taking large amounts of food to feed multiple family members on a regular basis is not.
eru 10y ago
It's well tolerated within bounds. Regularly feeding your roommates seems well outside those bounds.
asuffield 10y ago
I would agree with you here, and I think most googlers would too. We trust people to make sensible choices about this, and tend to be quite angry with blatant abuse, because it's abusing the trust as well as the perk.

asuffield 10y ago

> The food though...seems like everybody does it. The people who work here are the sort of people who don't, and that's intentional. Enjoy the things that are provided, but understand the context and intent behind them and don't abuse them. We get to have these things because we collectively take responsibility for not abusing them. That's how you avoid the tragedy of the commons - if everybody abused them then we'd have to stop having them so freely available.

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ryanobjc 10y ago

I don't. My coworkers don't. I rarely see people in my building doing that. That's the problem with universal quantifiers, they are so easily disproven.