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Oh, huh. Interesting. In the first season of Silicon Valley, there's a part where (spoilers) a main character gets "unassigned" from a Google parody, and it's
by elvinyung 10y ago
Oh, huh. Interesting.
In the first season of Silicon Valley, there's a part where (spoilers) a main character gets "unassigned" from a Google parody, and it's mentioned that it's inspired by some Japanese management technique.
I didn't know that was actually true.
- BuuQu9hu 10y agoIt happens in real life at Google, too.
- fennecfoxen 10y agoThis is also what happens to teachers in the New York City school system after they've been caught out reading the newspaper while their students spend all class gambling. They call it the "rubber room". Technically these teachers are awaiting reassignment, pending arbitration. This is very slow, and I understand that there is a backlog from a long period of time where very little arbitration happened, because the school system was not paying their arbitrators. (Also, they may have decentralized the rubber room in recent years to inhibit visibility.)
- davidlee1435 10y agoThe article mentions that the practice was discontinued in 2010
- FabHK 10y ago(more spoilers) Yeah, Big Head on the roof chilling with the other guys - awesome :-)
- drewrv 10y agoIt really amazes me how much of that show is true.