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What time is the dinner served?
by randycupertino 9y ago
What time is the dinner served?
- tmh79 9y ago8:15
- djtriptych 9y agowow! It was 6:30 iirc @ Google, which I already thought was just a ploy to keep employees there later. Breakfast ended at I believe 9:30.
- Tyr42 9y agoI think it's 8:30 to 10 at my office.
- uiri 9y agoDepends on the Google cafe. A few started dinner at 6:00. I think most started at 6:30 but I wouldn't be surprised if a couple didn't start until as late as 7. Breakfast ended at 10 but often it didn't actually close until food ran out. I think some had late breakfast going until 11.
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- nostrademons 9y agoCharlie's would close the doors, hard stop, at 10:00. I remember having to be let out by the back route, through the kitchen, a couple times because I was still in line for food when the doors closed.
- djtriptych 9y agoThis was Google NYC btw.
- giarc 9y agoSuch a weird recommendation. It's so variable. 8:15 would be perfect for me (2 year old and 2 month old at home). 8:15pm is after bed time. If the dinner started at 5pm, it wouldn't work for some parents, and for others 5pm might be way too early. You can't please everyone, and sometimes trying to is worse.
- biesnecker 9y ago8:15 is after my kids go to sleep, too, but I'd rather not commute home to spend time with them, and then commute back to eat dinner.
- acchow 9y agoWould be easy if you live at Nema
- thrownblown 9y agoLil bit of an in joke. NEMA is a condo building sandwiched between the Uber and Twitter main offices. I'm fairly certain that significant portion of their staff does live within a short Uber ride back to the office. Even those with families.
- creepydata 9y agoBesides, what are your kids going to eat?
- davidcbc 9y agoI'm not understanding what you are saying. Are you saying working until after 8:15 is perfect for you so that you'll never see your family? Or that you'll go back to work to eat after your kids go to bed? Both sound bad
- giarc 9y agoSo I guess I understood these dinners wrong. It's not like a social dinner? Or does this mean like company supplied dinner starts at 8:15pm? I interpreted it as (non mandatory) social dinner's hosted by the company would start at 8:15pm.
- bhntr3 9y agoYep. I asked about work life balance when evaluating offers and my future manager told me "Just look at the delta between when breakfast ends and dinner starts. For us, it's 8 hours. For Uber, it's something like 11." It might be an inconsequential recommendation. But it is representative of the broader culture. And yes, it's absurd that silicon valley tech companies feed us three meals a day. That HBO show Silicon Valley is a documentary not a comedy.
- pizzetta 9y agoIsn't the purpose of dinner to "feed" those who stay late knowing there is food and know that they won't have to go hunting outside to see what joint is still open (specially in the suburban campuses) rather than being a venue to feed staff on their way out (home, etc.)? From that PoV 7-ish makes sense. I know I would not stay around till 7 just for a freebie dinner if I didn't have anything to do.
- majormajor 9y agoWell, yes, I think "don't directly reward and incentivize staying too late at work" is the whole point of the recommendation. E.g. "signal the end of the work day."
- Pils 9y agoOne option that the company I currently work for does is to provide dinners in to-go that are either cold sandwiches or leftovers from lunch (which is free). That way, if one has to stay late, you aren't forced to have chips for dinner, while avoiding the signaling of having an actual dinner service.
- pizzetta 9y agoI agree that providing dinners is kind of symbiotic. The worker gets free dinner and in return the employer gets outsized compensation in the form of work (symbiosis is not equal). That said, I never feel obliged to stay just because there is dinner served. I'm quite sure at places I've worked it's not even a tacit thing. I do know people who "hang out" just to get a free dinner and then leave --and again the company knows this and to my knowledge there is no frowning upon that (of course, if everyone did it, I'm sure it would become frowned upon).
- prawn 9y agoThis is a great idea. Especially if they're leftovers from lunch, to avoid waste.
- johan_larson 9y agoAt least at Google's NYC office, it was socially acceptable to work until dinner-time, have dinner at work, and then go home. (Or so it was reported to me.)