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> tech companies like Twitter and Airbnb, which are widely known to have access to dining in their own buildings, depriving nearby restaurants of the dollars us
by 1996 8y ago
> tech companies like Twitter and Airbnb, which are widely known to have access to dining in their own buildings, depriving nearby restaurants of the dollars usually spent by nearby worker
Only in Soviet Russia... and Silicon Valley can you see nonsense like that.
- vilhelm_s 8y ago> Peskin said, it’s a hope to mitigate the “app culture” of workers who [...] dine in their places of employment [...] depriving them the pleasure of mingling with the rest of The City. Uh, thanks, I guess.
- megaman22 8y agoIt's funny, but sad, watching people trying to kill the golden goose by a thousand cuts.
- refurb 8y agoThis is the thing. If they succeed in fixing the "problem" of tech workers, SF will end up like it did in the 1970's where people were more people moved out than moved in.
- Grue3 8y agoFor the record, in Russia a company is actually required to have a workplace cafeteria once they have more than N workers employed.
- sampo 8y ago"Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union": https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1014974099930714115?s=21 https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1014974099930714115?s=21 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17471324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17471324