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My WeWork in Gurgaon, India has a biweekly bhangra dance class at 4pm on a weekday After the third such class, I decided to get the hell out of my lease. It's

My WeWork in Gurgaon, India has a biweekly bhangra dance class at 4pm on a weekday After the third such class, I decided to get the hell out of my lease. It's like their entire corporate culture is built around finding creative ways to not work. It's awful environment to build a startup in.

nkoren 7y ago
Snort! I am imagining a bunch of microdosing firangi sitting in their gravity pods, asking each other what Indians do to be, like, all cool and stuff. "Build a successful business" is, like, way too square an answer, daddy-o. Anybody can be a dull old business man. Our customers want to be cooool. So what's cool and Indian? Yoga? Sure, man, but everyone does yoga. They probably do Yoga in Kansas these days, so how's that gonna build our brand? Yoga goes without saying. We need something way cooler than that. What is it? (Long awkward silence.) Ah, I've got it! Bollywood dancing! Yeah, they eat that shit up over there. Let's do that.
- muddi900 7y ago
  This might be 90% accurate.
- phlakaton 7y ago
  Panchakarma would also have been an acceptable answer. ;-)
fredley 7y ago
The spaces where you're actually supposed to work are so hostile to productive work anyway - loud, public, and if you're not by a window or at least only one tier in from one, dark.
odyssey7 7y ago
I take it this was just one example of something that didn't agree with you about the location. I've had a good experience at mine with better productivity vs working from home. Keep in mind, this is an office that aims to keep individual workers paying it, not the other way around, so the environment is going to be different than a lot of employer-owned offices.
- puranjay 7y ago
  Personally, I don't like the chirpiness and faux motivation plastered everywhere. I don't need to be told by posters that my work matters or that "Thank God it's Friday!". I never wanted to be a part of that corporate culture which is why I pursued my own freelance career. I guess some people don't mind that, but to me, it got too nauseating too quickly. At my location, it also seems that outside of the dedicated desk area (which is where I sit), a lot of people are there just to get laid. Nothing wrong with that, but that's something I've only found at WeWork of all the coworking places I've been to.

nkoren 7y ago

Snort! I am imagining a bunch of microdosing firangi sitting in their gravity pods, asking each other what Indians do to be, like, all cool and stuff. "Build a successful business" is, like, way too square an answer, daddy-o. Anybody can be a dull old business man. Our customers want to be cooool. So what's cool and Indian? Yoga? Sure, man, but everyone does yoga. They probably do Yoga in Kansas these days, so how's that gonna build our brand? Yoga goes without saying. We need something way cooler than that. What is it? (Long awkward silence.) Ah, I've got it! Bollywood dancing! Yeah, they eat that shit up over there. Let's do that.

muddi900 7y ago
This might be 90% accurate.
phlakaton 7y ago
Panchakarma would also have been an acceptable answer. ;-)

fredley 7y ago

The spaces where you're actually supposed to work are so hostile to productive work anyway - loud, public, and if you're not by a window or at least only one tier in from one, dark.

odyssey7 7y ago

I take it this was just one example of something that didn't agree with you about the location. I've had a good experience at mine with better productivity vs working from home. Keep in mind, this is an office that aims to keep individual workers paying it, not the other way around, so the environment is going to be different than a lot of employer-owned offices.

puranjay 7y ago
Personally, I don't like the chirpiness and faux motivation plastered everywhere. I don't need to be told by posters that my work matters or that "Thank God it's Friday!". I never wanted to be a part of that corporate culture which is why I pursued my own freelance career. I guess some people don't mind that, but to me, it got too nauseating too quickly. At my location, it also seems that outside of the dedicated desk area (which is where I sit), a lot of people are there just to get laid. Nothing wrong with that, but that's something I've only found at WeWork of all the coworking places I've been to.