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If badging in for a free meal (which is "required", but not enforced) is one of your top complaints, this comment will only reinforce how ridiculously entitled
by tirewarehouse 7y ago
If badging in for a free meal (which is "required", but not enforced) is one of your top complaints, this comment will only reinforce how ridiculously entitled some tech workers have become.
Not sure what office you work or worked in, but where I'm at they regularly go over the top with decorations during celebrations. It's pretty awesome.
- fooker 7y agoNone of these on their own are huge complaints or issues. They just add up.
- kccqzy 7y agoHow is badging for food even a small issue?
- fooker 7y agoWould you want your employer to know about your exact food habits for years of your life? How about your government? How about your insurance company?
- rak00n 7y agoYou blew it out of proportion. It's more like you badge in a certain cafe. No one knows what you ate in that cafe.
- username90 7y agoGoogle already tracks every time you badge in at any door meaning they already know exactly where you are, when you com in, where you go for meetings etc. Badging for food is very minor in comparison.
- derangedHorse 7y agoJust because you badge in for your company doesn’t automatically mean your government or insurance company will get the data. Even if they did, they could probably get it in more detail from other sources like your bank and credit card company. Also they don’t track what you get, so I don’t see what the big deal is.
- CydeWeys 7y agoThe badging for food thing is because the IRS is coming after tech companies saying that it should be treated as a taxable benefit. It helps to have metrics about how widely used the perk is in arguing that it shouldn't be taxable. Badging for food doesn't say anything about the evolution of Google's culture over time; it only says that the IRS is now coming after Google.
- arcticbull 7y agoOh come on. Those are 3 wildly different use-cases. Your employer is providing you a perk as an incentive to keep you at the company longer hours. They provide a complementary meal, they log things like how many people eat, how often, what times, etc, to improve the service. Your government is mandatory, your employer is voluntary. Your insurance company would likely offer you a discount if you provided them this information. Again, on a voluntary basis. In general when something like this is required by an insurance company it's heavily regulated.