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Lots of good comics in there. A few I haven't seen highlighted yet: https://goomics.net/127/ https://goomics.net/127/ - poor, poor Google Plus. Somehow it wa

by powera 5y ago

Lots of good comics in there. A few I haven't seen highlighted yet: https://goomics.net/127/ https://goomics.net/127/ - poor, poor Google Plus. Somehow it wasn't a warning sign that the big executive-supported project to Win Social was a laughingstock internally. https://goomics.net/202/ https://goomics.net/202/ followed years later by https://goomics.net/294/ https://goomics.net/294/ - everybody expected TGIF to get worse over time, and apparently it did. https://goomics.net/118/ https://goomics.net/118/ - the last of three TailGator comics. A more innocent time. And last, https://goomics.net/106/ https://goomics.net/106/ - not Google-specific at all, but an instant classic of the industry.

flowerlad 5y ago
What's TGIF at Google? Is it a weekly event where you can ask exec questions in an open forum?
- dudus 5y ago
  That was the original intent
- malwarebytess 5y ago
  Bit like that. After hard questions starting being asked the execs locked that shit right down. Not much of substance goes on there anymore. Just fake shit and platitudes.
  - tolbish 5y ago
    Well that doesn't sound very Google-y.
    - fossuser 5y ago
      Hard to know without being there - but honest/nuanced answers require in-good-faith questions and not political posturing or using the opportunity to attack/leak. Though I think Zuckerberg has done a good job continuing this despite the leaks (at least that's what it seems like externally). It might not be just the company that changed, but the employees too (which may have forced Google to change policy as a result).
      - tolbish 5y ago
        There once was a day, long ago in the before time, when the leadership at Google was held to a higher ethical standard than Mark Zuckerberg.
        fossuser 5y ago
        They're in the same business - not sure why you'd expect them to have different incentives. Both are trying to do things at massive scale and dealing with the problems associated with that. I think both do things I don't agree with, but are generally unfairly vilified most of the time by their failing competition (the press mostly) and weirdly some of their employees. The sense I get from this is it's mostly political tribalism (affects both far left and far right with different grievances for each). I don't personally like the ad-driven model, so with the exception of YouTube I avoid their products where possible.
        CRConrad 5y ago
        Well, a large part of the difference in how they are treated is probably down to how Facebook didn't spend their first decade or so claiming to live by a motto like "Don't be evil".
- nailer 5y ago
  It was, yes.
- nunez 5y ago
  yeah pretty much. larry and sergey would take the stage and you could ask them anything. there were also company updates. some folks asked them some really tough questions (cost of housing relative to salaries was a big one, the compensation Google Sheet leak was another), and all of it was fair game.
nunez 5y ago
holy shit i didn't know that he was the one behind the tailgator. So cool!

by powera 5y ago

flowerlad 5y ago

What's TGIF at Google? Is it a weekly event where you can ask exec questions in an open forum?

dudus 5y ago
That was the original intent
malwarebytess 5y ago
Bit like that. After hard questions starting being asked the execs locked that shit right down. Not much of substance goes on there anymore. Just fake shit and platitudes.
- tolbish 5y ago
  Well that doesn't sound very Google-y.
  - fossuser 5y ago
    Hard to know without being there - but honest/nuanced answers require in-good-faith questions and not political posturing or using the opportunity to attack/leak. Though I think Zuckerberg has done a good job continuing this despite the leaks (at least that's what it seems like externally). It might not be just the company that changed, but the employees too (which may have forced Google to change policy as a result).
    - tolbish 5y ago
      There once was a day, long ago in the before time, when the leadership at Google was held to a higher ethical standard than Mark Zuckerberg.
      - fossuser 5y ago
        They're in the same business - not sure why you'd expect them to have different incentives. Both are trying to do things at massive scale and dealing with the problems associated with that. I think both do things I don't agree with, but are generally unfairly vilified most of the time by their failing competition (the press mostly) and weirdly some of their employees. The sense I get from this is it's mostly political tribalism (affects both far left and far right with different grievances for each). I don't personally like the ad-driven model, so with the exception of YouTube I avoid their products where possible.
        CRConrad 5y ago
        Well, a large part of the difference in how they are treated is probably down to how Facebook didn't spend their first decade or so claiming to live by a motto like "Don't be evil".
nailer 5y ago
It was, yes.
nunez 5y ago
yeah pretty much. larry and sergey would take the stage and you could ask them anything. there were also company updates. some folks asked them some really tough questions (cost of housing relative to salaries was a big one, the compensation Google Sheet leak was another), and all of it was fair game.

nunez 5y ago

holy shit i didn't know that he was the one behind the tailgator. So cool!