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Have you ever walked between buildings to catch a meeting? I remember this from my Google days and I hated it. Ironically at some point they were cool with vide
by msoad 5y ago
Have you ever walked between buildings to catch a meeting? I remember this from my Google days and I hated it. Ironically at some point they were cool with video calling in from another building!!
- librish 5y agoYes, if I'm not colocated with my team then most of the advantages go away.
- quest88 5y agoHaha, or video calling from the same building but between floors because rooms are not big enough!
- dionian 5y agomy favorite excuse to stay at my desk and work
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoIt sucks in the Norcal office but if you're in any of the other offices the max distance is not too bad.
- googler519524 5y agolaughs in New York City at getting lost in stairwells of the original 111 8th Ave building or Chelsea market building, and soon (not) going between Chelsea and Hudson Square.
- ikiris 5y agoLol maze building was real
- saalweachter 5y agoAll Google offices have a bit of a collegiate feeling; the NYC office just channels The Big U.
- UncleMeat 5y agoYeah NYC-8th is hilarious. The number of times I remember having to wait 6-7 minutes for a meeting to start because somebody had back-to-backs and needed to take some convoluted path to go up or down five floors was too high to count.
- thebean11 5y agoWhy did you hate it? An excuse to take a walk in Bay Area weather in the middle of the day doesn't seem that bad to me.
- prepend 5y agoI hated it because it took 5-10 minutes. I’d rather use that time working, or meditating, or doing anything else of my choice than having to walk. It’s also pretty messed up when it rains, or is cold, or I have a disability or a foot in a cast. Etc etc. Having to do things not essential to a purpose is better to make them optional. If I like working, I can walk around while on the remote meeting
- jakeinspace 5y agoFair enough with wanting to work rather than walk, but feeling aggrieved at not being able to meditate due to having to walk seems like such an odd problem to me. I can't imagine being able to get more out of meditating at work (even in a quiet dark area) than in getting some exercise and enjoying the breeze. Nothing against meditating, but it can't beat exercise as a break from sitting/standing at a desk for hours on end.
- dekhn 5y agothe best 1:1s I had with managers were typically walking around campus, although with the construction going on near shoreline (if it's not done) that became less enjoyable, and eventually, they moved my entire department to an outpost in Sunnyvale that wasn't very nice to walk around.
- prepend 5y agoI meant that meditating for 5 minutes before or after a meeting is a better use of time for me. I didn’t mean that walking displaced meditating, I was giving examples of how there are better uses of time than unnecessary walking. I love walking and think it’s great for creativity and other purposes. I’m not against walking. I’m against having to walk just to get to and from a meeting. I love whistling and singing. I would be against a requirement to whistle for 30 seconds before every meeting starts.