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Plenty of companies still have stuff like game rooms including meta. Band rooms too. It’s mostly Amazon that’s an absolutely awful, terrible, horrendous company

Plenty of companies still have stuff like game rooms including meta. Band rooms too. It’s mostly Amazon that’s an absolutely awful, terrible, horrendous company.

belter 3y ago
The managerial way to say it...The company is frugal
senderista 3y ago
I couldn't care less about those ridiculous perks; I can do all that on my own time. All I want is good work, good pay, good colleagues, and good management.
- asylteltine 3y ago
  Well in big tech I have good news for you, you get both!
  - wyclif 3y ago
    More like, "Congratulations, pick two!"
    - asylteltine 3y ago
      I have all of those and most people I know do also. Big tech is awesome. There are some bad apples but it’s very easy to move around.
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      - dinvlad 3y ago
        Are you talking about Meta, by any chance?
chihuahua 3y ago
As far as I can remember, Amazon never had perks for employees. Except for free coffee and tea in the kitchens. That's it. I remember back in 2002 (?) when the 2-pizza team idea was introduced. My manager said he would find out how we could expense the pizza. It turns out that the pizza was merely theoretical: the team should be sized so that, if there were pizza, then 2 pizzas would be enough for the team. But that doesn't mean that pizza would ever be ordered or expensed.
- spenczar5 3y ago
  Twitch did the free food and snacks thing. When acquired by Amazon, Twitch opened a Seattle office, on a floor of an existing Amazon building. We got to keep getting free food! Every day around lunchtime, hungry Amazon workers from adjacent floors would quietly try to slip in to get a sandwich or a kebab or whatever, or would surreptitiously attempt to get a bag of chips. Eventually the Twitch side started to complain: there was never enough food to go around at lunch time. If you were more than ten minutes late, all the food would be gone. The Amazon management’s response? Lock off the Twitch floor so it required special badges for access. Let the Amazonians starve!
  - chihuahua 3y ago
    That is exactly what I expected to happen.
    - Rebelgecko 3y ago
      TBH I expected that everyone would lose the free food
      - chihuahua 3y ago
        That will happen a bit later
        wyclif 3y ago
        True. The badness is almost always incremental.
closeparen 3y ago
Office amenities were the carrot, attendance policies are the stick. Both are aimed at increasing the share of time employees spend at the office/thinking about work/immersed physically and socially in work-based networks. Employees who interpreted these amenities as a spirit of generosity that would just change with the times into a full remote culture were badly mistaken. If anything, it's the companies that never put any thought or care into their office environments, teambuilding, etc. who would be most amenable to going remote.
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Plenty of companies still have stuff like game rooms including meta. Band rooms too. It’s mostly Amazon that’s an absolutely awful, terrible, horrendous company.

belter 3y ago

The managerial way to say it...The company is frugal

senderista 3y ago

I couldn't care less about those ridiculous perks; I can do all that on my own time. All I want is good work, good pay, good colleagues, and good management.

asylteltine 3y ago
Well in big tech I have good news for you, you get both!
- wyclif 3y ago
  More like, "Congratulations, pick two!"
  - asylteltine 3y ago
    I have all of those and most people I know do also. Big tech is awesome. There are some bad apples but it’s very easy to move around.
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    - dinvlad 3y ago
      Are you talking about Meta, by any chance?

chihuahua 3y ago

As far as I can remember, Amazon never had perks for employees. Except for free coffee and tea in the kitchens. That's it. I remember back in 2002 (?) when the 2-pizza team idea was introduced. My manager said he would find out how we could expense the pizza. It turns out that the pizza was merely theoretical: the team should be sized so that, if there were pizza, then 2 pizzas would be enough for the team. But that doesn't mean that pizza would ever be ordered or expensed.

spenczar5 3y ago
Twitch did the free food and snacks thing. When acquired by Amazon, Twitch opened a Seattle office, on a floor of an existing Amazon building. We got to keep getting free food! Every day around lunchtime, hungry Amazon workers from adjacent floors would quietly try to slip in to get a sandwich or a kebab or whatever, or would surreptitiously attempt to get a bag of chips. Eventually the Twitch side started to complain: there was never enough food to go around at lunch time. If you were more than ten minutes late, all the food would be gone. The Amazon management’s response? Lock off the Twitch floor so it required special badges for access. Let the Amazonians starve!
- chihuahua 3y ago
  That is exactly what I expected to happen.
  - Rebelgecko 3y ago
    TBH I expected that everyone would lose the free food
    - chihuahua 3y ago
      That will happen a bit later
      - wyclif 3y ago
        True. The badness is almost always incremental.

closeparen 3y ago

Office amenities were the carrot, attendance policies are the stick. Both are aimed at increasing the share of time employees spend at the office/thinking about work/immersed physically and socially in work-based networks. Employees who interpreted these amenities as a spirit of generosity that would just change with the times into a full remote culture were badly mistaken. If anything, it's the companies that never put any thought or care into their office environments, teambuilding, etc. who would be most amenable to going remote.

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