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What is it with these offices that look like some sort of nursery school? Nobody has adult tastes?

uuilly 18y ago
I'm sure the weekly standard isn't too popular here but they ran a great cover story called "The Infantilization of Corporate America," that was pretty funny and it speaks to your comment: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/081tidkp.asp http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/00...
Shamiq 18y ago
I don't think I could any work done there, either. There's one thing to have "character" and another to be distracting as hell. I probably belong in a basement with a 20cmx20cm window...
iigs 18y ago
This company, and the industry it serves, targets a specific clientele maintains a specific image. I don't think their decoration is out of line there, despite the fact that it would drive me bananas. I agree that the nursery school decor is unwelcome without some overriding design goal, however.
- sgibat 18y ago
  Hm, I disagree. Have you looked at Zappos? They have every kind of shoe imaginable, including many very expensive men's dress shoes. Zappos's market is anyone who uses shoes, which is pretty much everyone.
petercooper 18y ago
Insulting someone's sense of style or taste is not insightful or good commentary - just an ad hominem fallacy.
- sofal 18y ago
  An insult it may be, but it is definitely not an ad hominem fallacy. Please be a little less liberal with that overused term.
  - petercooper 18y ago
    Since it was not in response to an initial argument, you are formally correct. However, a more common, less rarefied definition of ad hominem is "appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason." In this sense, any insult based on personal taste with no logical basis is an ad hominem attack, which by definition is a fallacious rhetorical device. In either case, I am not open to prescription.
    - petercooper 18y ago
      If someone who voted this down could explain how my post was in anyway "spam", "offensive" or otherwise incorrect, please do. You are opposing HN moderation standards by voting down to below zero something that does not match any of those criteria.
- petercooper 18y ago
  Some voters here consider childish insults worth modding up and someone calling out those insults worth modding down. Ironic, considering that the original insult was implying that Zappo staff members are immature :)
  - pg 18y ago
    Please stop.

I'm sure the weekly standard isn't too popular here but they ran a great cover story called "The Infantilization of Corporate America," that was pretty funny and it speaks to your comment: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/081tidkp.asp http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/00...

Shamiq 18y ago

I don't think I could any work done there, either. There's one thing to have "character" and another to be distracting as hell. I probably belong in a basement with a 20cmx20cm window...

iigs 18y ago

This company, and the industry it serves, targets a specific clientele maintains a specific image. I don't think their decoration is out of line there, despite the fact that it would drive me bananas. I agree that the nursery school decor is unwelcome without some overriding design goal, however.

sgibat 18y ago
Hm, I disagree. Have you looked at Zappos? They have every kind of shoe imaginable, including many very expensive men's dress shoes. Zappos's market is anyone who uses shoes, which is pretty much everyone.

petercooper 18y ago

Insulting someone's sense of style or taste is not insightful or good commentary - just an ad hominem fallacy.

sofal 18y ago
An insult it may be, but it is definitely not an ad hominem fallacy. Please be a little less liberal with that overused term.
- petercooper 18y ago
  Since it was not in response to an initial argument, you are formally correct. However, a more common, less rarefied definition of ad hominem is "appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason." In this sense, any insult based on personal taste with no logical basis is an ad hominem attack, which by definition is a fallacious rhetorical device. In either case, I am not open to prescription.
  - petercooper 18y ago
    If someone who voted this down could explain how my post was in anyway "spam", "offensive" or otherwise incorrect, please do. You are opposing HN moderation standards by voting down to below zero something that does not match any of those criteria.
petercooper 18y ago
Some voters here consider childish insults worth modding up and someone calling out those insults worth modding down. Ironic, considering that the original insult was implying that Zappo staff members are immature :)
- pg 18y ago
  Please stop.