went to the cafeteria in my building today and it made me think of one of the kind of weird things about working at Microsoft: the scale of it
the cafeteria in my building has 10 different stations. EG: sandwich place, salad bar + soup, grill, burgers + fried things and then 6 more that rotate daily. Seating for several hundred people. Also a self-service area where you can buy stuff like chips or premade sandwiches or whatever. All beverages are free.
there are about 25 cafeterias like this on main campus. And that's not counting the Commons which is like a small mall.
I mean Microsoft is a mega corp it makes sense they'd have mega corp style facilities.
Wait only drinks are free? I assumed all the big tech companies had free food
Ahahahaha
Yeah that's just Facebook and Google
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fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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I like my new manager because the CIO scheduled a meeting to plan our next meeting for cutting over the voip system and my manager sent a reply-all with the word "no" and nothing else
When I was in college I worked for a casino for a while and they had free food at a worker cafeteria but it was mostly just like the place was open 24/7 and not particularly close to anything. Helps a lot too when a large segment of your workforce isn't particularly wealthy.
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Wait only drinks are free? I assumed all the big tech companies had free food
It's surprising that the drinks are free!
We only have free snacks like chips or fruit, coffee, tea, diet coke, coke and water.
Only some of the startupiest of startups do the "serve lunch everyday" thing and that is more to do with not ever letting them take a break than anything else.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
IT people also just generally hate Adobe and its products.
They're just a fucking pain and for ever user who actually uses that shit there's 15 more who just treat it as a status symbol and act offended when they're told they don't need it.
Oh yeah the Original Sin here is Adobe deciding this needed to be a service model and not just a thing I buy in a box.
Teamviewer threw it's hat in that ring, too.
God how I despise that program.
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IT people also just generally hate Adobe and its products.
They're just a fucking pain and for ever user who actually uses that shit there's 15 more who just treat it as a status symbol and act offended when they're told they don't need it.
Oh yeah the Original Sin here is Adobe deciding this needed to be a service model and not just a thing I buy in a box.
No waaaaaaaaaaay
The subscription model is great, it makes it viable to try new stuff as need arises without having to motivate a 1.5k buy every time. Also it's kind of accessible to hobbyists now outside of using torrents.
IT people also just generally hate Adobe and its products.
They're just a fucking pain and for ever user who actually uses that shit there's 15 more who just treat it as a status symbol and act offended when they're told they don't need it.
Oh yeah the Original Sin here is Adobe deciding this needed to be a service model and not just a thing I buy in a box.
Teamviewer threw it's hat in that ring, too.
God how I despise that program.
every single company trying to create a "netflix for games" (and there are a lot of em, not just the big ones you've heard of) are desperately hoping to bring this brand of consumer-fucking to the gaming space as well. All the benefits of a customer that keeps paying your forever, eliminating any connection between game devs and consumers, commodifying and de-valuing the work of said game devs with the added bonus that the consumer never owns anything and can have their shit taken away at any time (and will! just look at the list of what get removes from netflix / prime each month).
Photoshop has gotten a lot of bloat but I think Illustrator is the worst one. CS3 Illustrator was a work horse and now the program is basically a beached whale.
Dreamweaver is also shockingly clunky for what is basically a glorified text editor.
that's probably what every startup with free lunch thinks because they, like me, don't know jack shit
but like, it can't be that expensive to just do lunch. Army fed us for something like 70 kroner per day. Even setting the aims very low and trying to do just lunch for that, it would be a reasonable cost
IT people also just generally hate Adobe and its products.
They're just a fucking pain and for ever user who actually uses that shit there's 15 more who just treat it as a status symbol and act offended when they're told they don't need it.
Oh yeah the Original Sin here is Adobe deciding this needed to be a service model and not just a thing I buy in a box.
No waaaaaaaaaaay
The subscription model is great, it makes it viable to try new stuff as need arises without having to motivate a 1.5k buy every time. Also it's kind of accessible to hobbyists now outside of using torrents.
I can't remember the last time they added something that was useful tbh
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My new app connects workers with other workers and encourages agile corporate reorganization by facilitating alternatives in the form of disrupting everything above the CEO's shoulders in a classic French style
All our desks are supposed to be facing the wall so people standing at the entrance to the room can see everyones monitors, but the desks wrap around in a c shape, just without a well laid spot on the other end of it for a computer. Every single person has set up their desk backwards. Its actually super useful too, because then everyone is looking towards the managers office, so if he's standing at his door talking to us, we all see that he's there.
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I mean Microsoft is a mega corp it makes sense they'd have mega corp style facilities.
Yeah that's just Facebook and Google
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
This was my intention.
Yeah I guess that’s how it was described to me- free food, free on site laundry, free haircuts etc. Basically anything to glue the worker to campus.
It's surprising that the drinks are free!
We only have free snacks like chips or fruit, coffee, tea, diet coke, coke and water.
Only some of the startupiest of startups do the "serve lunch everyday" thing and that is more to do with not ever letting them take a break than anything else.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
God Ice T is the best.
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I'm in big-ass tech and don't get free cafeteria.
just standing desks in an open-office format with hamster wheels and hanging bottles, one of water and one of soylent
And one of something else, for we freak bois
We do that thing where the cafeteria is too expensive to eat at so people go elsewhere.
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Employee orientation includes the nutrient port implantation.
Teamviewer threw it's hat in that ring, too.
God how I despise that program.
Indeed
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Oh ffs
treadmills exist
god damn it
I can tell you that's not true in practice, dinner is sparsely attended compared to lunch
Hipster late capitalist General Grievous.
Disruption brah
Insert subliminal messages, y/y
No waaaaaaaaaaay
The subscription model is great, it makes it viable to try new stuff as need arises without having to motivate a 1.5k buy every time. Also it's kind of accessible to hobbyists now outside of using torrents.
every single company trying to create a "netflix for games" (and there are a lot of em, not just the big ones you've heard of) are desperately hoping to bring this brand of consumer-fucking to the gaming space as well. All the benefits of a customer that keeps paying your forever, eliminating any connection between game devs and consumers, commodifying and de-valuing the work of said game devs with the added bonus that the consumer never owns anything and can have their shit taken away at any time (and will! just look at the list of what get removes from netflix / prime each month).
Why can’t he write his own fucking emails
Dreamweaver is also shockingly clunky for what is basically a glorified text editor.
that's probably what every startup with free lunch thinks because they, like me, don't know jack shit
but like, it can't be that expensive to just do lunch. Army fed us for something like 70 kroner per day. Even setting the aims very low and trying to do just lunch for that, it would be a reasonable cost
I can't remember the last time they added something that was useful tbh
My new app connects workers with other workers and encourages agile corporate reorganization by facilitating alternatives in the form of disrupting everything above the CEO's shoulders in a classic French style
All our desks are supposed to be facing the wall so people standing at the entrance to the room can see everyones monitors, but the desks wrap around in a c shape, just without a well laid spot on the other end of it for a computer. Every single person has set up their desk backwards. Its actually super useful too, because then everyone is looking towards the managers office, so if he's standing at his door talking to us, we all see that he's there.
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