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Inside Look at Pixar HQ
LittleGuernica writes "Aintitcool's moriarty has taken a tour of Pixar's Headquarters in Emeryville, California and it just looks astounding. It instantly makes you wanna work there, or at least pimp up your cubicle... Which they don't have at Pixar, no they have cottages! Looks like Pixar created the optimal work condition for such a creative company, which leaves you no choice but to enjoy your job at Pixar every damn minute you work there."
as if I didn't hate my workplace enough already.
Not to mention the beautiful effigy of a hanging Mickey Mouse statue in the courtyard...
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
I am working the grill today at McDonalds, I hung up some napkins and drink covers to personalize my space. My boss is real mad, he lacks the creative spark that Steve Jobs has...
..but sitting here in my cubicle of an office measuring no more than 80 Square feet, with plane white walls and no window, I'm jealous. No wonder they come up with off the wall creative stuff and I sometimes struggle whilst attempting to get the creative juices flowing.
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I needed my nose rubbed in the fact that I have a shitass job.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
Well, with Steve Jobs, you better, becuase you'll be working there every damn minute of your waking life.
Apple T-shirts: working 90 hours a week and loving it!
"your cubicle... Which they don't have at Pixar, no they have cottages"
:p
Are those like cubicals with a roof? Doesnt that mean that when they run out of space they can just turn them into houses and high rises, by stacking them
I dunno about you, but your use of "cross-pollination" when refering to reasons behind a single bathroom gives me the heebie-jeebies.
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Someone isn't labeling all of their racks. Naughty naughty.
Man, I'd hate to have the cubicles around that bathroom! And you thought the seats near bathrooms on the plane could be bad...
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
Wow, what a cool looking place to work, I mean you can make your own space, nice furniture, spacious - OMFG - is that a Garfield doll ?! What kind of mindless idiots do they have working there?
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Perhaps that's where they got ideas for the Incredibles?
In the Pixar Restroom:
Employee 1: Yeah, the wife calls it "Mr Incredible"
Employe2: Really? My wife has nicknamed mine "Dash" for some reason.
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As a bit of an aside, Google may one day fall too.
Yes my son, but there is much power in the dark side.
To be able to shut out Chatty Kathy who's cell phone rings ten times and plays la-cookaracha and gets louder and louder when she doesn't answer it or Dum and Dummer who need to have a discussion at my desk when Dummer has his own office.
What he *meant* to say was:
Common people you can treat like crap, they'll do a decent job in return and not complain about their shitty working conditions! Honest!
But geeks get whiny about it, wanting "fair pay", "overtime", "lunch breaks" and crap like that. It's insanity, I tell ya.
Do they have thatched roofs? Do you get burninated instead of fired?
-- Thou hast strayed far from the path of the Avatar.
Employee 3: Sniff! My wife calls mine "Shrinking Violet".
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
But they didn't mention Jobs plans for a 2-bathroom model.
With a scroll wheel.
Well, see, that's why I can't get a job a Pixar. Eye done't half what it's take to bee a gud righter.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
The credits of each Pixar film include the names of the babies born to staff families during production.
So, they must get _some_ time off - or now we know what they do with the cottages.
I dunno, with a cubicle near the bathroom, you'd at least get the amusement value of watching the folks from the top floor running for the john. And think of the fun you'd have with an "Out of Order" sign on beer-bash Fridays.
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PHB: We've been saying that our people are our most important asset for years, but our recent inventory shows that's not true.
Dilbert: Really? Where do we rank?
PHB: 17th.
Dilbert: 17th!?
PHB: Yes. Just below carbon paper.
Man, it almost makes you wish they'd just come out and say the truth:
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."