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A Look at Silicon Valley Cafeterias
boycottthecaf writes "The San Jose Mercury News has a story on the cafeterias of Silicon Valley companies, and how they are used to keep workers on site during lunch. Google, of course, has the cafeteria everyone envies."
5:50am - alarm clock goes off. Crawl out of bed and stagger into shower
5:53am - masturbate furiously in shower then wash self
6:15am - brush teeth
6:20am - get dressed for work
6:30am - watch news while making salad sandwiches for lunch
6:45am - have a cup of coffee
7:15am - drive to train station
7:24am - catch the train to Adelaide. Read book on train
8:09am - arrive at Adelaide and walk to work
8:15am - start work.. fire up PC and get a coffee
8:25am - read trolltalk, personal emails, dilbert jokes, etc
9:00am - have a smoke
9:05am - start doing real work for an hour
10:00am - smoko - have a coffee and check trolltalk
11:00am - do some more real work - attend meetings, look intelligent, pretend I give a shit
12:00pm - LUNCHTIME!!! Put on mirrored sunglasses and go for walk in rundle mall. Perve on women - attempt to intercept girls with low cut tops or short skirts. Pray for sudden wind storm
12:30pm - back to work - stop off at toilets and masturbate furiously while imagining that the hot chicks in the mall suddenly took their clothes off and turned out to be mercatur
12:31pm - have a coffee after cleaning off semen from toilet walls and pants
1:00pm - eat lunch while reading slashdot
2:00pm - do some work
3:00pm - read slashdot and post crap to trolltalk
4:15pm - TIME TO GO HOME - walk to train station
4:30pm - catch train home, try to sit across from hot chick and oggle at her tits
5:10pm - get home to wife and talk about day - make up shit about how busy and important I was
6:00pm - eat tea with family
6:30pm - watch TV with wife
8:30pm - fire up 33k modem and go on the net. Check trolltalk to make sure slashpanda hasnt posted any derogitory remarks about me
9:00pm - have a couple of beers and post crap on slashdot - go for first post, but if FAILED then post crap on trolltalk
11:00pm - think about the work I should have been doing
11:15pm - go to bed. think of mercatur to get penis erect and then slam fully erect penis into sleeping wifes ass while screaming FIRST POST!!!!
11:16pm - use icepack on black eye and spend night sleeping in lounge room
I have to ask WTF? Do I really care what people at google eat for lunch or how much it costs?
Whatever happened to "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." or did that go when editors decided the English language no longer needed to be in a readable form?
I like muppets.
> 25-year-old blogger product specialist at Google
This guy either got his job sucking dicks or will do so in the future.
It's not slavery if you can leave.
Also, some of us would *welcome* the opportunity to work 50, 60, more hours a week for the chance to make some extra cash or just because we love our work. The more people talking the way you are, the more politicians will get it in their heads that the work hours of consenting adults should be regulated. All I can say is please don't.
I know for one that my life plan depends on me being able to work harder/longer/faster than my colleagues as I plan on starting a company once my financial situation is right (i.e. student loans are gone). The more hours I work, the faster that happens. To deny that, and label me a slave is not only debasing, but a perversion of truth.
grow the fuck up, if you have formulated "principles" around something as benign as site registrations
What is this American obsession with eating out? Round here people usually just eat the canteen swill or bring sandwiches. Is it in your constitution that you have to eat your lunch at a restaurant or cafe?