As Christmas Bonus, Google Hands Out "Dogfood"

theodp writes "You know times are tough when the best place to work in America replaces holiday bonuses with a request for unpaid labor. Blaming the economic crisis, Google management has canceled the traditional cash holiday bonus — reportedly as much as $20K-$30K per Googler — and substituted an unlocked Google Android cell phone, retail price $400. An accompanying email calls for employees to celebrate the 'chance for us to once again dogfood a product and make it even better!'" Update: 12/23 01:09 GMT by KD : A reader pointed out that comments to the article note a couple of inaccuracies: the Android phone being offered is an unlocked dev model, which goes for $400; and the reporter may have confused holiday bonuses with performance bonuses. The former have traditionally been in the range of $1,000, according to two comments.

Comments

BAIL OUT

[retech]

Perhaps Google should apply for a bail out too. How hard would it be to just print some extra money?

Re:who cares

[Daengbo]

Sorry to do this, but you used "it's" wrong three out of four times. I think that signals a pattern.

Possessive pronouns don't use apostrophes.

• Yours
• His
• Hers
• Ours
• Its

"It's" is a contraction for "It is."

Re:who cares

[AuMatar]

Typing a post on slashdot... free
Adding some extra apostrophe's... 1 key'st'roke
Annoying head up their asses gramman na'zi's... price'less

Re:who cares

[Daengbo]

• Failing 4th grade English -- free.
• Adding an unnecessary apostrophe -- a single keystroke.
• Looking like an idiot in public -- worthless.

Just kidding. If you don't care, then I don't. Cheers. ;)