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Apple Employees Rebelling Against Apple Park's Open Floor Plan, Report Says (neowin.net)
During a new episode of The Talk Show podcast on Daring Fireball, John Gruber touched on the topic of the open floor plans that Apple has implemented within its new campus, Apple Park. A WSJ profile of Jony Ive, where he talked about Apple Park, mentioned how programmers, engineers, and other employees had already expressed concerns about working in such an environment. Gruber shared what he has heard: I heard that when floor plans were announced, that there was some meeting with [Apple Vice President] Johny Srouji's team. He's in charge of Apple's silicon, the A10, the A11, all of their custom silicon. Obviously a very successful group at Apple, and a large growing one with a lot on their shoulders. When he [Srouji] was shown the floor plans, he was more or less just "F--- that, f--- you, f--- this, this is bulls---." And they built his team their own building, off to the side on the campus ... My understanding is that that building was built because Srouji was like, 'F--- this, my team isn't working like this.'"
1. No interview. Possibly a couple of questions via e-mail, but that's the most I will agree to.
2. No seeing anyone ever. I work remotely from home.
3. Payment will be in Bitcoin.
4. No stress or deadlines. If I feel like finishing something, that's when it will be ready.
5. I get paid a fixed sum per month even if I produce no results (for a reasonable amount of time), no less than 1 BTC/month with current value. Preferably 2 BTC with current value.
Those are my demands to work for somebody else. You think I'm writing satire or making a joke of some kind? Nope. This is how "entitled" I really am. Not spoiled -- just sick of all the BS in this world. Cannot conform to it. I just cannot.
How are you supposed to make money if you really can't "play the game"?
When I want to goof off or yap on for a half hour with the guys its great, its a fucking nightmare if you have to actually DO any work or god forbid have a phone call with a customer or a supplier
Libre Office is almost as bad as Open Office for productivity.... just sayin.
Let me get this straight - all the hot women were on the same floor. Where do I sign up?
I'm a thermosexual.
The OP assumed that readers understand satire.
Big mistake.
Which reminds me of my friend who works at Google.
I asked him how it was there, and he said he couldn't complain.
Why didn't they just do what the majority of office buildings do? Don't connect the thermostats to the HVAC system.