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Re: April Moron's Day approaches

From Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: April Moron's Day approaches
Date 2015-04-03 08:26 +1200
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Message-ID <030420150826040743%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References (4 earlier) <010420150932086127%michelle@michelle.org> <mfhqrb$4fj$1@news.albasani.net> <551d522b$0$43012$c3e8da3$5e5e430d@news.astraweb.com> <Y7idnfY8o8PryoDInZ2dnUU7-KGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <551d7178$0$56895$b1db1813$e2fc9064@news.astraweb.com>

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In article <551d7178$0$56895$b1db1813$e2fc9064@news.astraweb.com>, Joe
<joe@nospam.com> wrote:
> On 4/2/2015 9:51 AM, Alan Browne wrote:
> >
> > I worked for a publicly traded co.  When we moved from one building
> > where we brewed our coffee in the lab, to a new building, having lab
> > coffee brew setups was forbidden.
> >
> > A company was selected to bring in the new coffee machines.  Not bad,
> > but nowhere as good as our old lab coffee ... and we had to pay for the
> > coffee.
> >
> > But not the machine in the corporate area.  That machine was "free" to
> > corporate personnel.  The employees were subsidizing coffee for the
> > Pres, some VP's, some senior directors and their staff.
> >
> > So I stopped paying for the coffee at the machine and did without.
> 
> The reason we have free coffee and soda (and live plants scattered 
> throughout the building) is that our Director of Operations toured 
> Facebook corporate headquarters and also looked into how Google treats 
> its employees.  Out of this he picked and chose those things he felt 
> would make the company a local "employer of choice" without breaking the 
> bank.
> 
> What he failed to realize is that Facebook and Google don't attract as 
> many people as they do based solely on free coffee, free soda, and live 
> plants.

Yep, they attract people by having playground slides in the office
(hence why they're mostly 12 year olds) and letting their individual
workers do virtually no work all day long.

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