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Re: Google Internal Comics

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Post by QuercusMax »

Xorlev wrote: post #80
colinmhayes wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every google product exists to encourage people to see more ads, even if he product isn't showing the ads. I encourage anyone to point to a google product that isn't either selling ads or trying to get people to spend more time on the internet so google can sell them more ads.

Drive/Docs/Meet. Cloud. Nest. These are a few examples of (though far from the only) products completely orthogonal to ads.

All of Verily, Calico, and Google Health, and Fit/FitBit.

The work I do on AI-based medical device infrastructure has nothing to do with ads.

Re: Google Internal Comics

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Post by malwarebytess »

flowerlad wrote: post #67
powera wrote: post #49

Lots of good comics in there. A few I haven't seen highlighted yet: https://goomics.net/127/ - poor, poor Google Plus. Somehow it wasn't a warning sign that the big executive-supported project to Win Social was a laughingstock internally. https://goomics.net/202/ followed years later by https://goomics.net/294/ - everybody expected TGIF to get worse over time, and apparently it did. https://goomics.net/118/ - the las…

What's TGIF at Google? Is it a weekly event where you can ask exec questions in an open forum?

Bit like that. After hard questions starting being asked the execs locked that shit right down. Not much of substance goes on there anymore. Just fake shit and platitudes.

Re: Google Internal Comics

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Post by gorwell »

compiler-guy wrote: post #9
echelon wrote: post #6

How has the author not been fired from Google for such snark? Their Github shows them still employed at the company. Props to this person.

Manu Cornet left Google earlier this month, but no one has any problem with snark like this. Not management, not HR and not every day Googlers. Some things can’t be said, mostly personal attacks, but the freedom to say critical things very snarkily is completely there and no one thinks anything about it. Compared to some things that are said and published internally, Goomics are quite tame.

Really? Like what?

Re: Google Internal Comics

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Post by tooltower »

malwarebytess wrote: post #84
dharmab wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most food banks are pretty easily in the "unequivocally good" category, unless you're a Malthusian. Charity Navigator is a great way to find the best-managed and highest-impact food banks.

I volunteer all the time at a food bank. A lot of the work is sorting the incoming goods. Much of this work is done by volunteers. As a result it isn't uncommon for spoiled food to accidentally be stocked and distributed to people. It is a rare but not infrequent occurrence to have someone get sick and report back to the food bank. Not unequivocally good! :]

Fine. I'll settle for a net social good

Re: Google Internal Comics

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Post by bb88 »

dharmab wrote: post #57
bscphil wrote: post #13

I'm not saying this with the intent of harshly criticizing the author, but I admit it's surprising to me that someone (who had other options) would work for 14 years at a company they clearly came to believe was making the world a worse place.

https://goomics.net/339/

No kidding.... Money corrupts, doesn't it?

Re: Google Internal Comics

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Post by bb88 »

refulgentis wrote: post #20
bscphil wrote: post #13

I'm not saying this with the intent of harshly criticizing the author, but I admit it's surprising to me that someone (who had other options) would work for 14 years at a company they clearly came to believe was making the world a worse place.

The only disappointing part of Google, for this former Apple aficionado, is how self-flagellating the internal and external culture are. (ex. we see other Googlers/ex-Googlers in this thread noting how funny these are) Thank you for sharing that, I was uncertain if it was my own bias that was making me think similar things

Who knows about bias? Im largely pro Google, and laughed anyway.

Re: Google Internal Comics

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

ekianjo wrote: post #46
bscphil wrote: post #13

I'm not saying this with the intent of harshly criticizing the author, but I admit it's surprising to me that someone (who had other options) would work for 14 years at a company they clearly came to believe was making the world a worse place.

Is there any human organization that is not making the world worse in one way or another? Its pretty much relative in any case, hardly purely evil or purely good unless you are very naive or very young.

Always seems like it's the people doing the worst things that pull out this line. They also like "well, if I didn't do it, someone else would've, so it might as well be me."

There are plenty of organizations that mostly do good. To pick the first example that comes to mind, Partners in Health.

Re: Google Internal Comics

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Post by marricks »

gorgoiler wrote: post #73

Some fun here but wow do these get negative. I can relate to a lot of this stuff and I hope the artist is ok. If a relationship is bringing you sadness and negativity all the time then it either needs some nurturing or a nuclear option. The nice thing with employer relationships is you can literally walk away. Relationships with people are worth fixing but no job is worth the sadness, even if it’s with someone as pre…

US’s culture has a lot of focus on one’s self and the steps one should take to get themselves better. Little focus on how awful systems or companies coughlike Googlecough are the one’s with the issues, not us.
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