Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers
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#2“We have been asked to pull all tape/dispensers through out the building,” a San Francisco facility directive stated. “If you need a stapler or tape, the receptionist desk has them to borrow.”
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#3One of my best friends landed a job at Google after graduation. She told me about a fellow new hire she met during orientation who said she planned to coast along in the job since she had learned that Google never lays people off.
I guess there is no such thing as a completely secure job, even at a company like Google.
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#4“We have been asked to pull all tape/dispensers through out the building,” a San Francisco facility directive stated. “If you need a stapler or tape, the receptionist desk has them to borrow.”
Tape is kinda silly but who staples and distributes paper documentation these days. People just gather all this shit then throw it in a drawer to never use out of decade old force of habit.
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#5“We have been asked to pull all tape/dispensers through out the building,” a San Francisco facility directive stated. “If you need a stapler or tape, the receptionist desk has them to borrow.”
Also... how bad off is the company if they are worried about the expense of staples/tape!? Just, wow.
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#6One of my best friends landed a job at Google after graduation. She told me about a fellow new hire she met during orientation who said she planned to coast along in the job since she had learned that Google never lays people off. I guess there is no such thing as a completely secure job, even at a company like Google.
Horrible. Where I'm from, we call those people uhljebi and they're the worst people to work with since they always look for ways to offload their work to others.
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#7Can I keep my red Swingline stapler?
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#8Wow, just wow. I have no doubt that Google has a lot of excess to cut, but IMO I always see it as the death knell for large companies when they start a nickel-and-dime approach to cost cutting. I can certainly see the argument for cuts where they are needed to improve focus, and lots of the FAANGs had too many "frilly" expenses in the past 5-10 years, but cutting expenses that improve your employee's productivity is just totally boneheaded. I'm reminded of when Bernie Ebbers (of WorldCom scandal fame) railed that employees were "stealing coffee" because the amount of coffee used per filter was out of whack - nevermind that WorldCom was about to collapse in a giant accounting fraud. Obviously I don't believe the fraud aspect applies to Google, but the "focusing on the wrong shit" definitely does.
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#9You'd have to be a master of business to come up with such a brilliant play.
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#10Obligatory mention- https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...