The Obligatory WePay “Company Culture” Blog Post: Part 2
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The Obligatory WePay “Company Culture” Blog Post: Part 2
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#2Reading posts like this always gives me this startling thought: there are way more companies than not where people don't work to work there, devoid of the "fun" you mostly read about on HN. How saddening...
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#3i too believe company culture is extremely important.
after contemplation i've requested that the 'company' i'm starting a friend will be a vegetarian company, in a sense that the company will never pay for taking sentient beings.
i'm consciously extending personal culture (i'm veg), to company culture.
anyone who thinks this is a good/bad thing for a founder to do?
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#4i too believe company culture is extremely important. after contemplation i've requested that the 'company' i'm starting a friend will be a vegetarian company, in a sense that the company will never pay for taking sentient beings. i'm consciously extending personal culture (i'm veg), to company culture. anyone who thinks this is a good/bad thing for a founder to do?
unless you are working for PETA, or some vegeterian oriented website, it is a shitty idea.
You are basically forcing your 'dietary' choices to everybody else in the company.
You are a business, not a cult.
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#5i too believe company culture is extremely important. after contemplation i've requested that the 'company' i'm starting a friend will be a vegetarian company, in a sense that the company will never pay for taking sentient beings. i'm consciously extending personal culture (i'm veg), to company culture. anyone who thinks this is a good/bad thing for a founder to do?
anyone who thinks this is a good/bad thing for a founder to do?
From what I know so far - by reading, including scientific works, and studying biochemistry, it appears that the humans evolved to obtain at least some of their diet from animal sources (Vitamin B12, Omega 3 fatty acids come to mind). So I would consider this sort of culture as destructive for my health, even if it is only mildly destructive and the results may not be obvious for years and sometimes decades ...
It is easy to find nations/tribes in history who enjoyed excellent health on a variety of diets, but not so easy to find ones who did that on a strictly vegetarian diet.
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#6i too believe company culture is extremely important. after contemplation i've requested that the 'company' i'm starting a friend will be a vegetarian company, in a sense that the company will never pay for taking sentient beings. i'm consciously extending personal culture (i'm veg), to company culture. anyone who thinks this is a good/bad thing for a founder to do?
in a sense that the company will never pay for taking sentient beings.
I hope you'll hold that respect for life by having clear and strictly goal relevant work; as a hypohetical employee, I'd be way annoyed if you refused meat eating out of respect for all living creatures lives, then gave me some dead end low importance time wasting filler project of the kind which all too often appears on employee's proverbial plates.
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#7i too believe company culture is extremely important. after contemplation i've requested that the 'company' i'm starting a friend will be a vegetarian company, in a sense that the company will never pay for taking sentient beings. i'm consciously extending personal culture (i'm veg), to company culture. anyone who thinks this is a good/bad thing for a founder to do?
wow i got modded down!
see my replies to each of my commentors personally...
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#8i too believe company culture is extremely important. after contemplation i've requested that the 'company' i'm starting a friend will be a vegetarian company, in a sense that the company will never pay for taking sentient beings. i'm consciously extending personal culture (i'm veg), to company culture. anyone who thinks this is a good/bad thing for a founder to do?
unless you are working for PETA, or some vegeterian oriented website, it is a shitty idea. You are basically forcing your 'dietary' choices to everybody else in the company. You are a business, not a cult.
> You are basically forcing your 'dietary' choices to everybody else in the company.
no im not. everyone earns wages they can spend the way they want. just the company will not spend money on dead animals.
my choice to be vegetarian is out of compassion not dietary considereations. if meat can come from a petridish or a lab i will buy and eat it -- but currently is it not, it comes from a sentient being.
> You are a business, not a cult.
i understand so much. but by taking company culture seriously (what the article is about) some companies are quite cult-like, and have (as the article shows) benefits of that.
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#9i too believe company culture is extremely important. after contemplation i've requested that the 'company' i'm starting a friend will be a vegetarian company, in a sense that the company will never pay for taking sentient beings. i'm consciously extending personal culture (i'm veg), to company culture. anyone who thinks this is a good/bad thing for a founder to do?
anyone who thinks this is a good/bad thing for a founder to do? From what I know so far - by reading, including scientific works, and studying biochemistry, it appears that the humans evolved to obtain at least some of their diet from animal sources (Vitamin B12, Omega 3 fatty acids come to mind). So I would consider this sort of culture as destructive for my health, even if it is only mildly destructive and the resu…
it is an ethical consideration, not a dieatary one. im not trying to enforce a diet unto people --an employee is free to use his/her salary-- it is merely an ethical guideline for the company: abstain from killing sentient life.
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#10i too believe company culture is extremely important. after contemplation i've requested that the 'company' i'm starting a friend will be a vegetarian company, in a sense that the company will never pay for taking sentient beings. i'm consciously extending personal culture (i'm veg), to company culture. anyone who thinks this is a good/bad thing for a founder to do?
in a sense that the company will never pay for taking sentient beings. I hope you'll hold that respect for life by having clear and strictly goal relevant work; as a hypohetical employee, I'd be way annoyed if you refused meat eating out of respect for all living creatures lives, then gave me some dead end low importance time wasting filler project of the kind which all too often appears on employee's proverbial plat…
employees are free to endulge any kind of food they choose to buy with their salary. it is just the company that is not choosing 'meat'.