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red-bean.com — "the fifteen pounds that new Google employees supposedly gain in their first year at Google from gorging on the omnipresent free food".
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- borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2nvm
- PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18I have GOT to get a job there. Hey, I've got a university work term coming up. If anybody from Google reads this... I am looking for a job!
P.S. The webpage is pretty funny.
"Why doesn't The Google 15 allow me to use kilograms?"- rickcarson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If you have a couple of PhDs you might have a shot at getting a job as an intern...
- greenreefer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Can I go outside today?
Why? It is Raining. The sun can Give you Cancer.
You knew that.
Global warming, there could be a flash flood, any second. Stay here.
You are safe.
There are Criminals out there.
oooo, a sandwich, here. It has Bacon in it.
MMM. Okay. Thississ really good (chew chew)
Can I go home today? For a visit?
Timing is Not good on that, err nooooo
Are you finished with that job there Yet?
No. I got some mustard on it. Then I ate it.
But we Have Sandwiches.
Darnit, and big donuts too.
Ice Cream. You must remember to not eat the
Googlework.
You will have to stay to redo that.
...Hey I almost forgot...
coconut pie with that special err
columbian (wink wink)suger (wink wink)
in it tonight at midnight.
Miss Hawthorne is going to Dress as a Queen
light a candle and
lead a group hum of
"we are the champions".
I so Love that song. It is us.
We are It. Aren't we, so?
MMmmmmm.
Oh, that will be nice.
Can I call My home?
No. But they will be here for breakfast. You know how your wife loves those little suasages.
She does? What sausages?
Oh..err I was thinking of someone else. sorry.
I got to get some excersise, go place catch with my son
today. I think I have a son, don't I?
Oh why leave, when we have this beautiful pool and workout center here.
And Mr Tugyourmoto will come in to give you a massage, let me get him...
Thats it, you just need a nice massge.
The Google really needs that worky work now, okay?
Oh. Okay, yeah I'll get to it.
A massage.That will be nice.
Hey...
Yes?
What time is it?
Oh don't be silly, you know its Google time here, we never worry about silly things like that. Hey. I know Lets sing the its happy googletime song together shall we?
But I don't really care for thaa....
Its Happy Google time
Its happy Google time
**** **
- Surreptitious, on 10/12/2007, -31/+1Also see... http://www.digg.com/celebrity/The_History_of_Micheal_Jackson_s_Face
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -54/+10Lemme guess, work is all free Gummi bears and blowjobs over at Google. I'm sick of Google mythologizing. The company sucks. It's evil. Its search engine isn't even all that good, especially with their selective filtering and sorting. Get off their nuts already.
- lulutv, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27The blowjobs aren't free.
- Foxphoto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15^^^ blowjobs are free if you lower your standards :lol:
- flipmeat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3TAANSTAAFBJ
- rickcarson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is something to be said for the executives dumping their stock like mad.
Something like:
"abandon ship! Every man for himself!"
or
"hey buddy, could you spare a bil or two?"
or
"what do they know, that I don't know?"
- Celeron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Who wouldn't? Their huge food court is free to all employees.
- jfossboss, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12I bet that one day Google gets so rich that it gives free lunch to everyone.
- Persol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Yes, but there'll be ads on your plate... and vitamin companies sending you emails that your diet is low in some vitamin they are selling.
- chrisbarnes, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8There's no such thing as a free lunch.
- Software2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16If I never had to pay for lunch again, I'd gladly have an ad on my plate.
- wtcajesuit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Omnipresent free food?
So... free food is everywhere simultaneously?
That doesn't make sense somehow.- Persol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Yes it does. There is free food everywhere, all at the same time. (As opposed to always being free food, but only in one place at a time).
- erikocc, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1i wish i had a reason to gain 15 pounds - on google!
hire me too google!! - max420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Its the same here at eBay... lots of free food.
- Persol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Well, be honest. The cafeteria used to only accept PayPal. Since the riot, they haven't bothered with charging.
- broomett, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Lots of places do it. And did it WAY before Google started it. But hte people at Digg so depserately want to suck Sergey's ***** that they act like Google "innovated" the idea of free food. OR campus work environments.
Nike's been doing it for over 20 years. - putnam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's the same here at Facebook, too :)
(actually, it's better)
- znicket, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Things like these actually present the world with an insight into the campus-like atmosphere that seems to be dominating in the company. Kudos to Google.
- anteyekon4myst, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Now when Bubble 2.0 bursts they'll be a bunch of overweight unemployed people wandering the street. Tip: Load up on insulin now.
- plasticated, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Shame the graph doesn't work in Safari :(
- dirtmaster, on 10/12/2007, -14/+6www.GetFireFox.com !
- klepto, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1So now that google knows who you are, they wanna know how much you weigh too.
Google is getting creepy now. - fuzzball963, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8That bit about kilograms is telling. I wish to god the US would switch and be done with it. Seriously here, the vast majority of the population wouldn't even care for more than a week or two and it'd save me alot of hassle when I talk to friends internationally :).
Congressman and all you companies out there if you're reading this: PLEASE finish what you started. For my sanity if not for others.
I know I know not entirely on topic but I had to rant ;).- saska, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1So you're all for that massive budget spend in which they replace all existing school textbooks that use the metric system, right?
FWIW, I agree with you in principle, but it isn't really that simple. - prosthetichead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3US schools teach science and physics and chemistry not using metric?
What about Shop classes like wood work and metal work Surely they use metric (millimeters I hope!) - Lewie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Science classes usually teach in both units. From my experience with shop, only english units are used. The shop demographic is usually the total opposite of the science demographic (read: rednecks).
- saska, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1So you're all for that massive budget spend in which they replace all existing school textbooks that use the metric system, right?
- scobleizer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Here's a video tour of Google Kirkland (includes an interview with the chef), to give you some idea of why Googlers put on weight: http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1243/get-a-tour-of-googles-kirkland-office
- retrochronix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Seems like yet another great Google idea for datamining the whole world
- fuzzball963, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Metal work classes may use metric and science ones certainly do. Woodworking do not as far as I know.
The "massive budget spend" to convert everything is really not as big as everyone thinks it is. Most products are already designed in SI even in the US and the few industries that are not metric in terms of the products they use (construction and a couple others) will adapt over time. Most other industries made the switch on the back end years ago they simply have taken the nice metric units and dumbed them back down to inch pound so that the American public can continue thinking it lives in a non metric world and a non metric United states. I'm not saying convert tomorrow but ten years is realistic and can be accomplished quite easily. Funds would have to be spent for road signage and a couple other things but mostly the impetus is coming from the private sector and they're willing to provide the necessary cash flow in their industries if they haven't already.
It's not a question of "if" anymore but "when". :)
I'm looking forward to it personally. - gd007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i need a job there! but seriously, they shd go low fat and low carb.
- broomett, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It is actually more like ly the fact that Google employees work ridiculous hours and therefore never get to actually work their food OFF.
Companies that offer all these sily useless perks do so for a very big reason. Becuase the ACTUAL part of the job (hours, salary, benefits, etc.) suck. Google is no different.
Peopel gain weight when they sit in front of a computer for 70 hours a week.- Blrfl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I interviewed there and was struck by that as well... They seem to make an effort to keep you on campus for as many hours as possible. Definitely geared toward the young-and-don't-have-a-life-outside-work crowd.
- yabos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What they really should do is have a free gym(maybe they already do I don't know). They should encourage people to play team sports after work in a campus rec center. It'll end up costing them a lot more in the long run when they have to pay for health care for the lard ass employees.
- Blrfl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I interviewed there and was struck by that as well... They seem to make an effort to keep you on campus for as many hours as possible. Definitely geared toward the young-and-don't-have-a-life-outside-work crowd.
- mikewhite314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love that the graph is in the Google Analytics style.
- CitJ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0hahaha - my developer just got a job at Google in San Fran - glad he's going to get fat - serves the barstard right for leaving me!
Only kidding :) - splam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its not just free lunch, it's free breakfast, lunch, dinner and a limitless supply of snacks... and its not just a single cafeteria, its about 15 separate specialty diners... and growing.
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