Warning: This video will make you hate your job more than you already do
Summary: Does your employer provide pods for you to take a nap in at work? If you worked at Google, you could say "yes," and then some...
It's another Monday morning and you're tired, your weekend was too short, and you probably uttered something close to the following last night: "I can't believe I have to go back to that hell hole tomorrow." Don't you wish you could tell your boss how much the workplace sucks, even if you're doing something you're passionate about?
Back in the day, an employee telling their employer that they were unhappy in the workplace would have most likely afforded said employee nothing more than an "oh, I'm sorry; let's go cry about it, shall we?" These days, it's fairly well-understood that happier employees are more productive employees, but a vast majority of large corporations have a long way to go in the department of employee happiness.
With that in mind, companies like Google are paving the way to a model work environment with unheard of perks and niceties; thus, making themselves easily one of the most attractive companies to work for. To see what I mean -- and to give you a reason to hate your employer about 100-times more than you already do -- check out the video below to see just how much Google provides for their employees:
(Click here to watch if you cannot see the video above).
Depressingly awesome, isn't it? I guess that's what making billions of dollars can do for a company and its employees, huh? And to think, everything in that video has come to fruition after what started as a search engine! So, the next time you get reprimanded for dozing off on the job, just remember the ambient noise sleep pods Google provides for their employees! And the next time you have to sneak out of the office to run to the post office and mail off that eBay package someone paid you $20 for, recall the electric cars Google freely let's people take to run to wherever they've got to go! Never mind all the free food, fish tanks, and fitness centers.
In all fairness, the people that Google hire are undoubtedly worthy of receiving such perks. Landing in a work environment like that takes someone with some serious smarts and an incredible work ethic, so it's not as if these people are just sitting around all day and doing nothing. But wouldn't it be nice to have your boss encourage you to go take a nap every once in a while instead of them foaming at the mouth, just waiting to give you a pink slip should they catch your head on your desk one minute after your lunch break is over? Yeah. It would. :)
Out of curiosity, how many of you out there hate your job? Conversely, how many of you out there love your job and get all the perks you could ever ask for? I've heard that Microsoft's perks are quite awesome. Any Apple folks out there? Let us hear from all of you!
-Stephen Chapman
SEO Whistleblower
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You need a poll
For now I'm stuck with the job I like, which, by way of comparison to other jobs I've held, I love. I don't have a Google-plex and my boss (me) is a task-master, but I would take this over a a thousand more professions and employers.
Aww, man!
Personally, I'm in the boat of absolutely loathing my full-time job due to the piece of garbage software I have to support -- all while absolutely *loving* this job for ZDNet. Not to mention, I'm involved with finalizing plans for writing a book and chipping away at a business plan I've been trying to find a monetization model for forever now!
Quite frankly, if the full-time deal didn't come with the benefits it does, I'd high-tail it today. lol.
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RE: Warning: This video will make you hate your job more than you already do
[i]companies like Google are paving the way to a model work environment with unheard of perks and niceties[/i]
What they don't tell you is that you have to be senior management to take advantage of a lot of those perks. Do some searching around on why people left Google and they explain that only certain people get to take advantage of what Google has to offer.
that's the power of the OSS
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Hmmm, despite your boisterous boasting about it, Google also laid off people in the last two years.
Free for who?
When you can make billions off of free software, everything is profit.
Google is not GPL-friendly, sorry to say.
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